The Indian national budget is approximately $65 billion. The total industrial infrastructure development India needs to be at par with some of the developed countries is around $150 billion. Additionally, this amount equals the cost of 366 nuclear reactors at the cost of $300 million dollar each.

	Project Name	Amount (in Rs)
1	Share scam	1000 crores
2	Sugar scam	650 crores
3	Bofors scam	65 crores
4	Hawala case	65 crores
5	Housing scam	18 crores
6	M.P. trading	32 crores
7	Fertilizer scam	133 crores
8	Medicine Equipment scam	5000 crores
9	Telecom case	1200 crores
10	Newsprint case	20 crores
11	Indian bank scam	1336 crores
12	Fodder scam (Bihar)	1000 crores
13	Land scam (Bihar)	400 crores
14	Bitumen scam (Bihar)	100 crores
15	Medicine scam (Bihar)	100 crores
16	Forest case (Meghalaya)	300 crores
17	Ayurveda scam (UP)	32 crores
18	Dhoti-Saree scam (Tamil Nadu)	11 crores
19	Coal scam (Tamil Nadu)	750 crores
20	Forest reserve scam (Meghalaya)	75 crores
21	Wakf Scam (West Bengal)	1600 crore
22	Dental College Case (Karnataka)	50 lakhs

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Other scams have included the Treasury scam, Panchayat Scam, Fishery Scam, Cooperative scam, Dairy scam, Food Ministry scam, Lottery scam, and various hospital scams.

In addition, the system has produced many a jewel:

	Name of person	Amount (in Rs)
1	Motilal Vohra	11.0 lakhs
2	P. Shiv Shankar	26.0 lakhs
3	Ajit Panja	3.5 lakhs
4	Balaram Jhakar	61.0 lakhs
5	N.D. Tiwari	25.0 lakhs
6	B.D.Thakne	10.0 lakhs
7	Kalpnath Rai	54.0 lakhs
8	C.K. Jaffer Sharif	10.0 lakhs
9	Buta Singh	7.0 lakhs
10	V.C. Shukla	65.0 lakhs
11	P.L.Sahi	11.3 lakhs
12	R.K.Dhawan	50.0 lakhs
13	Madhav rao Scindia	75.0 lakhs
14	Kamal Nath	17.0 lakhs
15	Arjun Singh	10.0 lakhs
16	S.L. Khurana	3.0 lakhs
17	Arif Mohd. Khan	7.0 crores 56 lakhs
18	Asoke Sen	20.0 lakhs
19	Yashwant Sinha	21.0 lakhs
20	Devi Lal	50.0 lakhs
21	K. Natwar Singh	21.0 lakhs
	Chandram	1.0 lakh
22	Arjun Singh	10.0 lakhs

(Figures are as per chargesheets of the Central Bureau of Investigation)

This is without the mention of luminaries like Jayalalitha and Laloo Prasad Yadav. All these great men and women have emerged in the past decade and is only a miniscule fraction of the amount of wealth that has been generated by these exceptional strategies and their predecessors over the past 50 years.

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