{"id":5319,"date":"2007-12-12T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2007-12-12T23:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T18:27:00","slug":"a-fake-government-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/a-fake-government-office\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fake Government Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oh boy, check this out<\/a>:<\/p>\n A fake government office has been discovered in northern India that collected taxes, provided civic services and even handed out birth and death certificates, a report said Monday.<\/p>\n An office was set up outside Jhansi town in Uttar Pradesh state and 20 people were employed to carry out jobs such as street sweeping.<\/p>\n Officials believe the operation originally started as a scam to collect fees from residents in return for one municipal janitor.<\/p>\n But the leader of the operation, named as Shyam Valmiki, allegedly branched out, opening a functioning office that employed a team of janitors.<\/p>\n “He later seems to have decided to carry on with the office as it did not appear to be a loss-making proposition,” an unnamed police officer was quoted by Times of India<\/i> saying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Heh. There’s more here<\/a>. <\/p>\n Government itself can be such a scam<\/a> sometimes that a venture like this is deliciously ironical. All hail Indian entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n (Link via Marginal Revolution<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh boy, check this out<\/a>:<\/p>\n A fake government office has been discovered in northern India that collected taxes, provided civic services and even handed out birth and death certificates, a report said Monday.<\/p>\n An office was set up outside Jhansi town in Uttar Pradesh state and 20 people were employed to carry out jobs such as street sweeping.<\/p>\n Officials believe the operation originally started as a scam to collect fees from residents in return for one municipal janitor.<\/p>\n But the leader of the operation, named as Shyam Valmiki, allegedly branched out, opening a functioning office that employed a team of janitors.<\/p>\n “He later seems to have decided to carry on with the office as it did not appear to be a loss-making proposition,” an unnamed police officer was quoted by Times of India<\/i> saying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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