{"id":245870,"date":"2023-06-01T20:27:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=245870"},"modified":"2023-06-01T20:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:57:44","slug":"bin-build-inaugurate-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bin-build-inaugurate-neglect\/","title":{"rendered":"BIN: Build, Inaugurate, Neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This post is created based on the article \u201c<strong>BIN: Build, Inaugurate, Neglect<\/strong>\u201d, published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on 1<sup>st<\/sup> June 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus Topic:<\/strong> GS Paper 3 \u2013 Infrastructure<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> The article critically analyze the politics behind creating \u2018edifice complexes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The term edifice complex was coined initially to describe the tendency of politicians to build physical structures for electoral gains. However, it is not always bad.<\/p>\n<p>It can bring huge benefits to people as well.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the criticisms associated with building edifice complexes?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The edifice complex diverts attention away from priorities that contribute to a nation\u2019s long-term growth and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Investments in education and health are avoided due to long gestation projects, which is not feasible for one electoral cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians often prioritize new structures as they offer higher political payoffs than maintaining existing ones. It results in wastage of resources.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why edifice complexes are not always bad?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The structures such as Nagarjuna Sagar dam are beneficial for the people in the long run. It provided livelihood to millions of farmers.<\/p>\n<p>New &#8216;Ambedkar Bhavan&#8217; in Hyderabad ss an example that invokes a collective sense of pride and unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cBIN: Build, Inaugurate, Neglect\u201d, published in The Times of India on 1st June 2023. Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 3 \u2013 Infrastructure Context: The article critically analyze the politics behind creating \u2018edifice complexes\u2019. The term edifice complex was coined initially to describe the tendency of politicians to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bin-build-inaugurate-neglect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BIN: Build, Inaugurate, Neglect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-245870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}