Let us all pledge to do our bit to free India from the clutches of Corruption and Black Money by taking these simple but very DIFFICULT STEPS
1. Ask for a bill on every purchase and pay the Sales Tax.
2. Give Receipts on every sale and pay the VAT/Sales Tax
3. Declare the correct amount on every sale or purchase of Land and Flat and Pay the registration tax that is applicable.
4. Never demand or pay a cash amount while buying or selling property.
5. Stop bribing the traffic police for traffic violations and pay up the legitimate fines.
6. Register for only one ration card, gas connection and electrical connection.
7. Pay electrical bills on time even for connections of farms.
8. Declare genuine farm income only and not club other incomes as Agricultural income to avoid taxation.
9. Do not pay or receive donations without receipts.
10. Stop acting as though the law is meant for the minions and not for us.
11. Stop running households on expense accounts of businesses. Declare real income from businesses.
12. Stop Bribing people asking for enhanced credit limits/ Loans etc in Banks and financial Institutions
13. Stop asking for kickbacks on commissions on LIC policies, General Insurance Policies, etc.
14. Stop buying Degrees and Diplomas online and apply for jobs with them.
15. Stop asking teachers to give more marks by bribing and coercing them.
16. Start giving receipts for services (especially Doctors): Consultation, Operations, procedures, etc. Other Consultants like Accountants, Tax Consultants, etc.
All these and much more....
Only if we start cleaning up our house and souls then we will be able to clean up the country. Our country is seeped in corruption not because of the politicians and bureaucrats but because, we tolerate corruption, we always believe the laws are for others and not for us. we always want to wipe out corruption but want to get farther by bribing somebody on the way.
THINK ABOUT IT!! IS IT POSSIBLE TO SACRIFICE ALL THIS!!
Hoping for a corruption free India!
Showing posts with label Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Action. Show all posts
Friday, 10 June 2011
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Stimulus package completed?
Remember? I had written about the stimulus package on december 4th. After that I thought that I should take a break in posting data. The entire package came in two stages and now the petrol and diesel prices cut will also come in two phases. Indian polity probably does not believe that the current slowdown is for real therefore the speed of response is that slow.
All through Indian contemporary history economists have derisively chided our economy and called it the hindu rate of growth.
Let us spend some time on this phenomenon of hindu rate of growth.
Indian inaction is legendary by now. Inaction in war, inaction in peace and inaction in strategy. One of our erstwhile Prime Ministers famously quoted "deciding not to do anything is also a decision". Our politicians, most of whom are lawyers are used to biding time and asking for adjournements in courts of law. They bring this innate trait to the governance table and wish away the problems thinking that time is the greatest healer. Since these lawyers are used to asking for time and biding time theie cases and thier governments bide time till the defendant or in this case the economy dies on its own.
Economies do not die as people have their own ingenuity for survival. They somehow survive based on their "jugad" (thats the hindi word for improvisation). This "jugad" keeps the Indian economy from going to the ruins. Since, government is ambivalent about the economy the entrepreneurs themselves find ways to prosper. This leads to slower growth with no incentive to grow faster and farther.
That's why we have the hindu rate of growth. India was pushed by the IMF to liberalise, privatise and globalise its economy as the economy was in trouble, now that the troubles are over and as our ex-FM said "A finance minister of any country would be ready to give his right hand for a slowed down growth of 7% in GDP". Complacency has set in, Government is counting months in power, elections are around the corner and government bides time letting prices to go south (PRICES ARE NOT GOING SOUTH BECAUSE OF SUPPLY AUGMENTATION BUT BECAUSE OF REDUCED CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND REDUCED EARNINGS) thinking that lower inflation will be good for a return to power for the ruling alliance.
The ruling alliance needs to know that people of India want action not inaction. With the proliferation of communication networks, it is impossible to gag people and run the government on rumour mills and PR programmes. Decisive action is needed and it can only come from men of action. So where are our men of action can anybody stand up to be counted?
All through Indian contemporary history economists have derisively chided our economy and called it the hindu rate of growth.
Let us spend some time on this phenomenon of hindu rate of growth.
Indian inaction is legendary by now. Inaction in war, inaction in peace and inaction in strategy. One of our erstwhile Prime Ministers famously quoted "deciding not to do anything is also a decision". Our politicians, most of whom are lawyers are used to biding time and asking for adjournements in courts of law. They bring this innate trait to the governance table and wish away the problems thinking that time is the greatest healer. Since these lawyers are used to asking for time and biding time theie cases and thier governments bide time till the defendant or in this case the economy dies on its own.
Economies do not die as people have their own ingenuity for survival. They somehow survive based on their "jugad" (thats the hindi word for improvisation). This "jugad" keeps the Indian economy from going to the ruins. Since, government is ambivalent about the economy the entrepreneurs themselves find ways to prosper. This leads to slower growth with no incentive to grow faster and farther.
That's why we have the hindu rate of growth. India was pushed by the IMF to liberalise, privatise and globalise its economy as the economy was in trouble, now that the troubles are over and as our ex-FM said "A finance minister of any country would be ready to give his right hand for a slowed down growth of 7% in GDP". Complacency has set in, Government is counting months in power, elections are around the corner and government bides time letting prices to go south (PRICES ARE NOT GOING SOUTH BECAUSE OF SUPPLY AUGMENTATION BUT BECAUSE OF REDUCED CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND REDUCED EARNINGS) thinking that lower inflation will be good for a return to power for the ruling alliance.
The ruling alliance needs to know that people of India want action not inaction. With the proliferation of communication networks, it is impossible to gag people and run the government on rumour mills and PR programmes. Decisive action is needed and it can only come from men of action. So where are our men of action can anybody stand up to be counted?
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