Nice article sir, I m touring himachal to talk to students, teachers, police n other profsnls
Warm rgds
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From: Raj Srinivasan <rsrinivasan32@gmail.com>
Sender: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:41:35
To: <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] CORRUPTION - Understanding and Removing It.
Dear Sarbajit ji
May I join the dialogue as a member of a modest Gandhian group that
had initially started with the Stayagraha idea against the unbearable
curse of corruption which needs to start with internal cleansing and
perseverance .
As usual all our pleas were not acknowledged and repeated requests for
a meeting ignored.Yet thanks to Shambu ji a true old oak we plod on
and MGD & Anand ji is part of us
ON reflecting through the experience I have three comments on the
present discontent and what I see to be a just cause
1 We must acknowledge that peoples anger is not only against
corruption but corruption of the POWERFUL and the CONNECTED .In fact
small corruption is the poor mans substitute for not having a
connection to power
People are appalled and disgusted at the top getting away using the
clout and brazen mendacity characteristic of of present
rulers.Attention of Lokpal should remain focused at the top only.
2 for that reason distrust in the politicos is high for they have
stopped believing the political laments about how pervasive small
time endemic corruption is hurting the poor etc.All this is seen to be
crocodile tears ,a diversion to fritter away the anger and also pure
humbug -the bedst instance of the last is the Congress partys
constant clever maneuver to occupy any vacant high moral ground with
utmost alacrity
3 on the other hand NGO world must be wary of over extended action
and humbly realise that more
and more centralised SINGLE point solutions eg Jan Lok pal can work
out as bad as the disease itself .We need to acknowledge that many
variants must be tried in a country like ours.And remain humble and
sensitive above all to let people be and let them have agency
I see disturbing evidence to the contrary in some parts of Anna
/Ramdev groups behaviour and conduct It appears that many supporters
of recent focussed anti corruption mobilisation efforts are only dimly
aware that single solutions to complex problems of an urbanising
transitionla society can lead to unintended ego-totalitarian-tinpots
and adversarial civil strife
That is NOT Satyagraha
Remember good intent going astray
Remember Chauri chura
Remember Thermidor in the French Revolution
R Srinivasan
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr Devasahayam
>
> The so-called anti-dowry / pro women laws are a double-edged sword which are
> being tremendously misused and we have no faith in them.
>
> In my religion / community (Brahmo Samaj) we do not take or accept dowry.
> Our wedding ceremonies are simple / austere and mostly take place in the
> same civil format specified in the Special Marriages Act before the Marriage
> Registrar. ie. in the presence of at least 2 or 3 witnesses and both
> families, the bride & groom publcily agree to marry each other with the
> blessing (non-financial) of both families and exchange garlands/rings. The
> actual ceremony is over in about 10 minutes - but can be extended if
> required with sermons / hymns which are not essential.to the ceremony
>
> It is said of my religion that we
> a) are Born like Hindus
> b) Marry like Muslims, &
> c) Divorce like Christians.
>
> One of our formely associated faiths (ie Arya Samaj) has a marriage law
> which is being tremendously misused. It is called the Arya Samaj Validation
> of Marriages Act 1939. This reprehensible Act is the cause of all broken /
> love / couirt marriages. which are run by network of advocates and fake Arya
> Samajes. This law is widely abused by bigamists and polygamists, and unlike
> all other prior laws applicable to Hindus which were repealed in 1956 when
> the "Hindu Code" (ie. thjose 5 or 6 laws for Hindus) came into force, this
> law was never repealed to legitimise the Bastardy within the Nehru-Gandhi
> parivar and allow their non-Hindu wives to become "Hindus" or not at the
> flick of a switch (OM-OFF-ON .. etc).
>
> Sarbajit
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Devasahayam MG <mgd@airtelmail.in> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Sarbajit,
>>
>> You are fond of simple solutions. I had mentioned some of them in my
>> interview excerpt.
>>
>> I will throw a challenge to the community of social and anti-corruption
>> activists with a one-point agenda. Can you do away with the social evil
>> called 'dowry system' which is the worst form of bribe/corruption prevalent
>> in every household and has been the cause for the devastation of many
>> families and the life/honour of their daughters? There are enough laws to
>> help you.
>>
>> M.G.Devasahayam
>>
>>______________________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Shri Anand
>>>
>>> I think you shall find that this small mailing list has many domain
>>> specialists in "corruption" with a large number of public servants (past /
>>> present) and forces personnel subscribing. We also have the usual complement
>>> of "activists" who tend to be more vocal / shrill than our regular
>>> membership.
>>>
>>> Corruption is certainly a complex issue to understand / deal with. The
>>> middle class examples for black money generation you listed are primarily
>>> IMHO due to the skewed and unrealistic taxation policies of the (financially
>>> and morally bankrupt) Governments of the day which favour the
>>> politician-mafia-middleman nexus to the detriment of middle class citizens
>>> who are compelled to participate.in corruption against their will to avoid
>>> losing out to sky-rocketing inflation and unjustified taxes. The lower
>>> classes in turn have their own myriad sets of victimisation examples.
>>>
>>> In deliberately simplistic terms, my personal view is that corruption is
>>> a a rapidly spreading CANCER which causes even healthy cells to turn black.
>>> The homeopathic precriptions for this CANCER being touted by "quacks" (in
>>> all senses of this word) are sweet placebos - being heavily promoted in the
>>> media and by foolish people who should know better - can never cure the
>>> problem which affects Mother India. It needs RADICAL SURGERY and before it
>>> is too late. If your house is somehow infested with cockroaches, will you
>>> dial a number (.. "you are in the queque"...) to be given a medicine which
>>> MAY kill 1 cockroach after 2 YEARS (see wording of Jan Lok Pal Bill), OR
>>> will you yourself pick up a can of HIT and start spraying judiciously OR
>>> call in an efficient PEST CONTROL SERVICE ????
>>>
>>> Respectfully
>>>
>>> Sarbajit
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Y.P. Anand <ypanandindia@yahoo.co.in>
>>> wrote:
>>> Dear Shri Sarbjit Roy,
>>> >Thanks for your comments on my note to Shri Devasahayam. I do not know
>>> > who should be called a 'Gandhian'. That is also not the issue here. Each one
>>> > of us has many component identities, and putting labels hardly helps.
>>> >
>>> >My note to Shri Devasahayam applies to everyone, including myself. With
>>> > my long background experience, I do feel that the issue of 'Corruption'
>>> > needs to studied much more thoroughly than it is being done by the activists
>>> > at present. Corruption in its various forms is a wide-spread phenomenon in
>>> > our society, particularly among the successful upper middle classes to which
>>> > people like me belong. We need to be much more self-critical on this issue.
>>> > Taking simple examples, black money is being generated all round through
>>> > under-valued declarations of the amounts when we purchase/sell a property,
>>> > when we make major additions/alterations to our houses/flats illegally, when
>>> > we buy jewellery, vehicles, etc. without full receipts, when we under-state
>>> > our incomes while filing incom-tax returns, and in numerous other similae
>>> > cases.
>>> >
>>> >Corruption in all its forms must be opposed. Also, governments and the
>>> > personnel involved must be held responsible wherever obvious failures to
>>> > ensure integrity in public life come to notice. However, we get a right to
>>> > speak on the subject only to the extent we have looked inwards also, and
>>> > have assured ourselves of the facts in each case. Otherwise, it becomes a
>>> > self-righteous outcry, which in the long run hardly ever helps the cause.
>>> >
>>> >YP Anand
>>> >
>>>
>>
>
>
Friday, June 17, 2011
Re: [HumJanenge] Re: CORRUPTION - Understanding and Removing It.
Sir,
Corruption is at its ZENITH.
A mail addressed to Mr Rahul of HEALINES is attd.
Its IMPORTANCE lies in the fact-- THIS CORRUPTION is AFFECTING 86 Crore people-- with NO RESPITE. ONE MAN CHEATING the ENTIRE NATION 7 CONSPIRING in nexus with DoT & Telcos to LOOT ONE LAC CRORE
this number is EASY PREY to loot--
if TURNED AROUND, it will PLAY HAVOC with these people.
AAM ADMI exploited & Complaint to CVC are attd.
Regards.
Col S N Aggarwal-Veteran,
Telecom Consultant & Consumer Activist
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:17:07 +0530 wrote
>Dear Dr.Mutthu
Please take care while moderating messages to this list that you use
the "approve" button and not the "edit" button
Sarbajit
On Jun 16, 5:00 pm, Vishnu Mutthu
> *Dear Sarbjit
>
> I absolutely and completely agree with you when you say corruption is like
> cockroaches in the house which must be radically eradicated / squashed. If
> it was only a few cockroaches the people could stamp them out on their own,
> but the scale of the problem is such that only disciplined and
> professionally trained neutral people can wipe out such vermin with extreme
> prejudice.
>
> Sanjeev
> from Glasgow, Scotland
> *
> On Jun 16, 2:55 pm, Sarbajit Roy
>
> > Dear Shri Anand
>
> > I think you shall find that this small mailing list has many domain
> > specialists in "corruption" with a large number of public servants (past /
> > present) and forces personnel subscribing. We also have the usual
> complement
> > of "activists" who tend to be more vocal / shrill than our regular
> > membership.
>
> > Corruption is certainly a complex issue to understand / deal with. The
> > middle class examples for black money generation you listed are primarily
> > IMHO due to the skewed and unrealistic taxation policies of the
> (financially
> > and morally bankrupt) Governments of the day which favour the
> > politician-mafia-middleman nexus to the detriment of middle class citizens
> > who are compelled to participate.in corruption against their will to avoid
> > losing out to sky-rocketing inflation and unjustified taxes. The lower
> > classes in turn have their own myriad sets of victimisation examples.
>
> > In deliberately simplistic terms, my personal view is that corruption is a
> a
> > rapidly spreading CANCER which causes even healthy cells to turn black.
> The
> > homeopathic prescriptions for this CANCER being touted by "quacks" (in all
> > senses of this word) are sweet placebos - being heavily promoted in the
> > media and by foolish people who should know better - can never cure the
> > problem which affects Mother India. It needs RADICAL SURGERY and before
> it
> > is too late. If your house is somehow infested with cockroaches, will you
> > dial a number (.. "you are in the queque"...) to be given a medicine
> which
> > MAY kill 1 cockroach after 2 YEARS (see wording of Jan Lok Pal Bill), OR
> > will you yourself pick up a can of HIT and start spraying judiciously OR
> > call in an efficient PEST CONTROL SERVICE ????
>
> > Respectfully
>
> > Sarbajit
>
>
 |
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Re: [HumJanenge] CORRUPTION - Understanding and Removing It.
Dear Sarbajit ji
May I join the dialogue as a member of a modest Gandhian group that
had initially started with the Stayagraha idea against the unbearable
curse of corruption which needs to start with internal cleansing and
perseverance .
As usual all our pleas were not acknowledged and repeated requests for
a meeting ignored.Yet thanks to Shambu ji a true old oak we plod on
and MGD & Anand ji is part of us
ON reflecting through the experience I have three comments on the
present discontent and what I see to be a just cause
1 We must acknowledge that peoples anger is not only against
corruption but corruption of the POWERFUL and the CONNECTED .In fact
small corruption is the poor mans substitute for not having a
connection to power
People are appalled and disgusted at the top getting away using the
clout and brazen mendacity characteristic of of present
rulers.Attention of Lokpal should remain focused at the top only.
2 for that reason distrust in the politicos is high for they have
stopped believing the political laments about how pervasive small
time endemic corruption is hurting the poor etc.All this is seen to be
crocodile tears ,a diversion to fritter away the anger and also pure
humbug -the bedst instance of the last is the Congress partys
constant clever maneuver to occupy any vacant high moral ground with
utmost alacrity
3 on the other hand NGO world must be wary of over extended action
and humbly realise that more
and more centralised SINGLE point solutions eg Jan Lok pal can work
out as bad as the disease itself .We need to acknowledge that many
variants must be tried in a country like ours.And remain humble and
sensitive above all to let people be and let them have agency
I see disturbing evidence to the contrary in some parts of Anna
/Ramdev groups behaviour and conduct It appears that many supporters
of recent focussed anti corruption mobilisation efforts are only dimly
aware that single solutions to complex problems of an urbanising
transitionla society can lead to unintended ego-totalitarian-tinpots
and adversarial civil strife
That is NOT Satyagraha
Remember good intent going astray
Remember Chauri chura
Remember Thermidor in the French Revolution
R Srinivasan
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr Devasahayam
>
> The so-called anti-dowry / pro women laws are a double-edged sword which are
> being tremendously misused and we have no faith in them.
>
> In my religion / community (Brahmo Samaj) we do not take or accept dowry.
> Our wedding ceremonies are simple / austere and mostly take place in the
> same civil format specified in the Special Marriages Act before the Marriage
> Registrar. ie. in the presence of at least 2 or 3 witnesses and both
> families, the bride & groom publcily agree to marry each other with the
> blessing (non-financial) of both families and exchange garlands/rings. The
> actual ceremony is over in about 10 minutes - but can be extended if
> required with sermons / hymns which are not essential.to the ceremony
>
> It is said of my religion that we
> a) are Born like Hindus
> b) Marry like Muslims, &
> c) Divorce like Christians.
>
> One of our formely associated faiths (ie Arya Samaj) has a marriage law
> which is being tremendously misused. It is called the Arya Samaj Validation
> of Marriages Act 1939. This reprehensible Act is the cause of all broken /
> love / couirt marriages. which are run by network of advocates and fake Arya
> Samajes. This law is widely abused by bigamists and polygamists, and unlike
> all other prior laws applicable to Hindus which were repealed in 1956 when
> the "Hindu Code" (ie. thjose 5 or 6 laws for Hindus) came into force, this
> law was never repealed to legitimise the Bastardy within the Nehru-Gandhi
> parivar and allow their non-Hindu wives to become "Hindus" or not at the
> flick of a switch (OM-OFF-ON .. etc).
>
> Sarbajit
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Devasahayam MG <mgd@airtelmail.in> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Sarbajit,
>>
>> You are fond of simple solutions. I had mentioned some of them in my
>> interview excerpt.
>>
>> I will throw a challenge to the community of social and anti-corruption
>> activists with a one-point agenda. Can you do away with the social evil
>> called 'dowry system' which is the worst form of bribe/corruption prevalent
>> in every household and has been the cause for the devastation of many
>> families and the life/honour of their daughters? There are enough laws to
>> help you.
>>
>> M.G.Devasahayam
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Shri Anand
>>>
>>> I think you shall find that this small mailing list has many domain
>>> specialists in "corruption" with a large number of public servants (past /
>>> present) and forces personnel subscribing. We also have the usual complement
>>> of "activists" who tend to be more vocal / shrill than our regular
>>> membership.
>>>
>>> Corruption is certainly a complex issue to understand / deal with. The
>>> middle class examples for black money generation you listed are primarily
>>> IMHO due to the skewed and unrealistic taxation policies of the (financially
>>> and morally bankrupt) Governments of the day which favour the
>>> politician-mafia-middleman nexus to the detriment of middle class citizens
>>> who are compelled to participate.in corruption against their will to avoid
>>> losing out to sky-rocketing inflation and unjustified taxes. The lower
>>> classes in turn have their own myriad sets of victimisation examples.
>>>
>>> In deliberately simplistic terms, my personal view is that corruption is
>>> a a rapidly spreading CANCER which causes even healthy cells to turn black.
>>> The homeopathic precriptions for this CANCER being touted by "quacks" (in
>>> all senses of this word) are sweet placebos - being heavily promoted in the
>>> media and by foolish people who should know better - can never cure the
>>> problem which affects Mother India. It needs RADICAL SURGERY and before it
>>> is too late. If your house is somehow infested with cockroaches, will you
>>> dial a number (.. "you are in the queque"...) to be given a medicine which
>>> MAY kill 1 cockroach after 2 YEARS (see wording of Jan Lok Pal Bill), OR
>>> will you yourself pick up a can of HIT and start spraying judiciously OR
>>> call in an efficient PEST CONTROL SERVICE ????
>>>
>>> Respectfully
>>>
>>> Sarbajit
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Y.P. Anand <ypanandindia@yahoo.co.in>
>>> wrote:
>>> Dear Shri Sarbjit Roy,
>>> >Thanks for your comments on my note to Shri Devasahayam. I do not know
>>> > who should be called a 'Gandhian'. That is also not the issue here. Each one
>>> > of us has many component identities, and putting labels hardly helps.
>>> >
>>> >My note to Shri Devasahayam applies to everyone, including myself. With
>>> > my long background experience, I do feel that the issue of 'Corruption'
>>> > needs to studied much more thoroughly than it is being done by the activists
>>> > at present. Corruption in its various forms is a wide-spread phenomenon in
>>> > our society, particularly among the successful upper middle classes to which
>>> > people like me belong. We need to be much more self-critical on this issue.
>>> > Taking simple examples, black money is being generated all round through
>>> > under-valued declarations of the amounts when we purchase/sell a property,
>>> > when we make major additions/alterations to our houses/flats illegally, when
>>> > we buy jewellery, vehicles, etc. without full receipts, when we under-state
>>> > our incomes while filing incom-tax returns, and in numerous other similae
>>> > cases.
>>> >
>>> >Corruption in all its forms must be opposed. Also, governments and the
>>> > personnel involved must be held responsible wherever obvious failures to
>>> > ensure integrity in public life come to notice. However, we get a right to
>>> > speak on the subject only to the extent we have looked inwards also, and
>>> > have assured ourselves of the facts in each case. Otherwise, it becomes a
>>> > self-righteous outcry, which in the long run hardly ever helps the cause.
>>> >
>>> >YP Anand
>>> >
>>>
>>
>
>
[HumJanenge] FW: Make public foreign visit details of Sonia Gandhi: CIC to PMO - Indian Express- Why this is being Suppressed by ndtv-timesnow-ibn-healines today" where is "Exclusive" or 1st 2report ga ga ga ga
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From: BRAHMASTHRA <arthashasthra7@airtelmail.in>
Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Subject: Fw: Make public foreign visit details of Sonia Gandhi: CIC to PMO - Indian Express
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Source: http://thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=373111&catid=39&Itemid=53
This is not the first time that the UPA chairperson has quietly gone abroad in a manner best described as being furtive. Why the secrecy? Why create the illusion in the public mind that she is in India when she is not, asks rajinder puri
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From: BRAHMASTHRA <arthashasthra7@airtelmail.in>
Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Subject: Fw: Make public foreign visit details of Sonia Gandhi: CIC to PMO - Indian Express
Letters to the Editor-PCCouncil-CII-NHRC-Minorities Commission
NDTV-TIMESNOW- IBN-HEADLINES TALK etc
are More Dangerous than Any of the Terrorists Outfits in the WORLD- As they hide the Truth and Sessationalise to divert.
Where is that Arnob Goswami or Rajdeep Sardesai not Chest Beating Screaming and say first to Report, " exclusive etc etc blah blah. Why Deccan Chronical or Akbar are not raising this Issue? If a BJP man or Rss Man is found Passing Urine- these D4 etc Flash first to Report and Exclusive- and GANGA has been Polluted.
"On Monday, Tamil Nadu chief minister Miss Jayalalithaa visited Delhi. She met her Delhi counterpart Mrs Sheila Dikshit. India's biggest TV channel blared: "Will Jaya also meet Sonia?" Was the channel unprofessionally ignorant or was it colluding with the exercise to hide the furtive movements of Mrs Sonia Gandhi? Earlier on the same day, there was a statement issued by Mrs Gandhi deploring the murder of a prominent journalist in Mumbai. Was all this being done to create the illusion in the public mind that Mrs Gandhi was in India while she was not? This is not the first time that Mrs Gandhi has silently gone abroad in a manner best described as being furtive. Why the secrecy? What is the purpose of Mrs Gandhi's undisclosed visits abroad?"
HOW MANY TIMES DID SHE VISITED DUBAI? Are Her Sisters Purchasing a $ 10 BILLION DOLLAR ISLAND? Are they so Rich in ITALY? WHY SWISS AUTHORITIES ARE KEEPING QUIET? Why People of Italy are not raising this Issue? What are the Tax authorities doing? Are the Money being transferred to the Sisters? The Island Like Kachteevu shud be Declared Indian State.
WHY ARE THEY SHOWING OLD CLIPPINGS ETC TO DIVERT? What the National Broadcasting looking the Other way- Sucking the Thumb or What?????
Who is footing the Bill for the Private Planes or who issues the Visa and what are the Details in the Pass Port which Needs Endorsement?
LOK PALL IS A MUST- AS SAID- THE STORM STARTED FROM EGYPT WILL SETTLE IN INDIA. EVEN CHINA IS IN TROUBLE WHICH NRAMS COMMUNIST MOUTH PIECE IS SUPPRESSING.
WHY JAVED AKTAR- TAMIL NADU- KOLLY WOOD OR MUMBAI BOLLYWOOD are not Joining the Black Money Retrieval Campaign. Why SHAHRUKH KHAN OR SALMAN KHAN ARE BEING SHOWN- Just to Divert. Has all the Money of Javed Aktar paid in India or also abroad?
TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011
Make public foreign visit details of Sonia Gandhi: CIC to PMO - Indian Express
Make public foreign visit details of Sonia Gandhi: CIC to PMO - Indian Express The details of foreign travel even if made on private jets should be available from Bureau of Immigration (Min. of Home Affairs). http://www.immigrationindia.nic.in/index.htm
Source: http://thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=373111&catid=39&Itemid=53
This is not the first time that the UPA chairperson has quietly gone abroad in a manner best described as being furtive. Why the secrecy? Why create the illusion in the public mind that she is in India when she is not, asks rajinder puri
On Monday, Tamil Nadu chief minister Miss Jayalalithaa visited Delhi. She met her Delhi counterpart Mrs Sheila Dikshit. India's biggest TV channel blared: "Will Jaya also meet Sonia?" Was the channel unprofessionally ignorant or was it colluding with the exercise to hide the furtive movements of Mrs Sonia Gandhi? Earlier on the same day, there was a statement issued by Mrs Gandhi deploring the murder of a prominent journalist in Mumbai. Was all this being done to create the illusion in the public mind that Mrs Gandhi was in India while she was not? This is not the first time that Mrs Gandhi has silently gone abroad in a manner best described as being furtive. Why the secrecy? What is the purpose of Mrs Gandhi's undisclosed visits abroad?
An RTI applicant, Mr Ramesh Verma, had sought from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) details of the foreign visits of the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council (NAC) and Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi. The Central Information Commission (CIC) forwarded the application to the PMO. "It seems the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry had informed that the Central government had incurred no expenditure on the foreign visits Sonia Gandhi during the last 10 years," CIC commissioner Mr Satyananda Mishra has stated. The application to the PMO was received on 26 February, 2010, transferred to the external affairs ministry on 16 March, 2010 and then forwarded to the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry on 26 March, 2010. However, it was not known by the Cabinet secretariat whether the RTI applicant had been provided with the information that was sought. The CIC commissioner criticised the PMO for its casual approach. The PMO did not obtain the information from the appropriate ministry after the query was specifically directed to it.
Congress leaders are frothing at the mouth demanding total transparency from members of civil society. Probes have been launched against some of them. Should not the government display equal transparency pertaining to India's most powerful politician who is the chairperson of the ruling UPA coalition as well as the chairperson of the government's NAC? They need to answer the following questions:
Did Mrs Gandhi travel abroad on an airline or by a private jet? If the latter, whose jet was it?
What was the purpose of the foreign visit made by the Chairperson of the NAC and the UPA?
What is the itinerary of the NAC Chairperson? Which countries and cities did she, or will she, visit?
And while they are at it, our worthy Congress leaders may as well also address these ancient and perennial questions:
Why does not the government refute the allegation made by a former member of the Soviet government's official KGB Commission, confirmed by the official spokesman of the Russian government addressing the media, that the KGB had been donating funds to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's family, including her mother, since 1971? Why does the government not demand an apology from the author of the allegation and failing its receipt launch a defamation case against the author and the Russian government?
Why do the government and the Congress party not explain the purpose of the meeting between accused money launderer Hasan Ali and the political secretary of the Congress president, Mr Ahmed Patel, that was investigated and confirmed by Maharashtra police?
The public awaits from Congress leaders Mr Pranab Mukherjee, Mr Digvijay Singh, Mr Kapil Sibal, Mr Chidambaram and the rest, answers to these questions. Transparency, like charity, should begin at home.
The writer is a veteran journalist and cartoonist
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[HumJanenge] I-T Dept to provide political parties' tax return details
I-T Dept to provide political parties' tax return details The Income Tax Department has decided to provide full details of tax returns of political parties under the RTI Act after the Central Information Commission (CIC) issued it directives in this regard. The department has taken the step to bring in transparency in the funding of both big and small parties as the information will now be in public domain. According to the official sources, earlier IT department used to restrict such information, citing the section of the Income Tax Act, which allowed denial of such information. Chief Election Commissioner S Y Qureshi had earlier expressed concerns over the funding of such political parties and had asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to scrutinize their accounts. With the new development, general public will now be able to obtain the details of income, donations and expenditure by all the political parties, which file their income tax returns. The CIC, in an order in 2008, had asked the I-T department to allow the disclosure of such information. |
[HumJanenge] Govt seeks public views online on blackmoney issue
| Govt seeks public views online on blackmoney issue The government on Wednesday created an email id for public to send their ideas and inputs to tackle issues arising out of blackmoney.
The email -- bm-feedback@nic.in -- has been created on the server of the National Informatics Centre and the public can send their responses on the subject with immediate effect, a senior Finance Ministry officer said on Wednesday. "General public can send in their responses and inputs like imposing penalties and making penal provisions to tackle with the issue," the officer said. The government has already constituted a committee headed by Central Board of Direct Taxes Chairman Prakash Chandra to devise new strategies to deal with the issue. The committee is expected to submit its recommendations in the next six months. The email account will be continuously monitored by Finance Ministry officials and they would place the messages before the committee headed by the CBDT Chairman. (DD-15.6). |
Re: [HumJanenge] Re: CORRUPTION - Understanding and Removing It.
corruption is now becoming cancerous in our country.
cancer cells, the haves, are eating non
cancer cells, the poor.
jus. srivastava
From: Vishnu Mutthu <vishnu.mutthu@yahoo.fr>
To: humjanenge <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:30:35
Subject: [HumJanenge] Re: CORRUPTION - Understanding and Removing It.
Dear Sarbjit
I absolutely and completely agree with you when you say corruption is like cockroaches in the house which must be radically eradicated / squashed. If it was only a few cockroaches the people could stamp them out on their own, but the scale of the problem is such that only disciplined and professionally trained neutral people can wipe out such vermin with extreme prejudice.
Sanjeev
from Glasgow, Scotland
On Jun 16, 2:55 pm, Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Shri Anand
>
> I think you shall find that this small mailing list has many domain
> specialists in "corruption" with a large number of public servants (past /
> present) and forces personnel subscribing. We also have the usual complement
> of "activists" who tend to be more vocal / shrill than our regular
> membership.
>
> Corruption is certainly a complex issue to understand / deal with. The
> middle class examples for black money generation you listed are primarily
> IMHO due to the skewed and unrealistic taxation policies of the (financially
> and morally bankrupt) Governments of the day which favour the
> politician-mafia-middleman nexus to the detriment of middle class citizens
> who are compelled to participate.in corruption against their will to avoid
> losing out to sky-rocketing inflation and unjustified taxes. The lower
> classes in turn have their own myriad sets of victimisation examples.
>
> In deliberately simplistic terms, my personal view is that corruption is a a
> rapidly spreading CANCER which causes even healthy cells to turn black. The
> homeopathic prescriptions for this CANCER being touted by "quacks" (in all
> senses of this word) are sweet placebos - being heavily promoted in the
> media and by foolish people who should know better - can never cure the
> problem which affects Mother India. It needs RADICAL SURGERY and before it
> is too late. If your house is somehow infested with cockroaches, will you
> dial a number (.. "you are in the queque"...) to be given a medicine which
> MAY kill 1 cockroach after 2 YEARS (see wording of Jan Lok Pal Bill), OR
> will you yourself pick up a can of HIT and start spraying judiciously OR
> call in an efficient PEST CONTROL SERVICE ????
>
> Respectfully
>
> Sarbajit
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