Role of media

My friends have rightly said that media is the medium of information convey through print and
electronic way but none of my friend has told about the social sites which are also playing
important role in mobilizing opinion media plays vital role in any democratic country like our
where right of express is fundamental right which is provided under the constitution rather I will
say media is fourth pillar in our democracy. Media is opinion maker. They bring out the facts to
the knowledge of the people at large . we have seen recently media has played an important role
in the fight against corruption and reveled so many scams like 2G spectrum , CWG, adarsh
society scam, national health scam in UP. First time we have seen the great agitation against
corruption launched by Anna hazzare. Not only this media also does the social audit like they
bring out the loop holes / weakness of the government to the notice of the public for example if
road is broken and some water is flooding they will show the pictures to the public and the
concern department immediately take the action. Some of my friends have pointed out some
misrepresentation or over representation or wrong representation of media to increase to their
TRP. Friends media in our country is in a private sector and have to be commercial after all they
are working for evening. So they bring lot of reality shows and sensational news to increase their
TRP but I do agree that there should be some control on sensational issues which may create
problems in the society .

Social Media MarketingA Strategic Initiative

Social media is the social interaction among people in which they create,
share or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and
networks. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Heinlein define social media as "a
group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and
technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and
exchange of user-generated content. Furthermore, social media depend on
mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms
through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and
modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive
changes to communication between organizations, communities, and
individuals.
Social media is transforming all aspects of marketing from brand building,
communications

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advertising

to

customization

and

customer

engagement. Researchers and marketers are grappling with the profound

impact of the rapidly evolving social media on viral user-generated
content, its impact in shaping consumer perceptions and constantly
changing landscape for developing business cases to proactively engaging
with stakeholders. thanks
Food security bill

Food security bill means to ensure food the every citizens of the country. 32% of our population comes
under below poverty line . who are unable to afford two times food and national advisory council which is
headed by Sonia Gandhi has proposed food security to every citizens of country as it is recommended a
bill has already been proposed in cabinet and approved further legislate in parliament . the provision of
food security bill to view wheat rise , Corse grain at consistent rates say 2rs. Per kg. wheat, 3rs. Per kg.
rice, 1 rs. Per kg Corse grain to the BPL and some higher rates to the medium class at certain quantity ,
say 35 kg per month to the BPL. 7 kg per person per month. The scheme is really good point is so many
scheme in our country is failed due to poor implementation. Our present PDS system has so many
weakness/ drawbacks and doesnot reach to the ectual person. Hence the need of time is to over haling the
PDS system. Recently a committee has been set up and MR. Nandan Neelkani has suggested the cash
subsidiaries instead of kind. To reach the benefits directly to the needy/ entitled person through their
account . if this happens the real benefit will be passed on the real person .
Thanks.
Immunity schemes to bring black money
Immunity schemes is that we are legalize the black money and not penalizing the black money holders .
Black money is the money on which income has not been declared and taxes have not been paid. In the
past also the government of India has bought discloser schemes in 1996. Friends black money creates a
parallel economy which effects of economic structure and their force . if it is brought into main streams .
It will boost to our G.D.P. hence the gov. of India already again considering this proposal we have around
700billion $ of black money. Our country is a emerging economy and we can grow faster and hence it is
right time to bring and discloser schemes . As it is proposed to collect tax with some penalty say around
45% tax. We will have around 2 lakh crore of tax which will take care of our investment in infrastructure
and our five year plans.
So this schemes should be brought.
Thanks
Cinema is a mirror of society
It means cinema is showing what are happening in the society on culture, politics, economy and some
specific social issues, practices over a period the investment in the industry have been too huge so the
producers also keep in mind to increase the earning, the entertainment, stunts and fictions. Lot of my
friends have quoted good name of movies like tare zameen pe, lagan, chak de India. Series of munna bhai

, vivah, page 3, which are educative movies , the film like guru lights on corporate sector . the film
arakshan deals with the special circumstances in country. Rajneeti shows the picture of politics in country.
My friends have told there is vulgarity in some of the films. We cannot watch with our family. The role of
sensor board must be strict before release of the movie. Friend now cinema has become a part of our life .
however crime have also copied from the movie. It has negative facts on our society. The policy from
awarding oscor, iifa awards is the right step for motivating a good cinema. It is right to say that every coin
has two sides but still cinema is really a mirror of our society.
Thanks
Impact of technology in banking
Impact of technology in banking is beyond doubt. A good impact which has benefited the customer. As
well as the banks customers now have fast services and many products at one click banking ab chutaki
mai is rightly said by Allahabad bank. In todays era there is a important of time in every individual and
the technology in banking is enabled virtual banking so that we need not to go even to the branch for
banks also it has benefited a lot in reducing cost of operation handling the volumes of mass banking ,
data ware housing and data mining.
Banks can take now decisions very fast because of the technology but some of my friends have rightly
paid there are pros and cons of every issue. When we adopted technology in 1999 , for seven to eight
years we didnt have any employment in banking sector rather reduce the manpower by offering VRS
schemes for reducing the manpower.
Some my friends also told about the dependency on the technology and machines are the part of systems
and we cannot ignore the larger benefits of the use of technology. In the present scenario when we are
talking of financial inclusion. It is the only and only use of technology will help us to achieve the
draconian task because use of mobile banking is the way to reach the people at large.
So friends there is no doubt that the impact of technology in banking is very helpful or rather
indispensible in the present scenario.
Thanks

Corruption

Its a biggest evil of society rather a epidemic which has spread all over in every sector and every
segment. Corruption is a wrong/ illegal practice for giving any advantage to any person against bribe
which may be in cash or kind. We heard a lot of scandals and scams at higher levels and politicians level
like CWG, 2G and adarsh society, fodder scandal, scandals in NAREGA all over the country. World wide
we are known as country which is corrupt and in corruption index we got good position. Corrupt practices
have direct impact who cant afford to pay any bribe. The person who can afford to pay bribe and snatch
the right of the poor and it is very essential to check this ghost of corruption it is matter of pleasure that
country at large has now come on street to fight this ghost . Thanks to our social activist and his team who
are fighting this causes. It is now well understood that we cant live and grow with this evil and
government has now also initiated to check the corruption, the gov. at central and some of the state have
passed the bills for time bound services to provided the people and very recently to check corruption in
bureaucrats they have passed lokpal bill in loksabha but it is pending in rajsabha.
Some of my friend has told that only act will not work unless every individual take a oath not to take and
not to pay amount for any work. Some of my friend have told whether we should legalize the bribe.
Friends we are a 65 year old democratic country and since the inception our leaders have agreed that there
was corruption in the country in the public servant and even after 65 years this evil has not come down
rather increased.
When we have agreed that we cant check the corruption why not we legalize the same . because the
money taken illegally is a lose to the country not only loss to country but also further create illegal
activities so my view is that should be legalize for example passport and transport that we charged
additional fees for tatkal tickets so any body who wants to get faster in the gov and take additional
charges. I appreciate the practice in traffic police and the revenue dep. Where some incentives are given
for additional revenue by officers.
We can also introduce these types of steps in other departments.
Euro zone crisis and its impact on Indian economy
Euro zone crisis is the crisis of excess debt borrowed by the govt of some
countries like Greece , Italy Spain Portugal, and Ireland .These countries are now
unable to make payment of their bonds ,The ECB has now given them bail out
package by purchasing the bond from banks who have invested the money . This
will give relief to the banking system of these countries
What is Eurozone?
Eurozone is the economic and monetary union of member countries of Europe who
have adopted Euro as their common currency. Till date it consists of 17 members.

Other members can join it and some of them are in the process and will in fact join
once they fulfill the conditions.
Ten
countries
(Bulgaria,
the Czech
Republic, Denmark, Hungary,Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden,
and
the United Kingdom) are EU members not of Eurozone i.e they dont use Euro as
their currency.
CB or Euro Group.
The monetary policy of all countries in the eurozone is managed by the European
Central Bank (ECB) and the Eurosystem which comprises the ECB and the central
banks of the EU states who have joined the euro zone.
What is Eurozone Debt. Crisis ?
When the EuroZone formed in the late 90s, Germany and France were the
economic powers and every other country was clearly in a subservient position,
economically speaking.
When countries want to build roads, fund schools, and do various other large scale
projects, they fund this activity by issuing debt in the form of government bonds.
the grand idea when the EuroZone started was that these weak countries like
Greece would be able to borrow money at cheap rates in order to economically
develop their countries in a responsible manner. This would help them close the gap
with stronger countries like Germany and France, and then all of Europe would grow
more powerful. But, oh how the idealistic plans of man often fail in reality.
What went wrong you ask? Well, of course Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland
borrowed money. Its what they did with the money, and how much they borrowed
that became a problem. Instead of using the money to develop strong economic
infrastructure in their respective countries, they went on reckless spending sprees.
. These countries have spent so much money and developed such irresponsible
fiscal agendas that they are now having trouble paying back all those loans. To
make it worse, investors are now demanding more yield in order to hold the debt of
these countries. That is making it even harder for the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland,
Greece, Spain) to pay back the money they owe.
And in this not just European companies that will bear the brunt. There are a
number of Indian companies that have significant exposure to Europe. If they
haven't already been affected, earnings for these companies are likely to be
impacted in the future. But the key question is to what extent?
Black money in India
It is a well-recognized fact that there exists in India a parallel economy based
entirely on black money transactions. Black money, also described as tainted
money, has seeped into every walk of life and is posing a great threat to the
stability of our real economy. The most unfortunate aspect is that it has come to be

accepted as normal fact of life. People hardly feel say qualms of conscience while
dealing with it. In their jaundiced eyes, the black appears to be bright and beautiful.
The problem of tax-evasion and black money cannot merely be looked upon as an
anti-social activity or an unlawful activity. It is rather, like a cancer in the country's
economy which, if not checked in time, will ruin the country's economy. One of the
worst consequences of black-money and tax-evasion-is their pernicious effect on
the moral fiber of our society which puts a premium on dishonesty and shatters the
faith of the common man in the dignity of honest labour and lawful living. Blackmoney results in the functioning of a parallel economy in the country. The problem,
therefore, needs immediate attention.
Black money in economic terms means 'unrecorded gains'. In other words, it is
income which has escaped taxation. It may be hoarded in cash, but eventually gets
itself converted into various assets like property, jeweler and durable consumer
goods.
Various estimates have been made regarding the quantity of black-money in
circulation. It is estimated that the amount of black-money has reached over Rs.
20,000 crores. The black-money has now assumed vast dimensions and menacing
proportions. It has been engaging the attention of the Government and the public.
Black-money arises due to various reasons. Some of those reasons are :
(1) The main cause of black-money is unrealistically high rates of taxes which strain
human nature. India is today "the highest taxed nation", one eminent authority put
it, "in so far as the rates of taxes are concerned, because no country in the world
penalizes honest work and endeavour as ruthlessly as India does."
(2) Tax-laws in country are so complicated that a layman fails to understand it. Even
honest assesses are unable to file correct returns. This encourages people to evade
tax.
(3) Another cause of black-money is numerous controls, licenses and other
governmental regulations it is no exaggeration to say that the controls, licensing
and permit system has made black money indispensable to businessmen. Not only
do import licenses command a high premium in the black market, but the licensing
system has led to corruption at all levels.
(4) Black money also arises from political activities such as elections where
candidates spend well above the ceiling prescribed by the Election Commission.
This huge expenses in turn makes them corrupt.

(5) Black money also arises from illegal activities like smuggling, drug-peddling.
(6) Perhaps the most important reason of tax-evasion and black-money is the
genera! deterioration in the moral and civic standards of our people.
Our businessmen employ very ingenious methods to generate black-money. Large
amounts of black-money can be generated through the sale of fixed assets and
scrap. Sometimes influential firms obtain quotas or import licenses in excess of their
actual requirements and sell them at cash premiums. Industrial manufacturing
licenses are similarly obtained through influences and sold to a second party at an
enhanced value. Purchase bills ore over-invoiced or dummy bills are prepared.
Large-scale smuggling of gold and various luxury items is an important source of
black-money. Sometimes, relatives whose income is not taxable are kept on the
payrolls of a company; they are paid their salary which is taken back in the forms of
black-money.
The laws governing the motion of black money exhibit peculiar trends. Returns on
white money investments are discouraging poor and slow. But black-money
multiplies at a fantastic rate. Returns on black-money investments are often to the
order of 200 to 300 percent. Since money thus generated is re-invested in such
activities as hoarding and smuggling, it fetches still higher returns. Once blackmoney is converted into black wealth it is very difficult to track it down.
Many steps have been taken by the Government from time to time to check the taxevasion. Following Wanchoo Committee's recommendations the Government
enacted the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1975. This act has brought on the
statute various provisions for preventing tax-evasion and proliferation of blackmoney Deterrent punishments have been, provided for tax-evasion. The other
committees werethe Dangli Committee on Controls and Subsidies (1980), The
Rajah Chelliah Committee, and the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
(1985).
With a view of bringing about simplification and rationalization of the direct tax
laws, the Government appointed a committee of experts known as the "Direct Tax
Laws Committee1' in June 1977. The recommendations of the Committee are being
processed for implementation.
In 1976 the Government imposed a statutory obligation on the management to
carryout physical verification of its assets for the satisfaction of the auditors to
ensure that no money is created through the sale of fixed assets. Management is
also obliged to maintain a proper record of the sale of scrap. Another step taken by
the Government to unearth black-money was the launching of the voluntary
disclosure scheme in 1975, No penalties were imposed on the persons disclosing

black-money voluntarily. Demonetization of the notes of higher denomination has

also been one of the recent steps of the Government to unearth black-money.
Curbing of the smuggling activities in the country has been the main concern of the
Government, The conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling
Activities Act was passed for this matter on 19th December, 1974.
la a bid to mop up black-money, the Government announced on 12th January, 1981
a new scheme of issuing a ten-year bond of the face value of Rs. 10,000 each. An
ordinance for this purpose was issued by the President. The bonds will be known as
'Special Bearer Bonds.' The scheme gives immunity to the investor from prosecution
as well as disclosure of the source of the money invested. Several other series of
such bonds have been released in recent years.
The Wanchoo Committee recommended a check on tax-evasion and proliferation of blackmoney. However, one aspect of tax-evasion was neglected by the Committee and it was
simplification of tax laws. Unless the tax laws are simplified and rationalized, tax-evasion cannot
be checked. Moreover, simple filing return procedure should be laid down so that even a layman
could file it without resorting to the help of lawyers and experts.
Some of the recommendations of the Waacboo Committee have been implemented by the
Government. But a great deal of work still needs to be done in this matter. If the
recommendations of the committee are implemented in the right earnestness, they would
mitigate the magnitude of tax-evasion to a considerable extent. However the problem cannot be
solved unless we, the people of India, realize our moral responsibility of contributing our efforts
in the building of nation. This can be done only if hard work and honest enterprise become truly
rewarding. Something more effective and meaningful should be done to stop the generation and
proliferation of black-money
Challenges before Indian Economy and the Budget 2014-15

The media and the official economists are going gaga over the high growth rate
achieved in the Indian economy in the last year. They are claiming that India has
withstood the economic crisis; the growth rate has reached the pre-crisis level and
India has reached a path of sustained high growth. This rosy picture has several
black marks and exposes the vital flaws in the Indian economic scenario. This article
attempts to expose the nature of these flaws in the Indian economic system and
locates the Union Budget 2011-12 in this context.
Macroeconomic Overview
The high growth rate that has been achieved in the Indian economy has not
translated itself into development for all sections of the population. Rather, this
growth process itself, being led by the corporate sector and the rich, is essentially
anti-egalitarian. That is why in India we have a situation where the numbers of

billionaires as well as the number of malnourished children are one of the highest in
the world. The issue that the policy makers are facing today is whether they want to
perpetuate this unequal growth process or usher in a more egalitarian growth
trajectory for the country. The Budget 2011-12 is categorical that the government is
committed to the former. Let us see how.
Since the current growth process in the Indian economy is essentially one led by the
corporate sector, (within a world dominated by finance capital), to continue this
growth process the government has to continually woo this sector for undertaking
investment in the economy. This takes the form of providing the corporate sector
with massive tax concessions. In the year 2010-11, more than Rs 88000 crore was
provided as tax concessions to the corporate sector only. Secondly, it is not only
enough that these tax concessions are provided to the corporates. Additionally, the
government has to show with acts and deeds that they are ready to hand over
public assets to the private sector for ensuring investor confidence. Therefore in
this budget, a target of Rs 40000 crore has been set for disinvestment of public
sector companies. Thirdly, finance capital always abhors government intervention in
the market, which is detrimental to its own benefit. Therefore, to ascertain the
confidence of finance capital, the government has to proclaim that the fiscal deficit
will be within certain limits and the government will not increase its borrowing from
the market. Both of these have been proposed in this years budget. Fourthly, the
government also has to show to these investors that the government is putting a
leash on its investments. As a result in this years budget we find that the total
expenditure of the government has been reduced from 15.4% of GDP (2010-11) to
14% of GDP in 2011-12. The problem is that such brazen pro-corporate policies
cannot be implemented without facing public outrage. Therefore, it is left to the
government economists to theorize why such steps are necessary for the benefit of
the poor in the country. In the process of doing so, the economists ask the people to
rely blindly on the market. The Economic Survey is producing an additional chapter
over the last two years to argue why the market is the best guide towards pro-poor
policy making in India. It is argued that the state should only be an enabling state
where it will only enable the market to function in an efficient manner. It is taught to
the public that India is slowly achieving full-capacity output (see Economic Survey
page 21). Since we are on the verge of full-capacity output, any increase in
government borrowing or expenditure will lead to increase in inflation or interest
rates.
Such arguments dished to the people in the garb of high economic theory does not
reveal to the people that markets are susceptible to major crises (as happened
during the recent financial crisis) and that free market capitalism necessarily gives
rise to inequality. A simple statistics can reveal this point. The share of agriculture in
GDP has now reduced to 14.2%. However even now, around 67% of men and 84%
of women are employed in this sector in rural areas (NSSO Report 2007-08). In other
words, the growth process of the economy has not been successful in moving out
people from agriculture to other activities and giving them meaningful employment.
Whatever growth is taking place in industry and services in the country are not
getting translated to adequate number of jobs. As a result the unemployment rate
remains at a level of 8%. (NSSO Report 2007-08) What is necessary to uplift the

conditions of the poor and bridge the inequality existing in the economy is to go for
active government policy aimed at redistribution of wealth and income. This entails
higher taxes on corporates and the rich, high government expenditure etc, which
are vehemently opposed by finance capital and the big business in India. The
government representing their class interests acts according to their benefit.
Food, Inflation and Agriculture
The Economic Survey 2010-11 says that continued high food inflation is a concern
facing the Indian economy and the policy makers. To ascertain the causes of the
high inflation, the Economic Survey points to two factors viz. high domestic demand
and higher global prices on account of the global recovery. Elaborating on these
issues the Survey points out that there has been monetary easing in the advanced
countries, because of which there exists a higher money supply in the world
economy which are driving up the prices. This is however incorrect. The fact of the
matter is that the advanced economies are still in the process of recovering with
high unemployment and low growth. Any monetary easing on their part should not
lead to inflation because of the existence of unutilized capacity in the economy. The
problem with global food inflation is that there has been a systematic decline in the
global food production. This year, bad weather conditions in various countries have
added to this already delicate supply situation giving rise to a global inflation of
food articles. Be that as it may, the world food prices will affect Indian farmers and
consumers only when we expose them to such global fluctuations in the world
prices by opening up the economy. That is precisely what the policy makers have
been doing over the last two decades. Now to blame the rising global food prices for
inflation at home is rather ironical.
If we look at the domestic factors driving food inflation, the Economic Survey points
out that rise in demand due to schemes like the NREGA may be a contributing
factor. This is however totally unconvincing. There is a table given in the Economic
Survey, (page 7) which shows that the growth rate of consumption of food has
declined from 6.4% in 2007-08 to only 0.5% in 2009-10. So the demand pull on food
is actually declining according to the Economic Survey only. If food inflation is
happening even then, it is surely a result of supply factors. The most obvious point
is that there has been a slow-down in agriculture over the years. While everybody
seems to be celebrating the 5.4% growth rate in agriculture in 2010-11, it needs to
be pointed out that this growth is on the basis of a low base. For example, the foodgrain production in the country was 234.5 million tonnes in 2008-09 which declined
to 218.1 million tonnes in 2009-10 and subsequently increased to 232.1 million
tonnes in 2010-11 (Economic Survey, page-2). In other words, the food-grain
production this year has not reached the previous peak output yet. To have any
sense of celebration on the achievement in agriculture is therefore quite misplaced.
Budget Provisions on these Issues
What are the steps that have been taken in the budget to deal with the situation
with respect to the above mentioned issues? The answer to this question is basically
nothing. If the government was at all serious about improving the conditions in the
agriculture sector, it would have increased to a significant extent the plan outlay on
agriculture. Rather, what it has done is that it has increased such allocation by only

around Rs 400 crore or by 2.65%, which is basically a reduction of such expenditure

in real terms. Moreover, it is shocking that the government has reduced the
allocation for the Ministry of Agriculture by around 6.5%. The government has
reduced the food subsidy in absolute terms by Rs 27 crore. Moreover, the
government has withdrawn Rs 15000 crore subsidies for petroleum products and
around Rs 5000 crore for fertilizers. At the same time the government has refused
to reduce the excise duties on petroleum products.
The economic philosophy behind such acts is very clear. Suppose there exists an
inflationary situation in the economy. This can be tackled in two alternative ways.
One is to augment the supply and second is to cut demand. Clearly, the government
is resorting to the second option of cutting the demand of the poor people by
reducing expenditures, which can ultimately lead to a decrease in the inflation rate
in the economy. Such anti-people stance on the part of the UPA Government only
exposes their very little concern for the aam admi in the country.
Financial Sector Liberalization
All over the world, a vigorous debate is taking place on the issue of financial
liberalization in the aftermath of the global crisis. It is being repeatedly pointed out
by heterodox economists that financial liberalization increases the fragility of the
financial architecture of an economy and reduces the effectiveness of the regulatory
framework and eventually leads to a crisis. This was clearly evident in the global
crisis where the entire financial architecture of the world was on the verge of
collapse. At that time, our Prime Minister celebrated the resilience of the Indian
economy and attributed such resilience to the relative insulation of our financial
sector from global financial flows. But in this years budget, the government has
announced a series of financial sector reforms, starting from opening up the Mutual
Funds for FII investment and increasing the FDI limit for corporate bonds and
infrastructure. Moreover, the Finance Minister pointed towards major reforms in the
insurance, pension funds and the banking sector, aimed at more opening up of
these sectors for FDI.
These policies are to the detriment of the interests of the majority of the people in
the country. Such financial sector liberalization will only increase our vulnerability to
the crisis of the advanced capitalist countries. However, the governments economic
philosophy does not give it any other choice. This is because the government has
decided that it will not indulge in public investment for generating growth in the
economy. Therefore, the private sector has to be relied upon. As has been already
argued in order to maintain the confidence of global and domestic corporates, the
government has to continuously provide sops to them. In other words, unless the
overall economic trajectory of the government changes, such anti-people reforms
are bound to increase in the coming days.
External Sector
Indias situation in the external sector is also a matter of worry. The current account
balance has been in the negative for the last 5 years, but it is now reaching 3.5% of
GDP, which is very high. This rise in the current account deficit has been due to a
moderate slowdown in the growth rate of exports but more importantly as a result

of an increase in the growth rate of imports. An increase in imports is a natural

corollary of a growing economy. But the point is to increase exports to meet the
import bill. However, the world economy, particularly the advanced countries, is still
facing a slowdown of growth. As a result, in the near future, there is little prospect
for Indian exports to increase drastically. On the other hand, as a result of the unrest
in the Middle East the prices of Crude Oil in the international market have crossed
$100. This will impose an additional import bill for India and therefore increase the
current account deficit. The increase in global oil prices also has its ramifications in
India, where the prices of petroleum products will rise, adding to an already
inflationary situation. Now, if the relative inflation in India, is higher than other
countries then the competitiveness of the Indian commodities will get eroded (even
at a constant exchange rate) and result in a decline in the exports. In short, the
current account deficit in India is showing signs of not improving in the near future.
Added to this problem of current account deficit, there also exists the problem of
short term capital flows into India. Since the advanced capitalist countries are still in
a crisis, global finance in search of more profits has found their destinations in the
developing countries like India and China. In 2009-10, there has been a huge surge
in portfolio flow into the Indian economy. Such capital flows have the problem of
appreciating the currency as well as fuelling an asset price bubble in the domestic
economy. Both these issues need to be tackled. An appreciation of the Indian Rupee
will adversely affect the exports while an asset price bubble will only result in a
crash and a concomitant financial crisis. It is therefore imperative that the India
takes care of these problematic developments in the external sector. The Budget
announcements this year has not given any direction in this regard. Rather than
guard against such short term capital flows, the Finance Minister has given a recipe
for even more financial deregulation. Moreover, the Government without taking any
steps on oil prices and decreasing oil subsidies wishes to pass on the burden to the
common people. This will only cause more miseries for them.
Conclusion
The Budget presented this year by the UPA Government has been an exercise,
where the UPA has given up all pretensions of working for the aam admi and has
gone all out to woo the corporate sector without any concern for the problems of
the people. The Budget is a reassurance to the corporate sector that the
Government remains committed to its core agenda of neo-liberalism.

Second green revolution is the need of the hour

India as for many other countries are inelastic supply of arable land and declining
water tables in some parts of Punjab where the first green revolution was heralded
the table is down from a couple of metres below the surface to virtually
unfathomable depths. The sector also has to contend with erosion of top soil and ill
effects of climate change. Better irrigation system and its wider coverage, more
efficient and balanced use of fertilisers, making sure subsidies reach the target
groups and elimination of crop wastage will no doubt help. But what could usher in
the next revolution are breakthroughs in technology through public research to be

made possible mainly by liberal government funding. The government will certainly
not indulge in self congratulation for agriculture recording a growth of 5.4 per cent
to 232.07 million tonnes in 2010-11 as this is happening on a low production base of
218.11 million tonnes last year when the country experienced the worst south-west
monsoon since 1972. In fact, the major concern of the government is farm sectors
niggardly growth of 2.8 per cent in the first four years of the current plan.
That the country will miss the four per cent annual growth for the sector during the
eleventh plan by a long margin is not in doubt. There is no way growth could be
raised to 8.5 per cent next year to compensate for performance deficit in the earlier
years. The crisis in agriculture in the form of virtual stagnation in productivity and
difficulty in commissioning new unfarmed land finds expression in a table in the
Economic Survey.

The table on compound annual growth rate basis shows that in 10 years to 2009-10,
the area under rice shrank 0.03 per cent and production and productivity of the
cereal grew 1.59 per cent and 1.61 per cent, respectively. As for wheat, the area
gain was 1.21 per cent, while progress in production and productivity was 1.89 per
cent and 0.68 per cent, respectively. Productivity gains have plateaued raising
concerns about food security. All this goes to show that the country now urgently
needs a follow up green revolution to the one of the 1960s which led to major
breakthroughs in wheat and rice production. The next green revolution has to
happen to chase the twin goals of food security and nutritional diet. Without the
second revolution, which can be postponed at the nations peril, the supply sides
response to growing demand for food will be weak leading to disturbing price
spikes.
Agricultures critical limiting factors for Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee says
agriculture is central to our growth strategy. But what he has proposed in the
Budget for the sector does not inspire confidence in M S Swaminathan that the
country is being readied for the second green revolution. He is distraught by the
public policy which does not provide for holding together the farm and non-farm
sectors in rural India and inadequate allocation for agriculture. One may not share
his scepticism about the future of Indian agriculture, but there is no scope for
disagreement about his four conditions for launching another green revolution.
Agriculture certainly cannot be taken to the next stage of development without new
technology, better support services, improved marketing of agro products and very
importantly making farmers enthused about his work. Like India many other
countries are talking about green revolution. The universal challenge is to see that
global food production doubles by 2050 when world population is projected to rise
to 9.5 billion from the present 6.9 billion. A hard but not insurmountable task in the
context, as the Economist points out, of the yields of wheat and rice, the two most
important food crops rising for the first time since the 1960s more slowly than
global population. Its scary to find one billion people in the world are pathetically
undernourished. The per hectare yield of rice in India is stagnating at around 2,150
kg and that for wheat at about 2,830 kg. Before the green revolution, the yield was
1,013 kg for rice and 851 kg for wheat. The revolution that New Delhi has in mind

will have a much wider sweep than the first to also include pulses and oilseeds, for
which we are import dependent, and fruits and vegetables.
For boosting productivity of farm items, the reliance has to be on biotechnology. Our
farmers need smart seeds which will make crops withstand diseases and weeds and
not allow them to wilt easily in difficult weather condition. How can we have healthy
productivity growth when four-fifths of farmers use farm-saved seeds leading to low
seed replacement rate. The government has got to go beyond talking and instead
create condition for the revolution to start. Food inflation is unnerving for any
government anywhere. This must have reminded our policymakers that hunger
could ignite another kind of revolution.
Role of Information Technology in Banking
Over the last decade, there has been a major transformation on the technology
front in the banking sector. There has been a sea change compared to the old days
when carrying out a transaction as simple as cash withdrawal sometimes took
hours. Remember, those were the days when automation had not touched Indian
banks.
Now, increasingly, visits to branches of banks especially in the metros and bigger
towns are rare. With ATMs, internet banking and phone banking, banking has turned
out to be more of an inter-face with a machine or in other words it has become
faceless. Any evolution is a gradual process and keeps on changing with time.
That's applicable to banking technology with banks now gearing up for the next
level-- mobile banking. ETIG Knowledge forum, partnered with KPMG and did a
brainstorming, looking at the pros and cons of banking technology, specially the
upcoming business of mobile banking.
The Indian banking industry has a very large customer base but with a relatively
smaller ticker size (transaction value) per customer. The ticket size in India is 1/10th
of the global standard. Further, the ticket size in rural area of India is again 1/10th of
the urban area. So for a bank, the physical infrastructure cost per transaction
becomes very high. This poses a strong challenge for a bank. And this is where
technology can help banking companies. Many companies in India have adopted
this strategy and have managed to lower the interaction of the customer with the
bank branches. For instance, 10 years ago, 90% of all transactions made by the
customers of ICICI bank were through the branches and 10% were through online.
Now, after 10 years, the trend has exactly reversed. Adoption of technology not
only delights the customers in terms of convenience and satisfaction but also brings
in certain other advantages-- scalability, reliability and low cost-- to the bank.
For instance, banks can carry out data analytics to gauge the customers
requirements and thus offer customized products to a specific category of
customers. "Banks can use technology as an enabler as well as a differentiator",
said Ms Chanda Kochhar, Joint Managing Director of ICICI bank at the Forum.

For a country like India which has a legacy system, the cost of technology is much
less compared to developed countries. According to one study, the cost of
technology for Indian banks is only 1/5th of most European banks. The banks in
India are constantly innovating newer technology for the convenience of customers.
First, it's ATM, then internet banking and now its biometric smart card with mobile
banking to follow. The profile of Indian banking customers is much diversified. On
the one hand, we have rich high net worth individuals (HNI) and on the other hand
there are poor illiterate customers from rural and semi-urban areas. But probably
the one thing common between them is the penetration of the mobile phones, at
least to a certain extent, thanks to the telecom revolution in the country.

Vegetarian food is healthier than non-vegetarian food.

There are many friends who daily argue on a topic. Whenever they go for an outing in a restaurant the lover of non-vegetarian food
starts teasing the other group by saying that you are simply wasting money by having vegetarian food. But the other group is no less
and confidently states that Vegetarian food is healthier than non-vegetarian food. So do you support the argument?
Yes
Vegetarian diets have higher fiber content and folate as compared to the non-vegetarian diets. Moreover the saturated
fats and cholesterol is found at a lower side in vegetarian diets.
Vegetarian diets reduce the risk of many diseases like obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis and especially cancer. Nonvegetarians are more prone to chronic diseases. Check out the statistics of western countries. It clearly shows that on
average, vegetarians have a longer life than non-vegetarians. Vegetarian diet is not restricted to some limited food. The
variety of vegetarian dishes that can be made is endless. Chicken and fish contains trans fatty acids and when consumed
deep friend can become of the reasons of heart diseases.
No
Vegetarian or non vegetarian, it doesnt matter. What really matter are the factors like life style and the eating habits in
maintaining good health.
All the vegetarians are not healthy. They consume potato chips, high fat cheese, deep fried food, junk food and are
equally prone to the diseases.
Vegetarian or non vegetarian, the key word is exercise. No food is healthy if it is not supported by exercise.
Vegetarians have to suffer from deficiencies of protein, iron, calcium and most importantly vitamin B12.
Vegetarians have to make an extra expense on eating the supplements to fulfill their need of Vitamin B12 and other
essential nutrients.
Conclusion
If the present generation's eating habits and lifestyles are studied then vegetarian or non-vegetarian, both the diets will
fail. India had a culture of consuming vegetarian food from ancient past, and people during that time were healthy with a
long life span. All types of foods have their pros and cons. Just select the right diet and stay fit and healthy.

Is our Political System Reason for our Backwardness?

Yes definitely, our political system is the reason for backwardness, because political leaders are always thinking of
how to make more & more money they are not caring for people. Even they are not concentrating on educational

system. Problem is from both sides Even people are also entertaining by giving bribes, change should be from
both systems.
Only some Specified people & their sons, daughters are coming as politicians they are not at all giving chance to
others, as long as this will continue there will be no change in our political system & backwardness will also
continue & main thing is depending upon caste we should not vote the Politicians, first we have to know where
the person will do something for people, Who strives to create some employment opportunities for the people.

Hi Friends, I wouldn't blame completely on the politicians. We are also to be blamed. Because The politicians are
elected by us! We are responsible for it. And half of the politicians are uneducated. When people cast their vote,
they vote for uneducated politicians, they do not check their education qualification or personal /criminal
background.
It is a must check all this and that is the only way we can overcome this situation.

According to me; if we talk about political system which is provided by our constitution then my answer is no. But
if we talk about present political system in India then yes it is partly responsible for backwardness of a country
because of corrupt leaders and partly because of us. I think our backwardness and bad political system act like a
cycle in which they give birth to each other. Political leaders usually work for they own profit. We have certain
examples like black money;2g corruption case. So these issues are effecting our lives and welfare. This is true
that much of our population is illiterate. But who will provides us education and other social facilities?and whom
we choose for this?political leaders! Our unawareness is also responsible for choosing leaders who don't want to
work for people but for themselves.
I agree with opinion of my friend who give the example that government made laws to put helmets on. But we
usually ignore this and like to give bribery to cops instead of putting helmets or giving fine. We should also
change our attitude. We the people are also responsible for our backwardness.
Hello friends,
Yes, our political system is the reason for our backwardness. The uneducated people don't know the value of vote
and most of the politicians in our country are uneducated. The only purpose for coming into politics is to earn
more money illegally and to enjoy luxury life. So, the political system has to change in our country. The
candidates should not only have good qualification, they should also have some moral values.
Hello friends.
I think not only the politicians of India is responsible for our backwardness but we are also responsible for our
backwardness. Because we elect them and in most of the regions voters cast their vote to those candidates who
belongs to their caste or community. They don't bother about candidate's background and educational
qualifications. If candidate belongs to our cast or community then we cast our vote to those candidate
irrespective of the fact that whether candidate has criminal record or not or candidate has educational
qualification or not. Indian law is also responsible for that because they allow those candidate to participate in the
election who has criminal record. So if we can utilize our vote by electing good candidate then we can get rid out
of our backwardness.
I think our political system is not responsible for the backwardness of the nation rather its the politicians who are
responsible for the backwardness of the nation. It is so because they are always thinking how to make money
they never think how can they improve our nation in this way our independence is unfruitful though we got our

independence these politicians are not letting us to use it in right sense. Even the common people like us are also
responsible for the backwardness of the nation. Therefore its our duty to select the right person before we cast
our vote. Hence one step taken by us can bring a great difference to our country.

Educational qualification for Politicians

Hi friends,
According to me education should not be must for political leaders because education doesn't matter in politics,
practical knowledge is better than books education, because in books all the things all look so easy and we don't
know how tough when we are doing this. As same as in politics no one become a good leader with his
qualification, and a person who know how to tackle or face the problems and how to solve them that is the
biggest matter in politics.Like prince Kabir, Babar, Akbar etc.Practical knowledge should be in political leader
because it works but book knowledge doesn't work and any types of practical knowledge doesn't comes from
books.
So by logically my point is prove.

In our country most of the politician has not got a higher qualification and he/she not think a very much compare
to educated person because educated person know very well to when a problem come to emergency so how to
clear problem and uneducated politician is not a know to how the problem solved.

Someone is not educated and he want to serve his country then what's wrong in that. No one can understand the
value of education better than him. Love for the country lies in heart not on the certificate. I think these type of
people remain more aware of the problems prevailing in country.
Like you go for a job firstly they see your experience and past record how well you have performed for last
company at that time they your ex. Matters rather than your degrees. They will just see that how useful you are
for their organisation.
Similarly leader too must be chosen on the basis of his/her past record in society and how he/she has served the
society.

According to me Education is very much necessary in case of politicians, because if is not educated how he can

plan and go ahead with education policies, how he can formulate the strategies that is required to change India
from developing country to a developed country, he can work at basic level without education but at global level
to fight against coming challenges he needs to qualified.

In my opinion, Education is mandatory for all politicians!Since the politicians rule our country, they need to be
educated, need to be aware of all the problems and they should be able to solve it. Only we they are educated we
can consider them as role models.
In our country half of the politicians are uneducated and that is the main reason of our poverty.
Education can help the politician to make good policies and laws that can make the nation grow even faster.
Hello friends.
According to me its so much important to the politicians. Because of educated politician they can understand the
what is problems in the society so soon. They will take the appropriate action for that. If they give importance to
education definitely there will improvement in society in the random way. So education is the basic tool for these
all things. So its so much necessary to the politicians.
Thank you.

Voters, not Political Parties, are Responsible for the Criminalization of

Politics
oth are equally responsible, as voters when giving vote give votes to selected parties who has offered has some
amount to get some good amount of votes whereas political parties are no less as they give money to the voters
just to increase amount of votes and get elected not for the purpose of making decisions for public.
Therefore both has same side and are equally responsible for criminal of politics.

Now a days we can see that people do not vote on the basis of agenda, corruption. They do not even know the
individual person for whom they are voting. They only know about the political parties and basis on this they
vote. For these reason the corruption is increasing day by day. As a whole no political party is bad but there are
some individual in every party who is corrupted and these persons make the name of the parties bad and crease
corruption. We voters should not give them vote. So, I think we are also responsible for this miserable condition
of our country.

Our 33% population is below poverty line, and we all know how the votes are bought by politician only to win the
elections, we can not say that all politicians are doing the same but most of them doing. One most important
thing that people are not having any option to vote to all parties of same kind, if they would have given any

alternative to experiment other parties at central level then there may be completely different turnout. Because
people are more aware now.
Hello what my opinion is that India is a nation where democracy pervades. So, democracy means 'by the people
for the people'. So with the people's support, a candidate vying for a seat gets elected. So, if a tainted politician
gets the mandate then the people are to blamed. This has necessitated the need for making people aware and
education is the only means without which these divisive politicians will play dirty politics by polarising, duping or
exploiting credulous people. So edifying the people is the only solution, else they have to pay the price.
Hello friends let's discuss.
Whom we had to blame for below points.
1). Increase in harassment of women.
2). Increasing corruption.
3). Best achievement of our country is getting 10th place in corruption.
4). After american politicians (1st position) our Indian politicians are spending more amount (not their money, its
corrupted money) on elections and it is in second position.
5). Raising in death rate.
6). Day to day increase in suicide cases, murders.
7). Increasing in the price of petrol, home needs.
Are absolutely public. If they think one minute before they vote these all may be controlled. And finally.
People who vote with caste, religious, regional feelings they better to die.
If "I" used my valuable vote then the fate of our country

I think this is true because today our so called educated voters also cast their vote on the basis of religion, cast,
area. They don't look what kind of candidate is whether it is a criminal or an educated good human. According to
law a criminal can fight an election. So it's upto ours that we should select a good person rather selecting a
criminal. We should make aware the people not to select criminals.

Retirement Age for Politicians

s state government employee has retirement age limit of 60yrs and supreme court judge has retirement age limit
upto 65 yrs, then why should politicians be allowed to work beyond the age. Why is there no provision that asks
them to retire at certain age limit for politicians.
Lets list some politicians Atal bihari vajpayee, L K Advani, Manmohan singh, Devegowda, Jyoti basu, Tamilnadu
CM, and the list goes on. You can also add as many as you guys remember let see how many of them are above
75 and still in politics.I feel its logically not appropriate to say that politicians work better with no corruption at
the old age I think this is insane My simple question is if every one else in INDIA has a retirement age then why
is it that a politician does not have this compulsion make a rule which is common for all individual. Why can there
be a law which says that the politicians have to take retirement.

Retirement age of 60 to the politician is comfortable but I think there is no chance for young generation. If the
leader is young then he get some good decision for youth and make a platform for young generation to built their
career. I think politician age between 25 to 50 is suitable for this. For the purpose of develop of our country.

In my opinion there should be the age limit for retirement of the politicians. But experienced politicians are
required in our system to run the system of our country more efficiently. But advisors should be youth in the
system. As the innovative ideas, thoughts, there point of view when consulted with the experienced politicians
views than surely better result will reflect on our country. EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IS NOT ABOUT MAKING
SPEECHES, LEADERSHIP IS DEFINED BY RESULT. But also few experienced politicians must be there in the
system.

It is high time we feel that running the country is also a job and this should be given a serious thinking like any
other field. And for that there should be appointments on a salary basis for running each department. Why should
the MLA's and MP's boast of the job as an honorary one. In fact this is creating more money making passin rather
than serving the purpose. Not that all are same, but if the job of any MP or MLA is on a salaried basis may be that
should be at par with any other corporate companies and genuine persons should be paid for good job at par with
any other industry.
What is a point if an MP or MLA does not look after his area problems once he is elected. And that is why running
a country should be treated as good as a job like any other field. This is my personal opinion that then only may
be the criminals would not be able to enter the system since they would know the income limit. Now in the name
of honour every crime in the name of nation sake is pardonable. And senour and very senior politicians should be
treated as property and wealth of the nation and they should guide the new generation for good politics and
growth of the country. And there too there is nothing as honorary service. They should be looked after nicely so
that they do not have the zeal of collecting the wealth for the generations to come.

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Deepak said: (Sat, Apr 26, 2014 11:56:22 PM)

There should be a retirement age for the politician. 60-65 is the good one for retirement. So that the youth can
also get a chance to explore their leadership qualities.

Corruption is the Price we pay for Democracy

Corruption is any unfair means to get your work done. Corruption exists in almost in every sector. In small
terms corruption exists in colleges where students pay to get marks. In big terms it exists in politics!
As we know, democracy means of the people, for the people and by the people. It is to help people leave the
way they want. This liberty however can be misused. Hence a question here is "Is democracy resulting in
corruption"?

For.
Democracy makes everyone a free bird. Some people especially the politicians make use of this in the wrong
way.
Though it is unfair to say that because of Democracy, corruption is existent, however, the fact remains that
democracy provides equality to everyone that results in people to have their own aims.
These aims may not always necessarily be for the country.
Democracy allows people to choose their leader. The leaders can thus easily buy votes!
Against.
Corruption is not a direct result of democracy. It can exist anyway. At the end of the day, it is an individual's
decision to spread corruption or not.
When people are given a choice to their leader, they must think twice before doing so. If they accept bribe it is
not democracy that can be blamed.
To summarizes, corruption in whole should be stopped. Whether it is a direct outcome of anything or not, it
does not matter.

CORRUPTION : According to me, corruption is a disease which is start from each and every Indian people home.
If it is once not stop India will be no develop. I think corruption start from outside we had paid money to
complete our pending work to this person and for this purpose he done all work and finish the matter. Now a
days what happen if all document are correct but reason of money they stop all files and etc.

In my point of view, first of all the common people of India has to understand the power of democracy. Its the
foremost power that every individual has. And nobody will going to stop you to use it for a right cause.
Corruption cannot be removed in a day it will take years I suppose but there should a strong initiative for every
individual.
But in todays scenario Indian people are considered as crabs if one tries to get out of the basket corruption the
other crabs pull him back. Rather the pushing him out and following his path.
So I believe it not democracy for what we are paying corruption, it is our laziness, lust for more and more
money, materialistics which all are degrading the power of democracy.

According to me, Corruption starts from the core level, when we want to make a child eat, we would make him
agree by saying I will buy a chocolate, ice cream if you eat your food likewise. Hence, a child grows by having a
thought that "If we want to achieve our goal we need to give away some benefits". Until a word Selfishness get
erased from a people's mind we cannot end corruption.

In my point of view besides politics corruption is increasing day by day because the person who are ready to
give the bribe as well as the person who are wish to take the bribe are adding up daily. So first we the common
people have to refuse the taking of bribe and youth are the main role to reduce the bribe by motivating others
and by creating awareness in uneducated person.
Hello friends,
In my view both the public and political leaders are responsible for spread of corruption in India. Because in this
election time even the educated youth are also taking money from Parties because we are least bothered.
Mindset of people is like what will happen if we take money as they are offering. Unknowingly they are also
indulging in corruption. How can we expect a corrupt free india?
Now a days the small government employees who are also not taking bribe previously are taking now. The
reason is their mindset is like so many are taking crores of bribes, political leaders are doing so many scams,
what will happen if we also take. This attitude should be changed.
As long as everyone is sincere to their own hearts we cannot drain away corruption from this country.
When we talk about "corruption", we generally look only at the political corruption. Instead of this, the
corruption faced by the people in their day today life is mainly in public offices and on roads, where the lower
level government employees interact with them.
This shows that corruption has spread in our society drastically.
Corruption is the biggest weapon for reducing the country growth. The democracy also influences to make
corruption in the country. We people elect the wrong person. Its our mistake. We must make a mistake to select
the wrong one. So mistake is ours.

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Corruption means just a cheating, or earning more money by doing something in a wrong way. Corruption is
now every where in the world. Every one wants to become rich in short period of time, that is not possible.
Hence they do in a wrong way, and here the corruption arises.

Hi friends!

I would like to share some information what I have in my mind regarding corruption.
Corruption plays a vital role to decline the economy of the nation as well as value of the nation. If the more
people corrupted in the country then the problems also increases along with corruption. People in our country
giving the bribes to do their works in quicker manner. They always try to manage the with bribe, but manage
the things will not give the permanent solution, so we should in manner to solve the problem of corruption like
1) we should abide the rules & regulations of nation.
2) we should stop to giving the bribe, although the things may be delayed.) we should aware of the
consequences of the corruption then it is easy to abolish the corruption from the society, at the same the we
should conduct the awareness programs on corruption in rural areas then we remove the corruption problem at
root level.

As we already know that corruption is spreading like a dreadful virus in india, there is a need among the people
in changing themselves. The most important thing that people should do is that electing a proper politician, in
solving the problems. Government should take initiative in this regard in providing good facilities, so that people
will live freely, mainly basic needs should be provided. By properly implementing such features people mind set
may change, so they refuse to give bribe. The bribe acceptors should be punished severely.

CORRUPTION: Its now spreading more than swine flu. Its more dangerous virus to spread all the people in the
entire nation. The only MEDICINE for to reduce the corruption drug is to change the mindset of the people for
their selfishness. Many of we think that corruption is main caused by the politicians and govern departments
officers. But first corruption starts from our home only with a small child in our home/neighbours. The only
method to reduce at least half of corruption is first to clean our home to avoid giving bribe to people for
common utilises also. If we follow it in every home in the entire nation then there will be no corruption at least
in future generation.

Corruption is the most problematic thing in our democracy. Its time for India to take drastic measures in order
to curb corruption. Every citizen in India is caught under the web of corruption. The grievance address by
common man are not properly taken under consideration. The rich people are violating the laws and escape
punishment by bribing. The current system must be reformed and reorganized rather than changing the entire
system.
Jan lokpall bill is an instrument to fight against corruption, when the bill is passed to main aspect will come into
consideration.
1. It is an independent body which will work with the help of CBI and there will be no influence from people who
are under the power.
2. There will be fast track system where the problems of the common man and the system will be resolved
immediately.

So this is one of the measure to curb corruption and also India have to educate many people so that corruption
can be avoided.

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Ravi Kiran said: (Mon, Feb 3, 2014 02:50:37 PM)

Corruption is a resistance the way of development of our country, because the people only encourage the
corruption. First the people mind set should be changed because they are fixed to give the money to the
corrupted persons and doing their work quickly. Some of the corrupted officers also encourage corruption for
earning money quickly. So the public should give the ZERO NOTES to the corrupted officers to reduce the
corruption. ZERO NOTES are symbol for the anti corruption.

Value-based Politics is the Need of the Hour

If we the citizens of India will not cast our votes to select the right candidate to lead our country than we should
be held responsible for not casting our valuable votes. We don't have any right to blame the politicians because of
our carelessness they are there and we should be ready to bear the consequences. So we should be responsible
first and then blame others.

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Parmatma Yadav said: (Thu, Mar 13, 2014 02:25:39 PM)

Here I agree with my all friends who all over gave their thoughts that youngsters should be join politics because
they can do smart work in politics and could be create a developed, powerful and united India. Because India is a
country of different religious people in which controversy are spreaded by some politicians who play their politics
on them. So it may be finished when literate peoples will join the politics and will do something Positive for our
great India. Thanks regard.

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Beula said: (Wed, Feb 5, 2014 07:26:13 PM)

I totally agree with all my friends but it is easy to say than to do. So many people can say in many ways but, the
people who follow that is the great person. Because all can say many but many family will not encourage them.
This is the main problem of our India.

All above are responding very greatly about the given topic. My opinion is that we have not to wait for who take
changes in present corrupted politics we solely strive for our country even in the matter of election.
So our country is in our hands only. Comeon wakeup and make our country great. Thank you.

Hello friends, I agree with all of you. Awareness is very important for our country development. When country will
become a good development. Where the politicians of country are good leaders. I will request every educated
people, please vote for right candidates and conduct the some awareness programs in rural areas and teach them
what is the use of chose good leaders and what we have the rights for an Indian. Recently in an elections of
Delhi, Gujarath, Chadigarh, Rajasthan and MadhyaPradesh, they provided another option for electing good leader
i.e, if you don't have interested to vote for both candidates you will press that button. According to me even out
of 100% voters chose to reject candidates option 25%. They are not eligible for politicians.
* The most important point is in every state, from Panchayithi level to Niyojaka levels they must display every
month development of areas and shows how much income gain and how much money they were spent. Thanks
for all.

I think the value based politics in India is quite normative. This money and power oriented system is unable to
deal with the notions like morality, respect etc. Our political system needs some practical solutions.
In my view there should be a government channel which is supposed to do coverage of elections and invite
various leaders to come on the platform and interact with common people.

Religion should not be mixed with politics

Religion should not be mixed with politics because in a country like India there are numerous religions and what
politicians try to do is they ask for vote as they are from same religion and this leads to communal disharmony
which is not good for our country. As we select the politicians to help us keep peace in our country and not to
divide in name of religion as they work for development of nation. Should keep unity between

Religion is devotion, emotions and feelings that gives us the way to communicate with the almighty. And politics
is only a competition for gaining power. Both the terms are far different from one another. How can we as a
citizen vote a person on basis of his religion. Religion has no concern with politics. Pick any religion in India all of
them say the same thing "that humanity is the superior". Instead of checking the religion f the candidate check
on whether he is a honest human or not, does he have the power to lead, to motivate, to guide.

According to my point of view religion can be mixed with politics according to different situations and different
circumstances. For example religion can be mixed with politics in countries where people are more religious and

have single religion only say Saudi Arabia. But this can't be true in case of India because India have more
diversity than any other nation although Indian people are very religious. India is not single religion nation.
According to our constitution India is secular country. But its people constitute of different religions. As a nation
needs unity among its people if it really desires to grow and to become a strong nation. Which is not possible if
any particular religion prevails in politics. It would definitely hamper the growth of nation and may devastate the
unity as we have witnessed in Delhi sikh riots or Gujarat riots. Rights of minorities are equally important as of a
majority group.
Religion and politcs never meant to be together in India. Unfortunately we see that religion is mixed with Indian
politics to a great extent. We the new generation should stop this trend for growth, development and unity of our
great nation. Thanks.

In my opinion politics should be kept apart from religion, because religion is very delicate case and it should be
handle with care because everyone has their own beliefs and right whereas the politics is very insensitive,
practical and a thrust of winning game where politicians give bribery to win over they can go any way just to get
a seat.

All are eating same food, all walking on same earth, all are breathing oxygen. But why leaders talking about
Religion. You do something for India something for people votes will come, but don't use Religion word. We are
Indians.

Hello everyone in my opinion religion should be kept apart from politics as mixing it with politics means pouring
petrol in fire. Politics can be a fire if not handled properly can create many riots among people with the
involvement of religion. Can the we all have past experiences of this.
The case in ayodhya is a perfect example of how politicians were playing with the emotion of people. The country
can never be changed from developing to developed till there is use of religion in politics. So its the responsibility
of every individual to keep religion out of politics and use the democracy in a positive manner by electing the one
who treats the people of India as indians.