The increasing rate of inflation, price hike and poor infrastructural facilities and a phenomenal number of scams are causing consistent disappointment and distrust among the citizens.Though Anna Hazare's Campaign against corruption and the Lokpal Bill sounds promising I am not very much convinced with it, there should be an ultimate solution to all these problems which could be possible only by some of the radical changes and out of the box tactics.
One such type could be rather than keeping corrupt politicians to jail, their looted money and their personal property as well should be utilized for a common cause. Take for instance Suresh Kalmadi, A Raja, Amar Singh etc. sell all the personal wealth of these people (of course with due consideration to their families, but they too have to suffer the misdeeds of their dear ones as the property gets registered in their names only) and subsidize petrol which is blowing the middle class off. And if this becomes law that anyone who is involved in corruption he will be deprived of his personal property and the amount itself will be confiscated, I am sure they will dare not cheat the millions of people whose hard earned money is being poured into the system in terms of hell lot of taxes as when it comes to your own loss or you know that if I do such act my family is ultimately going to suffer then only you will realize the importance of all that money which goes into all such scams. If you look at Harshad Mehta's case, the tremendous amount of money he made will be sufficient for generations to generations of his irrespective of the punishment he got and though the accounts were seized but in the mean time he had enjoyed all the luxuries of life whereas people might be starving to death at the same time somewhere.
It should be made mandatory for the govt. to disclose the amount seized in various scams and cases and to give an account of how that money is used publicly. All the govt. schemes and grants are aimed at BPL people and needless to mention how fruitful they are, no scheme has ever been formulated for the middle class strata who actually bears the burden of tax as poor are exempted, rich are evaders, the salaries employees which form the chunk of middle class have to pay the tax honestly and with the same honesty have to bear the burden of price hike as they need to adjust their budget, their salaries will not get adjusted.
When I heard that petrol prices are going to increase because the govt. could not subsidize it anymore, the first question that came to my mind was why not use the money of the uncountable scams to subsidize petrol???
One such type could be rather than keeping corrupt politicians to jail, their looted money and their personal property as well should be utilized for a common cause. Take for instance Suresh Kalmadi, A Raja, Amar Singh etc. sell all the personal wealth of these people (of course with due consideration to their families, but they too have to suffer the misdeeds of their dear ones as the property gets registered in their names only) and subsidize petrol which is blowing the middle class off. And if this becomes law that anyone who is involved in corruption he will be deprived of his personal property and the amount itself will be confiscated, I am sure they will dare not cheat the millions of people whose hard earned money is being poured into the system in terms of hell lot of taxes as when it comes to your own loss or you know that if I do such act my family is ultimately going to suffer then only you will realize the importance of all that money which goes into all such scams. If you look at Harshad Mehta's case, the tremendous amount of money he made will be sufficient for generations to generations of his irrespective of the punishment he got and though the accounts were seized but in the mean time he had enjoyed all the luxuries of life whereas people might be starving to death at the same time somewhere.
It should be made mandatory for the govt. to disclose the amount seized in various scams and cases and to give an account of how that money is used publicly. All the govt. schemes and grants are aimed at BPL people and needless to mention how fruitful they are, no scheme has ever been formulated for the middle class strata who actually bears the burden of tax as poor are exempted, rich are evaders, the salaries employees which form the chunk of middle class have to pay the tax honestly and with the same honesty have to bear the burden of price hike as they need to adjust their budget, their salaries will not get adjusted.
When I heard that petrol prices are going to increase because the govt. could not subsidize it anymore, the first question that came to my mind was why not use the money of the uncountable scams to subsidize petrol???
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