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Monday 7 July 2014
Central Budget : 2014
Dear Shri Arun Jaitleyji,
Even as you proceed to present Central Budget to Lok Sabha
on 10 July 2014 , please look out the window of your car and see the "
Poor " people on Delhi's footpath
Then , like Mahatma Gandhi ask yourself,
" Whatever budget
proposals that I am about to present , will these bring a smile to the faces of
these poor ?
363 million poor Indians , who eke out a survival on
expenditure of Rs 32 ( rural ) or Rs 47 ( urban ) per day ? ( $0.5 - 0.8 / day )
For a family of 4 , that works out to , Rs 3840 - Rs
5640 per month
( $ 64 - $ 94
per month )
May be the head of the family manages to earn Rs 2,000
per month , doing odd jobs , here and there
The rest of the income must be coming thru ,
* Wife scavenging
the garbage heaps for discarded plastic bags / bottles
( when she is
not salvaging discarded food ! )
* Children
begging on the streets ( you will see them as you drive to Lok Sabha )
Now if,
* Our
population keeps growing at 15 million per year
* Inflation
keeps rising at 10 % per year, necessitating raising " Poverty
Limit "
by 10 % per year
Then ,
* How many more
people will get added to "Poor "population, every year ?
May be 5-7 million/year
? 25-35 million by 2019 ? Taking
the total to 400 million ?
Mr Jaitley ,
Can you listen to their anguished cries ?
They are " begging " you to create jobs for
them , so that they can work hard and earn an honest / decent income , which
can lift them above that wretched " Poverty Line "
They don't want your dole-outs / subsidies for food /
LPG / Kerosene etc !
They don't want to remain dependent on Sarkaar - Maa
Baap , for ever !
Sir ,
Can you ( ie Central Government ) give them jobs ? To
even 50 million / year ?
Assuming that creating ONE job calls for an investment
( in fixed assets + working capital ) , of Rs 1 million ( Rs 10 lakhs ) , you
need,
* Rs 50 MILLION * MILLION , every year !
And YOU just don't have that kind of money !
Even as { Rs 500
MILLION * MILLION } of Black Money is locked up in un-productive
assets , all over the country !
The only way you can create those 50 million jobs /
year , is to enable these Black Monies to turn into WHITE MONEY and get
channeled into Infrastructure / Manufacturing / Services etc
And the only way you can do is to ,
* Introduce
Amnesty Scheme ( now / immediately )
* Introduce INVERSE
TAX REGIME ( in 2015 Budget )
I have sent these proposals to Shri Narendra Modi /
Shri Murli Manohar Joshi / Shri Nitin Gadkari etc , during the past 8 months
* hemen parekh
( 08 July 2014 / Mumbai )
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Sunday 6 July 2014
The Invisible Corruption
Why invisible ?
Because it is cleverly camouflaged in the " Terms
of Contract " that companies sign with Central Government / State
Governments / Municipal Corporations / umpteen Government Agencies
This invisible corruption is rampant in Infrastructure
Projects that get spread over months / years
And every possible trick / excuse ( officially called
" Reasons " ) is used to ensure that these Projects get delayed as
much as possible !
Examine carefully and you will find that the more a Project
gets delayed , the more that Contractor
stands to gain ! Anyone believing otherwise , has got to be naive !
How ?
These contracts contain " Cost Escalation Clauses
" which decide the extra / additional amounts payable to the Contractor ,
over and above the ( so called ) " Fixed Price " quoted at the time
of tendering
Under these clauses , the Contractor is eligible to
claim / demand extra payments , whenever
* SOMETHING HAPPENS
- costs of
certain " Inputs " go up above a certain agreed level , eg :
# Prices of Raw Materials
# Prices of Water / Gas / Electricity
# Cost of Labor
# Foreign Exchange Rate
# Consumer Price Index
# Interest Rate
If any of
these go up above certain agreed levels , the quoted price to go up by X/Y/Z
amount , as per the Formula which determines the % age contribution of these
elements , in the quoted price
* SOMETHING DOES
NOT HAPPEN
# Environment Clearance for the Project
# Land acquisition and Handover to Contractor
# Hundreds
of permissions from dozens of Govt Depts/Muni Corporations
# Issue of Import Licenses
# Release of Foreign Exchange
# Issue of NOC from umpteen departments
# Issue of Compliance Certificates from various
departments
# Approval of Designs / Design Change Requests
( from Govt as well )
If any of these are NOT issued / given by certain
" Dates " ( very easily
managed ! ) , then the quoted price to go up by X / Y /
Z amount
Invariably , these clauses are heavily tilted in favor of the Contractor
And equally invariably , colluding Government officers
/ bureaucrats / politicians , responsible for drafting / approving these "
Clauses " , leave them vague !
This is apart from framing the Tender Specifications in
such a manner that only a certain preferred bidder will qualify !
If you doubt what I have said , then just file a RTI
application , asking for a copy of,
* Original
Tender Document
* Final Contract
* Number of
Price Revision Requests received / granted
for any project of your choice !
If Narendra Modi is keen to reduce corruption , he
should start by instituting MODEL INFRASTRUCTURE
PROJECT CONTRACT , which clearly
spells out what price / time revisions can be granted and when
At the same time , internally , there must be a
provision for DEMOTION / PENALTY for those officers who fail to give
permissions / approvals / NOC etc, on specified dates ( milestones for the
project )
* hemen parekh
( 07 July
2014 / Mumbai
)
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