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India Post ignores misuse of heavily subsidised post-cards for listening names on Akashwani,  should revise minimum postal-tariff to be rupee one

India Post ignores misuse of heavily subsidised post-cards for listening names on Akashwani, should revise minimum postal-tariff to be rupee one

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It is indeed shocking that postal-department delivers highly subsidised rubber-stamped (printed) post-cards of just 50 paise each to Akashwani (All India Radio) where senders write Any-Song for programme of listeners-choice of film-songs just to get their names broadcast on Akashwani. According to rules, these rubber-stamped post-cards should be considered as printed post-cards carrying a postal-tariff of rupees six, and must not be delivered to Akashwani. Bitter fact is that subsidised post-cards are not being used by common people. These are also misused for commercial purposes like by chit-fund companies to send reminders for payments. Ideally such unpopular postal-items like post-cards and Inland-Letter-Cards must now be discontinued to prevent unnecessary subsidy-loss on public-exc...
Maharashtra State Government should adopt The Dadar Athornan Institute of Parsi community

Maharashtra State Government should adopt The Dadar Athornan Institute of Parsi community

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It refers to media-reports about The Dadar Athornan Institute set up about a century ago to train persons from fast-eliminating Parsi community as Parsi priests by admitting students at an early childhood age from class I to class X, on verge of closure because of shortage of funds. Since population of most-talented Parsi community of the world having sharply declined, funds from the community are not enough to run the Institute. Concern on fast declining Parsi population have been raised again and again including even by the then President Pranab Mukerji. Apart from other steps taken to increase Parsi population, it is time that Maharashtra government takes over responsibility for funds to run the only institute to train students as Parsi priests namely The Dadar Athornan Institute als...
Logic of postal-orders in denominations of rupees 10 and 20 when handling cost was about rupees forty in the year 2011-12

Logic of postal-orders in denominations of rupees 10 and 20 when handling cost was about rupees forty in the year 2011-12

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It was only after revelation through RTI application that Department of Posts discontinued postal-orders in outdated denominations like rupees 1, 2, 5 and 7 because of extremely low sale-figure and high handling cost. According to an RTI response, handling cost of a postal-order was rupees 37.45 to Department of Posts alone in the year 2011-12. Handling cost for clearing-operation of banks is even extra. It is highly illogical that public-exchequer may bear such extra-ordinary loss in handling postal-orders in denominations like rupees 10 and 20. Rather it is time that higher denominations like of rupees 100, 200 and 500 may be added to avoid purchase of demand-drafts in submitting various types of fees. Government-fees below rupees 50 may either be increased or totally abolished. Or Depa...
Reforms necessary for polls to Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) to make these realistic representative

Reforms necessary for polls to Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) to make these realistic representative

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Process for elections for Delhi University Union (DUSU) has begun with elections to be held in the month of September. Reforms are necessary to DUSU polls. A simple practical approach to place groups fielding contestants for all the posts of DUSU in the beginning of ballot-papers in alphabetical order of name of the group will make the process simple by doing with unethical tricks to field candidates with identical names or to pre-fix A, AA etc to place names first in ballot-papers for confusing voters. DUSU polls should be conducted through EVMs equipped with VVPAT system. DUSU polls in future should be made more realistic and with widest representation by making it compulsory for all colleges affiliated to Delhi University to get their students automatically enrolled as members of DUS...

Bombay High Court seized with PIL on frequent change in sizes of currency notes

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t refers to Bombay High Court asking Reserve Bank of India RBI to file a reply on a Public-Interest-Litigation PIL filed by The National Association for the Blind, seeking RBI assurance that sizes of currency-notes will not be changed in future, because it creates problem for visually challenged people who take time to get familiar with new sized currency. But it was after more than half-century that currency-size was last changed in the year 1967. Problem was caused because new-sized currency in different denominations was introduced in phases ranging to more than two years after it started just after demonetisation of old currency notes of rupees 500 and 1000 on 08.11.2016. RBI should rather assure that in future currency-size if required to be changed will be done in one go for notes...
Congress traditionally favours law-breaking former law-makers in matter of vacation of government-accommodations

Congress traditionally favours law-breaking former law-makers in matter of vacation of government-accommodations

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It refers to a Congress spokesperson opposing the right approach of a parliamentary-panel to cut electricity and water supply of about 200 former Parliamentarians within next three days who have failed to vacate government-accommodations even after so many days of losing entitlement. Such strict steps can only make government-accommodations evicted timely which in earlier regimes were at times could not be vacated for years after losing entitlement. In case former Parliamentarians and others do not themselves vacate government-accommodations within 90 days of losing entitlement, not only these should be forcefully vacated but also all such persons should lose right to contest any election in future. Market-rents for unlawfully retaining government-accommodations should be reviewed to ma...
With only 22 transgenders apply for under-graduate courses in thee universities in Delhi

With only 22 transgenders apply for under-graduate courses in thee universities in Delhi

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With only 22 transgenders apply for under-graduate courses in thee universities in Delhi, Central Government should take steps to bring transgenders in main streamline It refers to media-reports about just 22 transgenders applying for under-graduate courses combinedly in thee universities in Delhi namely Delhi University, Jamia University and Ambedkar University, thus establishing that much more is desired from Central Government to bring transgenders in main streamline. Union government should constitute National Transgender Commission. Unrestricted admission to any educational institution (private or public) for free education to transgenders should be made compulsory without needing any reserved quota. Government should be duty-bound to make transgenders join mainstream with paren...
Swift welcome action by government-agencies against corruption by former law-makers should be extended to those who joined ruling BJP to save their corrupt deeds

Swift welcome action by government-agencies against corruption by former law-makers should be extended to those who joined ruling BJP to save their corrupt deeds

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entral government deserves all appreciation for a free run to government-agencies for swift action against corrupt deeds of former political rulers. It is hoped that government-agencies will soon expose their corrupt deeds so that even their patrons in opposition may move away from them. But it is noteworthy that many from opposition including also those who used to be bitterly criticised by ruling BJP for corrupt and unethical practices, joined ruling BJP most probably out of fear of being probed by investigating agencies. BJP-ruled central government should also book these opportunist politicians. Such a step will give doubled-edged advantage to ruling BJP because of avoiding criticism of targeting only opposition leaders and secondly clean BJP from such undesired elements. Such a ...
अब तो भ्रष्टाचार से निजात मिले

अब तो भ्रष्टाचार से निजात मिले

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आखिरकार पूर्व केंद्रीय गृह एवं वित्त मंत्री पी. चिदंबरम को सीबीआइ की गिरफ्त में जाना ही पड़ा। ऐसा इसलिए हुआ, क्योंकि न तो उन्हें सुप्रीम कोर्ट से राहत मिली और न ही सीबीआइ की विशेष अदालत से। सीबीआई ने मीडिया कंपनी आईएनएक्स मीडिया के खिलाफ 15 मई, 2017 को एक एफआईआर दर्ज की थी। आरोप है कि इस मीडिया ग्रुप को 305 करोड़ रुपये का विदेशी फंड दिलाने के लिए फॉरेन इनवेस्टमेंट प्रमोशन बोर्ड (एफआईपीबी) की मंजूरी प्रक्रिया में अनियमितताएं बरती गईं। साल 2007 में जब कंपनी को निवेश की स्वीकृति दी गई थी तब चिदंबरम वित्त मंत्री हुआ करते थे। अब उनकी गिरफ्तारी भ्रष्टाचार समाप्त करने की दिशा में उठाया गया मील का पत्थर साबित होना ही चाहिए। क्योंकि जब-जब  इस तरह के मामले सामने आये है तब-तब यह महज आम जनता को भ्रम में डालने की कलाकारी बने हैं। ऐसी गिरफ्तारी अनैतिक एवं भ्रष्ट व्यवस्था एवं राजनीति में सेंध तो दूर की बात...
मजबूत इच्छाशक्ति से बदलता भारत

मजबूत इच्छाशक्ति से बदलता भारत

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देश में जब से नरेन्द्र मोदी प्रधानमंत्री बने हंै, सकारात्मक परिवर्तन की बयार बहती दिख रही है। इसके पीछे मजबूत नेतृत्व, विकास नीतियां एवं आदर्श मूल्यों की स्थापना का संकल्प है। राष्ट्र में राजनीतिक परिवेश ही नहीं बदला बल्कि जन-जन के बीच का माहौल, मकसद, मूल्य और मूड सभी कुछ परिस्थिति और परिवेश के परिप्रेक्ष्य में बदलता हुआ दिखाई दे रहा है। और यह बदलता दौर राष्ट्र को नए अर्थ दे रहा हैं। न केवल सामान्य-जन के जीवन-स्तर में गुणात्मक सुधार आया है, बल्कि भारत की प्रतिष्ठा भी विश्व में फिर से स्थापित हुई है, मुझे इसका सुखद अहसास विदेश यात्राओं में होता रहा है। लम्बे समय से राष्ट्र पंजों के बल खड़ा नैतिकता की प्रतीक्षा कर रहा था। कब होगा वह सूर्योदय जिस दिन राष्ट्र भ्रष्टाचारमुक्त होगा। महिलाएं अकेली भी सुरक्षित महसूस करेंगी। खाने को शुद्ध सामग्री मिलगी। सामाजिक जीवन में विश्वास जगेगा। मूल्यों की रा...