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Regulation of private airlines necessary

Regulation of private airlines necessary

TOP STORIES, समाचार
It refers to biggest private domestic airliner Indigo charging extra fees for web check-in. Evidently this is anti-consumer step when families or people travelling in a group will be provided separated seats if they do not pay extra for getting seats together. System of charging extra for preferred seats should be altogether abolished in economy class. However there may be provision of Business-Class and Premium-Economy-Class like exists in Vistara in case Indigo or other private airliners wish to increase their income. Most private airliners are involved in many other malpractices also, like selling packaged food at multiple times higher than available in market. Even these airliners get Maximum-Retail-Price MRP printed high for being sold in airliners like rupees 100 against rupees 20...
LPG subsidy only in bank-accounts with balance less than rupees 3000?   

LPG subsidy only in bank-accounts with balance less than rupees 3000?  

आर्थिक
It refers to media-reports about LPG subsidy now to be credited only in bank-accounts having balance below rupees 3000 as a check towards subsidy not going to affording persons. But this is contradictory to government-step of encouraging people for savings made in bank-accounts. Any such decision will be like watering leaves rather than roots. Government-data reveals that even many Jan-Dhan accounts of poor people have sufficient deposits which may deprive them of LPG-subsidy in case the decision is implemented. Encouraging subsidy in itself a bad phenomenon and should be discouraged. Those desiring and entitled for LPG subsidies, should rather been required file an affidavit towards total family-income rather than expecting ineligible persons for surrendering LPG subsidy voluntarily. Suc...
Appointment of new Election Commissioner

Appointment of new Election Commissioner

TOP STORIES, समाचार
  It refers to Sunil Arora having been appointed new Chief election Commissioner in place of retiring OP Rawat leaving one post of election Commissioner vacant at Election Commission. Election Commissioners requiring being perfect unbiased should be selected by a collegium also consisting of leader of largest opposition party in Lok Sabha like exists system for selection of Vigilance Commissioners and Central Information Commissioners. Such a system will check undesired controversies with opposition parties usually blaming ruling party for appointing their favourite officers as Election Commissioners. Even many retired Chief Election Commissioners have also echoed likewise. However Election Commissioners must not be given power to decide on salaries and perks of themselves wh...
Toll-tax now for only road-stretch used

Toll-tax now for only road-stretch used

आर्थिक
Best is one-time toll-tax at time of purchase of new vehicles like system exists for one-time road-tax It refers to Union Ministry for Highways working on new toll-policy where toll-tax will have to be paid only for stretch of road used rather than for complete road-stretch between two toll-plazas. Any such new policy will require lot of investment on existing highways tolling system under Pay-As-You-Use plan, even though new highways like Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressway around Delhi are equipped with new system. But best is to replace toll-system by charging one-time toll-tax on purchase of new vehicles like system exists for charging one-time road-tax on purchase of new vehicles. It may be recalled that all concerned including vehicle-users and transport-authorities welcomed ...
Welcome step of JK Governor to put Jammu-Kashmir Bank under RTI Act

Welcome step of JK Governor to put Jammu-Kashmir Bank under RTI Act

राज्य
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir deserves all compliments to put Jammu-Kashmir Bank under ambit of RTI Act on reports of political interference used for backdoor appointments of about 2000 candidates and sanctioning massive loans to undeserving ones including Chennai-based close relation of erstwhile political ruler of the state. Many of loan-defaulters managed more borrowings to divert funds to Dubai and other Gulf countries as per media-reports. It is time for central government to follow footsteps by putting all Public-Private-Partnerships PPPs, sports-bodies, cooperative-societies and other such bodies affecting lives of millions to be directly under RTI Act to effectively check massive misuse of public-funds by their office-bearers. Co-operative giant IFFCO through which annual fertili...
New panel to draft new Income Tax Act with deadline extended to 28.02.2019

New panel to draft new Income Tax Act with deadline extended to 28.02.2019

आर्थिक
  It refers to CBDT member Akhilesh Ranjan being appointed as new convenor of the panel formed for drafting new Income Tax Act to replace more than half-century old Income Tax Act 1961. The panel should draft new Act in a manner to minimise exemptions. There are many exemptions like on charity and contributions made to and received by political parties. These are grossly misused and should be abolished. There should be a consolidated head for personal exemptions clubbing all heads like for medical-insurance, investments in government-schemes etc with consolidated limit being fixed at say rupees two lakhs. For senior citizens, such a limit can be some higher. There should be one single investment-plan for senior citizens attracting higher interest-rate of eight percent with clubb...
Option for food in all trains necessary like is to be in engine-less train

Option for food in all trains necessary like is to be in engine-less train

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It refers to media-reports that first engine-less train in India to be introduced as a prime train on a prime route will have option to have tickets without food-cost also. But such a system already introduced in Rajdhani Express should be in all trains including Shatabdi and Duranto where food-cost is compulsorily charged with ticket-cost. Most domestic airlines have already replaced food-serving by selling variety of packaged food-items according to choice of passengers. Compulsory charging of food-cost in rail-tickets unnecessarily penalizes those who do not wish to avail train-food due to various reasons including peculiar food-choice like without onion and garlic or not taking sweet-dish for being diabetic etc, It may be recalled that optional sweet dish of hot Gulab-Jamun was decide...
Indian external affairs ministry rightly acts cautiously on kartarpur sahib corridor ceremony at pakistan

Indian external affairs ministry rightly acts cautiously on kartarpur sahib corridor ceremony at pakistan

TOP STORIES, समाचार
Union Ministry of External Affairs rightly exercised full caution towards invitation to union minister for external affairs for ceremony towards corridor for Kartarpur sahib by sending two ministers from Sikh community to represent India instead of herself going. Such a wise step clearly indicated that India took the whole episode in religious manner. It was clear that Pakistan intended to take undue advantage of the event when Pakistan prime minister involved Kashmir in his speech on an occasion which was purely religious. Presence of Khalistan supporter Gopal Singh Chawla and Pakistan army chief on the occasion fueled apprehension of opening of the much-needed corridor as a possible attempt by Pakistan to renew Khalistan-movement in India. If Punjab Minister Navjotsingh Siddhu who wen...
बचपन से विकसित होने लगता है लैंगिक पूर्वाग्रह

बचपन से विकसित होने लगता है लैंगिक पूर्वाग्रह

प्रेस विज्ञप्ति
विज्ञान के क्षेत्र में महिला वैज्ञानिकों की कम भागादारी वैश्विक चुनौती है। एक ताजा अध्ययन से पता चला है कि महिलाओं के विज्ञान से जुड़ाव संबंधी धारणाएं बचपन से ही बनने लगती हैं। इस सर्वेक्षण में छात्र एवं छात्राओं दोनों ने माना है कि विज्ञान और गणित जैसे विषयों को चुनने के बजाय ज्यादातर लड़कियां अन्य विषयों को चुनना अधिक पसंद करती हैं। अध्ययन के दौरान 23 प्रतिशत से अधिक लड़कों का मानना था कि बहुत कम लड़कियां गणित और विज्ञान जैसे विषयों में उच्च शिक्षा प्राप्त करना चाहती हैं क्योंकि वे इन विषयों को कठिन मानती हैं। लगभग 12 प्रतिशत लड़कों के मुताबित लड़कियां इन विषयों में कमजोर होती हैं। हालांकि, अधिकतर लड़कियां इन विषयों में कमजोर होने की बात से सहमत नहीं हैं। उत्तराखंड विज्ञान एवं तकनीकी परिषद के शोधकर्ताओं द्वारा किए गए सर्वेक्षण में स्कूली छात्रों की इस धारणा से जुड़े व्यावहारिक का...
‘स्टेशन मास्टरों की सभी जायज मांगों पर सकारात्मक दृष्टि से विचार किया जाएगा’: रेल राज्य मंत्री मनोज सिन्हा

‘स्टेशन मास्टरों की सभी जायज मांगों पर सकारात्मक दृष्टि से विचार किया जाएगा’: रेल राज्य मंत्री मनोज सिन्हा

प्रेस विज्ञप्ति
भारतीय रेल के परिचालन में स्टेशन मास्टरों की भूमिका की प्रशंसा करते हुए केन्द्रीय रेल राज्य मंत्री मनोज सिन्हा ने कहा कि उनकी सभी जायज मांगों पर गंभीरता से विचार किया जाएगा। वे आज यहां तालकटोरा स्टेडिय में आल इंडिया स्टेशन मास्टर्स एसोसिएशन की 48वीं द्विवार्षिक आम सभा एवं संकल्प विराट महासम्मेलन का उदघाटन कर रहे थे। सम्मेलन में कोंकण रेलवे सहित रेलवे के सभी 16 जोन से करीब 4000 स्टेशन मास्टर भाग ले रहे हैं। सम्मेलन का संयोजन दिल्ली मंडल ने किया है। रेलवे बोर्ड के अध्यक्ष अश्विनी लोहानी, पैसेंजर सर्विस कमीशन के अध्यक्ष रमेश चन्द्र रतन, मुख्य परिचालन प्रबंधक श्री राजीव सक्सेना, चेयरमैन रेलवे कमेटी,  महासचिव एआईआरएफ शिवगोपाल मिश्रा, गुमान सिंह, एनएफआईआर के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष, प्रवर मण्डल परिचालन प्रबंधक दिल्ली आदि अधिकारी भी इस अवसर पर उपस्थित थे। श्री सिन्हा ने आल इंडिया स्टेशन मास्टर्स एसो...