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बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव की तैयारियां एवं सरगर्मियां चरम पर हैं, वहां चुनावी चैसर अब लगभग बिछ चुकी है। कुल मिलाकर इस बार मुकाबला जेडीयू-बीजेपी बनाम आरजेडी-कांग्रेस-कम्युनिस्ट का बनता दिख रहा है। एनडीए में दरार पड़ चुकी है और लोजपा ने स्वतंत्र चुनाव लड़ने का फैसला किया है। यह चुनाव अनेक दृष्टिकोणों से महत्वपूर्ण है। इन चुनावों की खास बात यह भी है कि विपक्ष तो हमेशा की तरह सरकार की गड़बड़ियों और नाकामियों को मुद्दा बना रहा है, पर सत्तापक्ष नई पिच की तलाश में है। एक और खास बात यह है कि इस बार दोनों ही चुनावी खेमों में छोटे दलों को तवज्जो न देने का रुझान दिखाई दे रहा है। विपक्षी गठबंधन की बात करें तो इसमें शामिल आरएलएसपी जैसे दल मुख्यमंत्री प्रत्याशी का सवाल उठाते हुए काफी पहले से यह कहने लगे थे कि नीतीश कुमार के सामने आरजेडी के युवा नेता तेजस्वी यादव फिट नहीं बैठते। मगर आरजेडी ने इस सवाल ...

जब हमारे दादा अथवा पिता का जन्म हुआ था, उस समय के विश्व से वर्तमान विश्व का स्वरूप अत्यधिक भिन्न है । संभवतः सभी परिवर्तनों में से सर्वाधिक मुख्य परिवर्तन है पूरे विश्व में बढता प्रदूषण, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप हरितगृह गैसों (ग्रीन हाऊस गैस) के उत्सर्जन में तथा अन्य हानिकारक प्रभावों में वृद्धि हो गई है । जब भी हम प्रदूषण की बात करते हैं, तो सामान्यतः हम वायु प्रदूषण, जल प्रदूषण, ध्वनि प्रदूषण, भोजन प्रदूषण और भूमि प्रदूषण के विषय में विचार करते हैं । मौसम के अस्वाभाविक स्वरूप का कारण, मानवजाति का प्रकृति पर प्रभाव है । तथापि यह मानव द्वारा की गई भौतिक स्तर की उपेक्षा तक ही सीमित नहीं है; अपितु उनके द्वारा वायुमंडल में उत्सर्जित मानसिक तथा आध्यात्मिक प्रदूषण भी इसका कारण है । मानसिक प्रदूषण लोगों के नकारात्मक विचार जैसे – लालच, धोखा, घृणा, विनाश हेतु योजना बनाना, इत्यादि के कारण होता है । यह मा...

विश्व शिक्षक (अध्यापक) दिवस प्रतिवर्ष दुनिया के लगभग एक सौ देशों में 5 अक्टूबर को मनाया जाता है। दुनिया को परिष्कृत करनेे और जिम्मेदार व्यक्तियों का निर्माण करने में शिक्षकों के प्रयासों और कड़ी मेहनत की सराहना और स्वीकार करने के अवसर के रूप में यह दिवस मनाया जाता है। इस वर्ष भारत के लिये यह दिवस इसलिये महत्वपूर्ण है कि इसी वर्ष राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति घोषित हुई है जिसमें शिक्षकों को अधिक सशक्त, जिम्मेदार एवं राष्ट्र- व्यक्ति निर्माण में उनकी भूमिका पर विशेष बल दिया गया है। लार्ड मैकाले की शिक्षा में अब तक भारत में गुरु एवं शिक्षक श्रद्धा का पात्र न होकर वेतन-भोगी नौकर बन गया था, शिक्षक की भूमिका गौण हो गयी थी। आजादी के बाद से चली आ रही शिक्षा प्रणाली में विद्यालय एवं विश्व विद्यालय के प्रबंध तंत्र की भूमिका महत्वपूर्ण हो गई थी और शिक्षालय मिशन न होकर व्यवसाय बन गया था। इस बड़ी विसंगति को दूर ...

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...

There was a post-emergency era in the year 1977 when Legislative Councils remained in just five states, but now being again constituted in other states. Best is to altogether abolish constitutional provision of having Legislative Councils. These serve no practical purpose other than rehabilitation of family-members and other favorites of political rulers including several rejected ones of general elections to be employed at public-expense just to provide an expensive feather on caps of those elected. Ruling parties in states also manipulate winning of its candidates in elections to Legislative Council by misuse of power.   SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL

Central government should merge all public-sector companies for General Insurance into one unified company to reduce unnecessary overheads. If one single public-sector Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) provides life-insurance cover under so many plans effectively, then one General Insurance Corporation of India can also be formed by merging all public-sector Insurance-companies engaged in General Insurance. Such unified company will be able to compete more effectively with private-sector companies engaged in General Insurance in the manner that no private Insurance-company is presently able to compete with public-sector Life Insurance Corporation of India. Such unified General Insurance Company then should work in modernised way with attractive insurance-plans introduced to comp...

LIC of India has many of branches very close to each other in Delhi. Same may be the case outside Delhi. Many such nearing branches exist from the year 1956 when 245 private insurance-companies were nationalised in public-sector Life Insurance Corporation of India, this also being one of the reasons for nearing branches of LIC of India some of which are in very bad condition. While some areas have multiple branches, residents of many localities are deprived of nearing branch of LIC of India. In present era of computerisation and on-line facility of accessibility of all policy-records from any branch, not much office-space and staff are required in branches of LIC of India. LIC of India should make a study of branch-network throughout the country to start with metro-cities, and merge nea...

New 20-rupee coins have been introduced even though members of public till now could not be comfortable with 10-rupee coins having been introduced several years back. It is true that life of smaller denomination notes is comparatively smaller. But considering non-popularity of coins of rupees-ten (and now rupees-twenty), Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and central government should rather work on introducing much-awaited plastic currency in these denominations as was announced long back by the then Union Minister of Finance Namo Narain Meena on 12.03.2013 in a written reply in Rajya Sabha. On the contrary, one-rupee notes re-started just for bureaucratic craze of bearing their signatures should be discontinued to be printed as these are not even seen by members of public ever since these were...

Do not declare holiday on my death, instead work an extra day if you really love me- said Dr APJ Abdul Kalam who was People-President of a country where there are too many political holidays on birth and death anniversaries of leaders both at central and state level including like birth anniversaries of Dr BR Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi. Earlier UP government then led by Akhilesh Yadav in the year even declared holiday on death-anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar Every great leader always called people for hard work.  Therefore best tribute to great leaders is to declare their birth and death anniversaries as extra-work day by increasing office-hours by half-an-hour on those special days. Such a bold announcement quoting Dr APJ Abdul Kalam will not attract political resistance in name of vote...

Controversies apart on degree of torture like tongue-cutting or gang-rape of poor girl from Hathras District of Uttar Pradesh, charge of murder is rightly levelled against the accused. Now system is to be tested if justice will be done fast when even both state Chief Minister and Prime Minister have talked to each other on the matter, or it will take long seven years providing justice like happened in infamous Nirbhaya case. But TV-report (Zee TV DNA 30.09.2020) has shown detailed video-report that cremation of dead body of the victim-girl brought from Delhi was forcibly done by Police setting aside all cries of family-members to take the body first to her home for pre-cremation rituals and cremation not to be done after sunset as per Hindu tradition. However a senior state police-offic...