Krishi Kalyan Cess of 0.5% gets applicable today

From today Krishi Kalyan Cess of 0.5% is getting applicable on Service tax today. This cess is to finance farmer welfare schemes of central government. I think it a good step from government that they are thinking about welfare of farmers of India who provide food to whole nation. I feel happy that I am paying for welfare of the farmers. 

The people who are cribbing about Krishi Kalyan Cess are selfish people who don't want to pay back to society from which they are getting everything. Government should ignore opposition from these people.  

Wrong depiction of Ramayan by serial Siya Ke Ram

Yesterday I was watching TV and saw an advertisement of serial "Siya ke Ram". In that advertisement is was shown that Lakshman cut nose of Supnakaha because he had no respect for women and Sita was angry with Lakshman for doing that because she considered it to be an insult to womankind. 

Now a day characterless women have become face of feminism. Obscenity and characterlessness are considered essential quality of being a feminist. It is being projected that women can achieve high place only by drinking and being characterless. That is why Supnakha was depicted as victim of male chauvinistic attitude of Lakshman. Supnakaha was a characterless women and that satisfies requirement of being an icon of feminist.

The truth is that Supnakha did not propose for marriage to Ram or Lakshman but for immoral sax which both of them refused. After that Supnakha tried to kill Sita and Lakshman put a sword between Sita and Supnakha to protect Sita from Supnakha and by accident Supnakha's nose was cut. It was not intentional but neither Lakhman nor Ram apologized to Supnakha for cutting her nose because that punishment which she got was appropriate for the crime she did. I also, after 7000 years of it happening, agree with Ram and Lakshman. 

It is also being depicted that Ravana abducted Sita for taking revenge for Supnakaha. It is also not true. Ravana had no love for Supnakha. Had he be having any love for Supnakha he would have tried to killed Ram, Lakhman and Sita. But he abducted Sita because of his lust for beautiful women. I don't know of any person in History of 10,000 years who abducted someone's wife for taking revenge from him. I know of people who killed someone’s wife for taking revenge from him. But abducting someone's wife for making her his wife can't be done for revenge but for lust. 

This wrong depiction of Ramayan has been happening for last 800 years. More than 300 distorted version of Ramayana were written by different authors in last 800 years but people still believe in Ram's teaching. Lie does not have legs so can't stand firm with test of time. So these misrepresentations of Ramayana will also be rejected by people. 

The problem is with all other serials and TV programs is that they are projecting that by being characterless is the only way of being liberated be it a man or a woman. Drinking is a must for being successful and respected by others. Being characterless is another criterion for being an respected person. This kind of thinking is going to destroy Indian society. We need to stop it. 

I have decided not to allow Siya ke Ram in my house and I am following that. If you watch a serial in your house and a particular thinking is supported in that serial you children will think that you expect your children to follow that. So please be careful about serials and movies you watch.    

Income tax data released

Today central government release taxation data of central government of India. I am capturing some interesting part of it. I am interested in current years data:

Year - 2015-16
Corporate Tax: 454419 crore
Personal Income Tax: 286801 crore
Other Direct taxes: 1075 crore
Direct Tax collection: 742295 crore
Indirect Tax collection: 711885 crore
Total Tax collection: 1454180 crore
GDP - 13567192 crore
Population of India: 125 crore
Average per person income per year: 1,08,537 rupee
Individual income tax assesses: 4.86 crore

The interesting part is that out of Total tax collection of 14,54,180 crore only 2,86,801 crore comes as personal income tax which is 19.72 % of total tax collected. Number of individual tax payers is 4.86 crore which is 3.88% of total population. If I assume that every earning individual have 3 dependents then 15.55% of families are paying personal income tax.

If we assume that only 25% of our population is earning then average income per earning person is 4,34,148  (per family of 4 person).  As per current income tax slab tax on income of 5 lakhs is 25,000. The average tax per income tax payer is 59,012 rupee which looks reasonable.

7,11,885 crore rupee is coming as indirect taxes which is being paid by every individuals irrespective of their financial status. Excise duty on medicines is paid by every patient be him rich or poor. It is 48.95% of total tax collection. If 19.72% of tax is paid by 15.55% of families as income tax then it is not surprising.

On social media people are saying that 1% of people are paying 50% of the tax. It is not true as per data released by Income Tax Department. Only 19.72% tax is coming from 15.55% of families. Of course this tax money will not be spent exclusively on welfare of people it is collected from. If that was to be done then government could have applied fee for service rather than imposing taxes. Taxes are paid by riches and used for welfare of poor which rich people never like. Rich people can't publicly say that they don't want to pay taxes for welfare of poor people so they keep crying about corruption which happens in utilization of tax money. The actual intent of rich people is that they don't want to pay any money for welfare of poor people..

Dance Bars

Yesterday Supreme Court of India pulled up Maharastra government for not granting licence to dance bars. Court said that it is better to dance in a dance bar than beg on street. I don't agree to this comment. The girls who are dancing in dance bars are not even paid minimum wages by the bar and are dependent on the tips offered by drunkards in the bar. They have to dance obscenely to please these drunkards to get tips from them. It is even worse than begging. It is not a dance show where people buy a ticket and dancers are paid from the ticket amount.

Many young girls are kidnapped and trafficked to Mumbai for dancing in dance bars in Mumbai. There is big mafia of crimes which runs in these dance bars. Government is doing right things by not allowing dance bars in Mumbai.

If elected representatives of the people feel that something needs to be banned in the state then there should have been some merit in that. It is responsibility of government to maintain law and order in state. What is allowed and what is allowed in the state should be best left to representative of the people and not judiciary. I see this as case of shameless judicial corruption. Judges have taken bribe from owners of dance bars and are forcing government to legalize something which is illegal.   

Link to news item:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Supreme-Court-pulls-up-Maharashtra-govt-for-not-granting-licence-to-dance-bars/articleshow/51977257.cms

Top rated comment on news item:
What a Suprme Court : and what a stupid decision or verdict - Court says, better dance to the tunes of drunkards and lose ur self-respect. Now all beggar women can join together to form dance bar and that too, near and around schools, colleges and educational institutions. A court or verdict which will spoil the moral fabric of the country needs to be removed or nullified.

Attempt to regulate private school fee

Now a days Delhi government is trying to regulate fee hike by private schools. Government says that these private schools are making huge profits and regulating school fee will reduce burden of parents.

This move has a downside also. Schools are prevented from charging high fee but are not prevented from making huge profits. The schools will not sacrifice their profit because of cap on school fee but will reduce facilities to students. The quality of infrastructure and quality of teachers will suffer because these schools will cut on expenditure salary of teachers. Good teachers will move to some other states where schools are offering good salary or join some coaching center which don't come under fee regulation. School education will suffer and profit of schools will still not come down. It will be a loss for parents because now they need to send their children to coaching classes also because schools are not having good teachers.

So what is the solution? Should government not do anything and let schools loot the parents of students?

The solution is not to kill free market economy. Market knows the best if school A is charging 3000 rupee per month and school B is charging 5000 rupee per month and school B is having all seats occupied and school A is having 10% seat vacant then there is some reason for it. Market knows the best about the services being offered to them. We can't say that school B is looting the parents and school A is not. On the contrary it looks like school A is looting the parents and that is why 10% of the seats are lying vacant.

The government needs to build good schools and provide good education there. This will create competition in the market and people will start leaving overpriced schools and these schools will start spending in providing good services and reducing the fee.

Price control hinders new inventions. No schools will roll out new technology in their schools if they can't fund their expenditure by raising the fee. The government has failed miserably in managing government schools and wants to kill competition in private schools. Government is still leaving these private schools with same management which it accuses of corruption and profiting. Why doesn’t government take over these schools and run them better than current management? Government doesn’t have that capability people know that. Government should concentrate on providing good education services to people by hiring more teachers for schools rather than wasting money in putting CCTV in every classroom. Once there are sufficient number of schools are there and quality of education is good there, private schools will be forced to provide better education to student at lower fee otherwise they will be shutdown.

I see fee regulation of private schools to be a negative development.  

Right of equality

I did not think I will need to write on this topic because I was taught in my 6th class about right of equality in my school and assumed that everyone else will also have been taught that. But today while discussing with some of my colleagues I discovered that they are not aware of this law.

The question is like this does owner of a shop have right to deny sale of the product to any person whom he don't want to sell product because it is a private shop and not government one. The answer which was given to me was that since it is a private shop owner has right to choose his customer and can deny services to anyone whom they don't like and no law exists against that.

I would like to say that a law exist against that and that too is fundamental right in constitution any shops, public restaurants, hotels and places of public entertainment is bound by this law not to discriminate between people. Any private business is bound by this law and not allowed to discriminate. A similar law exists in USA also and I saw board displayed in stores that a certain section of law prohibits the store from discriminating between customers. This is such a basic law that it is taught in 6th class to students, I am amazed to see graduates who are not aware of this law and consider themselves to be knowing laws very well.

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Right to Equility
15. Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.-

(1) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them.

(2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to-

(a) access to shops, public restaurants, hotels and places of public entertainment; or 
(b) the use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds or dedicated to the use of the general public. 
(3) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from making any special provision for women and children. 
_10[(4) Nothing in this article or in clause (2) of article 29 shall prevent the State from making any special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.]

Akshay Kumar's donation of 90 Lakhs for drought relief

Film actor Akshay Kumar has announced donation of 90 Lakh rupee for drought relief in Maharastra. Many people have suddenly started posting on facebook against so called tax evasion by Akshay Kumar. What have happened recently? Is Akshay Kumar been named in some panama leeks? I don't remember any official or unofficial report coming out recently which have exposed Akshay Kumar. So why suddenly Akshay Kumar has become a villain? What have he done recently to attract such comments.

Only thing I see have hurt people is his donation of 90 Lakh rupee for drought relief. This act have hurt lakhs of people who think that they are highest income tax payers despite being in lowest 5% of the income group and are biggest philanthropist because they gave 10 rupee to a beggar some 10 years back and no one can beat their record. These people label people donating money to temples as selfish because these people are buying mercy for their sins from god. It looks like saints are found only drinking in a bar with their friends; any person who give money to a needy person is corrupt and want to buy forgiveness for his sins. Now by giving 90 Lakh rupee for drought relief in Maharastra Akshay Kumar have proved that he is a corrupt person. If he is not corrupt then why he is not enjoying his money in bars with his friends just like honest actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Amir Khan and Shahrukh Khan?

No one can be more philanthropic than a person who had given 10 rupee to a beggar some 10 years back. If someone tries to prove him wrong, then that person will attract that kind of hate which Akshay Kumar is facing. If Akshay Kumar is such a big tax evader then why did I not hear about that before? No new information from income tax department has come out recently.

People doing good thing should keep doing good thing despite being disliked by selfish people. These people want to believe that they are best people despite being highly corrupt and selfish. If someone breaks that image of themselves they start talking against him. So Akshay Kumar, don't worry about these people and keep doing good work.