Centre should hand over PSU, Instrumentation Limited to Kerala State

Kerala State has offered to take over the loss making PSU, Instrumentation Limited Palakkad, considering the large number of employees and their future. It asked the Centre to clear the arrears of salaries of the employees as it can not take the responsibility for the same. The central government has not agreed so far and the process of handover has not started.

The mother unit of the PSU at Kota has already been closed. BJP is making all  obstructions to the take over of the Kerala unit by the state government, since it will clearly show the difference between the pro-PSU policy of the LDF and the anti-PSU stand of NDA.

The question is of the employment of more than 300 employees of the PSU and also strengthening of the PSU. The central government should hand over the PSU to state government after clearing the dues.

Sex Ratio at birth comes down in India

The sex ratio at birth  between males and females are going down drastically as per the report of the NITI Ayog. Sex ratio is the number of female child at birth to male child. It is the lowest in Haryana, 831 female to 1000 male! Next come Uttarakhand (844) and Gujarat (854). The sex ratio in Gujarat has fallen sharply from 907 to 854 in 2015-16.

Kerala’s sex ratio is 967, the highest. But here also, it is below 1000.

Such low sex ratio is unusual and will probably the result of sex test of the unborn child and further consequences. Such sex tests are banned, but continues. The government should act and act strongly.

 

” Money has come to the Banks; interest rates has come down” – Vice President.

Vie-President Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu has stated that due to demonetisation, the money has come back to the banks and the interest rates has come down.

Yes. Black and white money has come back and when the counting of the notes is over, there is every chance that it will be much more than the notes printed. The counted notes so far is almost as the number of notes printed.  Interest rates have also come down.

But who are the beneficiaries? Demonetisation gave a big chance for conversion of black money to white as the various reports in the press have shown. It has, of course, benefited the black money holders, corporates etc. Because funds are available in banks, they can lend thousands of crores of rupees to the corporates, who will not return it and will be treated as bad loan. And interest rates have helped those taking loans but crores of common people have lost their interest for their savings.

Demonetisation was nothing but a bad experiment which deeply hurt the common people and deranged their lives. Hundreds of people lost their valuable lives, either standing in the queue before ATMs to get their own money or due to the mental pain being unable to send their children to school, conduct marriage or admit to the hospital etc. due to want of money.

Demonetisation was nothing short of demumanisation for the common people, but a rare opportunity for the rich and powerful.

 

Rs. 11,500 crore, 30,000 crore and now Rs. 62,000 crore – The looter at Davos with Prime Minister!

The first report was about Rs. 11,500 crore loot by Nirav Modi. Every day the amount is increasing with further loans taken from many banks.  The latest figure is more than Rs. 30,000 crore. Another report says that more than 62,000 crores have been lost to the banks. There seems to be no limit to the loot.

And where is Nirav Modi? He was in Davos in Switzweland  for a meeting along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as per reports and photo published. But he is not traceable now according to the Government. Wonderful!

Why he was not arrested when the report of the loot was with the government a few weeks back? Why he was given the opportunity to leave the country? Somebody jokingly asked whether Nirav Modi left the country in the same plane along with Prime Minister to Davos?

Many questions are to be answered both by UPA and NDA governments since it is stated that the scam started in the UPA government period and continued for 4 years NDA period with out any action.  The people have a right to know.

 

BSNL adds 4,21,836 connections in December 2017

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today released its Subscription Data for December 2017 and the top five telecom operators in the country showed positive growth. State-run telco, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) added 421,836 new subscribers in the month and retained its 100 million subscriber base too. However, MTNL lost 6561 subscribers in the month. Leading telecom operator, Bharti Airtel added just 576,575 subscribers during the month, which is rather a small number by its standards. Reliance Jio has added a whopping eight million new customers in the month, followed by Idea Cellular with 2.4 million new subscribers and Vodafone with 1.5 million. (Press report)

Despite fierce competition from Reliance Jio,BSNL has done well. Congratulations!

BJP Health Minister urinates in open!

Photographs of BJP ruled Rajasthan Health Minister urinating openly on the side of the road with his car in the background has gone viral in the social media. No apology or explanation from the Minister.

Is it the method of implementing Clean India Project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?

Sanchar Bharati’s bold stand appreciated

The strong stand of the management of Sanchar Bharati, a central PSU, against the autocratic directions of the central government is to be appreciated. According to the reports in the press, Chairman and members of the Prasar Bharati Board has taken strong exception to the ‘directives’ of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to terminate the services of all the contractual employees of the Prasar Bharati. They also opposed the direction of the Ministry to appoint two journalists in the PSU at exorbitant pay to the tune of Rs. one crore a year, which comes more than the salary of the President of India. At present, the topmost pay in the Prasar Bharati is only Rs. 1.6 lakh in a month and to increase it to more than 8 lakh is preposterous.

Congratulations to Prasar Bharati Board for taking bold decisions! The Modi government stands exposed for recommending to retrench the workers and also directing the PSU to appoint and pay exorbitant salary to its nominees.

Lalit Modi, Mallya and now Nirav Modi – Loot and leave.

The serial ‘Looting and leaving’ the country continues with the full knowledge of the Government, whether UPA or NDA.

Looting the country, the banks and the hard earned money of the common people and then leaving the country with the connivance of the ruling party and government continues. Lalit Modi, Vijay Mallya and now Nirav Modi. Whether UPA or NDA, there is no difference. These looters have high level political connections even with the Prime Ministers, what to say about other leaders. It is reported that even after FIR was filed against Nirav Mody, he was present in the Davos meet and photographed with Narendra Modi, Prime Minister! Look out notices will be issued when the scam is exposed, but well before that these barons will leave for foreign countries with the loot. Case will be filed, it will continue for years with out any decision and at last people will forget and these cheats will return and continue further loot.

They will never be caught because the rulers will be exposed when the looters open their mouth. Hence it becomes the necessity of the powers be that these looters are not caught. They are allowed to escape unscathed.

Can this situation be allowed to continue?

Scams in India never end, but gets bigger and bigger

The latest scam in India is in Punjab National Bank. Rs.11,500 crore has been siphoned off to foreign country during the last few years. In the one branch of the PNB at South Mumbai, the above said amount was lost to the Bank in which diamond merchant billionaire Nirav Modi and some officers of the branch are involved. CBI as well as Enforcement Directorate have filed FIRs. It seems that the bank authorities and the government were sleeping when all this loot was going for years together.

Public banks are looted and the government looks as an outsider. The people can not be blamed, if they suspect that all these are done with the complicity of the government. Mallya has left the country and Nirav Modi may also escape. The case will go on, but whether the culprits will be punished? The chances are less.

Another ‘Rath Yatra’?

It has been reported that a RSS-BJP sponsored “Ram Raj Rath Yatra” has been flagged off from Ayodhya in U.P. yesterday which is supposedly to retrace the route of Rama to Sri Lanka, as described in the Hindu epic Ramayana. This was flagged off by the VHP General Secretary.
The disaster and communal clashes as also the demolition of the Babri Masjid which followed the infamous Ratha Yatra of Advani in 1996 is well known. There is no doubt that the present Rath Yatra, which is supposed to pass through M.P.,Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and end at Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, is also being organised with similar intentions.

Both the central and state governments have to be alert for immediate strong actions to avoid any communal disturbance.