Email OF The Day: 09/04/13

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Re: [www.keralites.net] How to stop the Rupee slide: some brill from PC Abraham

Mr G. Nair,

It doesn't stop with the elected members as you have mentioned below. Then comes the dear and near ones. Like famous ROBERT VADUTHALA or VADOTHARA. In fact, sorry I still don't know what is his exact last name. Then comes pension for the elected members and their personal staff.

But anybody in the entire political class has no courage to say a word on this outrageous display of power and abuse of public system on the expense of nation's wealth which is intended to be spent on nation building and public welfare.

From: Gangadharan Nair N <ng.puthoor@gmail.com>
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] How to stop the Rupee slide: some brill from PC Abraham

No Body can help this currency RUPEE from sliding down with the PRESENT DEMOCRATIC SET UP. THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL INCLUDING SLIDING DOWN OF ANY CURRENCY FOR THAT MATTER IS THE GOVERNMENT PRINTS MORE CURRENCY TO COVER UP DEFICIT. TO ELIMINATE DEFICIT, REDUCE EXPENDITURE. TO REDUCE EXPENDITURE REDUCE THE SALARY BURDEN OF THE NATION. OUR NATION SPENDS AROUND 60% TO 70% ON SALARY & PENSION. WHEN THE NATION EMPLOYEES 5 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE NATION, WE HAVE ANOTHER 3 MILLION ELECTED MEMBERS IN THE COUNTRY. TO FEED ALL THESE 8 MILLION IS THE BIGGEST BURDEN OR CURSE OF THE NATION. ON OUR WAGE BILL OF THE NATION THE LION SHARE BEING TAKEN AWAY BY THESE USELESS ELECTED MEMBERS. MINIMISE THE ELECTED MEMBERS TO SAY 5,000 (543 MPs & 4,500 MLAs ELIMINATE ALL THOSE USELESS PANCHAYATH MEMBERS NUMBERING 2.92 MILLION) THEN THE COUNTRY IS SAVED.

WITHOUT THIS NO BODY EVEN THE FATHER OF THE DEVENDRAN, MUTHU BHATTAR, CAN SAVE THIS COUNTRY.

Please HEAVEN'S SAKE do NOT think that the Prime Ministers we had in the past 65 years are fools or illiterarte. Except one or two all were gems of the society and had love for the nation but could NOT do anything. Even Mr. Manmohan Singh, who is a well known economist in the world could NOT do anything. The reason the system of our democracy. No where in the world any nation practices this type of democracy.

ANY TAKER?

Gangadharan Nair

On 3 September 2013 14:24, John Thomas <joal0791@yahoo.com> wrote:

Close Indian parliament and all the state assemblies for 3 months and ask all the MLAs and MPs including ministers to leave their government accommodations by keeping their official vehicles and security behind and go home and take rest. Let the bureaucrats to run the show for this period.

India can save more money to purchase not only oil but everything and Rupee value will automatically come up.

Nothing is going to happen if a bunch people keep their Maruti at home. At the same time these people will become more vulnerable to pick pocketing, rape attempts, police abuse, physical assault, respiratory deceases and fever of several flavours.

From: "nairsrk@gmail.com" <nairsrk@gmail.com>
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] How to stop the Rupee slide: some brill from PC Abraham

Very good idea but who will organise such a colosal plan to teach a lesson to the oil lobby. Every month one week all the private vehicles be at home come what may except for medical needs.

Every time cost is increased NOT thinking about the reality. It s a pitty that the public is just ONLOOKERS.

PL do something.

SRK,Delhi
Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone
From: kartha chandrasekharan <kckartha@yahoo.com>
Sender: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 22:59:51 +0800 (SGT)
To: <Keralites@yahoogroups.com>
ReplyTo: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] How to stop the Rupee slide: some brill from PC Abraham

Let all Indians stop their vehicles from the road for one week. None should take them for any reason except for medical needs. Or Govt. can give compulsory holiday for the nation to minimize the fuel consumption, thereby we can save present dilemma. Nothing will happen if we don't work for a week, like National moaning for some reason for a few days. Don't spend a single rupee for the fuel for a week.

From: Keralites Mails <keralites.mails@gmail.com>
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, 1 September 2013 6:52 PM
Subject: [www.keralites.net] How to stop the Rupee slide: some brill from PC Abraham

If Manmohen Sing and Soniy are capable enough to bring 100 countries together to for devaluation 'so called game', they are smart. Now the opposition cry that there is no super glue with central government to stick Rupee against US $. Have they got? When US had problem no other country suffered that much. Now it is turned against 100 odd countries. This is a problem we have to handle with careful calculation of Currency and Gold flow. It happens when, Salary increase every year, giving Bonus without profit making, circulation of Fake currency as good as original from neighboring countries, Huge bribe and Black Money, Cost Escalated contracts with the influence of politicians, and collect salary without hard work. We are all part in this either by taking or giving. Let us wait and see. Abraham.

From: KUMAR RATNA <ratna_kumar5@yahoo.com>
To: "Keralites@yahoogroups.com" <Keralites@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] How to stop the Rupee slide: some brilliant solutions..

This is all the game plan of congress Govt. This method has been adopted by the Cong Govt. every time they felt that they will not be elected back to power. This method they see to it that which ever other Party comes to rule the country will not be able to sustain itself with the international burden and succumb to the Whims and fancies of the Dollar. This is the best method by which you can rule and eat up the country for the next coming years after the next Govt falls.

The best method to increase the value of Rupee against Dollar is that let the Citizens of India realize the loss caused by the US and abstain from going to US for just 15 days. Then watch the fun. Your each Rupee will be valued with dignity.

RK

From: krishnan iyer <krish4949@yahoo.co.in>
To:
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 12:25 AM
Subject: [www.keralites.net] How to stop the Rupee slide: some brilliant solutions..

How to lift the Rupee from its dumps..

Every news channel, every newspaper, every economist worth his/her salt has a panacea to stop the rupee tailspin and bring back some sanity. All, either shooting in the dark or vague, wishy-washy solutions – the TOI, the "world's largest paper", so the high priest of journalism grandly recently wrote the country needs 'structural changes" without pinpointing what they are.

Amidst all these cacophony, only HT's Chanakya (Sunday, 25/8/13) gives concrete steps that, to one, seem to work…

"This situation calls for a change in script. What we need are big bang measure that take effect immediately – as opposed to stpes that will begin to bear fruit six months later – to lift sentiment. Traditional monetary measures have failed and incremental steps to stop dollar outflows have proved counter-productive.

First, ban gold and silver imports (for, say, six to nine months). This will tell the world that India is serious about addressing its current account deficit problem. (Me: Gold import now attracts custom duty at about 30%. This won't work, given an average Indian's appetite for gold regardless of its price. By banning imports, the price in the country may further escalate. So what? Let the Indians be ready pay for it)

Raise petrol and diesel prices by Rs.4-5 per litre to help the government to pare its deficit.

Set aside $25-30 billion from India's foreign exchange reserves to defend the rupee against speculators. (Me: This is a suggestion put forward by Montek Ahluwalia, the Dy. Planning Commission Chairman).

Settle the Vodafone tax case to signal to the world that their investments here will not be subject to whimsical and politically-motivated policy changes. (Me: absolutely spot-on. The proposal to tax Vodafone billions of dollars on their acquisition of the then cellphone brand, Hutch, from the Hongkong-based company was the single most important factor that stopped MNCs in their tracks from making further investments in the country. Our policy makers and/or the tax sleuths are singularly myopic)

Force real estate companies to cut prices to make housing affordable. This sector has linkages with more than 200 industries. And if it revives, it will set off a virtuous cycle by generating demand in hundreds of feeder industries. (Me: the real-estate companies have been exceedingly greedy and been jacking up prices every two months so much so flats have become unaffordable to middle-class buyers.)

(Me: All one can say is, Wah! Wah!!)

www.keralites.net

"Na Mo Namasivaya",

'Vande Matharam'

Gangadharan Nair N.

"Sab Ke Saath, Sab Ka Vikas"

Please visit: www.arthakranti.org

"Dharmam Saranam Gachhami"

"Make Giving Bribe & Exposing it, Legal & a Birth Right of every citizen of INDIA, but Demanding or Accepting Bribe Illegal & a willful act of Crime,"

We had a DREAM of Principled, Prosperous & Peaceful INDIA & are committed to fulfill that DREAM.

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (7)

Recent Activity:

New Members 39
New Photos 4

Visit Your Group

KERALITES - A moderated eGroup exclusively for Keralites...
To subscribe send a mail to Keralites-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Send your posts to Keralites@yahoogroups.com.
Send your suggestions to Keralites-owner@yahoogroups.com.

To unsubscribe send a mail to Keralites-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Homepage: www.keralites.net

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

Re: [www.keralites.net] A new Idea

Good thought. But who will implement it. The human rights commission will step in and accuse the govt of ill-treating them.
Our laws are totally flawed and that's the reason no one gives a thought before breaking the law.
Right from jumping signals to rape, murder and corruption, how many are penalized to repent.
And even if jailed for a short term, they enjoy class 'A' treatment in jail which is paid for by the working class. Indirectly we are working for our family and for all such people in the jail who enjoy a retired life as long as they are in.
This is the pathetic state of our law.
Regards
Pramodh

On Sep 4, 2013 9:55 PM, "Keralites Mails" <keralites.mails@gmail.com> wrote:

Now most of the jail inmates we feed them and keep them under protection for our safety. Olden days, there were hard work for inmates who have done criminal activities inhuman such as murder and rape. They were told to do breaking of stones or any such work. Now I don't think there are any such work done in the jail. May be due to short of space or facility.

To make use of them, and to give them hard work, there should be a heavy weight lifting tower, with safety devise not to fall fast while lifting the weight. (system of a Coco Clock) Once this weight is on the top of the tower, it should be connected to a dynamo and should able to generate power. The heavy weight coming down will rotate the dynamo and generate power. The power can be used for the inmates or replace it with electricity supplied by the department connection.

In brief, the inmates are used for producing electricity. Instead of giving free food and facility we should make use of them. Abraham

Posted by:
pc_abraham1944

www.keralites.net

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (2)

Recent Activity:

New Members 33
New Photos 4

Visit Your Group

KERALITES - A moderated eGroup exclusively for Keralites...

To subscribe send a mail to Keralites-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Send your posts to Keralites@yahoogroups.com.
Send your suggestions to Keralites-owner@yahoogroups.com.

To unsubscribe send a mail to Keralites-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Homepage: http://www.keralites.net

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

Re: [www.keralites.net] Food Security Bill - Boon or Bane?

This is to get votes for the UPA which has broken the records of corruption.

Even if food bill is implemented, the benefeciaries will be the rich and not the poor who dont know what is happening in India.

The main problem in India is illiteracy and not reading paper/news. They are just working as slaves for the rich community in many States and not aware what Govt is offering for them to get their valued votes.

When Govt is voted to Power, they will start corruption.

Regds
Ravindran

--------------------------------------------
On Wed, 4/9/13, Raghunandanan <kgraghunandanan@rediffmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Food Security Bill - Boon or Bane?
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 4 September, 2013, 5:12 AM

Dear Friends,

Most of the people are already aware that these gimmicks are
being used to get votes. There is no way out, because power
is with politicians and not with the people.

From: Keralites Mails <keralites.mails@gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:12:14
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [www.keralites.net] Food Security Bill - Boon or
Bane?

The KING may enjoy in an
equal degree the three
pursuits of life, CHARITY, DESIRE, and WEALTH, which are
inter-dependent upon each other. Any one of these
three, when enjoyed
in
excess, HURTS NOT ONLY THE
OTHER TWO, BUT ALSO ITSELF.

Kautilya holds
that WEALTH
and WEALTH
alone is IMPORTANT, in as much as
CHARITY
and DESIRE
depend upon WEALTH for their realisation.

So
the FOOD SECURITY BILL, which is based on CHARITY, will
hurt not only
DESIRE & WEALTH of the NATION but also the scheme
itself.

Gangadharan Nair

On 30 August 2013 20:45, Thomas Mathew <thomasmathew47@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Mr. Nair
Thanks for the note about Food Security Bill. It
has been very informative.
In
Kerala at least, the number of BPL number is exaggerated as
majority of
the people in the list are earning much more than the cut
for BPL. I
know where the family of a gulf employee whose wife is
a college
lecturer is enjoying BPL benefit. How can an unskilled
daily labourer
who is getting Rs.500 a day; or a skilled persons like
masons whose
daily rate is Rs. 900 a day can be treated as BPL. Remember,
earlier
there were reports that Govt. employees are enjoying the
benefits of
BPL. Some of them surrendered the card on threat of
disciplinary action,
but nothing further is heard about those who did not
surrender their
BPL cards. There may be only less than 10% of the
families, who may
not have an earning member in the family, and who may really
need to be
included in the BPL list.

Being an honest tax paying citizen of the
country, I
feel cheated that the tax I pay is being used to give
subsidies to
undeserving people. I recollect a TV programme in US
where a lady was
shouting that the persons who get free food coupons from
Govt. are
buying lobsters which cost more than 12 dollars a pound,
where as the
tax payers, whose money is being used to pay for the food
coupons cannot
afford lobsters. A similar situation will come or is
already there, the
money being spent for the BPL people on food subsidy,
is being spent
at the beverage corporation outlets These subsidies
will make the
Indians a lazy lot, depending on freebies coming from
Government.

T. Mathew

To:
From: pnair1966@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:10:38 -0700

Subject: [www.keralites.net] Food
Security Bill - Boon or Bane?

Food Security Bill -
Boon or Bane?

·
The Food Security Bill
has been tabled and passed by the Lok Sabha or the lower
house of the
Parliament of India. From here the bill will move to the
Rajya Sabha or the
upper house and then go to the President for the final
signature. Once the
signature is secured then this becomes the law of the land.
There has been
quite a furor in the media about this bill, is it good, or
is it bad? Let's see
what this means for us:

·
What
is the bill all about anyway?

·
The Food Security Bill
has been tabled with the noble intention of providing food
grains to the poor
of India at very subsidized rates, so that even someone who
is below the
International poverty line (earning less than $1.25 a day
–according to the
World Bank, 2008)

·
The bill aims to provide
subsidized food grain to around 67 percent of India's
1.2 billion people*. As
per the provisions of the bill, beneficiaries would get rice
at Rs 3/kg, wheat
at Rs 2/kg, and coarse grains at Rs 1/kg. These rates would
be valid for three
years. Every pregnant woman and lactating mother would get
free meal during
pregnancy till six months after child birth. They will also
get a maternity
benefit of Rs 6,000 in installments. Children up to 14 years
would get free
meals. In case of non-supply of food grains, states will
have to pay food
security allowance to beneficiaries.*

·
The
Good

·
Is,of course, the
intention. India is home to approximately one-third of the
world's poor with
approximately 70% of the population living at less than $2 a
day*. Given the
exchange rate and the beating that the rupee has taken to
the dollar, this
number would have swelled. The plunging value of the Rupee
is another evil
plaguing the system which we will not discuss now. Coming
back to the topic,
with such a large percentage of the population living in
such conditions it
would only be humane to provide food grains to them at
subsidized rates, given
the fact that food grain production is at a high and most of
it is going waste
due to poor infrastructure. The wastage of precious food
grain and the plight
of the farmer is another evil plaguing the system which we
will not discuss
now. It is definitely a better idea to distribute this to
the poor than to let
it rot and spoil.

·
The idea also is that if
the poor are well fed then schemes like the NREGA (National
Rural Employment
Guarantee Act) will benefit, a fit worker will work more and
harder leading to
an overall rise in rural productivity. Sound
logic.

·
The
Bad

·
Is, of course, the
intention. If the intention was to feed the poor then why
wasn't this bill
passed a year or two ago. Why pass it on the cusp of the
elections to the Lok
Sabha? A vote gathering tactic? Or genuine concern, the
interpretation is
yours, dear reader.

·
There can be another
argument that giving away free food is fine but what does
one do when people
realize that they don't need to work hard for food and the
government is
providing them with what they need. They may stop being
productive and become
lazy. And will they stop at food? They may demand free
clothing and free places
to stay. What prevents the Government, four years hence, to
come up with a clothing
security bill? Or a "Right to own a Television" bill?
Where do we draw the
line? Food for thought, isn't it (please pardon the pun,
dear reader!).

·
Then there is the
question of the track record of this Government, which has
been absolutely
wonderful given the spotless record of its members and the
wonderful ability to
execute all plans to perfection, the future seems bright!
Please pardon the
sarcasm, dear reader, with scams abound can we genuinely
believe that the right
amount of grain will reach the right people? Again something
which we will not
discuss now.

·
Do we have the
infrastructure to ensure that the food grain is properly
distributed? What will
we use? Trucks, Trains? With burgeoning diesel prices and
poor power
infrastructure, can we assure all those poor people that the
food grain will
reach them? Can the Government bear subsidies on food and
diesel? Unanswered
questions these.

·
And
The Ugly, oops meaning the Numbers

·
Coming to the crux of
this issue. With no balance in the balance of payments, will
adding this huge
cost help the Government in any way? A closer look at the
numbers below:

·
Number of people living
below the poverty line in India - 68.7% of the population of
1.2 billion
(according to Wikipedia). That works out to 824 million
people who, according
to the bill will get 5 kg of rice, wheat and coarse cereals
per month per
individual at a fixed price of Rs 3, 2, 1, respectively. To
put things in
perspective the population of the US stands at 300 million,
Brazil at 193
million and Indonesia at 237 million (these are the
world's most populous
countries after China and India).

·
Source:
Wikipedia

·
The government estimates
suggest that food security will cost Rs 1,24,723 crore per
year. But that is
just one estimate. The Commission for Agricultural Costs and
Prices (CACP) of
the Ministry of Agriculture in a research paper titled
National Food Security
Bill – Challenges and Options puts the cost of the food
security scheme over a
three year period at Rs 6,82,163 crore. During the first
year the cost to the
government has been estimated at Rs. 2,41,263 crore. Another
economist writing
for The Indian Express put the cost of the bill at Rs
3,14,000 crore or around
3% of the gross domestic product (GDP)#.

·
In order to properly
understand the situation we need to express the cost of food
security as a
percentage of the total receipts (less borrowings) of the
government.

·
The receipts of the
government for the year 2013-2014 are projected at Rs
11,22,799 crore. Food
security will also mean a higher expenditure for the
government in the days to
come. The government's estimated cost of food security
comes at 11.10% (Rs
1,24,723 expressed as a % of Rs 11,22,799 crore) of the
total receipts. The
CACP's estimated cost of food security comes at 21.5% (Rs
2,41,623 crore
expressed as a % of Rs 11,22,799 crore) of the total
receipts. According to the
Indian Express on July 6th, 2013, the cost of
food security comes at
around 28% of the total receipts (Rs 3,14,000 crore
expressed as a % of Rs
11,22,799 crore)#.

·
Once we express the cost
of food security as a percentage of the total estimated
receipts of the
government, during the current financial year, we see how
huge the cost of food
security really is. This is something that doesn't come
out when the cost of
food security is expressed as a percentage of GDP. In this
case the estimated
cost is in the range of 1-3% of GDP. But the government does
not have the
entire GDP to spend. It can only spend what it
earns.

·
Conclusion

·
While the intentions
behind the Food Security Bill are good, it has clearly not
been thought through
by the people pushing the bill and will become another major
drain on the
exchequer of the nation. Instead of dolling out freebies to
the people, the
Government should come up with long term measures that will
genuinely bring
people out of poverty and make them more prosperous, rather
than engaging in
measures that are costly, short-term and can have a backlash
which we cannot
even envisage. Source QMF

·
*-
Source - Wikipedia

#- Source – Firstpost.

www.keralites.net

Your company email website at
your own domain @ Rs.
67/month. Know
More