The oxygen debate in a situation of no air to breath
Political debates on the matter of discriminating the States based on BJP or non-BJP category has been a common affair now.
Udayan Hazarika
(The writer can be reached at udayanhazarika@hotmail.com)
Political debates on the matter of discriminating the States based on BJP or non-BJP category has been a common affair now. Today even it has been a common scene where political personalities sitting at the helm of affairs induce themselves to political debates on the issue concerning life-saving medical oxygen or liquid oxygen, and that too concerning COVID-19 patients that have become a threat to life. Unfortunately, this is what had happened recently when PM Modi simply ignored the call of the Delhi CM to intervene in the matter of transportation of oxygen to Delhi from nearby States. There are only a few states from where oxygen is supplied to Delhi and where most problems are being noted. I request that if you call the Chi
VACCINATING INDIA
(The writer can be reached at udayanhazarika@hotmail.com)
The country had started its Covid-19 vaccination programme Phase-I on 16th January 2021 for its healthcare workers and frontline staff and thereafter for the aged ones in the month of March last as usual with much publicity and campaign. The Prime Minister was put at the centre of the programme in which his role confined not only in the opening of the programme but also extended by pausing for a photograph to be put in the middle of the vaccination certificate issued to the person vaccinated which was only to be removed later by an order of the CEC of India. This indeed is a disgraceful act and the PMO must take the responsibility for this act of negligence. One major objection raised from various circles concerned is that although there is a Vaccination Policy for India yet before resorting to Covid-19 vaccination, the Government should have laid down a specific Covid-19 Vaccination Policy or a
The misconceived trends
Government of India while preparing the budget 2020-21 (FY-21), expected that the gross tax revenue (GTR) will grow by 12 per cent while the direct tax was estimated to grow by 12.7 per cent and the indirect tax as a whole was expected to grow by 11.1 per cent.
INDIA S REVENUE RECEIPT (FY-21)
Udayan Hazarika
(The writer can be reached at udayanhazarika@hotmail.com)
Government of India while preparing the budget 2020-21 (FY-21), expected that the gross tax revenue (GTR) will grow by 12 per cent while the direct tax was estimated to grow by 12.7 per cent and the indirect tax as a whole was expected to grow by 11.1 per cent. But later the estimates were revised downward (with growth of only 5.46 per cent in case of GTR over the previous year) due to the prevailing pandemic conditions. Now the Government have come up with some preliminary revenue collection statistics highlighting their exceptional performances in connection with the collection of revenues
Udayan Hazarika
(The writer can be reached at udayanhazarika@hotmail.com)
Now that the election time is almost over, the parties are busy taking stock of their deeds and misdeeds during the whole process of the elections. For most of the political parties, the election manifesto was not a well thought-out plan. It was drafted hurriedly without looking into the ground realities. This happens in case of the ruling party also. They have not conveyed the voters a full-fledged conventional manifesto. What they presented is a list of ten statements which are pledged by the party and they called it Sankalpa Patra. A pledge is equivalent to a promise – and hence these are the promises that the party has made before the voters. Of the ten pledges three are crucial in nature which we will take up in the succeeding paragraphs one by one. But before that we may also look into what we may call a prologue to the promises which are pronounced in the form of commitment of the party. The par
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