Indian Economy and Governance



Every countries driving policy is always based on its economy but unfortunately the policies of our present government look absolutely unclear. It appears like they are basing their decisions haphazardly and everything seems to be in utter chaos. 

Heads of Governance don’t come forward to interact with the countrymen to explain the vision of the government. This is in fact their duty and their responsibility to provide understanding regarding policies related to Inflation, Unemployment, Law and Order, Farmer's agitation, Unemployment ,Effect of Covid 19, etc. Our PM came only in front of the country when he had to announce his disastrous decision regarding Demonetization, GST and to hold unlimited election rallies! 

I understand every government in their tenure use Central agencies but what the country is witnessing now is a matter of concern. Few days back ,ED raided a powerful Sena MLA because the defeat of Maharastra is hurting the present filling party of Central.

Three days back Central Bank has amended and recommended a policy to the Government to allow the Corporates to open and run Banks. This policy is being widely criticized but it appears like they will move ahead as the government looks like they are under pressure from their favorite Corporate Houses. Something to note is that that approx. 4500 small and big corporate houses heads have defaulted and run away from the country after taking loans from Bank and become NPA. After our Independence, between 1947 to 1956 approx. 525 banks become insolvent (during that time Banking was under Private regime and most of them were owned by Corporates) and Taxpayers lost their money due to which Late PM Smt. Indira Gandhi decided to move ahead with the nationalization of Banks to give assurance to the Nation about the safety of their money. The way LVB was recently handed over to DBS Singapore,  it's an example of present governance rigidness. LVB was running most of their branches on its owned property. Again DBS got LVB under the pressure of present governance favourite corporate houses who do lot of International investment and businesses through DBS.

Jaihind

Manoj Joshi

Addition of Rafale and our Governance

It’s indeed a great move to add Rafale in Indian Airforce. No doubt this will be a big morale boost for Indian Army. Especially under the current circumstances when our country is going through rocky relationships with our neighboring countries.

It’s important to note that about a decade or less, India was not facing any challenges from our neighbours except Pakistan. But in the last 6 years, our relationship with all our neighbors has severely declined. Countries like Nepal, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Mynamar and even Bhutan have started dictating terms and raising unwanted issues.

No doubt after becoming Prime Minister, Mr. Modi toured almost the entire world and more than once visited our neighboring countries. However, we all remain in dark about the purpose of these world tours except perhaps brand building? Any yield of his visits would have definitely helped the country but what we are witnessing is the exact opposite. This is the direct result of the present governance poor handling of External Affair Ministry added by non focussed Defense, Finance, Health and Internal Security ministries.

Unfortunately,  on India-Maynamar border, Assam Rifles soldiers were attacked. Just few days ago Indian soldiers were attacked by Nepal police at the Border. This is in conjunction to the ongoing China issues we are facing and our permanent tussle with Pakistan.

I believe our country can take advantage and make a strong move with the addition of Rafale. However, this is only possible with a strong and focussed governance otherwise our country will continuously suffer and even Rafale can't do anything.

Wakeup India Wakeup 

Jaihind 

Manoj joshi

Rapdily Growing Corona Effect in Uttar Pradesh and Governance

Unfortunately the numbers of Covid infected patients are increasing exponentially in Lucknow. As per the latest news, it appears that the OPDs of most of the big hospitals like KGMU,Lucknow  are overflowing with patients and now this has created a sense of panic among the doctors and medical staff who are finding it very difficult to handle the situation.

 

I wonder if this is the situation in the capital (Lucknow), then what must be happening in satellite towns/ villages of Uttar Pradesh. It is very disturbing to see how things are continuously worsening in this state, and it appears that this is largely because of the non-focussed and callous attitude of the state government here.

 

In the last 4 month, the Uttar Pradesh state government has not only been unsuccessful in taking adequate measure and precautions to curb the spread of Covid but has only been spending majority of its time and energy in areas that are not the need of the hour like gearing up for laying of Ram Mandir foundation stone on 5^th August and getting ready for 2022 State Assembly Election. 

 

The governance of the state of Uttar Pradesh is totally paralysed in all the fronts - healthcare, law & order, security, employment rate/ opportunity. It appears that every other news that we hear about murders, kidnappings, theft, (fake)encounters, etc is from UP. Sadly two days back four senior police officials from Kanpur got suspended due to their  involvement in a case of murder and extortion.

 

Due to the above circumstances in UP, the responsibility of the central government is also under question (specially the Home and Health Ministry). It is very unfortunate to see how the central government is turning a blind eye to the situation in UP which needs Presidential rule immediately rather than  the BJP government is more interested and involved in destabilizing the elected government of  Rajasthan since past 10 days with the help of ED, IT agencies . 

 

It would be much better and appreciated if under this difficult time, the central government would focus its emergency to curb the spread of virus and guide the UP government to do so rather than getting involved in nonissues. Let´s hope for Wisdom.

 

Jai hind 

Manoj joshi

Poor and Non Focussed Governance resulting in Increasing the Numbers of Corona Patients

Let me start by congratulating the Delhi Government – efforts of the Delhi govt (with the assistance of the Federal govt) have finally paid off, thereby decreasing the growth rate of Covid infection in the capital (from almost 4k per day to 1500 per day).

 

On the other hand, in some other states of our country like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Telangana etc, the Covid growth rate curve is becoming steeper with every passing day. I believe that this is largely because of the non-focussed and callous attitude of the state governments here. These local governments are more focussed on religious and political issues rather than looking at the big picture and taking measures to curb the spread of infection and putting in all their energy in improving the health service structure for safeguarding the citizens.

 

Unfortunately, the infection numbers are rapidly increasing in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Though the Bihar govt has imposed a 10-day lockdown finishing in a day or two to control the situation, the Uttar Pradesh govt has come up with only a complete weekend and certain districts limited police stations  lockdown policy and that in my opinion is not going to serve the purpose. What is more disturbing is that instead of devoting time and coming up with better policies to safeguard the citizens of Uttar Pradesh, the govt here is gearing itself for the construction of Ram Mandir from  5^th  August 2020 depending on the availability of our Prime minister for  laying the foundation by Silver stone, which itself an expensive affair under the present economic stress.

 

We have been continuously getting reports from different sources that the situation will worsen in the coming days and that the infection numbers will be majorly from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Despite all these alarms, the testing capacity in these states is very low and due to poor governance, non-aligned priorities and unorganized structure, nothing is being done to improve the situation.

 Jai hind

Manoj joshi 

All this makes me wonder that rather than interfering and wasting time in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh political matters and upcoming West Bengal , Bihar and Madhya Pradesh elections, why the federal government is not monitoring/interfering and guiding these state governments to control the situation. Is politics really more important than the lives and safety of millions of people?

Raising of unwanted/irrelevant issues to counter and divert the core issues like China, Corona and everyday price increase of Petroleum products

 

Since the last two days, we are witnessing our government raise unwanted and irrelevant issues just to divert public attention away from core economic issues. 

The opposition parties, specially Congress is continuously pressurizing the government on the ongoing China debacle by issuing statements and releasing satellite images.The premise behind this is to counter our PM and his government who has absolved China of all responsiblity in order to safeguard his government. Various individuals and organizations have come forth to counter the PM, with opposition party Congress leading the charge.

In a well-oiled functioning democracy, this is indeed the correct way to raise your voice against the government if there is any doubt regarding the safety of the public. In the last 6 years we have unfortunately moved away from a Democracy to a Monarchy. The country is  "forced" to accept whatever the ruling party conveys. This is not a right direction towards the progress of any country.

The rulling party recently countered the allegation of Congress on China by tweeting/presenting a document wherein in 2013 a particular trust, belonging to Congress accepted a donation of Rs 90 lacs from a Chinese group. I agree, this is in fact a great disclosure but it demands a question why the goverment was silent for 6 years and did not initiate a CBI or ED enquiry? Additionally, this document does not absolve our ruling party of their resposibility on their lack of action on LAC. 

In last 6 years, multiple times we have witnessed these actions, propaganda tools and divisive politice.This style of politics is in fact not new and and has been around since the last 100 years. After World War 1, the overall economic condition of Europe was not good. People were struggling, much like today. Countries were fighting among themselves and goverment adopted a strategy to establish themselves as "true nationalist" again to divert the attention of people from core issues. In 1920, The National Socialist German Workers party was formed. It was later commonly referred to as the "German Party." Initially their membership was only 60, with a vote bank of ~ 2%. However, after the great depression of 1929 there was change in tide. They raised issues of true nationalism, appealed for boycotting goods from countries etc. In 1933, the party's vote bank rose closing to 40% and party's nominee became Chancellor of Germany. The party membership was 8.5 million in 1945 when party was dissolved. History has all the records about this party, its ideology and governance.

I believe gradually now our country has started understanding these types of gimmicks of our government diverting core issues like COVID19, Inflation, Economic Recession, Hike in Petroleum Prices etc. I am hopefule that type of divisive politics will not last long.

Jai hind.

Manoj joshi

Chinese Invasion In Ladakh

It's very unfortunate that yesterday we lost 22 of our brave Army personnel’s, including 1 CO level officer by Chinese army in Ladakh area as per Army bulletin although unconfirmed news says in totality 43 Army Personnel.Let's pray for the departed souls.

The recent brewing tension with China on the LOC in the Laddakh area has been in the news for almost one month. Rumors / information about Chinese Army invading almost 35 kms inside our territory had been circulating for a while but unfortunately our government did not take this matter seriously. Each day we witnessed a lukewarm statement from our Defense Minister, that "Dialogues are on and China is pushing back“ but the lack of action resulted in huge casualties. It's really shameful.

Each passing day our relationship with our neighboring countries is deteriorating. And under the current failing economic situation along with Health crisis due to Covid 19 that our country is facing, this sudden worsening relationship with our neighboring countries is very alarming.

Many Analysts and Economists say that this situation has mainly occurred due to our weak foreign policy, shrewd diplomacy, arrogance and and divisive politics. We should also question the role of our media and their coverage. News of "Sabarmati front Swing” was given prime time coverage but they fail to bring core issues in front of the whole country. What is happening today is an accumulation of last 6 years of poor and weak governance.

Nationalism is required to save the country from this tough time. Hence, true Nationalists and Intellectuals should come forward and raise their voice. They should contribute in building India again. 

Jai hind.

Manoj joshi

Draft regarding change in Electricity Act 2020

Our Union Government is ready with a draft to change the existing Electricity Act. This new draft will essentially scrap any direct subsidiary and subsequently transfer the same to consumer accounts. Additionally, it proposes fixing of tarrif by a special created authority.

We are all aware that in most places distribution of electricity lies in the hands of big corporations - primarily giants like Ambani and Adani groups. We are getting more reports and evidence each passing day about corruption in different government direct transfer schemes whether it's a Gas, Manrega, Kisan Nidhi, etc. And this might be a continuation of our Government’s corruption laden unfortunate rule. 

Under the severe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, where there is a lack of disposable income in the economy for a majority of the citizens and the performance of the Central Government in installing confidence has been almost deplorable, an increase in the Electricity bill for the common man will seriously be an additional burden.

Farmers who are not even getting a good MSP and are in fact struggling to survive, the additional cost of input will seriously harm them. Recently Government of India has increased the MSP but has not considered the price of increasing inputs, hence the effect is either zero or in fact negligible.

Since Electricity is on the concurrent list so this move is in fact a violation of the spirit of Cooperative Federalism. Hence, Public, other parties and the judiciary should come forward and stop the Central Government from implementing this Act which is not in the favor of the country and enhances corruption.

Jai Hind

Manoj joshi