Union Railway Budget 2011-12 - Highlights

Railway minister mamta Banerjee presented union Railway budget for 2011-12 today in parliament, There is no increase in passenger fare this year too and the minister announced 56 new trains.

Following are highlights of the Railway budget 2011-12:

* No increase in fares.

* Earnings for 2010-11 set to exceed Rs.1 lakh crore.

* Working expenditure during 2011-12 estimated at Rs.87,000 crore.

* Outlay of Rs.57,630 crore for 2011-12, the highest investment in one year.

* Rs.10,000 crore to be raised through railway bonds.

* Budget combines strong economic focus with inclusion.

* Will develop business-oriented policies to aid industry.

* Happy to announce 85 PPP proposals received; set up single-window system to take these forward.

* Decided to set-up rail-based industries.

* Passing through a difficult phase; 97 percent increase in expenditure in 2010-11 due to implementation of Sixth Pay Commission report.

* Loss of Rs.3,500 crore in 2010-11.

* Ten-year backlog of 1.75 lakh jobs being addressed; 16,000 ex-servicemen to be given jobs in railways.

* Safety first priority; accident rate has come down.

* Anti-collision device, successful in North West Frontier Railway, to be extended to three more zonal railways.

* Railways always been a soft target but law and order a state subject. If railways are blocked in one region, this has a snowballing effect in other parts of the country.

* Will add 180 km of rail lines in 2011-12.

* All-India security helpline set up.

* New Durantos to be run on Allahabad-Mumbai, Pune-Ahmedabad, Sealdah-Puri, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, Madurai-Chennai routes, among others.

* Rail linkage to Gujarat from Delhi-Mumbai freight corridor.

* Integrated suburban network to be set up in Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad and other cities; suburban system of Hyderabad to be strengthened.

* Mumbai suburban system's EMU coaches to be increased from nine to 12.

* Pradhan Mantri Rail Vikas Yojna to be launched.

* Industrial park to be set up in Nandigram, West Bengal.

* Railways to set up factory in Jammu and Kashmir.

* To set up Metro coach factory at Singur, West Bengal.

* First coach from Rae Bareli factory to roll out in next three months.

* Work on wagon factory in Orissa to begin after land is acquired.

* Manipur capital Imphal to be soon connected to railway network.

* Centre for excellence in software to be set up at Darjeeling.

* Fund to be created for socially desirable projects.

* Central Organistaion for Project Implemtaiton created; will create accountability for non-performance.

* Work started on two dedicated freight corridors.

* Work on upgrading 442 stations to be completed by March 31.

* Decision to start pilot projects to give shelter to homeless people living along the tracks in Mumbai.

* Multi-purpose smart card to be introduced for all-India travel.

* Airport-like trolleys to be provided at more stations.

* Railways to set up a sports cadre.

* Upgraded class of air conditioned travel to be introduced shortly.

* To adopt modern technology through centres of academic excellence.

* Train to run to Bangladesh to showcase Indian culture.

* Age for senior citizen's concession reduced to 58 from 60.

* Concession for physically handicapped and gallantry award winners for travel in Rajdhani and Shatabdi expresses.

* 50 percent concession for mediapersons with families to be increased from once to twice a year.

Indian Politics need Egypt's people methodology for uprooting corrupt

This post is inspired or fueled by two incidents, First is the developments in Egypt against their president Mubarak, and second is based on a recently came bollywood movie titled "No body killed Jessica" which is based on real story of murder of a barmaid Jessica lall by then son of Haryana Congress head Manu Sharma. The film basically shows the power of common people when they come together just and tells that even the strongest politicians are just Shi* in front of citizens when they are together.

Both the incidents are perfect in present day scenario, Egypt's developments also show that the power of common people would help in eradicating the corruption too.

In my previous posts visitors have left comment that we know the problem but where is the solution of the problem, The problem I am talking about is corruption and Corrupt politicians. So through this post I'll talk about solution for solving this biggest problem which is hindering India's development and damaging the image of India as a country infront of the world.

The solution for eradicating corrupt politicians, babus, Police from india is in hands of common person, no-no not in hand of single person but when all the citizens come together and the implementation of this solution should start from the lowest level first as it would be more effective at lower level of bureaucracy. The foremost requirement for such activity is there should be unity in all citizens who are affected by that politician, babu, officer and believe me unity of people will never go waste, History of Indai is evident that their is no power greater then power of people and this power has to unite together to notify our corrupt politicians that they are not above law,(same case as of Jessica Lall).

The other advantage is by following this methodology politicians would fear before doing any such anti-social activity(which they often do now). They will become more citizen inclined. I'll give one another example, If your area desperately needs one school so that children can become social and the politician or education minister is not caring about it(because of the fear that if people become literate then they will not give vote to him, as he/she has done nothing), Just remember Indian Politicians hate growing literacy rate of India because they come to power by votes of illiterate. People of that area should directly go to the office of the minister and tell him to provide funds for school therwise his power would be in trouble, I am sure he will definitely take concrete steps immediately for opening the school.

There can be other numerous examples too but I'll close this post here and hope that the solution I have just provided helps in bringing the change in country, Change by uprooting the corrupt from the system, bringing literacy, development etc.

Do remember The ultimate power in democracy is in hands of common people when came together. Keep on leaving your valuable comments and the discussion should reach broder audience. JAI HIND!!

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Indians with Black Money accounts

Names of people with Black money accounts revealed

Following are names of indians who have stacked their money in bank accounts abroad for tax saving. The total amount is 52 crores according to report.

The list that Germany shared with India had 12 trusts out of which four belong to Indians. The beneficiaries are

1. Manoj Dhupelia
2. Rupal Dhupelia
3. Mohan Dhupelia
4. Hasmukh Gandhi
5. Chintan Gandhi
6. Dilip Mehta
7. Arun Mehta
8. Arun Kochar
9. Gunwanti Mehta
10. Rajnikant Mehta
11. Prabodh Mehta
12. Ashok Jaipuria
13. Raj Foundation
14. Urvashi Foundation
15. Ambrunova Trust

The land of negativity - India (Time for Change)

This thread might look very negative(from the heading) but the main motive while typing is to change the way a normal Indian citizen thinks. According to me the definition of a normal Indian citizen(Aam aadmi) is a person who uses very little of his own brain. for example a person who purchases same 2 wheeler as purchased by his neighbor, who is n rat race imitating others, Whose perception towards a product is made by the article(paid review) which is printed by top indian newspaper like TOI, HT or whatsoever. A person who thinks that a film done by Akshay Kumar, SRK, Sallu will always be Hit material.

People who have become negative thinkers after reading and watching all the negative news which keep on airing 24 hours a day, When I personally see a news channel the first impression is that there is nothing positive happening in India. Watching these news 24 hours a day affects the brain of already dumb people who donot have brains of their own for application.

Ok now I come directly to the culprit number 1 in promoting negativity in thinking of a Normal Indian person, INDIAN MEDIA HOUSES(which includes all the major English Daily, their TV news channels etc etc), The similarity between each and every news channel is that they always show dirty and Cheap news (which projects India as a hell for living to other countries), Topping the list of worst reporting is the English daily which sells the most copies, I can't write the name but by now all of the readers surely know which English Daily I am reffering to.

News like scam, rape, corruption against the politician who might have rejected some proposal of a media house and when settlement between media house and politician is done the news go offAir and motive of media houses is complete, India as a country is hated most by Media Houses.

Paid articles just for publicity of a crap product and misguiding the stupid Indian common Indian citizen. Shoddy Journalism like the one shown by another news channel during 26/11 Mumbai Attacks and then sending notice to the blogger who raised voice against it for deleting the post. And normal person who has know brain of himself just considers "whatsoever is printed is correct" is fooled.

The main point which I want to display here is that - Indians who are rising and Increasing the GDP numbers just DONOT GIVE A DAMM TO THESE PRINT MEDIA HOUSES, and those who follow them are stupid indian common man.

I have never read a news like "Education minister opens 10 new schools" on the front page of any news paper or TV news channel, because this media has already washed the thinking ability of stupid common man, which has become like a moron and is living a life which is governed by someone else, and the rat race which is prevelant through out India.

At last I want to conclude that people who are rising donot listen to any such stupid news channel or Print media, and one who are addicted to Indian Media and make their decisions after reading some stupid reviews are the one with negativity.

Do add your comments about how you feel about the same andw can start the discussion in comments.

Lady kills MLA - Good Revolt against rising politicians is onthe cards - freedom

As I read a top newspaper online came across the news of murder of a BJP MLA of Bihar by a women who claims was raped repeatedly by MLA using his political influence whatsoever.

I liked the news very much as now MLA are not even safe while along the people they know or along the people who are afraid of them due to their political stature. I can smell the anger in the minds of common man against politicians coming out through this very incidence and it might become a national phenomenon for getting freedom from corrupt politicians of India, which have crossed all the boundaries of decency and have certainly moved out of common's man silence zone.

All the other BJP MLA's of Bihar would be very frightened as they might also meet same dog's end if carrying out same practices in Bihar atleast. The time looks perfect for people's revolt against the corrupt politicians and finally finish such politicians as law will not able to do anything substantial to save the country from such maneater politicians. Who doesn't feel ashamed while seeing their bloody face in mirror every morning.

I recall the incident shown in movie Rang de Basanti where a corrupt minister got what he deserved at end, I mean death by mob. I think if 2-3 such incidences happen with corrupt politicians then the others would definitly become more human in governing the country and working for people upliftment.

Te worst thing about Indian corrupt politicians is that they dont want people of india to get literate as they feel frightened thinking that if people will able to decide good or bad for themselves then under no circumstance they can be elected, These Bas****s politicians of india should get the same type of death, so that other's which are corrupt or use their powers for Sexual abuse, murders etc would become godfearing and now I think the time is not far when we would be reading such news more often.

Indians are rising and understanding need of the hour for sure...kudos to the lady who has ignited the spark for ending corrupt politicians.

There is no political power stronger then MOB...Long live India

India - The land of Scams

It's bit late to post on this topic, and the new crown which India has got 'The land of Scams' but still this title looks pretty new and fresh as we see daily some or other news channel flashing updates of scams in India, If we check history than I think now the era has changed and more scams are directly printed or telecasted.

According to me these scams were common before economic liberalisation of India, Only difference was at that time we had only Government owned and controlled DD national, but now we have lots of private channels which are free to show any scam.

So in case of scams the difference of economic liberalisation or media liberalization is that people are able to know what are corrupt politicians are doing and have been doing since 1947.

One thing is for sure that Indian Politicians are the worst kinda breed of humans ever evolved, I wanted to write dogs instead of humans before but later thought that dogs are faithfule to the one who gives it food so found it unsuitable title.

The Raja's of Tamil Nadu, Badal's of Punjab, Yedu of karnataka tops the list of the worstness in descending order of corruption. Keeping judiciary and CBI in it's pocket and resignation as a weapon to make some other stupid loyal person face for people and carry on bribery, corrupt practices as it is.

With Central Government sleeping and boasting of just GDP number's and nothing else, what a pity for India, PM makes no statements whatsoever except one like 'Madam se pooch kar bataunga', Politics has reached lowest level, but the good news is that media makes people aware of what is happening in politics and people might consider these scams for the next elections and would not vote for the tainted person.

People have lost their faith in electoral system and donot casts vote because there is no politician with clear history, Voting process has meagre 50 percent turnovers and out of fifty percent turnover the candidate who wins 26 percent is elected to Parliament, This scenario haunts me a lot as clearly the person getting 26 percent means 74 percent people donot consider him eligible person to win, I think in voting too their should be consideration of this point and should go for revoking after cancelling candidature of the earlier candidates as ineligible.

Recently I was reading some english daily and came across figure like Britishers looted some 20k crores from India in 150 years and till now Indian Politicians have looted some 70000 crores, without any development activities, The point to remember is that Indian Economy has grown due to business tycoons and not by any government activities except the liberalisation policy, which has helped our PM in getting residence at 7 Race course road.

At last I want to conclude that if same things keep on hapenning without ant concrete action happening to the culprits then some Bhagat Singh kind of person(s) would surely surface to kill these bastards and return some decency to Indian Politics.

Long live India!!

Ayodhya Verdict is out - Core Dome area is Ramjanambhoomi

The operational Judgement is that the place would be called Ramjanambhoomi as it is hence the most important judgement of decade is out. The core 1/3 area(Dome Area) is Ramjanambhoomi, The 1/3 area constituting Ram Chabutra and Sita Rasoi is given to Nirmohi Akhara, Sunni Wakf board gets the other third part.

Jus. Sibghat Ullah Khan's Judgement - Original
Jus. Sudhir Agrawal Judgement - Original

Top 50 online website brands in India

I was just surfing on net and came across this list of 50 most valued websites in India, thought it would also interest my blog readers as is the latest list:

Rank	Website Name
1	google.co.in(google search)
2	Yahoo mail
3	Gmail
4	Yahoo.com
5	Yahoo search
6	Orkut(is on decline though)
7	Rediffmail
8	Rediff
9	Yahoo movies
10	Naukri.com
11	Hotmail.com
12	facebook(would probably in top 5 now)
13	Yahoo cricket
14	Yatra.com
15	Rediff sports
16	timesjobs.com
17	indiatimes.com
18	twitter.com
19	youtube.com
20	shaadi.com
21	rediff shopping
22	jeevansaathi.om
23	monster india
24	justdial.com
25	wikipedia
26	bharatmatrimony.com
27	msn
28	bollywoodsargam.com
29	iplt20
30	blogspot.com
31	santabanta.com
32	indianedu
33	picasa
34	bharatstudent.com
35	shine.com
36	makemytrip.com
37	indiastudychannel
38	raaga.com
39	ask.com
40	bing.com
41	ibibo.com
42	freshersworld.com
43	quikr
44	ebay.in
45	clickindia
46	metacafe
47	indiastudycenter.com
48	linkedin.in
49	cricinfo.com
50	Amazon.com

RTI act - will it work in land of Goons?

RTI act or Right to Information act for every public undertaking was passed by Congress government to bring transparency in government works which would mean less corruption and the guilty would be given some sort of punishment at a faster pace(not because the legal system would act fast but because the concerned person's corruption act is known early...) however in the time span when this law was passed and today, It has only led to deaths of the RTI activists only, I know that corruption is in blood of every Indian(only the intensity differs). but killing RTI activist just to save image is inhuman, My post on how corruption is in blood of politician can be read by clicking here.

Every day there is some news about killing of RTI activist especially in states where there is more, probably it can only work in bollywood movies like 'well done Abba' where the RTI act was used to bring corruption in public. Now according to me the thing is as soon as an activist come out with a shocking act of corruption through RTI, One copy should be printed in next day's every daily newspaper so that if the Goons(concerned politician) is able to kill that activist the case would become even stronger because media is the one thing which Government takes a bit serious than even the RTI act.

The law for protection about whistleblowers is looking very inaffective still as this is a thing which is against the politicians.

But looking at scenario and Manmohan Singh's, Rahul Gandhi's initiative i feel so that corruption would definitely lesson in coming years but then I feel that if another news about killing of RTI activist comes will surely kick my feeling away.

Time for consolidation of indian IT Companies has arrived

Indian IT industry has withstood the 2008 recession well, All thanks to the cash pile and the margins and the meager pay salaries over the last two years, The reason for coming out even strongly is the cost cutting measures ranging from sending fewer people on-site, some price negotiations, giving no salary hike for two consuctive years to employees(on name of recession), firing people secretly(so that stock does not plummets) etc, etc, this list goes on.

Putting together these all measures have been very good for the biggies in Indian IT industry like - TCS, Infosys, Wipro etc. These companies have lots of people on their bench hence lowering the bid price in recession time helped in increasing the percentage of billed employees.

This above scenario has not been possible for mid tier IT vendors like, Patni, Tech Mahindra, Mastek all of them still showing decrease in profits YoY, The reason is simple The biggies of Indian IT are eating their food by bidding at the same price of these mid tier companies, thus taking even smaller projects on which the mid tier IT Companies depends. Since the potential client is now well aware of these biggies they prefer to give new projects to these rather then mid tier companies which is the biggest area of concern for these smaller companies.

They can't compete with these biggies thanks to the bench strength and the cash pile of these bigger companies, Now in such a scenario where there looks no hope for smaller and mid tier IT Companies, the best method for coping is to be acquired by the biggies or bid to these biggies at even lesser rate for further outsourcing(looks rare possibility as margins are already wafer thin), adding further to IT companies owes is the increase in Visa fees by US Government.
Thus after Indian IT comes out of the recession completely we can possibly see consolidation in Indian IT space. This would definitely help in making global companies which can compete with likes of Accenture, IBM much more efficiently and effectively. Hence it would not be surprise if news about one of the biggies acquire a mid tier or smaller IT companies which would definitly help in the niche domains where the smaller IT companies work.

Hence I can conclude that time has finally arrived when we can see consolidation in indian IT industry which would definitely make Indian IT companies competency even bigger and more powerful. thus offering some serious competition to US biggies like Accenture and IBM.

India's 5 million aid to Pakistan - analysis

It might look very stupid thing being done by Indian government by giving $ 5 million aid to flood hit Pakistan. to me personally it looks a very optimistic move and the aid amount will surely have backing of every political party(I'll tell reason in this post).

In my thinking advisors to PMO and other central ministers have played a very nice move in the ongoing game of chess with Pakistan. This would help in mounting global pressure on Pakistan later in supressing terrorism globally, I have not heard about any big terrorist activity in pass year and half, which is only due to fact that global pressure is mounting day by day on Pakistan.

USA also put pressure on Pakistan in accepting India's aid. Now the question is how this would help Indian Government in it's actual motive behind the move. After giving aid one thing is sure that in the eyes of Pakistan(particularly it's people after reading this news about aid in newspapers) the image of India as country must have changed(though it might be a very meagre initially). Also this move will be very helpful in long term as surely Pakistan would play a softhand in future against India(from terrorist activities perspective) which would mean that government would save even more than 5 million dollars which it currently spends on army budget. I know my post looks too optimistic but this is what I feel the reason why Indian Government has done it.

The basics of Indian Politics - how corruption starts from base

I was thinking from long time to post this but was not getting time for the same, finally I managed to spare some time to tell about the basic functionality model of Indian politics and why it is often referred as politics led by goons. I request to please post your views about the same in the comment section.

It is true that most of the Indian politician are goons who win election by distributing money among the poor people, and the politicians are most after the poor people who can be purchased by distributing a couple of whiskey bottles or by few thousand rupees, which comes down to few hundred rupees in case of Bihar.

I was wondering how can so much dirt get into system that too at every level. well I got answer in few days and here is what I concluded.

Most of the poor people or low income group people(bus drivers, Auto drivers, sweepers ) to list a few are the ones who are very fond of politics not because they like it but to earn money, A person who has no work, no job to earn money is type of hired by the local politician at not much wages but given a commitment that if he/she wins in smallest level election then there would be lots of money around and the person (having no money presently) says a yes and becomes a chela of that to be politician. Now the task is how to earn votes in coming general body election or any other election, Since they have not done anything good for the people but still want to win, they start corrupt practices like giving warnings to people to cast them or face the music(taking advantage of weak police system), In India Police can be termed as goons hired by politicians legally to take money from the literate(well settled individuals). but in case of poor people they dont give such warnings(because they will get nothing in case they even kill the person for not casting the vote to them) So they purchase their votes by paying a meagre amount while also maintaining some sort of ledger of the money spent on whole election campaign. Since they start from smaller area hence people to purchase is very less hence the budget is fixed too. Once they win the election by giving money, bribing police, they feel very happy and first take out the money out from government funds(which is indirectly the taxes collected from the well settled people).

They charge compound interest for their money and fill their stomachs and houses as this stolen money would now become input for purchasing votes for the next level of elections(which covers larger geographical area), The person who helped initially now becomes a legal goon which is used for killing a competitor and the police is used by same politician to show it as either a suicide or road accident(I have not heard of any third type of killing strategy used by the politicians in India for killing of their competitors).

Now when he follows the same strategy and wins the elections again then he becomes the god of the area, which gives him power to do all the illegal activities, drugs, call girls mafias, murders, licenses to builders etc. From all these activities the percentage of now minister's share reaches at end of the day or weekly or monthly(depends on how the politician wants that money) and this is all hard cash. Local police helps in watching that all the illegal activities are going on nicely and they are getting their share at time.

The things shown in movie Rajneeti are very true(however it depicted only the killing of competitors part, I discussed earlier). Now since the whole nexus created by the politician of that area is functioning smoothly he makes a lot of money.

The tragedy here for medium income group or middle class people is that their vote has no effect as the number of poor people surpasses them and would always be the same in future too. but the money which goes into politicians pocket is the one from their taxes :(

Hence no politician ever talks about providing jobs to the people as in that case their own job would end because they know the truth about their doings and no person would ever want that his/her source of income should stop.

So this was my try to depict the working of indian pilitics and indian politicians(in which the middle income group has no effect)

PLEASE GIVE YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT TO FEEL ABOUT THIS

Core investment norms released by RBI

Reserve Bank of India on Friday said core investment companies with assets over Rs 1 billion will be required to obtain certificate of registration from it while the ones below Rs 1 billion need not.

A core investment company means a non-banking finance company which holds not less than 90 per cent of its total assets in the form of investment in equity shares, preference shares, debt or loans in group companies, the bank said.

Indian Forex reserves at $ 287 billion

India's foreign exchange reserves rose to $287.356 billion as on August 6, from $284.183 billion in the previous week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Foreign exchange reserves include India's Reserve Tranche position in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the RBI said.

14000 crores as subsidy to Oil Cos

The government will give Rs 14,000 crore in cash to Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum to make up for the losses incurred on selling fuel below cost in the first quarter of 2010-11 fiscal.

The Finance Ministry today sought parliamentary approval for additional spending of Rs 68,294.30 crore that included Rs 14,000 crore "for providing compensation to oil marketing companies towards estimated under-recoveries on account of sale of petroleum products."

Retailers IOC, BPCL and HPCL lost about Rs 20,275 crore on selling petrol, diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene below cost in the first quarter of this fiscal. Of these, losses of upstream firms like Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), made up for one-third or Rs 6,690.68 crore.