Bharat Rakshak

somnath

Its been a long time. The IB report is seriously hilarious for multiple points. 1. IB concludes that NGO-giri has reduced GDP growth rate by 2-3%. However, there is no evidence to back that up, no analytics, no empirical study to back a random hypothesis. Why 2%? From which sectors, what downstream ...

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BTW I note Somnath and you to lesser extent have lost the moral compass on national security . I would like to ask both of you to reconsider your membership in this forum. The reason is your posts of your thoughts is leading to outrage and unnecessary agitation of other members including admins. So...

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A truly innocent WKK wll say: I didn't know Fai was ISI backed and am sorry to have associated with him. In future will make sure who is who before associating with them. Galleon investors are money related. Fai caper is national security realted. A world of difference. Please keep perspective and ...

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The downhill skiing opportunities with googling is enormous.. What started off as purported "central cadre" of IAS/IPS turned into "central pool" and now into "central services"... IAS/IPS/IFoS - "central services"?! Obviously the difference between All India ...

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"Central cadre" now changes to "central pool" - the latter must have shown up on google! The meaning of which I am sure will need to be the subject of another google search....Beware of such "accidents" as appointments in the superior judiciary in India, which Google di...

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Hmmm, as usual uber nationalist fulmination comes to the fore..Based on, as usual, random googled knowledge... So IAS/IPS/IForestS are "central cadre" now?! Obviously the nuances of "All India Services" and their "cadres" are not well-known - I guess google isnt much he...

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When did Malaysia become neutral territory? Malaysia is not only anti-India and pro-Chinese, it is anti-Hindu as well. Just because they like to cock a snook at the US/west does not make them neutral towards India by any margin. It is a pro-pak territory through and through. Chetak can answer, but ...

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Track II is something GoI supports and I would suspect funds as well. Whatever Fai was doing was being funded by ISI. And so unless you're trying to say that was the Pak version of Track II, I don't see the connection. That's precisely what I am saying...Track II stuff is sponsored by all govts - I...

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^^ Somnath-ji, Were you one of the invitees by chance? Why the rush to defend characters like Harinder Baweja ( who has mentioned on live TV that if she was a muslim in India, she would have taken up arms long ago), Gautam Navlakha, Syed Geelani, Rajinder Sachar etc? I am not "defending" ...

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The benefit is that the Fai case will put a damper on WKK sponsorships Indeed, without holding any brief for any of those who might have attended conferences sponsored by Fai, simply that (ie, attendance) does not mean that all of them were/are willingly part of an ISI-sponsored psy-operation...Tra...

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Did any one hear PEP? Poltically Exposed Persons? Under Basel Act, most European Union and US banks are supposed to check the customers for PEP list and disclose to the Govt . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically_exposed_person I want to find if we can set up a group which can work with people ...

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Nice one on the impending credit policy by (who else!) Surjit Bhalla... http://www.indianexpress.com/news/they-also-serve-who-only-stand-and-wait/820148/0 The RBI might also want to pause and look at what it has done to date. It has relentlessly raised interest rates in the blind belief that it is t...

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Amit, Good post.A couple of observations though.. GST was never meant to be direct engine to push the up GDP growth . It is meant to ease or reduce the cost of doing business and this would then effect an improvement in GDP growth In fact it is...GST is akin to incorporating an FTA "within Indi...

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Ignorant I may be, but somehow I never managed to display quite the degree of mental deficiency required to get into a truly Elite Iskool Agree, shows clearly.. as laid out in the All India Services Act 1951 Says nothing to the contrary of what has been asserted, but then, what to expect of someone...

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confused the UCIL (Uranium Corporation of India Ltd) to be Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL). Eureka moment! :D Nice catch.. What is the status of any research into pebble bed reactors ( HTGR or other VHTR) in India? None at all, AFAIK...The Chinese seem to be the only guys working on the design..They...

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^^^ I am still waiting for any evidence of the fact that foreign investment is allowed in uranium mining...I would also wait for any references to how a state govt can "give away" oil/gas properties to anyone, or indeed uranium... Errr... have you heard of the Krishna Godaveri Basin scam ...

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had also mentioned how Dow has a partnership to extract this Uranium (yes, same Union Carbide Dow) I am still waiting for any evidence of the fact that foreign investment is allowed in uranium mining...I would also wait for any references to how a state govt can "give away" oil/gas proper...

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Hmm, the level of arrogance based on about zero familiarity with the Indian administrative apparatus is amazing... They may be appointed to state cadres or to Central govt. deputation, at the Central Government's discretion . Rules governing their recruitment and conditions of service are made by th...

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You can perhaps give me a link to the study. I can have a look at it. I had referenced it in the first post on the issue.. I will only reference the most authoritative study on the issue - the ICRIER analysis, commissioned by GOI to study exactly this.. http://siadipp.nic.in/policy/icrier_report_27...

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^^^Hmmm, traversed quite a convoluted route - from saying tax reform is "only redistributive" (and "never" growth-inducing) to claiming bizarre conclusions from the report! :) BTW, I have heard no one ever argue that plugging rent seeking is only a redistribution of C and I - Eco...

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^^^I think this is a problem.. Earlier on July 9, Kageri issued a circular proposing that Bhagavad Gita should be taught to schoolchildren at least for an hour on a daily basis If this was done by a private school run by RSS, no one should have a problem..In fact I know for a fact that schools run b...

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Probably because India is still so much in the beginning of its retail evolution, that India does not realize the downsides of a fully-developed organized retail market. It is unprecedented joblessness And this definitive conclusion is based on? Why dont you go through that ICRIER study - it has th...

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the reduction in prices due to GST as explained by Kelkar is largely for items consumed by the poor, the middle-class might see a rise in prices. And where exactly did Kelkar make this claim? One of the beneficiaries of the GST will be auto consumers - are automobiles for the "poor"? Are ...

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There are repeated allusions to non-amendment of NPT...Was that ever a goal? Do people even know what NPT is about? Signing up to NPT, even as a nuclear weapons power, would mean giving up the right to test for ever! It would obvioulsy be a waste of time to ask for any evidence that anyone promised ...

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Amitji, I was disputing Somnath's earlier simplistic explanation offered for the extra-growth (for example he talks of Consumption being boosted due to lower retail prices, Kelkar's explanation makes no mention of this )... I am surprised you managed to go through a 170 page report that you have ne...

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Somnath, very few people have the time or energy to go through a 250 page report I know, which is why I referred to page 7 - the Main findings! :) Has all the key findings... The point is the simplistic explanation in your earlier post, for the reported gain in growth (which is what I responded to)...

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If indirect tax collection is increasing in GST, it has been taken out of total consumption (C). So there is no lower-retail effect that you talk about - since the tax coverage is also increasing at the same time, that means the cost to the consumer will go up. Secondly taxes collected by the gover...

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China is giving BD lots of arms and India should find ways and means of assisting the BD forces militarily as well as providing them with some iconic projects,the best being a fine arts centre for Bengali culture that will also cement ties between the people of WB and BD Its a good point...CRM in a...

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GST by itself will not promote growth unless there is more money in the middle class hands . However, the government is in no mood to oblige. And given that the fiscal deficit will grow even more as the NREGA wages increase, and food security bill comes online, the middle class will be forced to pa...

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^^^A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is about trade , not investment flows...Investment flows are sometimes covered under CECA-type arrangements, but "preferential investment access" is a rare commodity, and hardly ever entered into...If India allows FDI into multi-brand retail, it will not be ...

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The two biggest liberalizers in Indian history - PVNR and NDA governments, paid for their idealism at the hustings. It was not "reforms", but other issues, primarily a failure to preserve social peace (and also massive corruption in PVNR's case) that trumped reforms...It can be argued tha...

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the congress needs to give up its BJP-phobia and work with it to get things done. It can't say that the BJP will have to support everything and they will offer nothing, as it will ruin their pro-minority image. PVNR wasn't afraid of dealing with BJP. However, Sonia-MMS have a strong aversion to BJP...

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there is no mass constituency in India that would vote on the basis of presence / absence of economic reform Thats not quite right IMO - there is a large constituency for "reforms" in the country, even if the constituency does not articulate its views in the syntax of pink papers...the pr...

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What was the previous avatar of IAP?? The planning commission was opposed to it as devaluation of panchayati raj system but Chidu, the EVM winner rode over their objections. IAP was an idea back in august last year, first funding came about in jan this year. There are/were many avatars, numerous sc...

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1. You are comparing the TOTAL outlay includes development etc, etc.... 2. You have accused the CG of being uncaring about development in "red corridor" by using a completely false accusation of using only 50% under a specific program (IAP) and so CG is not serious. 3. Read what I have wr...

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since you stated it explicitly as a fact, where's the factual relationship with 2004 ? If you want to throw about words like 'fact' here, you shouldn't be asking others for anything more 'factual' than very strenuously asserted personal opinion, as in this case I am quite ok for that to be defined ...

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Are you unaware of the multiple smoke and mirrors statements about how the 'rigid budget law is affecting social program spending' statements from PC and the povertywallahs ? Here's a few articles from those days, either the press shaping opinion, or direct quotes: link, link, link. Quote So a coup...

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Indira G to be given highest state honour of BD..
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bdesh ... i/819579/0

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This is a strawmen. Nobody except you have talked of "underfunding" CG govt compared to other normal govts of similar size.. I have talked of centre not being serious and congress being unwilling to kill off reds. Go through the posts - the uber nationalist position is based on how evil C...

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@ Somnath My compliments to your B-school . One must hand it to you. Con-grass is lucky to have an ardent supporter like you All schools I went to have much better specimens of "success" than I would probably ever be :wink: I have no emptahy sympathy for INC, just that I dont find their t...

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