When a neighbor is not neighborly

We went to Pakistan with the view of improving friendly ties. But we got in return an attack of our airbase at Pathankot. We cannot let terrorists ruin our relations. There are many terrorists groups in Pakistan and they have a policy of sabotaging ties with India. So we cannot make public the fact we have friendly relations. Because these terrorist do not like it. We have lost seven men, so far. We have to become more vigilant. And we must keep international relations a secret. Otherwise, we cannot proceed. It looks like we are having war.How to take their action peacefully. We cannot. It is hurtful to see our people die. But we cannot let hatred ruin our relations. Oh these barbaric terrorists 

Juvenile age is redefined

The Rajya Sabha (upper of house of the Parliament) passed a bill which will be prosecute those who are above 16 years old for heinous crimes(previously the age limit was 18years). This change came as the juvenile(nearly 18yrs old) was not brought to court and tried. But he was the prime accused of the heinous crime(rape and murder) As a matter of fact he is going to be released from the rehabilitation center after given skills and a proper shop to start business. This can even promote juveniles from committing heinous crimes. This had sparked debates in the Rajya Sabha where the bill for reduction of age for juveniles was pending.After analyzing crime and juveniles, this bill was passed. This is an important bill and will go a long way in checking the crime rates
The larger picture is that we have serious problems of high crime rates among the youth. With vast differences in incomes with large unemployment rates, crime does increase. That is why we have to modernize fast and stop crimes from happening. The problems are all inter-related.  

Floods in Chennai

It is sad the people of Chennai have to endure tough times like now. Generally they suffer because of lack of water. But now the reverse is true. They are suffering because of water,excess of it. The Chief Minister is trying her level best to rescue the people. But what about the damage done? No insurance for the people. How will the people come out their sufferings. This is what is wrong with India...insecurity in all spheres .

Terror strikes Paris..bad news

Terrorism has spoiled life of humans everywhere. India has suffered enough. We do not want anymore of fear of terror. We have several problems already and we cannot spend on protecting ourselves from terror, all the time. How to protect from an unseen enemy. How to to stay away from world politics. We will be able to survive when we find answers to that.

Coalition government won in Bihar elections

People have voiced their opinion wisely, refused to be divided on religion. It a real victory of the well-informed people, For the fifth time Nitish Kumar has won in Bihar elections. People have given their verdict, he is bringing Bihar forward in all fields: in development,in agriculture, in industry, in education,in building infrastructure and so on so forth.It is a big blow to the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and Congress Party. Bihar has shown the way--how to avert the bullies by coalition. In ten years, BJP has not fared so poorly as now.
The following is an article from newspaper
The Times of India
Title : ONE-WAYWIN - Nitish Gets Bihar, Modi A Message Article Date : 11/09/2015 Victors took early lead in multi-phase poll As is to be expected in an election in which one side won well over two thirds of the seats, the winning side's dominance was more or less across the state. In each of the five phases of the month-long election, the Mahagathbandhan picked up more seats and votes than the BJP-led alliance. However, this is not to say that the extent of the dominance was uniform across the state. The closest the NDA came to challenging the grand alliance was in the fourth phase of the elections, held in the north-western part of the state. Here, the NDA's seat tally was 21 against the grand alliance's 30 seats. What's more the gap in the vote shares of the two major alliances was barely 1.9%, the Mahagathbandhan garnering 38.5% to the NDA's 36.6%. While that looks good in the context of what happened in the rest of the state, it is a far cry from the 53 out of 55 seats that the NDA had led in during the Lok Sabha elections. At the other end of the spectrum in terms of the gap between the two fronts was the fifth phase held in the northeastern parts of the state. Here, the Mahagathbandhan won 45 seats against the NDA's 11. Even more impressive is the gap in vote shares -43% against 31.9%. Impressive as this lead of over ten percentage points is, it was actually a significant narrowing from what prevailed in 2014. In the Lok Sabha elections, the combined tally ofJD(U), RJD and Congress in these 57 seats was nearly 20 percentage points higher than the NDA's tally .That gap has now been roughly halved. What is interesting also is that in each phase, despite the contest being seen as largely bipolar and an intensely fought one at that, smaller parties and independents notched up about a fifth to a quarter of the total votes polled. For BJP, a fact it can draw solace from is that it nearly remained the largest party in terms of vote share in each of the five phases. In the fourth phase, the strongest for the party and its alliance, its vote share of 30.2% was more than 10 percentage points higher than the next party's, which was RJD at 19.4%
Photo above is that of Zafar Mahal, New Delhi. The last Moghul king's Summer Palace,now in ruins

How land is acquired

Land is acquired from tribes and used by developers for industries. And government is "for" this, that means against the welfare of the tribal people. But people have become more aware. Read this article by pasting this in your url.


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Bio-metric data----"to be" or "not to be"

"Aadhar" refers to collection of bio-metric data (photo of iris, and fingerprints) of individual citizens, to identify them with a unique number given in their identification cards. When Aadhar was first started by the UPA-II regime(previous government), it was not accepted by all. What are the uses of this number, it enabled citizens to get subsidized LPG, enabled unemployment benefits, it enabled food subsidies and funds for student loans etc.While the poor got subsidies, the middle class and the upper classes did not like it as it revealed too much of their personal data. Thus, many did not like it at all. Their objection was that the Aadhar scheme could  give the common law abiding citizen to major danger – primarily because, to get the Aadhar card, one must first disclose his all personal details to the government which then holds on to it forever. Any acquisition of property or wealth would bring him under direct radar of the government.

This means that by using Aadhar number, the central government was in a position to hold virtually anybody in ransom if and when it had to. Add to that the threats emanating from the bad elements in the society including the mafia could always lay their hands on the income tax returns of individuals.Data security is not there at all. A private company makes the data and there are no laws which prevents it from sharing it. The private company could always say, "we did not know about data leakage" All personal details of the individuals applying for Aadhar card are all available to private companies involved in the UID scheme, include some foreign companies. Sometimes foreign government can acquire it too.

Keeping in view of all the looming threats, a petition was filed in the Supreme court  against the government move to make Aadhar a mandatory choice to take advantage of various government schemes and subsidies. It was argued that Aadhar, in essence, was a violation of the fundamental rights of the citizens in addition to being a threat to sovereignty of the nation. The petition was admitted by the apex court and the matter, as of now, is subjudice. It is still under consideration, but bio-metric data is being collected, before  having authorization to collect it. The law says that only fingerprints of criminals could be collected, ordinary citizens' finger prints cannot be collected.

The apex court also made it clear in an interim order that it was not mandatory to be in possession of the Aadhar card to avail government subsidies. Despite that, commoners are still being asked to furnish their Aadhar details in order to get subsidies on LPG cylinder, bank accounts etc. Despite its validity being a subjudice matter, the government has already spent INR 8000 crore for pushing the Aadhar card to the masses – that too without the sanction of the Parliament. Before lawfully collecting data, it is collected.Is this not un-lawful?It is perplexing to know that government is "for" collection of bio-metric data from Indian population or "not for" collection of such data. Supreme Court has ruled that giving bio-metric data by individuals is not mandatory. But if one wants  to get ones pension and state benefits, one needs to give Aadhar number. As per Supreme Court, to get LPG subsidies, Aadhar is not compulsory. This is  so contradictory.The Supreme Court is most hopeful to go for an early hearing of the application filed by the centre seeking directions to use Aadhar card as the means to identify target people for different social welfare schemes.

Earlier the 3-judge bench declined to elucidate its August 11 order limiting Aadhar card usage to avail ration and LPG subsidy from PDS shops stating it would be heard by a constitution bench. Reacting to the bench’s observation, attorney general Mukul Rohatgi including important organisations of the states pleaded for an urgent hearing before a bench headed by CJI, H L Dattu.

The CJI said he would soon take a decision about constituting the 5-judge constitution bench. However, he made it clear that he was not in favor of setting a nine-judge constitution bench as pleaded by some parties involved in the case. The constitution of nine judges for Aadhaar would seriously affect the proceedings of other cases scheduled in the Apex Court.

The central governmant has made a representation before the Apex court that more than 90 crore people in India hold Aadhar card, and it would be easier to follow a one window identification mechanism to ensure the benefits of social welfare schemes reaching the target population.

 The Madhya Pradesh state government got orders from central government to make Aadhar number mandatory for people who want to take their provident fund and pension. The decision was made mandatory in three districts from January 1 which were Harda, Khandwa and Hoshangabad. The government is soon going to implement the scheme in all over the state. EPFO has already notified the people who come under these three districts that Aadhaar is mandatory if they wanted to get their pension and provident fund. Central government gave orders to the state government to collect the information of all the EPFO members and the pensioners and to link the bank accounts of the beneficiaries by December 31. The central government has asked the officials to setup new camps for collecting all this information.

Unique Identification Authority of India has decided to setup permanent Aadhaar enrollment centers in the state of Andhra Pradesh within a month. As per the reports it is estimated that near about 1400 camps will be set up in the entire state. The control of these centers is given to the IT department of Andhra Pradesh and the central common service will also support in smooth running of these enrollment centers. With the setting up of these enrollment centers people will be able to facilitate all the aadhaar card based services easily without any problem.

Recently a report was published which told that the details of the individuals which are collected through the enrollment process of Aadhaar are leaked to various third party companies without prior knowledge to the enrolled persons. Individual's data can be miss used. 
The photo above is not related to the topic. It is picture of a "step well" in the historic Red Fort in New Delhi