Saturday, August 7, 2010
Deal with excess man power & incremental cotribution system refrom
Labour authorities wherein on an average 8 to 10 days each employee from at least each zone & from legal department total 8 to 10 Head clerk level or equivalent cadre employees are remaining present before competent authorities. I f calculated average salary of each around ` 1000/ for a month it may come out 80 thousand to a lakh just to remain present before authorities. Apart from that advocate engaged in each case to represent the case fee extra. If looked many of the cases pertains to reinstatement by daily wagers & some of them are even not sustainable at first instance Which can be dealt in by Asst. Labour Officer or Law officer without assistance of Advocate saving fees of advocate too.
Earlier it was decided to represent all the cases by Asst. labour officer in conciliation matters collectively while in the court matter that may be by Law officer/ municipal pleader or advocate if engaged.
Unfortunately it is not scrupulously followed. Resultantly rather than only Asst Labour officer & one of the Asst. Almost dozen employee remain out of office at the cost of regular work.
In the era of inflationary trend & increasing non plan public expenditure this certainly needs to be address to handle in more economical way.
Issue equally important pertains to taking incremental deposite in case of schemes not finalized.
Presently when asked for to deposit the amount which may be 25 to 30 thousand on an average, rather than paying the amount by individual property holder who have already availed either BUC or basic amenities like drainage, water etc abstain from paying deposit & either constructing without permission, or expanding existing structure. In the city like ours it is quite difficult to trace it out daily. Many a times this is might be happening
Under the knowledge of concerned staff or with their nexus.
As per the observation it is noticed that some times either our staff or architect are advising to put up a plan & construct the structure or extension without obtaining permission (Raja Chhithi)
Thus when ever asked for one can pay the penalty & regularize at the later stage.
If thought rationally when scheme is not finalized if one is paying this as deposit & on finalization one has to pay time gap may be 5 to 10 years. Calculative mind person will prefer to pay the penalty & regularize on finalization. This system needs to be reconsider. If in the cases where in basic amenities are there & the case of extension or within same society new structure is there deposit may be allowed to pay in installments of 10% every year or until the scheme is finalized & one is supposed to pay which ever occurs earlier.
While in the case of absolute new structure entirely where one has to obtain basic facilities permission fresh one may be asked to pay full amount in case of entire society / apartment , or mass units. While in case of individual property installment may be considered.
If adopted this may be more plausible, convenient & easy to both.
This certainly reduce the tendency of constructing without permission. Even illegal water & drainage connections may also be reduce. Gradually mind set of people can be changed to shift to legal way reducing corruption too.
My last issue is we had started intranet mail system but since long It is out of operation. This is good system of communication to even upper management innovative ideas
& suggestion s to reform. In past couple of months I had sent such including increment & fixatuion problems but that does not seemed to reach to U due to system failure.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
city surve entry departmental system require reforms
Electoral rolls updation system need to improve with commitment
Not only that on visiting declared booth school tendency of the present staff was to come when any re4sponible is present on Dt. 17th july10.
Neither the staff present was willing to issue receipt of form received..
Even past experience says of number of persons that though they had given photo with id proof their name was not enrolled or photo was missing. When we are spending millions of Rs. For this kind of program if staff deputed or staff who recei9ve documents or applications are not committed or serious regarding their duties it is wastage of fund.
Previously also I had submitted such form for omitting the names of my parents but neither receipt was given nor effect is given.
Thus you are kindly requested to instruct the staff concerned to tremain present for given period at given centre with complete detais. Also whatever they have collected while remitting to the electoral officer receipt of the same should also be issued to them as well as to the applicant so that if any body on omitting the name from existing constituency wants to enroll at another without much hassle applicant can succeed.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Direct Tax code Some required rationale reforms
A/ Under the I.T Act No benefit is granted in case of coaching fee paid for the personal coaching. As it is not considered education fee levied by institution.
It is well accepted belief now a days that right from K.G to Gate, GMAT competitive exam or for Net OR CIVIL services EXAM TOO. CANDIDATES./ Students are attending coaching classes with huge fee.
If the same is granted for eligible deduction than obviously unaccounted money of thousands of coaching classes will be taxable too in the form of service as well as income tax. This issue needs to be addressed ./
B/ Other issue is Salaried class was given standard deduction previously, But now that has been scrapped. After all to the salary class also they have to spend money for communication. Perquisite given & exempted in this regard may not be sufficient , They have to spend more. Their counterpart taxpayer professional persons are getting exemption as expenditure incurred for profession, or business man in the name of business income expenditure like Office car maintenance, repairing, depreciation to furniture or purchase of furniture & fixture for profession or business, electricity & telephone or mobile bill payment etc. While salary class eventhogh using their personal computer, laptop or phones, many a times using own electricity for office work by officers etc are not considered for any kind of deduction This kind of discrimination should be resolved
Even if thought in broad sense if some of the expenditure narrated above salary class should also be benefited.
c/ Another issue is Government has never thought of bringing more & more earning person under tax net rather than increasing tax slab.
To cover more & more earners under the tax net Government may declare a scheme that whoever produces maximum bank transaction purchase along with Pan Number of seller or dealer should be rewarded some % of tax likely to be covered from such purchase from pan card holder subject to purchaser's total net tax liability.
Under the scheme many objectives may be fulfilled.
1/ Maximum transactions in white money can be encouraged.
2/ Menace of black money can be curbed substantially.
3/Purchaser's purchasing capacity can be assessed on the basis of his declared known source of income.
4/ Unorganized sector remaining out of tax net can be covered.
5/ More & more people will have tendency to avail the scheme thus it may result in good incentive toward increasing direct as well as indirect tax net in the long run.
d/ Under existing I.T provisions there is no provision in the case if any body doing security transaction him self / herself without taking assistance or services of broker. To allow deduction for the internet expenditure, computer or lap top, & other in fractures. While broker is getting all this as deduction as business income But if any salaried person or other than broker any businessman is doing security trading from own computer net work with internet facility he should also be allowed all these deduction before deducting short term Or long term capital gain Else tendency to tax evasion may be develop among them . After all they have to incur expenditure in that regard than only they can earn some thing . If it is not allowed it will not be rationale policy.
This is the era of E. Governance More & more people in the time to come may be prompted towards this If rational policy will be there they may declare on their own Other wise only I.T. department or government machinery is not sufficient alone to trace it out or investigate & book them .Even there the chances of corruption can not be rule out. So More citizen friendly & citizen participative measures should be adopted.
Hirnesh Bhavsar
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Role of Buauerocrate in good governance
Role of bureaucrats is crucial in good governance but the manner in which we are witnessing the instances of actions of today's officials like Madhuri Gupta, of espionage in Pakistan, or officials played in union carbide to allow prime culprit warren Anderson to flee country rather than booking, or latest one the add published by Gujarat govt. showing C.M Narenra Modi as crusader of minority community to transform his image of frenzy, or communalist if pierced the episodes it is clear cases of violation of code of conduct too apart from dereliction of duty & being disloyal to the country. These officials them selves are treacherous, they should be booked for waging war against India. In case of Madhuri it is surprising that movement of such officials remained unnoticed from beginning. In case of union carbide it is equally stunning that if it was political nexus though under
office procedure it is incumbent on the part of officer to get the order in writing. which in the case under controversy has happened or not? is a big question. apart fro m that when officers are being appointed they are taking oath to be loyal to Constitution of India & country as a whole.When constitution is supreme obviously any order issued by political master against spirit & provisions of the constitution or against the law of the land no any officer should implement such order. Rather in defying such order one is doing best service to the nation honouring the constitution. In case of media add now the buck is passed on agency. In any govt add before releasing to the media for publication n it is pre required& mandatory on the part of officials two verify & whenever necessary to obtain approval of political master. naturally same thing might have happened in this case also but now when caught sleeping resorted to escapism finding some body to make scape goat.
Unless & until these kind of tendencies are prevailing how one can accept good governance.
Officer should dare to such ultra vi res order & have courage to disobey such illegal orders even at the cost of position , posting or chair.
Strong will power accompanied with personal ethics, morale, & values can only do this. The need of the time is to develop such in every individuals & recruit only such officers in public service.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
overoll surveyrather than scatterd to have accurate & true picture of country's social economical status thus to save survey cosyt too
i am surprised looking in to both form.
When we are periodicaly doing one or other kind of survey by various departments
Why following can also be snnchrosied with census & NPR
1/ Income detail
2/ Employment or professional/ self employment detail
3/ Study or school drop out
If all column can be included we can have simyultaneous details on Bellow poverity line, school drop out & unemployment datas too.
also all these datas ncan certainly be more reliable than scatterd survey.
Thus significant amounbt can be saved from public exchequer too.
capricious, arbitrary, ilegal unjustunfair selection on public post by nepotisam, favouritism resulting in wrong person on right job a blow on public
Indeed it is shocking rather stunning that without any outstanding performance one bureaucrat is persistently trying to impose wrong, unqualified person on 4 million population in the urban administration of surat.
There is saying that king can do no wrong but in today’s era king are always doing wrong & go unscathed because they are having powers along with coterie to prove the wrong actions as right by swathing cotton on the eyes of people.
one of bureaucrat in surat is trying to install one of existing assistant commissioner as Deputy commissioner, not keeping stone unturned to make efforts succeed even making state government an instrument. This is the same asst. commissioner who him self is tainted up to the extent of more than 3 million scam of urban community development. Being the defense advocate when I realized that the person at the helm of department was literally frequently making water at the time of inquiry at the time of cross examination. Thanks to your corporation’s prosecutors who assisted him in answering & saved him.
civil servant is trying to be DALA TARWADI to take coup-le of brinjal from the other’s farm i.e. at the cost of public exchequer one foolish is being installed by back door entry.
This is officer who is not self well aware that under the BPMC act before moving any such proposal to the government approval from general board should be there. Without which it is ultra virus on her part, Even she has not bothered to put the resolution of state before Board which if any member of the board may motion of privilege breach of apex body of the corporation under section 454 & 457 of the Bpmc act.
Indeed it is surprising that in surat municipal corporation it self if you call the records there are highly qualified as well as upright, honest & persons with high esteem, self dignity already serving in the corporation. Who are side lined as they are not submissive & sycophants. Though why commissioner is insisting particular person behind curtain? Flouting all norms of open recruitment, transparency & accountability?
If referred recently sent proposal to project that fellow is to up grade the post without any justification if by this way if unmeritorious wrong persons are imposed in public administration god will not be able to save Gujarat. If you claim your self true well wisher & solder of the Gujarat Please prevent this kind of Machiavellian practices, malpractices & fraud with the people.
