We might have to live with it. Time may come when even the waiter in a restaurant would ask us for HIN i.e. Hotel Identification Number. Let's hope the vada pav guys do not ask for any identification!!
I never understand what is the stance of these government departments. If these "NUMBER"s are being introduced as identification for a particular purpose, why do any individual need more than one identification number ? Politicians introduce these multiple numbers so that scams can be done easily as these numbers are highly confusion-raising. why cannot we have one simple and unique identification number for every person in the country? I agree that its a humongous task ... but better late than never. This number must have all the financial, educational, criminal, property, legal records linked to the indivdual. IMPLEMENT THIS CORRECTLY, AND LETS SEE HOW THE COUNTRY WILL NOT FLOURISH!!!
It is quite annoying, having to procure so many different cards and numbers from so many different agencies. In this age of Microchip based cards, it will be more logical to do away with all these ancillary cards and issue a single microchip embedded card.It will contain all details of the individual,viz:Passport number, credit card number, PPF account, banking details, taxation and investment details etc. I think the average individual will be happily willing to pay the cost for getting this card, if it saves him time and efforts. Infact, the Voter's ID card was a very good step in collecting database from average citizens across rural and urban India. It is a pity that it was not implimented properly.
In most countries, there is only one number alloted to citizen from the birth and he is not subjected to Indian Bureaucratic idyosyncracies. In India every agency (SEBI, AMFI and so on ) is an Empire in itself and they can play mischief on what they survey. And Ministry of finance allows them to do what they like. The co-ordinator of sensible governance is -like in most government function - missing. Noone in ministry has time or inclination to understand the pains of citizen.Even the institutions which need not be bureaucratic love to create a lot of nonsense by sheer force of habit deep rooted in bureaucratic culture pervasive in India.And appointing the bureaucrats to Regulatory bodies ensures that the mindset continues.
SEBI first made everybody run for UPIN/MAPIN and then in their lately acquired wisdom said that now that PAN database is available , there is no need to go for MAPIN. What a joke on people who rushed in sincerity to equip themselves with MAPIN. And it was reported that SEBI is thinking once more about MAPIN. Even Tughlaq made mistake once but our governing agencies have no such conscience nor accountability. After this theatre of avsurd played out for a while, there was a report that ministry has asked all these agencies to look into possibility of using PAN as single database. Too little , too late. Our rulers are pitifully removed from Aam AAdmi in whose name politicians are dying to do good . Unless PM Singh takes matters into his hand to liberate ordinary citizens from creative genius of our governing bodies and holds them accountable, there is no hope for escape from stupidities of rulers who would keep on burdening ordinary citizens in the name of tackling money laundering etc. Not that Rulers dont know where the black money is lying(most probably in their backyard ?) but harass the common man but dont have courage to touch powerful ones sitting on the coloured notes. Parliamentary commitee on Saral form has criticized the ministry of finance for making form unsaral and presenting as new saral. While revenue secretary tried to justify the form angrily what was surprising was surprising was that the finance minister who is famous for having his feet on ground was supporting the unsupportable ! When such decent people can be managed by bureaucracy, is there any hope of an ordinary citizen escaping the burdensome innovations of world famous Indian Bureaucracy ? Have no doubt that anything will be done because every other minister including PM talksw about streamlining but ordinary citizen knows that these are empty words because either they have no brains or courage or ability to question the harebrained ideas of bureaucracy including in the regulator mentality.And they hope that they will be superpower one day with this mindset ! Incredible India !
Our government is facinated with all the paper work. More and more paper work can generate more employment opportunity and this is how our govt. can create it. But it is a horondous task for the users to fill up all these forms with the same information again and again to invest their own money.
RE:More and Mor Paper Work
by raj sharma on Feb 07, 2007 11:54 PM Permalink
government increases paper work then goes for protection of trees which are raw material for making papaer. Then prepares papers to file papers and leaks papers . All the tamamsha is about paper and pepper
Well.. we can but all you might get is another "Number" to remember as your complaint id. Companies have a set of regulations and process documents for them to follow, but not a government - Govt has a whole gamut of such documents, one often conflicting the other. In such a scenario, if only India were to be a big Organisation, run by a CEO, then every citizen will have just a single number.
There should be one thing only - CIN (consumer ID number). it should have the persons photo, PAN, PASSPORT NO,VOTER ID NO, ONE PERMANENT BANK A/C NO, sign of the consumer and finally his left thumb impression. THE mother of all mins and maxs
RE:min or max
by Raja on Feb 09, 2007 02:04 PM Permalink
If this is also kept final then no worries.. so this will be the Identifier to show that you are Indian? That means once this gets approved then all the hurdles will be eliminated.
Now that the govt. identifies us by numbers I guess the next thing to do will be put them on a piece of metal and wear them around our necks like our pets!!
PAN, MIN, UIN, MAPIN,....... How can you forget DIN?? It's ridiculous to have so many numbers! How a person can memorise & use such numbers whenever he needs?? One Identification Number shall serve all the purposes.
RE:There shall be only one Identification Number !
by Sukhwinder on Feb 07, 2007 09:56 PM Permalink
Relax Mayuresh ..... it's not an exam! You are not going to Fail if you forget!!!
