Unless each one of starts keeping aside 1 month salary for charity (sponsor education , repair toilets in girls school , help widows and orphans) we can not reduce poverty. While giving chairty we need to ensure that we are not adding to the list of beggers. Please take it seriously and do our bit in our close circles like relatives , poor maids , poor neighbours etc. Unless and until we do it regularly and consistently there won't be significant change. Children dying of starvation? When did we really experienced hunger in our life ? Forget about dying because of hunger? isn't it a grave concern? No point in blaming government for everything.In bombay sanitation is a grave concern and after every rich suburb there is a slum where people don't have enuf to eat and anyplace to go for toilets. It costs only 10-15k INR to build 1 single decent toilet. Please think about it,
RE:Chairty is the key
by MMK Rao on Aug 15, 2008 10:52 PM Permalink
One month's salary for charity means 8-1/2 p.c. of pay in a year. This applies, of course, to salaried people. Roughly speaking, a salaried person earning Rs.3 lakh per year pays about Rs.75,000 as income tax, which is the equivalent to 3 months' pay. In these days of high cost of living, a husband and wife (assumed not working, or contributing anything more than Rs.8000 per month or so) can hardly make both ends meet if they want to live in tolerable living conditions in a not over congested locality. Hence only those earning higher incomes and certainly that very large section of small businesses who evade taxes of all kinds and the huge esection of agriculturists who pay hardly any tax due to incomes from land and properties virtually going unassessed must be taxed. Our IT and other tax organizations are both corrupt and inept, while our general policy towards them is overly lenient, for netting all the dues for the exchequer. If this failure is made up for [but how? !], charity is going to be a very grudging affair for the rest of the population. Indeed if this failure is overcome, the govt. will only need to spend the money wisely for povery alleviation. Right now official machinery for povery alleviation is ridden with inefficiency, political favoritism, and corruption due to fake documentation. Computerized statewide and nationwide documentation and data systems must be installed, but only after due arrangements to produce enough trained manpower to operate and mai
RE:Chairty is the key
by Hamzah on Aug 15, 2008 11:22 PM Permalink
I agree with your suggestions Mr.Rao. There has to be a sense of urgency to take care of those dying of starvation, I can't make a long plan and submit for the revivew to Mr. CHidambaram and Manmohan Singh when I see someone dying or dropping out of school due to lack of funds. If 1 month salary is too much then we can decide on some other amount depending on our own condition.
RE:Chairty is the key
by fact_seeker on Aug 15, 2008 09:36 PM Permalink
I suppose charity may not help.. We NEED plenty of proverty , too much of prosperity is BREEDing jeleously by Pak/B'desh who are pumping Jihadis into India BOMB BLASTING all our cities/people/property ...etc.
An excellent write up indeed !He is one of the living legends well comparable to our illustrious past leaders and spritual gurus like Vivekanandhar, Gandhijii,Netajii Patel,Nehru, Kamaraj, Lalbhahdur Shastri etc .His only concern is to uplift his great country india as world super power.For that only reason, the most unpatriotic, pseudo secular Commies like Karat ,Yechchury ,Bharadan ,Brinda spit venom on him at every possible occassion as they donot want India to excel China .It is a really a great pity that self proclaimed patriotic party viz BJP fell prey into the evil design of commies to defeat the Govt on nuclear deal.God alone can save this country. Raj
An excellent write up indeed !He is one of the living legends well comparable to our illustrious past leaders and spritual gurus like Vivekanandhar, Gandhijii,Netajii Patel,Nehru, Kamaraj, Lalbhahdur Shastri etc .His only concern is to uplift his great country india as world super power.That is the only reason the most unpatriotic, pseudo secular Commies like Karat ,Yechchury ,Bharadan ,Brinda spit venom on him as they donot want India to excel China .It is a really a great pity that self proclaimed patriotic party viz BJP fell prey into the evil design of commies to defeat the Govt on nuclear deal.God alone can save this country. Raj
yes guys, its we who are aware of everything but still pretend to be unaware. its we can make our country a really developed one. we spend on other things which has got no importance in life, we spit anywhere we want, we drive anywhere we wanted. so if all of us can unite and give our india the best of us, i would say, nobody can defeat india than in any domain. donate to the people, who really need your help. let those little children study and make there careere and for them you are the god, if u canm fulfill there dreams. doston ek zindagi hai,agar isme aap logon ne kisi ki dil se madad kardi ya fir helped people in any sense. whole life u will be happy and i am sure u will take further similar initiatives like this. seriously its we who can change our india.our own india jai hind.
yes..friends.. we are still fighting against hunger/poverty/curruption/what not ? and unfortunately.. we are all included/involved directly or indirectly in encouraging the said things .. still we are working..to improve our nation ..?! to i m p r o v e .....
RE:icons that make India
by Yenna Raskala on Aug 16, 2008 03:24 AM Permalink
You have forgotten something...We are fighting against corruption,injustice,burocracy...These are pushing us towards poverty day by day
RE:icons that make India
by Sahadevan KK on Aug 16, 2008 09:53 AM Permalink
These are other words by Kalam that we need only two party system; Congress and BJP will supply meat and egg for whole Indians, and flow milk in the streets of India.
RE:On our 61st Independence Day
by Gopal on Aug 16, 2008 11:31 PM Permalink
Good poem. The two sides of Indian diaspora. Neatly described. The rulers should see both sides before taking any decision.
I saw some people trying to defame President Abdul Kalam (Yes, he is still president to millions of us, may not be technically). There are some people in this world who deserve respect because of the way they lived and contributed, like - Mahatma Gandhi - Mother Theressa - Abdul Kalam
They belong to special category. We should respect them like we respect our Father and Mother. We all should treat them with utmost respect. I feel very sad even one in a mil lion tries to defame Kalam.
RE:Kalam, the GREAT
by fact_seeker on Aug 15, 2008 09:27 PM Permalink
I prefer - Subhash Chandra Bose over Mahatma Gandhi - Rani of Jhansi over Mother Theressa
What India needs is a change of attitude. Since school day we have been singing the song " Hum honge kamayab , hum honge kamayab eka din , man mien hai vishwas pura hai vishwas hum honge kamayab ek din" this song though an excellent one show the attitude of indians "eka din" that ek din no one know when it will come, this song should be change to follwing "." Hum honge kamayab , hum honge kamayab "Target Date e.g 2020" , man mien hai vishwas (aur ek dum accha hai plan") pura hai vishwas hum honge kamayab ek din", we need is targes and planning which is missing.
