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.
