Preparing a Budget
Preparing a budget.
The people of India must be congratulated that they are in a position to prepare their family budget with the income which is coming to their houses and they are living on and are not starving and dying. Very few people die of starvation. The people who die are few in number and most of the people live on with all the conditions created by the state, by the society, by the rich and powerful people. If the people of the world so desire, they can give them Nobel Prize because they are running their administration and are still alive.
When the people of India were under Rajas, Maharajas, Monarchs and then under the Imperialists, they were having no say in the administration. But they initiated their war of independence and they got independence and it is on record that they established democracy which is government of the people. It clearly means that now the people of India are the masters of the country and all those who are appointed or elected and raised to the seats of power are not rulers, but they have been designated just ‘ public servants ‘. But all these entries are just paper transactions because it is on record that these elected and appointed people who have been declared as ‘ public servants ‘ have been turning rich and all those who have been declared as masters of this country have been reduced to poverty.
We cannot designate this administration as ‘ Ram Rajaya’. It is something new and it is on record that this administration could not be equated even with ‘Ravana Rajaya ‘ because all those problems which were with the people of India prior to independence are still alive with the people. They are still illiterate, they are still unemployed, they are still without suitable houses, they are living in mud houses, they are found living in huts and sometime they are found lying under the open skies. They are not having suitable diet, they are not in a position to get proper treatment when they are ill. they are not in a position to send their wards to schools, to colleges, to training institutions, nor they are in a position to get for them proper work from where they could bring proper income with which they could run their family administration. They are still divided on the basis of religions, on the basis of castes, on the basis of economic groups and that is the reason, most of the time of the people is spent in fighting. There had been promises and assurances and if we go deep, we shall find that all those promises and assurances had been false and those were declared just to catch more and more votes and we had been giving votes to the people and giving them power to exploit us because they were not actually experts nor they were having a will and a desire in their mind to serve the people and bring them out of these problems.
We had been having experts on the government side and they had been preparing budgets for the state. some time they had been coming with annual budgets, some time they had been coming with interim budgets, some time they had been giving us Five Year Plans and the figures which they shall be spending on items enumerated in the budgets. The people who had been preparing budgets had been appreciated and also commented upon and at times we have been told that the budgets which had been prepared could not meet the items and some items had to be left out and at times they had been imposing taxes or had been collecting money from the people for completing those projects. But when we come to the common people, we know that they have got no such alternatives with them. They are to run the family administration with the income they have got and in all circumstances, they are to live. They do not know when the prices shall rise and how they shall meet those rising prices.
The state itself has admitted that most of the people are living below poverty line and it clearly means the state knows the list of those who are living below poverty line. Therefore, the state must have come with a budget of a common family presently which is having income between Rs.2500.00 and Rs.3000.00PM. The Finance Minister should have prepared this budget for the family and that budget should have been circulated so that the common people could get guidance from the Finance Minister. he state has assured the people that the state shall be taking care of the people and when the people are facing rising prices and when the demands of the people are not limited to the basic three items food, house and clothes, the state must guide the people so that common people could also live a life in free and democratic India. The Prime Minister of India who himself is a economic expert he too can help the Finance Minister in this field and they must place before the people a budget of a common family. They should also place before the common people revised budget when prices rise without prior notice to the common people. The people are not having any concern with the state budget. They are concerned with the family budget and it is the duty of the state to prepare their family budget.
By: Dalip Singh Wasan
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The people of India must be congratulated that they are in a position to prepare their family budget with the income which is coming to their houses and they are living on and are not starving and dying. Very few people die of starvation. The people who die are few in number and most of the people live on with all the conditions created by the state, by the society, by the rich and powerful people. If the people of the world so desire, they can give them Nobel Prize because they are running their administration and are still alive.
When the people of India were under Rajas, Maharajas, Monarchs and then under the Imperialists, they were having no say in the administration. But they initiated their war of independence and they got independence and it is on record that they established democracy which is government of the people. It clearly means that now the people of India are the masters of the country and all those who are appointed or elected and raised to the seats of power are not rulers, but they have been designated just ‘ public servants ‘. But all these entries are just paper transactions because it is on record that these elected and appointed people who have been declared as ‘ public servants ‘ have been turning rich and all those who have been declared as masters of this country have been reduced to poverty.
We cannot designate this administration as ‘ Ram Rajaya’. It is something new and it is on record that this administration could not be equated even with ‘Ravana Rajaya ‘ because all those problems which were with the people of India prior to independence are still alive with the people. They are still illiterate, they are still unemployed, they are still without suitable houses, they are living in mud houses, they are found living in huts and sometime they are found lying under the open skies. They are not having suitable diet, they are not in a position to get proper treatment when they are ill. they are not in a position to send their wards to schools, to colleges, to training institutions, nor they are in a position to get for them proper work from where they could bring proper income with which they could run their family administration. They are still divided on the basis of religions, on the basis of castes, on the basis of economic groups and that is the reason, most of the time of the people is spent in fighting. There had been promises and assurances and if we go deep, we shall find that all those promises and assurances had been false and those were declared just to catch more and more votes and we had been giving votes to the people and giving them power to exploit us because they were not actually experts nor they were having a will and a desire in their mind to serve the people and bring them out of these problems.
We had been having experts on the government side and they had been preparing budgets for the state. some time they had been coming with annual budgets, some time they had been coming with interim budgets, some time they had been giving us Five Year Plans and the figures which they shall be spending on items enumerated in the budgets. The people who had been preparing budgets had been appreciated and also commented upon and at times we have been told that the budgets which had been prepared could not meet the items and some items had to be left out and at times they had been imposing taxes or had been collecting money from the people for completing those projects. But when we come to the common people, we know that they have got no such alternatives with them. They are to run the family administration with the income they have got and in all circumstances, they are to live. They do not know when the prices shall rise and how they shall meet those rising prices.
The state itself has admitted that most of the people are living below poverty line and it clearly means the state knows the list of those who are living below poverty line. Therefore, the state must have come with a budget of a common family presently which is having income between Rs.2500.00 and Rs.3000.00PM. The Finance Minister should have prepared this budget for the family and that budget should have been circulated so that the common people could get guidance from the Finance Minister. he state has assured the people that the state shall be taking care of the people and when the people are facing rising prices and when the demands of the people are not limited to the basic three items food, house and clothes, the state must guide the people so that common people could also live a life in free and democratic India. The Prime Minister of India who himself is a economic expert he too can help the Finance Minister in this field and they must place before the people a budget of a common family. They should also place before the common people revised budget when prices rise without prior notice to the common people. The people are not having any concern with the state budget. They are concerned with the family budget and it is the duty of the state to prepare their family budget.
By: Dalip Singh Wasan
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