-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday ordered that no political party shall henceforth either use or allow the use of public funds or public place or government machinery for promoting itself or the symbol allotted to it. The commission's directive came on a direction of the Delhi High Court asking it to issue norms for restraining political parties from using public Money to propagate their poll symbol. Sources...
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CAG may audit process of black-Money scheme, not individual declarations
-PTI New Delhi: The Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) may do a performance audit of the just-ended black Money disclosure scheme, but will not get into the disclosures made. As much as Rs 65,250 crore of undeclared assets were declared through 64,275 declarations in the one-time four-month compliance window provided under the Income Disclosure Scheme (IDS), which closed on September 30. ”The information filed under the IDS is confidential and will...
More »Not So Clean -Sangita Vyas
-The Indian Express Swachh Bharat completes two years, but eliminating open defecation is a distant goal. October 2 marks the second anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). Announcing a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 was a great idea, but now that we are 40 per cent through India’s flagship sanitation campaign, it is a good time to assess how much progress the SBM has made. Unfortunately, it is impossible...
More »Tax dept unearths Rs 56,378 cr undisclosed income in searches
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Income Tax department has unearthed undisclosed income of Rs 56,378 crore during search operations conducted over two years time and seized cash of about Rs 2,000 crore. Giving details of the steps taken by the government since coming to power in May 2014, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said with IT upgradation the CBDT has been able to recover Rs 16,000 crore from non-filers of tax returns. Also the government...
More »A low priority called health -Shah Alam Khan
-The Indian Express Poor Indians are forced to look towards the private sector for healthcare. Bhutan and Ethiopia spend more than India does. Ratna Devi and her nine-year-old daughter Seema (names changed) came to AIIMS, New Delhi. There was a large tumour on Seema’s knee. It had been thriving on the little girl for a year. The family was from Rajasthan, around 400 km from Delhi. The father was a farmer who...
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