-The Hindu The Aadhaar Bill opens the door to mass surveillance. This danger needs to be seen in the light of recent attacks on the right to dissent. No other country, and certainly no democratic country, has ever held its own citizens hostage to such a powerful infrastructure of surveillance. The Aadhaar project was sold to the public based on the claim that enrolment was “voluntary”. This basically meant that there was...
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Don't Tell Kanhaiya What To Do Because You Think JNU Runs On Your Taxes -Sruthijith KK
-Huffington Post Of all the arguments that have been raised this turbulent spring in our country, one stands out as egregiously vulgar. It evokes in me the moral equivalent of the middle-ear reflex to high intensity sounds, which has a special place in the hierarchy of unpleasant sensations. It's the tax nationalism argument. In essence, it's this: How dare students benefitting from subsidized education funded by OUR tax money hold opinions that...
More »Budget 2016: Aadhaar project to be given statutory backing -Shreeja Sen
-Livemint.com The move to introduce a law to bring statutory backing for Aadhaar will clear decks for Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and Mobile number aimed at expanding access to financial services New Delhi: Statutory backing for the Aadhaar unique identification scheme will be introduced during the financial year 2016-17, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday in his budget speech. The bill will be introduced in the current budget session. The government’s...
More »Over 10 Years, Subsidies Grew Fastest: 7 Big Budget Numbers
-IndiaSpend.com As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents his third budget on Monday, February 29, 2016, our analysis of how seven parameters changed over 10 years (2006 to 2015) reveals that subsidies grew fourfold. The rise in subsidies was echoed by the Economic Survey, which said that of the Rs 2.4 lakh crore ($34.8 billion) subsidy bill, Rs 1.03 lakh crore ($14.9 billion) goes to those who do not need it. “Bounties for...
More »Rich feed off subsidies worth over Rs. 1 lakh crore: Economic Survey -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu “Commodities that are primarily consumed by the rich have a low tax rate” India’s rich feed off subsidies worth over Rs. 1 lakh crore a year that are meant for the poor, according to the Economic Survey. And this figure only considers the subsidies on six commodities, two public utilities — the Railways and electricity — and one small savings scheme, the Public Provident Fund. “There are a fair amount of...
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