Wednesday, August 23, 2023

India Way Ahead

India Way Ahead

Agricultural Reforms

  1. Increase farmers income
    1. Allow corporates to buy farmers produce directly without going thru Mandi corruption
    2. APMC mandi option also available to farmers its their choice no compulsion
    3. Electronic markets
  2. Minimum Support Price
    1. Increase income 1.5*Cost
  3. Fertilizer
    1. Urea domestic production growth
      1. Natural urine processed
  4. Ban some inorganic fertilizers
  5. Seeds
    1. Proper seeds for proper soil
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Defence

  1. Increased indigenisation
  2. Deploy Tejas in Kashmir Ladakh
  3. Match China weapons and soldiers
    1. Drones, Anti Drones
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Economy

  1. Eliminate Fiscal Deficit which will lower inflation
    1. Will lower Inflation
    2. Lower Interest Rates
  2. Privatize PSU Banks except SBI
    1. NPA
  3. Subsidies termination
    1. Terminate Haj subsidy
  4. Job Creation
    1. Easier hiring firing schemes. ( Labor Reforms )
    2. Give Unemployment insurance
  5. Poverty
    1. Universal Basic Income
  6. GDP Growth
  7. Full Currency Convertibility on Capital account
  8. Make in India
  9. Manufacturing
  10. Speed of legal processes
  11. Ease of doing business
    1. Faster govt clearances
  12. Bankrupty and Insolvency law
  13. Black Money
    1. Demonetization
    2. Alleviate the new draconian overseas black money laws
  14. Taxes
    1. GST
    2. Agriculture tax with higher tax brackets
  15. Budgetary Allocation
    1. More for Healthcare, Police, Judiciary, Courts, Pollution, Waterways, Highways, Bullet train, Vande Bharat, Metro
  16. Corruption
    1. Aadhar Linking
  17. Labor Reforms
    1. Online filing by companies without manual intervention
    2. Concise 4 main labor laws instead of 400
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Electoral Reforms

  1. Aadhar VoterId link
  2. NRI voters ?
  3. Postal voting for armed forces/other govt employees who cannot reach booths
  4. EVMs to paper ballots / trails
  5. Free booze/cash given in southern states
    1. Offence to bribe voters in Nyaya Sanhita
  6. New constitution - removal of post of president, governors, move to presidential form of government. ( Law Reforms )
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Environment

  1. Pollution
    1. Garbage landfill sites Overflowing
      1. Segregation at source
        1. Plastic
          1. Recycle
          2. Use for road construction
          3. Mother dairy larger milk bottles instead of half litre packets
        2. Organic waste decompose
      2. Methane gas at Landfill site for power production
    2. Air Pollution
      1. Automatic FIR for any waste fire
      2. Petcoke, Furnace Oil Import ban, Diesel gensets
      3. Diwali Firecrackers
      4. 15 year old Diesel Trucks, Buses, Taxis, SUVs, Cars. ( Transportation )
      5. Excessive Cars, motorcycles
        1. Odd even
        2. Electric Buses
        3. Electric bikes
        4. Metro
        5. Bicycles
        6. Congestion charge in Delhi
          1. Fasttag
          2. Some sections of ring road, CP
      6. Stubble Burning
        1. Combine Seeders. Stalk cutting tractors, machinery. Grants to states for deploying machinery
        2. Decomposting of stubble in 40 days with microbes
        3. Lessen pressure on farmers to carry out heavily intensive agriculture
        4. Small Power Plants
      7. Civil, Building Constructions
      8. Dust from Roads, kuchcha sadak
      9. Road sweeping emitting dust
      10. Leaves and Garbage burning
  2. Water
    1. Dams construction, save panna tiger reserve
      1. Irrigation alternative sources
    2. River cleaning
      1. Riverside barriers ergonomically constructed in cities
    3. River interlinking: better solution is to recharge acquifers water table
    4. Forests 1km either side of river - Sadguru
  3. Soil
    1. Fertilizer overuse
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Foreign Policy

  1. India Bangladesh to reduce border restrictions, more visas economic cooperation
  2. Pakistan stop terrorism
  3. Kashmir
    1. Article 370 may be ok, no discrimination between states. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee died when he was arrested trying to enter kashmir as he was not given permission to enter.
  4. POK
    1. Free multiple entry 5 year visas between POK and Kashmir residents
  5. Ukraine
    1. Reduce/stop purchase of oil from Russia till the war is over
  6. Join UN Security council as permanent member
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Healthcare

  1. Increase 1 super specialty hospital in each district
  2. 1 govt clinic having atleast 2 general physicians plus medicines, surgery ( like NHS UK ) in every 36 square km area
  3. Food Adulteration
  4. Budgetary increase at centre and state levels
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Human Resources

  1. Crimes against women
    1. Women empowerment
  2. Women empowerment
    1. Equal opportunity for women in all areas
    2. Transportation facilities
    3. No first coach reservation in metro
    4. Enhanced police backup support
  3. Social Upliftment schemes
  4. Improve human development index
  5. Education
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Infrastructure

  1. Roads
    1. All roads in Delhi should have bicycle lanes. Minimum 6 feet with 2 border lines ( with 1 foot gap ) with the traffic lanes. Small poles 2 feet in height placed every 6 feet alongside
    2. Eastern Peripheral expressway, Western Peripheral expressway
  2. Power
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Labor Reforms

  1. Easier hiring and firing practices
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Law Reforms

  1. Law Reforms
    1. IPC CrPC Reforms
      1. Gender neutral laws.
      2. Abolition of 377 and 497.
      3. Divorce on grounds of adultery to be made easier.
      4. Drop Sedition Law
    2. Nyay Sanhita, Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita
      1. All draconian articles like 150 secession 7 years should be removed
      2. All punishments should be reduced; 20 years to life; life to 10; 10 to 7; 7 to 3;
      3. All laws should be gender neutral
    3. Divorce Law Reforms
      1. No fault divorce, within 1 year if no children involved
      2. Penalties of 1 year jail and sum of 3 lac rupees, and 3 month jail and sum of 1 lac rupees for filing false concocted 498a accusations on both accuser and lawyer.
      3. 498a remove provision of arrest against any and all family members, only the husband.
      4. Scrap DV law. Have provision of gender neutral restraining order.
      5. Abolition of 377 and 497.
      6. Family Court Reforms
        1. Move all multiple criminal cases like DV, Crpc 125, 498 to the same family court judge and remove duplication.
        2. Videotape and Telecast live proceeding of family court.
        3. Ban all lawyers and unconcerned people from family court proceedings only 2 sarkari counsellers/mediators.
        4. Proceedings to be held in closed rooms only.
        5. 3 shifts a day for family courts.
        6. Quick dates like every alternate day for a month after 6 months for final resolution.
        7. No lawyers, bribes to delay, expedite hearing dates
        8. Only family court judges with good track records for hearing.
        9. Only efficient experienced judges not timepassers
      7. Maintenance
        1. Half length of marriage maximum 10 years
        2. Length of marriage
        3. Reduced weightage for girls leaving jobs
      8. 498a scrap
        1. monetary other penalty for mischevious complaints
      9. Visitation rights and shared parenting.
        1. No visitation, No maintenence
        2. Enforce Shared Parenting
        3. Compulsory visitation every week
        4. Default rights of Father in school, etc
        5. Punish mothers and charge with abduction if they have moved kids from their natural environment with father where there is no evidence of physical abuse.
        6. HMA 24, Section 9 , DV and 125 cases should have strong provisions of fathers rights =equal to what mothers rights are.
    4. Corruption
      1. CVC, CBI, Lokpal to be merged and given autonomy
      2. Black Money
    5. NIA, Terrorism
    6. National Level Reforms
      1. Separate Mens commission or alternately remove govt funding for NCW. Mens, Womens, Child Rights and development to be Subsumed under Ministry of HRD.
      2. Senior citizen, boy child, girl child, elderly women problem amelioration steps to be considered.
      3. More inclusive democracy. Abolition of NOTA. Votes are precious and should not be wasted.
      4. Reforms in the conduct of Police and CAW cell harassment ? Instead counsellers/mediators take over this role of arbitration/mediation to stop matters from going to courts.
  2. Uniform Civil Code
  3. End Reservation, remove reservation from Constitution
  4. New Constitution
    1. Freedom of speech; freedom of privacy; freedom of religion, culture; equal opportunity ( remove caste discrimination, reservation )
    2. All reservation based on caste, sex, religion etc removed. Equal opportunity for all
    3. Fundamental duties: obey the laws. render whatever civil/military/disaster relief duties required as may be in his power.
    4. Move to presidential form of govt with multiparty system
    5. Remove the post of President, Governors
    6. Referendum must with 60% to pass new constitution
      1. Important issues can be decided thru referendum ( similar to Brexit )
  5. Judicial Reforms
    1. Supreme Court Reforms
      1. Retirement age 78 for SC judges, no employment after retirement
      2. CJI Term fixed till retirement
      3. Decrease number of SC benches and differing opinions, halve SC strength to 15
    2. Clear Pending backlog
      1. Federal SC Appeal Courts in all states, High Courts separate
    3. Annual Performance review of judges
    4. Corruption in judiciary decide cases due to poor laws, implementation
    5. Learning from Rajesh Talwar case
  6. Police Reforms
    1. Separate investigation wing
    2. Forensic upgradation Scientific investigation methods
      1. Hi tech equipped mobile vans to reach crime scene first ( with dna matching tech )
      2. Crime-scene cordon off
      3. Dog squad
    3. Learning from Rajesh Talwar case
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Population

  1. Lower population in high fertility areas
  2. Economic incentives for single/two child
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Rural Development

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Transportation

  1. Allow motorcycle trailers; develop guidelines for permissible hitches and design
    1. Will lessen chance of accidents, items dropping on overloaded with goods motorcycles
  2. Aadhar Driver License linkage
  3. Number plate should be for person not for car
  4. Link Number Plate to persons aadhar
    1. On sale unfix your personal number plate, buyer has to put his own ( security issue ? )
  5. 15 years rule on personal petrol vehicle in delhi NCR; vehicle should be allowed to ply between 11pm and 5pm for private purposes
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Urban affairs

  1. Liberalize rent control act
  2. Develop new smart cities
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