Is sinless wealth an optic illusion? _ Are all parties clean in collecting donations?

“Democracy is a costly affair to developing nations”- once a former Malaysian PM said. In our country with plethora parties and the voters being bought over by tactical means, you can not vouch for donation free environment. 

What can be ideal for us till we reach at least G3 status? - 

1.A bennovalent dictator who spends 24/7 for the nation operating as CEO of the nation- regional CEOs having similar characteristics for each state- all districts to be headed by top class IAS or professionals who have "nation first" in their mind as district CEOs- the district CEOs to have SWOT (strengths, weakness , opportunities and threats) for each village evolved with people participation- develop each district as a thematic district revolving around the strength of the district-the skill development to start from age 10 with options to kids (those who want to be around the skill of the district or around the skill of the neighbour district or around  overseas country skills)- the academic/ industry/ govt alignment on skill development-

2. The people representative at village level/ district level, state level and national level to operate  only as a jury assessing the performance of these CEOs and serving as the conscience of the nation-

3. Media to be assigned sector specific roles focussing on only sectoral inputs and research avoiding media competition and trial and unwanted TRP  rating wars-

4.All cases to be decided by only one sitting at one level with no appeal and disputes to be resolved in one week-   If such a thing happens and the people efforts are unified towards one mission of reaching G3 status in ten years. ....

5.  Then you can have Rama Rajya.. you can then talk of no political donation and  two party system operating within the government allocated  state election budget for selecting one of two national CEOs-  ---

5.  Till such dream happens election funding will continue to happen. There are many forms- collecting informal donations, kickbacks on favours in overseas markets, collection and whitening of funds in the name of leader birthday celeberations... so many intellectuals lending their brain for conceiving such schemes--

6. All these will continue to happen and no party can claim to work with all sinless wealth- Sineless wealth is an optic illusion!

7. But within the exisiting ones, who is less tainted one seems to be the only factor we are reckoning  I suppose -

Currently we are all trying to visualise a value led society in our life time- is that a mirage or possibility... time alone can answer.

Are we ready for G3 status?

Dear friends,

We criticise either way- for or against our present government. Can we deliberate on these brainstorming ideas and float it as our group suggestions to the concerned ministry? We as a group can present it by fixing appointment with relevant minister as Fb group suggestions. Before that, we deliberate it!

May be you are tired of only criticizing or favouring already appeared articles.  Here are some brain storming virgin ideas for deliberations-

1. Why don’t we take away MGNREGA outlay from government budget by offloading it as regional branding rights to brand advertisers. Say 5 year right for MGNREGA west region can be branded by say TATA  called as “TATA MGNREGA west". Then TATA have to foot that bill. Against this they have branding rights for 5 years. The outlay goes out of government budget. Government only overseas the distribution. The rights can be priced. Currently corporate branding money and CSR budgets go for some private pockets or it can be a new branding opportunity. The government saves the MGNREGA outlay and also gets revenue for selling rights like spectrum auction.

2. Why don’t we auction the branding rights of railway platforms. Today they are called platform 1,2 etc. Collect this fee based income and use this revenue for bettering the service. Even new metro stations to be branded and such rights to get more money for government.

3. Boldly withdraw 50 billion USD from forex reserves, currently above 400 billion USD (economists have inflation arguements against such move. But use them to foot your imports to check inflation) use it for cleaning public sector balance sheets including banks at one stroke and for infrastructure. Also denationalise most of the government undertakings against disinvestment proceeds. The best government is the one that is least governed with its own assets. The government should be a nodal agency.

4. Activate all internal domestic software industry - all property docs to go digital, all libraries to go digital and create domestic mega size digital product companies, create data bases of all sectors. Huge job opportunity will arise domestically. Fund it from withdrawn forex reserves. Only China did in the past.

5. Create village level SWOTs with district collectors and create thematic districts revolving against their strengths. Align skill generation to district SWOT and enable students from  the age of ten to decide in taking up district skill driven or neighbour district driven or oversea skill driven jobs. Make academic -industry and government alignment mandatory.

6. Atleast as a token of rewarding honesty put minimum Rs.15k into the accounts of individual assesses who paid taxes consistently over last five years in the threshold of 3-10 lakhs.

7 . Let banks constantly do stress tests on business models and go by merits of business models than past cooked up payment history or accounting history. Every business model has some shades of grey today. (I refused to sign any balance sheet as soon as I came out of my CA) We need to put them to stress tests periodically and the risk radars of banks to be very active. The horse should drive the cart than the other way round. The business model should drive the businesses than the accounting models. The best brains should refuse to find holes to circumvent rules. Value based champions should be awarded padmashrees etc apart from experts in different field. There are many unsung heros who are great ethical heros living amongst us today. They are to be showcased.

8. 80% of GDP services coming from 20% population, while 20% GDP comes from 80% of population in India. This anomaly has to be changed so that jobs can occupy all sections. Industry to be elevated to contribute 25% of GDP to begin with. Make in India can not become successful unless we make India better investment destination than ASIAN countries. Allow zero tax for ferex cos for five years if they create minimum local  jobs. We have to offer red carpet to those business which have high labor content and high export content.

Much more can come as out of box thoughts based on members interests. Many of these were directly posted in PM’s website. More out of box thoughts may be brought in by you all. Let us build the nation by positivity than by fighting amongst us which only wastes our energy. On nationally important things- practice unity, on social sector specefic issues- have diversity and against all things practice dignity. Let us see our country reaching G3 status in our life time!!

What is G3?

We are now in group of nations GDP wise called G10. We are in sl no. G7. This year end we are likely to reach G5 crossing UK.

-With  GDP 16 trillion plus USA at no.1

-With About 9 trillion China no.2

-With about 3.5/4  trillion Japan G3

-Then Germany G4.

India likely to reach G5 replacing UK and France.

-With GDP growing at 7% pa plus on a continuous basis India can reach G 3 status.

-Crossing China and USA is not expected in my life time. I leave it for now.

-The question is can we sustain growth of 7% pa with reforms, digitalisation etc. That is a question that brings in the political debate.

Noises on PNB scam: My take.

Even in year 2005, many approached outside India scouting for bank finance in overseas markets against bank guarantees from India. I used to be surprised even for many projects in India they used to come out seeking overseas loans. They used to argue that risks are evaluated by banks issuing guarantees and overseas banks need not worry about the risks.

This kind of financing is not new. But the question is such Lou's and guarantees clubbed under non funded limits must have escaped proper scrutiny.

Once the blame game starts every one including RBI oversight mechanism is also not out of criticisms. Then can we blame former governor for this?

Please note the thief is an artist while police is only a critic. Newer ways will always be found. Now this way has thrown up. Even so many foreign banks issue such letters and people try out borrowings against such letters.

The risk radars of the banks, their systems and reviews need constant scrutiny and updation. The governance has to be value driven from the top. There are banks like Hdfc bank which has the lowest NPAs against  a big ticket size portfolio of advances.

We start blaming government immediately these days. Because we want instant solution from Narendra Modi for everything. They say Bhaktas will come for rescue. In the recorded history we see many corporate disasters- many due to ethical failures- be it India or USA. How many times government was charged. Even the global disasters were blamed due to the system failures and failure of oversight mechanism. The board of PNB to take the responsibility, publish what went wrong and fraudulent persons to be charged and brought to books. The media trials and half backed analysis without facts should stop. We have to find ways to catch the guys running away after bank default. These running away has been happening for so many years now. I know many NPA's of UAE banks caused by many expatriate businessmen running away. This risk is there bothering the bankers. I know countries issuing passports for an investment of 100k US dollars. If this can not be avoided bankers may go for 100% security for lending. That will be difficult for businessmen.