CITIZENS' ISSUES


Moneylife Digital Team 24 March 2012
The former managing director of Konkan Railways feels that there is a strong lobby of bureaucrats who are hand-in-glove with multinational companies in order to get hold of the ACD technology, which is an exclusive patented product of the Railways. Rajaram Bojji, former managing director of...

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Alekh Angre 22 March 2012
The pathetic and inadequate public transport system in Mumbai benefits everyone except the common people and hence it is left in dire straits, say experts Mumbai’s public transport continues to be in dire straits with inadequate public bus transport along with issues of soaring fuel prices...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 March 2012
Activists demand revocation of clearance for the project and a stop to all police actions The arrest of many agitators by the police at Idinthikara, Kudankulam, has been criticised by citizen groups and activists, who have demanded that the crackdown be stopped immediately and work at the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 March 2012
Mumbai-based Navneet Khosla has been paid Rs6.06 lakh of the money he had invested with SpeakAsia by the All India SpeakAsia Panellists Association. The Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai police is chasing the money trail and is suspecting AIPSA to be supported by SpeakAsia The Economic...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 March 2012
Despite the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and other civil society groups coming out against the UID scheme, the government is yet to act on the opposition to the scheme from various quarters Two days before the Union Budget, 2012-13, a truckload of signatures arrived in New...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 March 2012
RTI activist Subhash Chandra Aggrawal suggests that services like of telephone, water, electricity, etc should be disconnected for non-payment of any single bill, like are done in case of normal citizens Former and current parliamentarians like Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Lalu Prasad Yadav, C...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 March 2012
 The US-based company promises incomes of up to $5,000 per day! Free e-mail services, free video chatting, free broadcasting are few of the many things made easily available to all of us on the Internet. However, a multi level marketing (MLM) company is thriving on selling such services, which...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 March 2012
As the financial year end comes to an end, several authorities have woken up and have started issuing letters and warrants to collect taxes, which the taxpayer has to pay within hours Citizens receiving demand letters from government authorities in March every year is nothing new. However,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 March 2012
Despite statements of both Mr Patel and the present aviation minister Ajit Singh being shown prominently on various TV channels, the ministry informed RTI activist Subhash Aggrawal that “no information is available” About a month ago, a palpably embarrassed Praful Patel wrote a letter to the...

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Vinod Kothari  and   Soma Bagaria 17 March 2012
The ease with which the ruling of the Supreme Court has been upturned, and the fact that the DTAAs are to give way to the long arms of the I-T Act stretching back to 16 years, would make any foreign investor think thrice before investing in India Taxes are said to be the price we pay for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 March 2012
Consumer forums, which are the first step of grievance redressal, are under tremendous pressure. On one side they have lot of cases to deal, while on the other hand there inadequate resources. State governments should address these issues immediately Inflated electricity bills, difficulty in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 March 2012
Now officially, Mumbai’s taxis have outgrown their “sweet sixteen” ways. And it is raising the hackles of commuters Jokes apart, ‘officially’, cab fares in Mumbai have been hiked by Re1 for the minimum 1.6 km distance; and 50p for each km thereafter. Taxi drivers are happy, though they would have...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 March 2012
State Bank of India (SBI) has taken a decision to slash interest on education loans by up to one percentage point. Without giving details, SBI said that it may be up to 100 basis points. Interest rates on education loans range from 12.25% to 14.50%, depending on their quantum and the duration....

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 March 2012
Sumaira Abdulali, convenor of MITRA, a civil society organization, has urged the home minister to root out the mining mafia through a uniform centralized mechanism across all states Movement against Intimidation, Threat and Revenge against Activists (MITRA), a civil society organization, has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 March 2012
Kingfisher is curtailing its operations to stop huge losses and also putting up a brave face through press release on its website Times are certainly bad for the King of Good Times aka Dr Vijay Mallya and his Kingfisher Airlines (KFL). Its flights are getting cancelled, accounts getting...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 March 2012
New announcements every year is what rail passengers from Mumbai feels on the Rail Budget. However, they keep wondering about what happened to last year’s announcements Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, announcing his maiden railway budget, made a host of promises for Mumbai. Additional 75...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 March 2012
Liases Foras’ December quarter figures show at the current rate of sales, Mumbai builders will need 44 months to clear their inventories While other cities are seeing increased sales of residential units, buyers in Mumbai are scarce. The latest data released by Liases Foras on the December...

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Often, municipal corporations carry out flawed projects which go against public interest and only suit vested interests. Use of RTI can help unearth such irregularities. Here’s a startling example... The Mula-Mutha rivers in Pune resemble stinking nallahs, yet the Pune Municipal Corporation...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 March 2012
Coming down heavily on the RBI, the central information commissioner under the RTI Act, said the idea put forward by the central bank that citizens are not mature enough to understand and will panic and harm their own interests, is repugnant to democracy In what could possibly be a path...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 March 2012
The Indian High Commissioner had claimed that the high commission simply provided a literal translation in English of two short artworks in Hindi. However, Cricket Australia faced a fine for violating the anti-tobacco ban India put up a more embarrassing show on field in the recently...

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