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December 2019 29 posts · page 3 of 3

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Friday, 6 December 2019
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Whispers Forum — 6 Dec 2019

DEBATE (1)
In my view Nusrat Jahan is the rising star.
R Banerjee
DEBATE(2)
My vote goes to Dimple Yadav.
Anupam Gupta
DEBATE (3)
I consider Saroj Pandey as a most talented Indian Women Politician. Her prominence on the national stage is a matter of immense pride for us! Hope to see you win.
Siddharth Malhotra
Good Work
In the Durg Railway Station, to facilitate the facility of the elderly and the elderly, the battery-driven vehicle was re-started.
Siddharth Malhotra
Pre-filled ITR2
Forms A very good idea to start from this financial year. It is very essential and necessary to be successful in schemes like faceless scrutiny and pre-filling of ITR2 forms, the rules should be simple and easy to follow and implement. This can be explained and judged from a very very simple example that the things are not in line. LTCG less than 1 lakh from transfer of equity or equity oriented mutual fund, is tax exempted. It means no tax liability from the tax payers side and no tax revenue for the Govt. but still tax authorities wants all details to be filled in. What is the purpose of such exercise except wasting of man power and time which otherwise can be used for some other useful work. There may be one entry may be fifty entries for which data has to be captured and matched. There are chances of mistakes and a small mistake can create havoc for the tax payers. LTCG under this category should only be asked for reporting purpose not for other details as was being followed till FY 2017-18. There are other are area where Govt, should work for innovative solution to find out the methodologies and procedures to find the real income of professionals like film artists, doctors, lawyers, traders, sports persons, contractors etc. as no tools are available at present to assess the correctness of their income. These are the areas where lot of work and innovation is needed to reduce the leakage of tax revenue instead of spending time in unproductive work like asking for unnecessary details where no tax liability on the assessee. To get away from LTCG complexes is, make LTCG tax free instead increase STT to recover the expected loss of revenue. It is simplest way to collect the tax as it is directly collected at the time of each transactions without disturbing the tax payers. Many such things have to be found out to make the faceless scrutiny and pre-filling of ITR2 successful. All the best to work out for best solution.
Naveen
Thursday, 5 December 2019
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Whispers Forum — 5 Dec 2019

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Priyanka Gandhi deserves. She has handled UP very well.
Sudha Singh
DEBATE(2)
Saroj Pande
Tara Kumari Oli
DEBATE (3)
Saroj, you are the sum of millions of expectations. We are proud of you Sister. You are the identity of our city.
Arjun Tiwari
DEBATE (4)
Smriti Irani has proved her mettle in Indian politics.
Madhukar Govind
Process of filling DG, IIMC’ post on
The post of DG, IIMC post fell vacant on March 31, 2019 and officers senior to DG in the Ministry were holding charge of the post. The process of filling the post on regular basis is on.
Kuldeep Singh Dhatwalia
Justice J K Maheshwari is a running encyclopedia
Justice J K Maheshwari, CJ, AP, is an extraordinary and eminent person in the field of law. He is running encyclopedia and I am learning a lot of legal knowledge from the lordship at Amaravati from Oct.11, 2019.
Mullapudi Satyanarayana
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
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Whispers Forum — 4 Dec 2019

DEBATE (1)
Priyanka Gandhi. She resembles like Indira Gandhi. She speaks well.
Prof D P Singh
DEBATE (2)
National General Secretary, Rajya Sabha MP, Saroj Pandey is the most talented India women politician. She has a very strong personality and she is the main leader in Mahila Morcha to support and empower Indian women. I pray to God, you reach the peak of new heights in your political career.
Payal Sharma
DEBATE (3)
BJP leader Ms Saroj Pandey, she is very talented and supportive leader.
Sanjay Singh
DEBATE (4)
In my opinion, Saroj Pandey is the most Glamorous and Talented Women Politician. As she is a holder of World record for holding the post of a Mayor, M.L.A. and M.P. at the same time and this record is nominated for Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of Records. She also holds the record for having longest term as a Mayor from Durg, for continuous 10 years and has also received the Best Mayor award.
Rakshit Choudhary
No action against senior bureaucrats who misuse official resources
No action is taken against senior bureaucrats who misuse office perks & facilities at the cost of exchequer. Taking costly gifts from the businessmen, PSUs etc. Driving vehicles for personal purposes and not paying to the Government. Enjoying hospitality expenses much more than the entitlement.
BBS
Jha is most suitable officer
A. N. Jha is the most suitable officer for this coveted and responsible post. He is known for his balancing approach under the rules.
R S Meena
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
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Whispers Forum — 3 Dec 2019

DEBATE (1)
I am supporting Mrs. Saroj pandey. She has done immense work for the public welfare and society while representing BJP. Her contribution towards country's development is incredible. She is an inspiration for many women. She is one of the most talented women politician in India.
Vinod Kumar
DEBATE (2)
My vote goes to Pritam Munde.
Arun Gavande
Good News
All are happy with extension given to the best Administrator Snehlata Srivastava.
Anita Chhabra
Counter-Transparency Line Up
There is fear in the country – said a prominent industrialist the other day. Prior to him was another one casting such aspersions on the government. They were among a bunch of more than 100 letter writers canvassing restoration of OIC status for a person who had indulged in crass anti-India propaganda targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The line up would have been missed except that the industrialist over-stepped by comparing the previous government. He must, because in the previous dispensation appointments to sensitive positions were not decided by the Cabinet but by the industrialists, Swamis, middlemen and women running Lobbying companies. When the country was being openly looted and the loot was being shared among the nexus of politician-bureaucracy-business (refer to the Vohra committee report), there indeed was no fear. Anybody showing the rule book was severely punished- there are methods of punishment without external injury on the law-abiding public servant. The political change in Maharashtra is only the first manifestation of such a line up. More when it is claimed to be the game changer at the all India level. They should know better. The citizens looking for transparency are only concerned if they will see the days of the licence-quota-permit raj once again and read newspaper headlines about scams like Bofors, Augusta, CWG, 2G, Coalgate, Adarsh etc.? Afterall the losses from the demonetisation have also to be recovered. And from whom if not the ordinary citizens ? The economics is transparent in such a system: rob the citizens to pay the industrialists contributing liberally to the mounting NPAs of the banks, making PSUs sick and vacating their lucrative business space for exploitation by the private sector, destroying the small scale sector by merging it with the M sector, stalling modernization in the industrial sector by thwarting attempts of rivals for import of technology and capital goods, staining foreign collaborations (financial, technical and joint ventures) with corruption charges and playing with the national economy under the show of shadow industrialisation. I would welcome the industry to be genuinely competitive so that it also owns international quality brands. The complaining industrialist has been marketing extremely poor quality products like electrical water heating rods/geysers which were below the quality standards set by the Electrical Goods Quality Control Order thereby endangering human safety and could have been heavily punished. His industry must have supplied these geysers in millions to government departments over the decades. For a show his industry had a Fair Business Practice cell, which hardly ever responded to the consumer complaints. It is the fundamental right of the people to expect Fair Business Practices from the industry. They cannot be allowed to export poor quality products to friendly developing countries and bring a bad name to the country. The Prime Minister should take this counter transparency line up seriously. He has been voted to power to safeguard public interest from marauders and looters. He must move fast on the economic front. Instead of band-aid treatment he should provide specialist treatment to the economy which has been demanding professional care. If need be, he should shuffle his cabinet and put an expert as the finance minister. Similar treatment is required for industry, commerce and other economic ministries. The country can ill afford sloth in the economy.
M L Gupta
Monday, 2 December 2019
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Whispers Forum — 2 Dec 2019

DEBATE (1)
Superb work you have done Respected Saroj didi. You have done lots of work in our locality and you are too honest leader.
Sonu Prasad
DEBATE (2)
Only Priyanka Gandhi.
M V Menon
Maharsahtra happening is a real shocker
No 56J for politicos. Many Govt Officers were removed from service under corruption charges ranging from taking bribes from Rs 15000 to Rs 150000. But no such action against a person who is accused in massive corruption DRIVE.
Ajay