WHEN LAWMAKERS ABDICATE

When   Lawmakers   Abdicate

Under our Constitution , only Legislative wing ( Lok Sabha + Rajya Sabha ) has the power to enact / repeal laws

Judiciary ( courts ) can only " interpret " the enacted laws

And , of course , strike down any enacted law which it considers " un-constitutional "

This arrangement worked fine some 50 years ago , when politics and economics of a country were fairly insulated from rest of the World

But today , economies of countries are becoming ever more dependent on one another and getting integrated tightly

International trade ( goods and services ), binds all the countries like a Spider's web ( - WWW is just a metaphor / a proxy  ! )

A thread of this web , touched upon anywhere, vibrates the entire web

Remember the CHAOS theory ?

A butterfly fluttering its wings in Brazil , brings torrential rains in India !

Political / economic / social decisions taken in one country , affect the entire World

Eg :

*  To produce more or less oil or freeze at current level

*  To impose trade tariffs to protect local manufacturers and jobs

*  To impose taxes on Foreign companies , different from on local units

*  To ban use of plastics / consumption of tobacco products

*  To accelerate generation of energy , using renewable sources

*  To prevent / limit arrival of migrants ( political or economic )

*  To build dams / impound waters of rivers flowing thru many countries

*  To lay sovereignty claims on sea-bed under Arctic / Antarctic

*  To assist local " rebels ( freedom fighters ? ) " in foreign countries

*  To sell tanks / bombs / guns / missiles etc to " friendly " regimes

*  To keep producing atmosphere polluting vehicles

I can go on and on

Any such decision ( more often, lack of decision ) , taken by any Society in the World , impacts the lives of millions of persons in other countries

And , unfortunately , the persons getting most adversely affected by such decisions , are POOR people , living in DEVELOPING countries !

Now , poor people of these affected countries ,  may have very little influence on the decisions being taken by the legislatures of other countries

So , they simply " Grin and Bear "  !

But the worst situation is when their own duly elected Members of Parliament / State Legislatures ( of their own country ) , fail to enact laws to protect them from the ill effects of the " Winds of Change " blowing thru their local economy

Eg:

Is air pollution only affecting the people of Delhi ?

Is it not as bad in cities like Mumbai / Kolkata / Chennai / Bangalore etc ?

Why are MLAs of these States not enacting laws to control pollution ?

Why is Supreme Court passing orders ( diesel vehicles / taxies ) only for Delhi ?

Does Supreme Court think that citizens of these other cities are immune to the ill effects of pollution caused by diesel vehicles ?

Why are State Legislatures happy to " pass the buck " to Supreme Court ?

That is " Abdication of Responsibility " !

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11  May  2016

   

Warm Regards,

Hemen Parekh

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Subject: CURRENCY MAPS OF INDIA

Currency    Maps    of    India  ?

When in 1949 , George Orwell wrote his all-time classic " Nineteen  Eighty  Four " , he had not envisaged Tablets / Smart phones

So , he imagined that TV screens would keep a watch over mankind , 24 hours , like CCTV cameras

Nor did Tim Berners Lee , envisage  IoT ( Internet of Things ) or BIG DATA analytic tools ( MapReduce / Hadoop), when he invented World Wide Web

And neither did Robert Easton , envisage RFID sensorswhen he invented GPS in 1967

But today , with wide-spread usage/application of these technologies, it is not difficult to envisage :

 CURRENCY  MAPS   OF  INDIA

No doubt , all of us have seen following types of Maps ( for India / Asia or for the entire World ) , on TV Channels and even on our tablets and smart phones  :

#   Weather Maps , showing :

      *  amount of rain fall ( inches / mm )

      *  location wise temperature intensity ( *C / *F )

      *  topography ( heights of mountains / depths of valleys )

      *  Cloud Formations and direction of Storms and landfall locations

      *  Wind Patterns ( velocity in km per hour )

      *  Ocean Currents in Atlantic / Pacific ( direction / speed )

      *  Ice Cover over Antarctica / Arctic Region ( sq km )

 #   Space Maps , showing :

      *  Geological formations on Moon / Mars / Mercury / Asteroids

      *  Night illumination in different parts of world as seen from Skylab

      *  Galactic formations , billions of light years away

And of course , Google Maps of all types ( including those peering into our bedrooms ! )

Given this state of art ( and of science ) , it is not difficult to envisage ,

following types of  CURRENCY  MAPS  of INDIA , showing aggregate value of Rs 500 / 1000 Currency Notes ( ie :currency density of Rs 1 million / 1 billion / 1 trillion / any figure of your liking ! ) in :

*   Any given Street / City / State

*   Premises of any Car Dealer / Jeweler Shop / Real Estate Agency / Mall /

     Race Course / Builder ( any office / housing location of your choice )

 *  Any Airport ( a million Rupees in Rs 500 notes weigh only 2.2 kg ! )

 *  Any Safe Deposit Vault of any bank

With the existing technologies , it is even possible to plot the movement of Rs 500 / 1000 currency notes ( just one note or a thousand notes ) on a GPS map of India , to determine its direction and velocity ( Currency Currents )

In real time , too -  24*7  !

All of the above is possible to achieve within  6 MONTHS  , by :

*  Abolishing existing paper notes of Rs 500 / 1000

*  Replace these with plastic notes , embedded with RFID sensors

   ( can be embedded into existing 3 mm silver-colored  security wire )

*  Allot a unique IP V 6.0 address to each such note linked to its serial no

*  Develop / host a Technology Platform , based on GPSmapping system

   

*  All smart phones to carry GPS locator ( cannot be switched off )

  (  anyone carrying a Rs 500 note in wallet , also carries a Smart phone ! )

Of course , Currency Map App ( to be named, " Currency-Cure " ? ), available to general public on their smart phones , will not be able to zoom-in / drill down , under 1 sq km area, to protect individual privacy ( this can be done , only by authorized officers of Income Tax Dept / Enforcement Directorate )

If some of you think my suggestion is impractical , consider following :

A division of Master Card ( called , MasterCard Advisors ), aggregates and analyzes every day , 65 BILLION transactions from 1.5 BILLION card-holders in 210 countries , in order to divine , business and consumer trends !

And only 2 days back , Shri Raghuram Rajan , RBI Governor said :

"  It is because money has no odour, because it is the great equalizer , that so many people across history have been able to acquire resources and invested them to make the world we live in

Rather than prohibiting the use of money and wealth , let us think about increasing society's tolerance for its use "

Today's Hindustan Times quotes a Income Tax officers as follows :

"  The taxman will soon start matching your IT returns with your possessions

The Government has started collecting data from various sources and when this is done and the data has been sifted through , action will begin

This drive is a salient feature of the tax department's agenda to curb under-reporting of tax and expand the tax payer base in the country "

And two days back , the person who leaked PANAMA  PAPERS ( 11.5 million digitized documents ) , remarked :

"  Digitization will bring in a revolution "

I would like to add :

{ RFID sensors in Currency Notes  +  IP V 6.0 URL +  GPS+  HADOOP  } ,

will end BLACK MONEY and CORRUPTION , in India

( without needing to pass any bill in Rajya Sabha ! )

I do hope , Shri Arun Jaitley-ji will take note !

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www.hemenparekh.in / blogs

09  May  2016

      

hemen  parekh

www.hemenparekh.in

Marol , Mumbai , India

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

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