Is 1000 crores a big amount?
(Can't problems can be solved in Parliament??? And in what situations is it necessary to pull down a government in between??? All the opposition do not look united as they all have different vested interests(state and national) and ideological differences, but still if they come to some solution finding agreement and together pull the govt on some vital issue....can they fight election together or against each other, which will comeout as a same result of 'FRACTURE MANDATE AND DIVIDED BUT UNITED GOVERNMENT'...CAN'T WE FIND SOME BETTER SOLUTION TOGETHER...GOVT,OPPOSITION AND PUBLIC???? ...VIBHA)
by Jalpesh Chitalia on Apr 15, 2004 12:15 PM |
Guys, Why make 1000 crores an issue? First this money is worth Rs. 10 per Indian person in five years!! That mean Rs.2 per month per person!!
More importantly, this gives us the "rulers" to decide our representatives!! We were the ones who changed the fortunes defeating Indira and Vajpayee!
If we really know what is good for Our Country, we could stop thinking about this expense.
I agree 1000 crores is under-estimated, but well, even if it becomes 5000 crores it is negligible as per GDM-term in the massive Indian economy.
Moreover, government spending of this Rs. 1000 crores reaches your home in some way or the other - directly or indirectly!
The hidden costs should also be taken into account.
by chanakya on Apr 02, 2004 01:02 PM | Hide replies
And when these accounted for, it could well exceed 1500 crores, gentlemen !
1000 crores is a gross under-estimation and vastly unduly charitable to the most uncharitable exercise of going to the polls, rather than just requesting NDA to got ahead and rule for another five years.
Nobody is assuring the nation anything basically required. The voters are largely being taken for nonsensical rides that would make little or no change in their lives the way it should.
After all that is what is going to take place - an NDA
government with the changes of a few faces.
Only the bottle will be of 2004 model, the daaroo will be the same old daroo only.
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Cost of Elections in India
by N. Rajagopal on Mar 26, 2004 08:55 PM | Hide replies
March 26, 2004
It is just waste of money to Elect next gang of thugs to loot the Country.
The Public Robbery (open corruption) is on the rise as anyone can see. If an IRS Officer can give 5 laks (exact figure is not important) for transfer to a particular place/post, one can imagine what he would have earned in his earlier postings and how much he plans to earn (thru illegal means) in the particular posting. And such 3 letter officials have the backing of the politicians.
The cost of the elections can be minimised to an extent, by introducing new rules. First, No person should be permitted to contest from any other place than his native place. Because, people from his native place certainly know how good or bad a person is. No one should be permitted to contest from more than one place at the same time and if any, the person should bear the cost of elections in 2 places, 2 times. That is 4 times since if elected from both the places, he has to vacate one seat (we can not say which) and elections have to be conducted again. Hence, one must be made to bear all the expenses, in advance, for 2 constituencies, 2 times elections.
This will bring some order in elections.
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Cost of this Poll? Rs.1000 Crores!
by Kalyanakumar on Mar 26, 2004 04:53 PM | Hide replies
Why not the Election Commission of India can implement the system by introducing Election Website to cast the Vote by Indian Citizens through it? Now we are living in electronic world and every one is using PC with internet access. Why not EC can do it?.
There no much higher cost. It is very cheaper.
All Citizens can cast their vote. Illiterate can be guided by an Operator nominated by Election Commission.
It is my suggestion.
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1000crores for electing mostly hard core white/blue collar criminals
by Bhaskar on Mar 26, 2004 03:09 PM | Hide replies
While 99 out of 100 candidates hugely overspend on the election campaign why not a single candidate has been disqualified from contesting elcections? In India rules are framed only to be broken more prominently by the rule makers themselves!!
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curbing the election expenses
by viswanath_a71 on Mar 26, 2004 03:05 PM | Hide replies
To the surprise note all over the world every body is talking of cost cutting. But in India Election expenses from term to term are increasing drastically. So A serious attempt has to be made to cut the expenses of conducting elections. In this regard my opinion is to utilize the Technology and develop an Election Conduting system that can be used repeatedly. Political leaders like Mr.Chandrababu naidu and Mr.S.M. Krishna who are heading the states which are very well developed in terms of technology has to come farward to put these efforts.
More over the Political scenario in India has changed. As we are going to get coailation governments only here after, so we never know when do we need to face the elections again. It may be after 1 year or 2 year. So a Low cost Election Conduting system has to be developed. An Investment for 1 time to buy the technology can be utilised repeatedly.
Where we save lot of Money which can be utilised for many development programs in India or it can be used atleast to repay the loan what we are taking from World Bank.
With the use of Technology the Process of Election condution will be come very easy.
A LOW COST AND VERY EFFECTIVE SOLUTION.
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Total cost would be 10,000 crore
by Basu on Mar 26, 2004 02:42 PM |
For this election, Rs 10,000 crore will be spent.(Incuding govt. and candidates)
Permanent Identification card
by Srinath on Mar 26, 2004 12:25 PM |
Can the government not issue as permanent identity card to every adult citizen of the country which will have information like passport # , driving licence # , PAN # , etc..
bar code scannable , valid document at any place ??
also why can't the govt conduct elections in municipal schools ?? so no need to spend additional money on the polling stations !!
why should the government pay for the security of the ministers ??? if they have done something wrong only then will the ministers need to fear or else not !!
easily Rs 500 crores can be saved. can IIM graduates not come up with a solution to this problem to save costs for the nation ?
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