Opinion Taxing times
The revised discussion paper on the Direct Tax Code is not in the interest of most taxpayers,especially the middle class that lives in cities.
The revised discussion paper on the Direct Tax Code (DTC puncture,IE,June 17) is not in the interest of most taxpayers,especially the middle class that lives in cities. They contribute the most in income tax and always have a financial crunch; the continuing inflationary trend,beyond the control of government,is a major cause of worry for most citizens. Yet they pay for wasteful expenditure and inefficiencies of government; consider that,in Delhi,in the name of the Commonwealth Games some or the other new tax is regularly levied,or rates are enhanced for existing taxes.
M. Kumar New Delhi
Forget Anderson
The report SP who drove Anderson to airport loses MP job (IE,June 16) is amusing. The Madhya Pradesh government has removed Swaraj Puri,the then Bhopal SP,as member of the Grievance Redressal Authority because of a video that surfaced showing Puri himself driving the Ambassador car that carried Warren Anderson to the Bhopal airport. So what? Is the government so naive as to think that the SP did do so at his own? Obviously,he followed the orders of his superiors. Instead of laying so much focus on the court verdict and Andersons escape from India,the media and the political tribe should have focused more on the wrong done in 1989 by settling for a paltry compensation of $470 million instead of the original claim of $3.3 billion. More stress should have been on reopening the compensation case,which would materially benefit the gas victims rather than going on about Anderson.
M.C. Joshi Lucknow
Afghan riches
The discovery of a trillion dollars worth of mineral reserves in Afghanistan is an opportunity for India to expand its social sector activities there,as well as its investing and trading with that country (Mine a trillion,IE,June 16). Mineral exploration calls for heavy upfront investments for which Afghanistan will need help; India and China are the two big Asian nations which should compete for the space China with its huge cash reserves and India with its entrepreneurial business class. Let us hope that India acts with alacrity to seize the moment.
Y.G. Chouksey Pune
KV tries again
Thanks to the tirade launched by this newspaper against the proposal from the Kendriya Vidyalayas Sangathan to invite the Brahma Kumaris organisation to impart value education in its schools (Spirituality Central,IE,June 10),they are out and Ramakrishna Mission is in for the task. Now it would be interesting to watch how the newspaper ranks RK Mission in its secularism index. We have already lost valuable time in such debates; many of our generations have grown without any basic value education imparted to them in the schools. The effect of this on our society is for everyone to see. Your readers are more concerned than the newspaper is,as reflected in the opinion poll conducted by you.
Vikas Guru New Delhi
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