The Government of India post assuming office chalked out ambitious plan to clean India to change the image of India. The vision of government was very noble and launched the program with fanfare wherein everyone nominated their favorite to be part of it.
Indian Media in order to capture
the user base, followed the organized events by the government and flashed
images of ministers to local people trying to keep the street to colony clean.
The opposition bombarded government and called it as PR activities. In order to
generate awareness among the common people government spent heavily through
print and digital media by allocating multi million $.
Time moved on and Indian citizen
moved on and we all know what happened in Delhi when Local MunicipalCorporation went for Strike and whole Delhi get converted into Garbage Center.
We all observed that all politician to local citizen kept talking and blaming
each other including popular Indian Media houses but no one initiated
collectively to clean the city.
As government spent heavily and
in order to fill up cost, Finance ministry came out with fantastic Swachh
Bharat Cess wherein there is no Cleanness. To be my utter surprise they started
charging the cess attached with service tax and other taxes. If go by the collected
tax and projections; finance ministry will be generating $1 Bn in FY17 but we
don't see any changes on the ground.
In my point of view, no one who got nominated by prominent
personality is even bothering to go out to the street and observe the situation.
Country faced severe drought and
Finance ministry came out with Krishi Kalyan Cess and expecting to garner
around $800 Mn per annum.
Finance ministry observed that
India is moving fast towards digital and mobile Internet and how to garner
additional revenue from it so came out with equalization levy of 6% popularly
known as Google tax. With growing digital and mobility business, they will be
generating around $400 - $500 mn in tax collection per annum.
Now Raining season is coming and
most of the metro cities will be flooded as there is no sewage mechanism and
strongly believe that finance ministry will be coming out with Sewage cess.
I appreciate the initiation but
it should be reflected on ground. I also do understand that it takes time to
change the mindset of people but also believe that government should not be squeezing common
people in such a way that at the end they start thinking that their
contribution is going under water. In point of view, The income tax payers
should be kept away from above cess but non- paying income tax citizen should be charged service
tax and other cess. Would love to see everyone comment
