Thursday, July 9, 2015

OROP : BATHINDA EX-SERVICEMEN ON OROP "MERA HAQ "

SOURCE :http://ex-servicemenwelfare.blogspot.in/

                                 OROP
           BATHINDA EX-SERVICEMEN
                                  ON
                 OROP "MERA HAQ "

Thursday, July 9, 2015

EX-SERVICEMEN ON WARPATH : BLOCK HIGHWAY OVER OROP

Tribune News Service - Bathinda, July 8

Traffic on the Bathinda-Chandigarh highway was hit as ex-servicemen today blocked the highway outside the cantonment area here demanding the implementation of the ‘one rank, one pension’ (OROP) policy. The highway remained closed for more than two hours.

As the number of stranded vehicles increased, the district administration diverted these from Bucho towards Nathana and other villages.Around 2,000 ex-servicemen from across the state participated in the protest.On seeing the large number of protesters, Army officials closed all gates leading to the cantonment.

Carrying placards and wearing black badges, ex-servicemen raised slogans against the Modi government and its Finance and Defence Ministers for not implementing the scheme. At 10 am, a large number of ex-servicemen gathered outside the cantonment police station.Some protesters held a march from the Sub-Area gate to the Corps HQ gate. As the gate was closed, these protesters had to sit in Chetak Park.

The large number of ex-servicemen who remained at the Sub-Area gate blocked the Bathinda-Chandigarh highway stating that a senior Army official should come and take their memorandum.

Seeing the situation had become tense, SP City Desraj and Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Damanjit Singh Mann reached the spot and requested the protesters to clear the highway, but the ex-servicemen stayed put for more than two hours.Then, the SDM talked with Army officials and took a few protesters, who were sitting at Chetak Park, to Army officials. Only when the protesters handed over the memorandum to them was the protest called off.

Brigadier Indermohan Singh (retd), president, Indian Ex-Services League, Punjab, said, “OROP has been a long-standing demand of ex-servicemen and relates to payment of uniform pension to defence forces personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service, irrespective of their date of retirement.” He apologised to the commuters who had to face harassment today due to road blockage.

He warned that veterans would not rest until the government implemented OROP and that the protest would be intensified in the coming days.

Commuters irked as EX-SM block highway

Sukhmeet Bhasin - Tribune News Service -Bathinda, July 8

Traffic jam at the Bathinda-Chandigarh Road

Police personnel disperse the protesting ex-servicemen to make way for vehicles stuck in the traffic jam caused after the protesters sat on the Bathinda-Chandigarh highway

Commuters argue with the protesters in Bathinda on Wednesday. Tribune photos: Pawan sharma

Commuters argue with the agitating ex-servicemen who had blocked traffic in the Cantonment area on Wednesday. Tribune photos: pawan sharma

Vehicle movement was brought to a standstill on the Bathinda-Chandigarh national highway for about over two hours this morning when ex-servicemen resorted to a blockade outside the cantonment area over the delay in the implementation of One Rank, One Pension (OROP).

The ex-servicemen gathered on the road at 10am, blocking traffic on both sides of the road. The protest was lifted only at 1 am after they submitted a memorandum to Army officials. Commuters had to face hardships due to the protest.

Long queues of vehicles was witnessed on both sides of the highway. Unable to move ahead or backwards, trucks, cars, buses, two-wheelers and other vehicles found themselves stuck on the road. Commuters carrying their luggage on foot blamed the district administration and the police for not making alternate arrangements.

Poilce and district administration officials present at the spot expressed their helplessness in removing controlling the agitators. Some of the commuters entered into heated arguments with the agitators for harassing them by blocking the road. Gurjot Kaur, a resident of Bucho, said today that she had to join the office in the city as it was her first day in the office, but she was struck in the traffic jam due to the protest.

She said the district administration had announced that all protests must be held at the Transport Nagar located on the outskirts of the city, but both district and the police administration failed miserably in restricting the protesters from holding demonstrations in the city and causing inconvenience to the public.

Harish Garg said he walked two kilometers with my son to reach the Bibiwala road. There are many passengers who were still sitting in buses. He said the administration should divert the traffic fast so that they did not struck in the jam.

Sandeep Singh, a resident of Barnala, said he had some work in court and had to reach there at 11am, but due to the jam he was not able to reach the court on time.

He claimed that protesters should think of the public before blocking the roads and harassing them. Their demands were genuine but what would happen by blocking the road. Cantonment police station, SHO, Harpreet Singh, said they had diverted the traffic from Bucho and through Gobidnpura village, but police were not aware that they would block the road as they had plan to take out a protest march and submit a memorandum.

Veterans lay siege to highway in Bathinda; over 150 booked

PROTESTERS SIT ON DHARNA, BLOCKING THE BATHINDA-CHANDIGARH ROAD FOR OVER THREE HOURS, RESULTING IN TRAFFIC CHAOS

BATHINDA: Pressing for immediate implementation of ‘one rank one pension’ (OROP) scheme, hundreds of ex-servicemen on Wednesday blocked the busy Bathinda- Chandigarh highway.

SANJEEV KUMAR/HT

A police official arguing with an ex-serviceman during a protest in Bathinda on Wednesday. The police have booked over 150 protesters. Ex-servicemen from across the state, under the banner of Indian Ex-Services League (IESL), had gathered in the city to submit a memorandum to authorities at Bathinda cantonment in support of their demands. However, a group of angry veterans decided to lay siege to the highway and sat on dharna in front of the Cantt police station blocking both lanes, resulting in traffic chaos.

The blockade began around 10 am and continued till 1 pm with protesters shouting slogan against the central government. The road in front of the Chetak park was also blocked, as a result the traffic had to be diverted from Bhucho, on the outskirts of the city. Six protesters, including Bhinder Singh, Ramji Das and Sukhdev Singh, all from Sangrur, Baldev Singh from Tarn Taran and Kartar Singh, Baldev Raj Joshi, both from Bathinda, were booked under Indian Penal Code sections 283 (danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant Cases were also registered against nearly 150 unidentified protesters.

As the police were not expecting such a protest by the veterans, it hadn’t deployed much force in the area. The local administration had a tough time persuading the protesters to remove the blockade. Sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Damanjit Singh Mann said the ex-servicemen had initially planned to submit a memorandum. However, a section of protesters later sat on a dharna, disrupting traffic.

A delegation of ex-servicemen, led by Brigadier Inder Mohan Singh (retired), submitted a memorandum to a representative of the core commander at Bathinda cantonment. He said veterans have decided to stage protests outside military stations over OROP. Similar protests would be held at other cantonments in the state, he said.Mohan Singh said the association has urged former Punjab chief minister and Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Captain Amarinder Singh to be a part of protests in the coming days. “Earlier, we had planned to stage a protest at Amritsar with Amarinder Singh on July 22. But we were told that he might not be available on that day. So, we have yet to finalise a date,” he said.

SCUFFLE BETWEEN EX-SERVICEMEN, LOCALS

High drama was witnessed outside the Bathinda Cantt police station as scuffle broke out between ex-servicemen and residents. Later, some protesters also raised slogans against the Punjab and Chandigarh IESL president, blaming him for mismanagement.

EX-SERVICEMEN ON WARPATH

Ex-servicemen taking out a protest march in Bathinda on Wednesday.

(SOURCE- SANJHA MORCHA)

DEFENCE MNINSTER ON OROP ; EXPECT GOOD NEWS SOON

(SOURCE- NDTV)

Updated: July 9, 2015 15:20 IST

Good news soon on OROP: Parrikar

The Hindu, Chennai

" As far as the Defence Ministry is concerned, our work is almost over", says the Defence Minister

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said there will be “good news” soon on the issue of One Rank One Pension, a long-standing demand of ex-servicemen who have been holding protests across the nation. “It’s an inter-departmental issue. As far as the Defence Ministry is concerned, our work is almost over. This is taking time but I can say that there will be good news soon,” he said.

Ex-servicemen have been protesting since last month to press for the implementation of One Rank, One Pension. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that his government is committed to the long-awaited One Rank, One Pension (OROP) policy for ex-servicemen.

Currently, the pension of retired personnel is based on the pay commission recommendations in force at the time of their retirement.

Read: Modi reiterates commitment to OROP

OROP scheme is aimed at ensuring that all retired soldiers, who have the same rank and the length of service receive the same amount of pension, irrespective of their date of retirement. Currently, all those soldiers who retired before 2006 receive less pension than their counterparts and even their juniors.Mr. Parrikar, who was here to inaugurate an orientation programme for newly-elected Cantonment Board Members, said the Defence Ministry will not be an hindrance in developmental projects.

“The ministry will not be creating hurdles in developmental projects. We have given land for developmental works wherever needed. However, we will not compromise with the security issue,” he said in reply to a question.The Minister also hinted at amendments in Cantonments Board Act, 2006.

The Cantonments Act, 2006 authorises the Cantonment Boards to take up a number of activities including for social welfare subject to availability of funds. The Orientation Programme will bring together at one forum 163 elected members of 24 Cantonment Boards, 114 of them being first-timers, to deliberate on key issues pertaining to the Cantonment Board administration.

The Boards have to perform both municipal and developmental activities and have the power to impose various taxes and fees. The programme is being held for the first time as part of an initiative taken by the Director General, Defence Estates.

'Capable of securing borders'

The Defence Minister dismissed his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Asif’s statement on use of nuclear weapons, saying India is capable of securing its borders.“Answer to every question is not necessary. I am Defence Minister of India, not Pakistan. India is capable of securing its borders,” he said.Mr. Parrikar was asked to comment on Mr. Asif’s statement that use of nuclear weapons was an option as they were not kept merely for show but as deterrents.

Mr. Asif had said in a television interview that if Pakistan needed to use nuclear weapons for “our survival, we will“.

(SOURCE- THE HINDU)

Lucknow: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday reiterated that the Narendra Modigovernment was committed to 'One Rank One Pension' scheme for ther armed forces, and added it would be implemented at an appropriate time. His assurance came a day after ex-servicemen held a relay hunger strike in Delhi to press their demand for 'One Rank One Pension', and said they would request no more for a meeting with Parrikar after a promised meeting failed to materialise on Wednesday. "There are some stumbling blocks (in the implementation of OROP) and efforts are being made to remove them," the defence minister said.

Parrikar also asked journalists not to hazard a guess on the date of implementation of the scheme and said that everyone would come to know of it in due course of time. Responding to Pakistani defence minister's recent comment on the use of nuclear weapons in case of a face-off with India, Parrikar said, "The nation is competent to meet any threat." Parrikar, a Rajya Sabha member of parliament from Uttar Pradesh, was in the state capital to attend a function at the Cantonment Board.

He said all possible help would be extended to the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation regarding problems related to the route of the ambitious project through the Cantonment area. "Whatever plans and proposals are sent to the defence ministry will be dealt with a positive and forward-looking approach," he added.

(SOURCE- ZEE NEWS

OROP ‏:Tigress on OROP ‏

Source :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUcUwMRTMFk

OROP ‏:Tigress on OROP ‏

Tigress at Jantar Mantar - OROP

Jul 7, 2015

What a powerful speech today . Must watch this lady who roared like a tigress at Jantar Mantar . I sponsor her to be the next Defense Minister of India . Share this video if you are a Real Indian .

OROP : Defence Matters - Stalemate On OROP Does Not Augur Well ( FOR SAVING YOUR ASS )

SOURCE:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/defence-matters-stalemate-on-orop-does-not-augur-well/article1-1367335.aspx

       OROP : Defence Matters - Stalemate On OROP Does Not Augur Well
                                      By
                 Lt-Gen Harwant Singh (Retd)


Jul 09, 2015

Protests and hunger strike by veterans across the country have now entered the fourth week. Previously, thousands of war medals were returned to the President of India. An insensitive political class appears to be unconcerned about these most unusual and unfortunate developments. It is not something which has surfaced suddenly and unexpectedly. The struggle for ‘One-Rank One Pension’ (OROP) has been on for nearly four decades and Parliament and the political class have been aware of the issues all this while.

So, what is it that makes the political executive not only hold back, but in fact go back on its commitment.

POLITICAL CLASS’ WEIRD VIEWS

The political executive is being tutored to give weird views on defence forces.

The defence minister is obligated to comment that since Indian defence forces have not fought a war for the last 40 or 50 years, they have lost the respect of the people.

One may be tempted to overlook his ignorance of the Kargil war and the operations in Sri Lanka, but surely he could not be unaware that General VK Singh got the second highest number of votes in the Lok Sabha polls last year, second only to the Prime Minister.

Perhaps for our defence minister, it is a sign of public’s loss of respect for the military.

A group of former director generals of central police organisations (CPOs) marched to the home minister and informed him that giving OROP to the armed forces will demoralise policemen. Perhaps, the home minister is unaware that 80% of military personnel retire at 35-37 years and get only around 37% of last pay drawn as pension, whereas police personnel (central and state) retire at 57-60, and get 50% of last pay drawn as pension. Due to the longer duration of service, these policemen get more pay at the time of retirement, and consequently get much higher pension, which is 50% of last pay drawn as against 37% of much lower pay of soldiers.

One expected the home minister to ask these DGs as to what prompted them to come up with such facetious plea. He could have asked one more, simple question as to how many Indian Police Service officers have died fighting against the Maoists and the insurgents etc over the past six decades.

Equally, those who claim that giving OROP to the defence personnel will lead to similar demands by others need to be questioned on how they arrived at such outlandish proposition. Are these ‘others’ willing to accept a soldier’s terms and conditions of service.

The finance minister informed the delegation which met him that these soldiers joined service, knowing fully-well that they would be compulsorily retired at a very young age. He further called upon the veterans that they need to lower their sights and that there were many interpretations of the OROP.

[ MR FINANCE MINISTER U R TALKING THE LINGUA OF A PAKI.
SOLDIER IS NOT A GUY FROM LABOUR MARKET . SOLDIER IS A FIGHTING MAN

SOLDIERS TERM WAS & IS TO SERVE 18 YEARS ie HE SERVED 100 PERCENT OF DURATION SO PAY HIM 100% PENSION TO MAKE UP THE LOSS OF EARLY RETIREMENT, DONT U KNOW LIKE OTHER RESPECTABLE WORLD ARMIES EVEN PAKIS R PAYING 75% FOR THE SAME PERIOD. DONT U KNOW BABUS STOLE 20% PENSION OF A JAWAN'S IN 1973 & ENRICHED THEM SELVES WITH THAT STOLEN 20% OF DEFENCE PENSION FUND & TO COMPENSATE THAT 20% OROP WAS PROMISED IN EARLY EIGHTIES, DO U REQUIRE 35 YEARS TO MAKE THIS SIMPLE ARITHMETIC, ARUN SHOURIE IS CORRECT, U R A WRONG PERSON ON THE CHAIR OF FINANCE. PLEASE RESIGN & GO HOME -Vasundhra ]

Unfortunately for him, the Koshyari Committee of Parliament, in most unambiguous terms spelled out what OROP is, leaving no room for any second interpretation.

Another political worthy informs us that soldiers are paid to die.

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    NO Mr, THE JOB OF SOLDIER IS,

                    IF U DONT KNOW

-VASUNDHRA

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CLEARING THE MISCONCEPTION

Some others are busy portraying that OROP is officer-oriented and that the soldier will gain very little. Baseless and mischievous as these projections are, they hold the promise of doing great harm to the cohesiveness of the military and impact its fighting potential.

If anything is completely officer-oriented, it is the nonfunctional upgrade (NFU) which the civil services gave to themselves.

Why is the military in India being subjected to such jibes and indignities!

In no other democracy in the world has the military ever been driven to resort to such protests. The political executive seems to be ignorant of the far-reaching consequences and impact such goings on will have on the military.

Who is behind all this?

Who are the people who have the ears of the political executive and are downloading all kinds of false information?

There is a class of people in this government who may be hoping that this agitation if allowed to simmer on will boil over and precipitate matters. They seem to hope that the veterans’ protests will spin off into violent agitation and then they can use the police (state and central) to settle scores. Such thinking is fraught with frightening consequences. It is not only the bonding between the veterans and the serving personnel which needs to be taken into account, but the fact that many officers wearing uniform now have their fathers, uncles, elder brothers part of this agitation. When some of them resort to fast unto death and deaths do take place, or are roughed up by the police, the consequences are completely unpredictable. Often a small spark in one place can set off a chain reaction.

It is hoped that the political executive will, sometime soon, realise that it is being grossly misled by its advisers. What the veterans are asking for is eminently and fairly their due: yes, indeed overdue.

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CYBERSPACE : Update On The Net Neutrality Debate

SOURCE :
http://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/no-whatsapp-for-nld-or-local-calls-says-dot/ar-AAcmpfv

Update On The Net Neutrality Debate

By

SANDEEP PILLAI

02 Jul, 2015

— Many of us may be thinking as to what happened regarding the net neutrality debate and if everything subsided after the huge noise some months ago. Well its not.A lot of behind the...

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                 No WhatsApp for NLD
                                  or
                 Local Calls, Says DoT

A department of telecommunications-appointed committee on net neutrality has recommended that apps of over-the-top (OTT) players like Skype, WhatsApp and Viber can continue to be used for making international calls or for messaging, but they will have to be licensed when they are used for making either local or national long distance (NLD) calls. What is not clear is how this partial segregation is to be done. The report was submitted to telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad last month.

Telcos make about 8% of their revenues from international calls and around 18% and 56% from NLD and local calls, respectively.

If this comes as partial relief to leading telcos that are facing the possibility of OTTs cutting into their lucrative voice revenues - while 1 minute of voice calls gives telcos 40-50 paise of revenue, a 1-minute VoIP call results in just 4 paise revenue - they have been hit when it comes to data packages such as Airtel Zero or Internet.org since the committee has said this violates the principle of net neutrality.

The report, however, is purely recommendatory. A final decision will have to wait for a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recommendation, after which the government will debate the matter.

© image "As per our report, Indians spend 47 per cent of time using communications apps such as voice, instant messaging, voice over internet protocol (example Skype), emails and social networking on smartphones," Ericsson said. (Reuters)

The issue had, however, become contentious since Trai had come out with a consultation paper in March asking, among other things, whether OTTs needed to be brought under the ambit of licensing conditions. A viral social media campaign also ensured Bharti Airtel withdrew a package charging differential rates - three times the normal rate for regular data packages - for VoIP services. While the telco has not withdrawn its Airtel Zero package, a high-pitched campaign saw the country's largest e-commerce player Flipkart desisting from joining it.

"Specific OTT communication services dealing with messaging should not be interfered with through regulatory instruments," the report has said, while maintaining that status quo should be maintained in this regard.

On VoIP-based communication services, the report says, "In case of domestic calls (local and national), communication services by TSPs (telecom service providers) and OTT communication services may be treated similarly from a regulatory angle for the present. The nature of regulatory similarity, the calibration of regulatory response and its phasing can be appropriately determined after public consultations and Trai's recommendations to this effect."

"In contrast to OTT communication services, there's no case for prescribing regulatory structure for OTT application services," the committee has concluded.

The committee has argued its case for treating messaging application services and communication services differently. "In case of VoIP OTT communication services, there exists a regulatory arbitrage wherein such services also bypass the existing licensing and regulatory regime creating a non-level playing field between TSPs and OTT providers both competing for the same service provision. Public policy response requires that regulatory arbitrage does not dictate winners and losers in a competitive market by service provision," the report noted.

Taking a hard stance against allowing any sponsored data like the one offered by Bharti Airtel, the committee has said, "Collaboration between TSPs and content providers that enable gatekeeping role to be played by any entity should be actively discouraged."

Proponents of OTT operations argue that if operators lose out on voice revenue, they still earn data revenue through services like WhatsApp or Viber. However, the realisation for a mobile operator is not similar from voice calls and data services. For instance, a minute of voice usage on mobile phone makes an operator realise around 50 paise. In the case of a similar duration of VoIP call there's a realisation of only 4 paise.

Mobile operators maintain that if they are not offered a level playing field with OTTs, their businesses would be viable only by raising data prices by up to six times. Such high rates, they say, would become unaffordable for a large number of people, denying them access to the internet. They have been urging for applying the principle of same service, same rules to bring voice calls and VoIP under the same regulatory regime.

On average, revenues earned through data by mobile operators is around 25 paise per MB of data and the average size of a one-minute VoIP call is around 150 KB. The average holding time in call is of two minutes whereas in the case of VoIP calls it is around 12 minutes. It is this difference between prices of voice calls and VoIP calls that has prompted the proliferation and success of communication OTT apps. The low cost of usage incentivises the user to have longer conversations in VoIP calls compared with traditional telecom calls, which further congests networks.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

CYBERSPACE : 8 Reasons Why Good Governance Will Not Come By Building On Aadhaar

SOURCE:

8 Reasons Why Good Governance Will Not Come By Building On Aadhaar
By
Dr Anupam Saraph

02 JUL 2015

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the once upon a time staunch critic and opponent of Aadhaar numbering scheme, is not only enforcing, but also mandating usage of the UID number for his pet Digital India campaign

The Aadhaar is putting national security in jeopardy. It is destroying governance and ability to govern. It will end the rule of law and perhaps even compromise the sovereignty of India. It is facilitating money laundering. Here is a summary of why Prime Minister Narendra Modi must act on the concerns and on his election promises.

1 The Political Gimmick: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been amongst the strongest critics of the unique identification (UID) or Aadhaar, recognizing that it was running on mere executive order and not legislative sanction, he had called it a political gimmick. He had further highlighted that neither the team that met him, nor the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had been able to allay his concerns and fears about National Security over the UID.

2 The Purpose of UID: In the presence of over a dozen different IDs, each of which serves a purpose and is not replaceable, there is no purpose served by the UID. When issued based on already existing IDs it is only adding yet another layer of red tape. When issued by “introducers” it serves no useful purpose, as it is not subject to any audit or verification.

3 The Validity of UID: Furthermore, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Finance Ministry have admitted that there are no designated officials certifying the identity or address and as such the UID is neither proof of address (PoA) nor proof of identity (PoI). From the procedure announced by the UIDAI, to recover lost UID numbers it is evident that several records are returned for biometric and demographic information. It is required to narrow match to 5-10 entries. This also means that de-duplication using biometrics is a mere theoretical exercise and biometrics cannot produce a unique ID. The UIDAI and Ministry of Finance have both indicated that no verification or audit of the UID database has ever happened. The UID is merely a random number assigned by the UIDAI to unverified and unaudited data submitted by private parties paid for each record is therefore not even a proof of the existence of any person.

4 The Insurance of UID: In addition, biometrics are neither permanent nor immovable. Biometrics change during the life of a person, sometimes even within a year, without warning. Biometrics can be easily stolen, replicated or misused as has been demonstrated by hacking fingerprints, and iris scans of high profile targets. The enrollment agencies that have captured the biometric have the entire demographic and biometric database in their possession and as such it can be misused or stolen. Once the biometric fails or is stolen, all the functions that have crept to link access to the biometric are denied with little or no recourse to the victim.

5 The Security Risks of UID: Using the UID to establish other ID’s and claim rights as a citizen when the UID is not even a PoI, PoA or PoE or can even be stolen creates a perfect channel for identity theft and infiltration by terrorists, anti-nationals, organized criminals and illegal immigrants. It is therefore not only a threat to national security but also to the sovereignty of the country. Using the UID as the sole or electronic know your customer (KYC) to open bank accounts that have no restriction of anti-money laundering rules, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s Master Circular on KYC, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Basel Standards of keeping customer data, as has been forced by the Department of Revenue and the UIDAI on the RBI, is opening doors for use of such accounts to finance terrorism, organized crime, park black money, siphon direct cash transfers of subsidy and launder money. There are enough incidents in the country that highlight the compromise of national security through UID.

6 The Sufficiency of UID: Further, the UID is neither necessary nor sufficient to deliver any benefit, rights and entitlements. Each benefit, right or entitlement requires its own ID and information that can neither be captured by the UID nor was the UID ever needed to deliver these. The UID worsens the quality of the ID databases by eliminating genuine beneficiaries and adding fake beneficiaries as for example has been seen in Pondicherry. The use of UID adds a new layer to the business processes creating exclusion and increasing untraceable leakages. Any leakages can be plugged by audit of the original ID databases without requiring a UID. Further process redesign to reduce steps, increase auditability reduces leakages. Neither of these has been done.

7 The Costs of UID: The UID adds cost to every business process that uses it to deliver any benefit, right or entitlement. There is no basis to show any savings effected by the use of the UID as such savings can only happen by denying the delivery of benefits, subsidies or entitlements by claiming those denied were fake entries in the ID database of the government department. Firstly there can be no claim of the UID database being free of fraudulent entries. Secondly there are no FIRs in any department against officials or fake individuals. Thirdly many genuine beneficiaries have been excluded by the use of the UID. The UID therefore has only costs, not savings. Furthermore no cost has been put to stolen identity or worse the theft of a part or the entire registry.

8 The Disenfranchising by UID: A multi billion pound National ID program was scrapped by UK Prime Minister David Cameroon as part of his election promise even after the citizens had paid for their IDs for similar reasons that promised to disenfranchise the citizens and make them helpless if such an ID did not work. The US government post 9/11 under Bush had already discovered the use of Social Security Number (SSN) had resulted in identity theft of massive proportions and had issued explicit memos to all offices about "Safeguarding Against and Responding to the Breach of Personally Identifiable Information”. This also required restricting the use of the SSN and delinking the SSN from multiple usage.

What the Prime Minister must do?

Stop the UID linkages to government programs and initiate delinking UID from all government databases.
Verify and audit the entire UID database; if it is too expensive to do so, destroy the database as was done in the UK.
Initiate a time-bound judicial probe by a retired CAG and Supreme Court Judge supported by the CBI to investigate the exposure of the country to serious threats to national security due to UID.
Audit of other government databases can be done to "clean" them without requiring any new ID. If an ID is desired or an easy method to deliver and audit benefits is desired, consider shared ID http://www.sunday-guardian.com/analysis/time-to-think-of-aadhaars-alternatives or benefit delivery described here http://www.moneylife.in/article/10-digital-solutions-to-make-india-the-best-governed-nation/38338.html.

(Dr Anupam Saraph is a Professor, Future Designer, former governance and IT advisor to Goa’s former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the Global Agenda Councils of the World Economic Forum.)

Teaching Maths

Teaching Maths

1. Teaching Maths In 1950s

A logger sells a
truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is 4/5 of the price. What
is his profit?

2. Teaching Maths In 1970s

A logger sells a
truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is 4/5 of the price, or
$80. What is his profit?

3. Teaching Maths In 1980s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100.
His cost of production
is $80. Did he make a profit ?
Yes or No

4. Teaching Maths In 1990s

A logger sells a
truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production
is $80 and his profit is
$20 Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

5. Teaching Maths In 2000s

A logger cuts down a
beautiful forest because he is selfish and
inconsiderate and cares nothing
for the habitat of animals or the
preservation of our woodlands.
He does this so he can make a profit of
$20. What do you think of this
way of making a living? Topic for
class participation after
answering the question: How did the birds
and squirrels feel as the logger
cut down their homes? (There are no
wrong answers, and if you feel
like crying, it's ok).

6. Teaching Maths In 2050

هاتشيرو تبيع كارلواد من نهاب 100 دولار .

تكلفة الإنتاج هو 80 دولاراً . كيف الكثيرمن المال ولم؟

OROP: One Rank One Pension – Anna Hazare to join Ex-Servicemen in OROP Agitation

SOURCE:
http://www.gconnect.in/defence-services/one-rank-one-pension-anna-hazare-to-join-ex-servicemen-in-orop-agitation.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=408382&utm_campaign=0

OROP issue has taken lot of twist and turns in the recent times after Ex-Servicemen started fighting for it full time

One Rank One Pension – Anna Hazare to join Ex-Servicemen in OROP Agitation

Defence Services

July 8, 2015

Anna Hazare to support One Rank One Pension issue

Agitation of Ex-Servicemen for almost a month now over release of One Rank One Pension Order is likely to get support from Mr.Anna Hazare.

The Social Activist has informed that he would start a nation wide agitation in support of One Rank One Pension issue. It was also mentioned by Mr.Hazare that this protest is not for any political gain.

He says “We have to take care of our soldiers and farmers. Making hollow announcements for their welfare and actually implementing them are different things”

OROP issue has taken lot of twist and turns in the recent times after Ex-Servicemen started fighting for it full time. Earlier Congress Leader Mr.Rahul Gandhi supported One Rank One Pension issue and demanded govt for speedy implementation of OROP.

Though Prime Minister Mr. Modi and Defence Minister Mr.Parrikar have repeatedly promised for implementing One Rank One Pension as early as possible but as per Ex-Servicemen, it is taking quite a long time.

Source: NDTV

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