Paisa is Paramaatma

PAISA  IS PARAMAATMA

• Turnover of Sri Ravisankarji Maharaj’s empire---Rs 400 crore

He is having art of living institutes,pharmacy and health centres in his empire. One hill near Bangalore was leased to him by the Karnataka Government for 99 years.

• Turnover of Sri Asaram bapu’s empire---Rs 350 crore

He is having one disputed Asram  in Ritz area in Delhi

• Turnover of Maataa Anandamayi’s empire---Rs 400 crore

Collecting huge donations and running hospitals and schools

• Turnover of Baba Ramdev’s empire---Rs 400 crore

Having land meant for universities and several pharmacies. The membership fee in his asram near Haridwar is---ordinary membership-Rs 11,000; Honorary membership—Rs 21,000; Special membership—Rs 51,000; Life membership—Rs 1,00,000; Reserved membership—2,51,000, Founder member—5,00,000

• Turnover of Sudhansu Maharaj’s empire—Rs 300 crore
• Turnover of Sri Murari Bapu’s empire---Rs 150 crore

All these babas and their trusts are most benefitted due to the economic development in the country.

Money only speaks in these Asrams. Baba Ramdev’s Divya Yoga mandir Trust became the richest trust in the country with in a few years.Even though the pharmacies of Babaramdev trust get tax relief, the rates of their products are very high.While Asaramji Bapu’s trust’s tax default is Rs 2.15 crores, that of Roman Catholic Church of India was Rs 1 crore .
 In the South Delhi Farm houses these Babas will give spiritual lectures for which the worshippers will attend with pure white dress after paying entry fees of Rs 5000. After listening to the spiritual lecture,  they will enjoy vegetarian meal.

(From “Prajasakti” Telugu daily dated 4-6-2011)

PAISA  IS  PARAMAATMA

• Turnover of Sri Ravisankarji Maharaj’s empire---Rs 400 crore

He is having art of living institutes,pharmacy and health centres in his empire. One hill near Bangalore was leased to him by the Karnataka Government for 99 years.

• Turnover of Sri Asaram bapu’s empire---Rs 350 crore
• He is having one disputed Asram  in Ritz area in Delhi

• Turnover of Mataa Anandamayi’s empire---Rs 400 crore

Collecting huge donations and running hospitals and schools

• Turnover of Baba Ramdev’s empire---Rs 400 crore

Having land meant for universities and several pharmacies. The membership fee in his asram near Haridwar is---ordinary membership-Rs 11,000; Honorary membership—Rs 21,000; Special membership—Rs 51,000; Life membership—Rs 1,00,000; Reserved membership—2,51,000, Founder member—5,00,000

• Turnover of Sudhansu Maharaj’s empire—Rs 300 crore
• Turnover of Sri Murari Bapu’s empire---Rs 150 crore

All these babas and their trusts are most benefitted due to the economic development in the country.

Money only speaks in these Asrams. Baba Ramdev’s Divya Yoga mandir Trust became the richest trust in the country with in a few years.Even though the pharmacies of Babaramdev trust get tax relief, the rates of their products are very high.While Asaramji Bapu’s trust’s tax default is Rs 2.15 crores, that of Roman Catholic Church of India was Rs 1 crore only. In the South Delhi Farm houses these Baba’s will give spiritual lectures for which the worshippers will attend with pure white dress after paying entry fees of Rs 5000. After listening to the spiritual lecture,  they will enjoy vegetarian meal.

(From “Prajasakti” Telugu daily dated 4-6-2011)

Government modifies telecom network security norms, due to the pressure from foreign telecom equipment vendors

   GOVERNMENT  MODIFIES  SECURITY NORMS FOR TELECOM NETWORKS, DUE TO THE PRESSURE FROM FOREIGN TELECOM EQUIPMENT VENDORS

The foreign telecom equipment vendors totally opposed the telecom security norms announced by the Government of India in 2010. Due to the concerns raised by the Indian security agencies over the possibility of embedded malware and spyware in the imported telecom equipment,  the Government of India  issued guidelines in 2010 for the foreign equipment suppliers that they should transfer their technology to Indian manufacturers within three years, they should appoint only Indians while installing, maintaining and operating the networks for the telecom services companies  and they should deposit their software source codes in an escrow account. But the foreign vendors like Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson opposed this, whereas the Chinese vendors agreed for the escrow account and deposited source codes. Finally coming under the pressure of the American and European equipment vendors, the Government diluted all these norms and issued revised guidelines on 31-5-2011. As per these revised guidelines, the foreign suppliers need not transfer their technology, need not deposit their source code in escrow account, and need not man the telecom network with Indians except at the level of Chief Technology Officer etc. While thus absolving the foreign vendors from any responsibility regarding security, these new guidelines put the entire responsibility on telecom services companies. The telecom service companies have to get their net work audited from the security point of view by a certified agency, call data  of customers must be made available along with the tracking of their location  etc. According to the estimates, the technical up gradation for acquiring these capabilities will cost Rs 5000 crore to 5800 crore per operator with in next 3 months. The telecom services operators are demanding the Government to share the burden. Thus the burden of security of the telecom network is being shifted from foreign equipment vendors to telecom services companiew which in turn are trying to shift that to the government exchequer.

In Praise of communism-A poem

In Praise of Communism

It’s sensible, anyone can understand it

It’s easy.

You are not an exploiter, so you can grasp it.

It’s a good thing for you,

Find out more about it.

The stupid call it stupid and the squalid call it squalid.

It’s against squalor and stupidity

The exploiters call it a crime, but we know

It is the end of the crime.

It is not madness, but the end of madness.

It is not chaos, but order

It is the simplest thing so hard to achieve.

                                                                       -------- Bertolt  Brecht

Foreign Direct Investment in Indian Telecom Sector

FDI (FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT) IN SOME INDI AN TELECOM COMPANIES

Sl.No	Name of the Company	Name of the Country	Activities	FDI
1.	Bharti Airtel	FIIs Mauritius/FIIs/OCBs/ NRIs	CMTS	74%
2.	Idea Cellular Ltd	FIIs/FVCIs	CMTS	74%
3.	Tata Teleservices	Japan	Telecom Services	26%
4.	Vodafone Essar	Netherlands	CMTS and UASL	74%
5.	Reliance Communication Pvt Ltd	GDR	CMTS	74%
6.	Sistema Shyam Teleservices	Russia	UASL	74%
7.	Spice Communications	mauritius	CMTS	74%
As per DoT website during the period 1-4-2000 to 31-8-2010 the amount of Foreign Direct Investment in Indian telecom sector is Rs 45495 crores.

Telecom Sector-Draining out of astronomical amount of resources from India to foreign telecom equipment manufacturers

In the year 2009-10, the cost of the telecom equipment utilised for expanding the telecom network was Rs 93600 crores. In this,  equipment costing Rs 44800 crores was imported and equipment costing Rs 48800 crores was manufactured in India. But this equipment manufactured in India is not of the category Indian Product(where the intellectual property right acquired for the research and development and the designing and manufacture all were done by Indian Companies), but only Indian manufacture Products”- (which means only assembling and soldering of the parts imported from other countries was done in India), as per the report of the PWC(Price Water Coopers-a US consultancy firm). As per this study of the PWC the value addition in this Indian manufacture is only 11%. This means out of the Rs 48800 crore worth equipment manufactured in India, the value added in India is only Rs 5368 crores. Thus out of the Rs 93600 crores  worth telecom equipment utilised by the Indian telecom services sector in 2008-09, the value created in India is only Rs 5368 crores and the remaining Rs 88232 crores belonged to foreign companies. This means  in one year a huge amount of Rs 88232 crores was paid by India to foreign telecom equipment manufacturing companies. It can be safely presumed that after the starting of mobile telecom services in India, atleast 5 lakh crores of rupees was paid to foreign companies for buying telecom equipment, indicating an astronomical amount of the draining of our resources to foreign countries.

Therefore how to see that this drainage of resources is stopped and the telecom equipment is produced indigenously and the dependence on foreign manufacturers is stopped.