NITI Aayog Vs Planning Commission

Recently Planning commission became NITI Aayog ( National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog.

NITI Aayog vs Planning Commission

Parameter	NITI Aayog	Planning Commission
Financial clout	To be an advisory body, or a think-tank. The powers to allocate funds might be vested in the finance ministry	Enjoyed the powers to allocate funds to ministries and state governments
Full-time members	The number of full-time members could be fewer than Planning Commission	The last Commission had eight full-time members
States' role	State governments are expected to play a more significant role than they did in the Planning Commission	States' role was limited to the National Development Council and annual interaction during Plan meetings
Member secretary	To be known at the CEO and to be appointed by the prime minister	Secretaries or member secretaries were appointment through the usual process
Part-time members	To have a number of part-time members, depending on the need from time to time	Full Planning Commission had no provision for part-time members

Source: Business Standard

A Glimpse of Changing Bihar

 Efficiency of Bihar Government is yielding fruit. Here is a video on various parameters Bihar is taking to progress and work done by state government as reported by NDTV.


India Matters: Bihar calling by tvnportal


Bihar Economic Development is Real!

Pakistan in Peril

It is visible a long ago that I am not giving time to this blog. I want to write here as well but I could not give it enough time after working and doing blah blah stuff on my technical blog. Still sometime I got time to write and some issue forces me to write. This is one such issue.

Over time, I have no sympathy to corrupt peoples and those kinds of people who spread hatred and venom. These people will do everything and when you even complain and retaliate then they say that see they are doing the same. Pakistan definitely comes in the same bracket. Over the year, it is taken help from China just for fighting the false war with India. It takes lots of money from International community in name of elevating poverty but what it does is you all know - spreading terrorism all over the world .  Recent flood is said to be covering 20-25 % of Pakistan population. Think it is quarter of whole country and not just any state in a country.

World over, people are thinking that accepting by Pakistan that India is not the biggest threat to India and it is extremism that has spread all over Pakistan is the biggest threat to Pakistan is a good outcome. Many think that it is just a gimmick by Pakistan to overcome the current tide and earn larger overseas contribution. Whatever be the reason and outcome, I think India must not change it hard instance against Pakistan and try to strengthen itself.
Few paragraphs from the TOI story related to recent situation:

Mutual suspicion in the two countries is so deep that the website that is promoting the theory that India is responsible for the floods went a step further to allege that New Delhi would ratchet up tensions during the Commonwealth Games to punish Pakistan — as if Mother Nature hadn't done enough damage to the unfortunate country.

Amid this mistrust in the time of cholera, what was striking was the international community's reluctance to open its purse strings.

A casual look at Pakistan's ruling elite and their lifestyle is enough for donors — countries and individuals — to hold back their contributions.

US policy on Pakistan has long been guided by fear. Very early into his term, President Obama openly suggested that Washington had to pay off Pakistan to keep terrorists away from US shores.

Should New Delhi pursue a similar policy? Consider this. If India were to offer Pakistan $100 million in aid (more than what any other country has and an offer that would be harder to refuse than $5 million), it would still amount to less than five rupees per head. But why should India offer such a large sum when millions in India are starving? Well one way of looking at it is continued attrition through terrorism may be costing India more and an outright war to stop this could run into billions — so why not try a $100 million olive branch at a time when humanitarian concern also call for it? The catch though, as the US has found on this slippery slope, is that the beast may never be sated.

Read more: Flood for thought: Is Rs 5 per head a fair price for peace with Pak? - India - The Times of India

Bihar Economic Development is Real!

Today's S.A. Aiyar article about Bihar economic development shed light about the current situation on economic status and possible economic development Bihar can see in future. He have mentioned some data that tells that Bihar economic development is true and is well a miracle economy. GDP growth of 8 percent or more is thought to be miracle economy.

Recent statement by few leaders (bad leaders) that Bihar economic development is not a true story but a hogwash is not true and no one has manipulated the growth story of Bihar.
Here you can see the data present in support of the Bihar development:

He not only given CSO data but also thought of the leaders nature and natural process of winning election. For example, he tell that no politician can claim to win election on the basis of economic growth. People's personal experience matter much.

Few more points from the same article:

In Lalu’s time, swaggering goons showed off their guns in public. Today no gunman is visible. The Nitish administration has convicted 38,000 people, including dozens of politicians, some from the ruling party itself — for violating the Arms Act.

The economic miracle has been led by construction, which has averaged a colossal growth rate of 47% per year for the last five years. Government development spending has zoomed from Rs 2,000 crore to Rs 16,000 crore per year.

Most impressive has been the rise in road construction, from 384 kilometres in 2004-05 to 2,417 kilometers in 2008-09. Security plus road and telecom expansion have incubated a boom in small business and domestic construction.

However, large-scale industries has not shown growth. Organized sector output actually fell in the Lalu era from Rs 1,150 crore in 1999-00 to Rs 790 crore in 2004-05 at constant prices, and has stagnated under Nitish. Big industry owner are waiting for election in Bihar. What will be the outcome of
next election will decide the growth of large-scale industries. Many large industries have proposed big investments.

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A Glimpse of Changing Bihar

BJP supporters launched "Friends Of BJP"

Friends of BJP has launched a website to get support for the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha election. Their view is not essentially match with the BJP. Supporter of BJP think of BJP as a most capable party in the coming Lok Sabha election.

On Saturday 28, Feb 2009, Arun Jaitely has launched the "Friend of BJP" in Mumbai.

Friends of BJP can subscribe of daily updates on sub@friendsofbjp.org or via SMS 4BJP to 575758.

BJP has recently thought of many ways to get support of educated people and start a discussion with them. This is very encouraging sign as political parties do not try to face educated people for vote. Educated people can help country by becoming a part of the Indian policies. It is not essential that one must be PM to help the country. One can be a party activist or simple volunteer to effect the policies of the political parties. They can influence the decision made by political parties. and it will be very fruitful for the Nation.


Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar on Bangalore BJP meet:

This year's National Award for e-governance goes to Bihar

'Jankari', a Bihar government project has bagged the National award for e-governance.

"The award will be given to the state government's unique project, Jankari Call Centre under Right to Information Act (RTI), on February 12 this year at the national conference on e-governance in Goa," Amir Subhani, Principal Secretary, Personnel, told reporters here.

Bihar is the first state to start the Jankari project, a brain child of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, which enables people living in remote corners of the state to make applications under RTI through a telephone call, Subhani said.

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