diga Posted May 14 Posted May 14 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Mariyam said: Yesterday the government hiked import duties on Gold, Platinum and Silver. From 6% to ~15%. Would increase in tariff on gold just revive smuggling? As you mentioned, people are not going to not buy gold. Smuggling these days is much harder than say the 90s... Doubt it. Edited May 14 by diga
crictime Posted May 14 Posted May 14 31 minutes ago, Mariyam said: Don't understand your point. How is it related to my post? A manifesto is for an election. A vision is for the society. Manifesto points are actually a breakdown of the vision of the party. Manifesto is very much aligned with the vision of the party. Vision and Manifesto both are for the society.
Prakat Posted May 14 Posted May 14 31 minutes ago, Mariyam said: Yesterday the government hiked import duties on Gold, Platinum and Silver. From 6% to ~15%. Would increase in tariff on gold just revive smuggling? As you mentioned, people are not going to not buy gold. Small scale adventurers will surely attempt to do so. There are a lot of ways for the major players to bring in gold by side-stepping the taxes. import 1 ton for the purpose of making gold jewelry for export to USA. Export gold plated jewelry declared as pure gold that will be scrapped at a stopover port. Fulfill the actual order through a factory in Italy. Taxes exempted since gold imported was value added and exported within 120 days. Now the local importer as 1 ton of tax exempt gold that they can channel into domestic market after buying some electoral bonds. Profit. Mariyam 1
crictime Posted May 14 Posted May 14 (edited) 8 hours ago, MechEng said: India is enduring some sort of divine curse in it's political arena. The corruption is so strong that the educated talent pool to join politics is almost non existent. So you have to be content with BJP and likes Being in know how things move (or not move) at a certain level, what you said is true. I was one of the very rare privileged to be invited to attend Winter Session. There are majorly lesser educated people around amidst few graduates and rare post graduates in percentile terms. Corruption has only increased and will increase for next hundred years no matter whichever party comes to power. Politics has entrenched so much that it is now visible not just in core politics but across every system where authority, significantly influential posts and money is involved. Which means literally every domain. It also amuses me that the general voter who has no reach is more radicalized than politicians themselves. This stuff is not for those who don't want to be involved or coerced into wrong doings and want to remain like that. Having said that Shinde, Chavan, Khadse have been helpful and it is always nice to know top 20 influential people of the state though person may not want to be a politician themself. As you rightly said, getting into the dirt of it is not everyone's cup of tea or on everyone's wishlist. Just because one does not has enough influence to interact and see how things happen, does not means things do not happen in a certain way. It is really funny when I come across someone say that corruption is not there or it is getting lesser every passing minute. Edited May 14 by crictime
crictime Posted May 15 Posted May 15 (edited) There is a request to use public transport. The Babus use petrol guzzling cars to travel even 1 km since decades but are now expecting people to delay buying even buy their first car or two wheeler. They also want citizens to use public transport. How many VIP's have other Mumbaites seen traveling in old Mumbai locals in entire lifetime. Can they even manage to board a local train. They do not even do what locals have been doing for decades but these VIP's cannot even use Mumbai locals for even one year. How many of the Babus and VIP's will sell the gold they have amassed or stop buying it and spending lavishly in the day-to-day life. The money they spend is beyond imagination. Just have a look at their lifestyle and then think of why they expect a commoner to be so different to them. Rather than the VIP's demanding people to stop buying gold and use public transport, people who should ask them to sell their gold and also ask these VIP's to travel in public transport and prove it by posting their local travel train pics on their social handles (if at all they manage to take mobile out of their pocket in rush hour). Constitution says everyone should be treated equally and fairly, kaha gaya constitution. Itna discrimination kyu karte ho. Instead of people demanding efficiency from government, the government is demanding from voters because their policies, their governance and what not is failing the economy. Hiding their own incompetence by trying to change hard working people. Bring out all the black money cash from your homes and donate it for betterment of public transport and help the economy. The give some gyan on deshbhakti. Someone who does corruption all the time, accumulates black money through their entire tenure, uses power for personal benefits is not a deshbhakt. The least such a person should do is atleast not give any deshbhakti gyan to a common man. Edited May 15 by crictime
Mariyam Posted May 15 Posted May 15 ^^^ this is an indirect push for EV. Especially if petrol prices are raised people will shift towards the EV.
randomGuy Posted May 15 Author Posted May 15 26 minutes ago, Mariyam said: ^^^ this is an indirect push for EV. Especially if petrol prices are raised people will shift towards the EV. The biggest incentive will be to create fast 10C-15C charging network. CATL , BYD mass produced cheap batteries already support superfast charging, 100+km range per minute of charging. 60-65% cars sold in April were EVs. By year end month December i expect 80-90% EVs penetration and end of petrol cars...same thing happening in commercial vehicles. Mariyam 1
Nikhil_cric Posted May 15 Posted May 15 7 hours ago, Mariyam said: ^^^ this is an indirect push for EV. Especially if petrol prices are raised people will shift towards the EV. More than that , I hope this crisis pushes India heavily into transit oriented and mixed use development. BEST fleet has reduced to 2500 buses whereas even Bangalore BMTC has around 7000 buses and looking to expand despite being a smaller city We need to heavily disincentivise car usage and push people towards walking, buses, metro and suburban by banning cars in CBD areas , high premiums on parking etc. Mariyam and diga 2
diga Posted May 15 Posted May 15 17 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said: More than that , I hope this crisis pushes India heavily into transit oriented and mixed use development. BEST fleet has reduced to 2500 buses whereas even Bangalore BMTC has around 7000 buses and looking to expand despite being a smaller city We need to heavily disincentivise car usage and push people towards walking, buses, metro and suburban by banning cars in CBD areas , high premiums on parking etc. Driving is not a pleasurable activity in Bengaluru... Best is to use company provided transportation or BMTC volvo ( quite comfortable) Mariyam 1
Mariyam Posted May 15 Posted May 15 1 hour ago, Nikhil_cric said: More than that , I hope this crisis pushes India heavily into transit oriented and mixed use development. BEST fleet has reduced to 2500 buses whereas even Bangalore BMTC has around 7000 buses and looking to expand despite being a smaller city We need to heavily disincentivise car usage and push people towards walking, buses, metro and suburban by banning cars in CBD areas , high premiums on parking etc. “A successful society is not one in which the poor drive but one in which the rich use public transport” Hafeez Contractor said this. Or perhaps Brezhnev. The metro system in Mumbai is one small step towards mass transit.
Mariyam Posted May 15 Posted May 15 56 minutes ago, diga said: Driving is not a pleasurable activity in Bengaluru... Best is to use company provided transportation or BMTC volvo ( quite comfortable) Bengaluru is in general not a very pleasurable place to live. Driving isn’t much fun in Mumbai either. My home to work is a 4-5km commute. Takes me 15-20 mins to go. Takes me 30-45 mins to return.
G_B_ Posted May 15 Posted May 15 42 minutes ago, Lord said: PM fact checking Cnbc have withdrawn article Lord 1
Nikhil_cric Posted May 15 Posted May 15 2 hours ago, Mariyam said: “A successful society is not one in which the poor drive but one in which the rich use public transport” Hafeez Contractor said this. Or perhaps Brezhnev. The metro system in Mumbai is one small step towards mass transit. Yep. Like Tokyo. Rich, first world city that has lower car ownership rates than a city like Bangalore and relies heavily on mass transit. That's the model for cities like Mumbai and Bangalore crictime 1
Nikhil_cric Posted May 15 Posted May 15 3 hours ago, diga said: Driving is not a pleasurable activity in Bengaluru... Best is to use company provided transportation or BMTC volvo ( quite comfortable) And there's no reason it should be either. We need to stop building double decker flyovers and car parking everywhere. Need to go all in on mass transit and that will make this city liveable again
crictime Posted May 16 Posted May 16 20 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said: Yep. Like Tokyo. Rich, first world city that has lower car ownership rates than a city like Bangalore and relies heavily on mass transit. That's the model for cities like Mumbai and Bangalore Carbon points should be tagged on every 1 km of travel by two-wheeler or petrol car. Just like how companies have to do something for the nature as part of responsibility towards a sustainable environment, some system should be in pace for personal petrol based vehicles. Many Indians do not think how much pollution they do when one km drive is done using a petrol motorbike or petrol car. There are Indians though who are sensible and care for the society and purchase EV. These people owning EV's are very few and are the real ones who care about their carbon footprint. The majority will be those who have used thousands of litres of petrol in their lifetime and polluted the air. The very same people will also say do not do pollution without even realizing how much they themselves have contradicted their own statements in day-to-day life. Metros in Mumbai have been a welcome change. But the projects are getting delayed. As the project gets behind schedule by two years, and people criticize, they will announce partial starting of metro on a specific date. Even they fail to start a partial startup.
Mariyam Posted May 16 Posted May 16 20 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said: And there's no reason it should be either. We need to stop building double decker flyovers and car parking everywhere. Need to go all in on mass transit and that will make this city liveable again The automobile industry is a mass employer. And adds some much needed forex to the exchequer. That is why the automobile lobby have been able to push for mega road projects across cities and the nation as a whole. A sudden jump to mass transit would mean large scale loss of employment. No easy solutions here. ravishingravi 1
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