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The question of 90 hour work week

Is 90 hour work- week sustainable? It will enhance the crony capitalism and damage the democracy. The 90 hour work-week is highly debate able after the L&T Chairman's statement. Many Chairmans and CEOs of the top institutions give their responses. Some employees also give reactions on social media. Maximum top executives favour longer hours week and almost all employees wants five days work week. Both have their own point of view. But let's analyse what is good for the country. First take the top executives view that there must be 90 hour work week. They give logic that India is a developing country and if we want to make it developed by 2047, we have to work more and more. They are citing the national agenda of being a developed country by 2047.  Working 90 hour a week means working 15 hours a day from Monday to Saturday. It raises many questions like - Can one work for 15 hours a day countinue for whole week and so on? Can the employees will be paid for these 15 hours, me...
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Indus Valley Customs and Traditions still live in Indian Society

Indus Valley customs and traditions followed even in today's  Indian Society. Here, we are going to discuss an important aspect of our Indus Valley findings. We will see the similarities between today Indian society and that day Indus Valley society. They worship "Pasupati" which was found on seal from Mohenjodarro. Stone symbol of Lingam and Yoni were found from Harappa. This indicates that they worship Phallus. Phallus is Shivling. We today worship Shivling. Vedic text also mentioned Phallus and mother Goddess. A seal depicting a three horned God surrounded by animals indicates Proto Shiva. They worship Peepal tree. The peepal tree was considered sacred. Today also Indians worship Peepal tree. The animals were also worshipped. They worshipped Humped Bull, Elephant. Animals they kept were Oxen, Buffalo, Elephant, Goat, Sheep, Pigs, Cat, Ass and Camel.  Steatite image of Bearded man said to be a priest.  The Indus Valley society have a tradition of giving first roti (cha...

Who is responsible for poor public services in India?

What is the actual reason for poor public services in India? Nowadays it is a common trend to say that government employees are ' kaamchor ' (don't want to work). We can easily see long queues in front of any government offices like  tehsils, passport offices, banks, railway stations, hospitals etc. The person who gets poor service blame the staff of that particular department or office. Government also think that the staff is not performing well and launched campaign to aware the people about their rights. It is very good to be aware about the rights and government is also doing good in spreading the awareness. Then where is the problem? Are today's employees really not interested in doing work ?  Dear readers also have the right to be agree or disagree but let's try to understand the problem genuinely. Today's an awared customer put complaint if any service is not provided. But nobody bothered about the circumstances due to which the service is not provided. I...

How to save Indian social values system

India heading towards Socio-cultural changes, Need to save the core values of the Indian society. These values are the identities of our culture. In today's Indian society there are many changes taking place. Every society change in years. But, how can we say that a society is changing. What are the symptoms of this change. Every society has its value system which it preserve for years by passing it generation to generation. Then, what are the core values of Indian society ? The core values of Indian society are : respecting and obeying elders, cooperation, brotherhood, sharing of resources, careing and helping each other etc. One learns all these values in a joint family. A joint family is a big family where four -five nucleus families living together. A joint family is the custodian of the Indian social value system. In today's society, we are witnessing a noticeable decay of these values. Why so? This is because of fastly decrease in joint families. Today we rarely see a joi...

Religion and Administration

The Equation between Religion and Administration. The positive secularism must lead to positive and healthy relationship between religion and the administration for the betterment of citizen's life. India is a very diverse country. This diversity is also true in case of religion. India has almost all religions of the world. Religion is a matter of individual faith. Every religion is a set of belief and faith. Every religion has its own God. Every religious person worship his/her God. All these persons think that this God is responsible for their pain, misery and happiness. So, They follow their respective religion' set of belief and faith. They think if they follow these norms, they will get happiness, otherwise they have to face pain and misery. So, They afraid of their God. Almost all the people in India follow atleast any one God. Around 90 percent of people in India are theist. Means 90 percent of people follow atleast any one religion's worship norms.  But, this percen...

How indexation adjust inflation

What is inflation and Indexation and How indexation adjust inflation ? Should one invest in fixed deposit? tThe government has discontinued the indexation benefits from the financial year 2025, announced in the Budget for FY-2025 . First of all let's understand what is inflation in a layman terms. The general rise in prices is called inflation. This rise in prices may be due to many reasons from demand side and supply side. For example, if supply remains constant and demand for a particular item increases its price will also increase. And if demand for a particular item decreases it's price will also come done if supply remains the same. Same way we can say that if supply of a particular item increases in the market at constant demand then it's price will decrease and if supply decreases and demand remain same, then the price will increase. Inflation affects your income. That why the government gives dearness allowance (DA) to the employees and dearness relief (DR) to the ...

Important Takeaways from The Union Budget for The Financial Year 2024-25

Important Points from the Union Budget for The Financial Year 2025 The fiscal deficit is estimated at 4.9% of the GDP in FY 2025. The fiscal deficit is calculated as the government's total expenditure minus total receipts.  The 'Budget' word is not mentioned in the Indian constitution. It is mentioned as the "Annual Financial Statement" in article 112 of the constitution. Budget is prepared by the Budget Division of the Department of Economic Affairs in the ministry of finance. According to the article 266 of the Indian Constitution, Parliamentary approval is required to draw money from the Consolidated Fund of India. RK Shanmukham Chetty was the first finance minister of independent India. Morari Desai presented the budget ten times which is the maximum number of times by any finance minister in India till now.  Receipts estimates : The budget for FY 2025 estimates 31.3 lakh crore revenue receipts and 16.9 lakh crore capital receipts.  Expenditure estimates : T...