Saturday, March 30, 2013

218. THE RICHEST PERSON IN INDIA


  218

"SHOW MERCY"


            The last mail was submitted to His Excellency the President of India on 10 March 2013. The same mail was sent to the Supreme Court of India, Indian Army and Indian Air Force.   Later, it was sent through post to the President of India and the Chief Justice of India; and posted in the blog www. howeverythinghappenedinindia.blogspot.com

    Mr. Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) retained the title of “The Richest Person of India” for the sixth consecutive year with a net worth of $21.5 billion. A newspaper reported this on 10 March 2013.
       The above estimation could be contested.
     It may be recalled that the Union Government, on 26 May 2007, decided to invest the surplus money of the 20 cash rich Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) – about Re. 2.5 lakh crore - in the Unit Trust of India (UTI) as mentioned in Chapter 81. How much money did the RIL get is not known. However, the money should have been used for public investments.

       Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on 13 March 2013, said, “Nothing is achieved by dampening the spirit. We have taken steps and in 2-3 years we will restore the economy to the robust growth path”.
     He indirectly says that this work dampens the spirit. His chief achievement is that he could transmit public money into the hand of some private parties. No Indian - other than the followers of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharilal Nehru- would have done this.

   India attracted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) of $22.78 billion in 2012. It was $34.62 billion in 2011. Does the government say this to enable some private parties to siphon off money to foreign countries?

      The Union Government raised $116 million by selling the shares of the public sector National Aluminium Company (Nalco) on 15 March 2013. As the Government sold the shares without informing the existence of this work to the people, the sale is unconstitutional.

     The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), on 16 March 2013, - in a petition before the Supreme Court of India - wanted the detention of Sahara Chairman Subrata Roy and two other directors - Mr. Ashok Roy and Ravi Shankar Dubey.
     Mr. Subrata Roy employs over 1 million people. It is said that even many political leaders are his employees. He would surrender his assets rather than going to jail.
    Further, the SEBI wanted to sell the attached properties and return the money to genuine investors.
    It is not like selling the Satyam Company.
    A few years ago a sitting judge of the Madras High Court was appointed as the “Receiver” to sell the properties of the SUS bank in the Tamil Nadu state. He could not sell them because the buyers were asked to show the source of their money. He is now not ready to throw away the properties   for one tenth of the market price either.
     If the Government had run the above bank, the depositors would have got their money, and the employees would not have lost their job.
    Mr. Subrata Roy, on 17 March 2013, said that there was not even one fictitious investor in his company. This shows that the investors are too weak even to send an application.
   
     Two terrorists from Pakistan stormed a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp and killed 5 soldiers on 13 March 2013 at the Jammu and Kashmir state.
      Two or three above soldiers might have entered service after 2003. They –unlike the rest - have no family pension. Their supreme sacrifice has no meaning to the nation. This is the condition of the police personnel and others all over India. Are not the chiefs of the armed forces responsible for this?
     In an interview to the NDTV, on 16 March 2011, Chief Justice of India Altamas  Kabir said that everyone below 18 years must be considered a child.
       He should have asked the NDTV the reason for not informing the existence of this work to the people before granting an interview. Everyone going through this work would tell that the TV channels in India show the people deeply committed to the denial of freedom of information only\in their screens.
 
    State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri, on 18 March 2013, said that his bank was blazing all guns to recover the loan provided to the Kingfisher Airlines. He added that the bank would put on auction the recovered securities.
    The banks must function constructively and not destructively.
    
     According to a report, the SBI, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India, and Bank of Baroda gave Re. 1600 crore, Re. 800 crore, Re.650 crore and Re.550 crore respectively as loan to Mr. Vajay Mallya of the Kingfisher Airlines.
    Had the banks been amalgamated as recommended by the Finance Minister, Mr. P. Chithambaram, he would have removed the above money from the amalgamated bank.

    Though it is a digression, it must be mentioned that Pope Francis – the new Pope- on 16 March 2013, requested everyone to show mercy.

     Coming back, a Supreme Court Bench comprising Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justices Anil R.Dave and Ranjana Desai told Italian Ambassador  that he had no immunity because he had gone to the court as a petitioner to secure the release of two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen.
     Italy, after securing the release, said that it would not send back the marines because they had mistook the fishermen as pirates.
    The Chief Justice said that he was concerned with the compliance of the order of the court.
     Italy, however, sent back the two marines before the deadline. Finance Minister Mr. P. Chithambaram, on, 22 March 2013, said that the diplomacy of the government in the Italian marines’ case succeeded.
     Thus, Italy and India together made the stand taken by the Supreme Court of India an awkward one.

   The special CBI judge, O.P. Saini, issued summons against former Chairman of Bharti Cellular Ltd Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, former Managing Director of Hutchison Telecom Private Ltd Mr. Asim Ghosh, Director of Sterling Cellular Ltd and three others as they were the directing mind and will of each company. He said that their state of mind was the state of mind of the company. He added that they were the ‘alter-ego’ of their respective companies.
    Actually, they are the directing mind of the nation. If they keep the assets, -according to newspapers- they would win the case.

  The newspapers, on 21 March 2013, reported that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would implement a risk based supervision system from April 2013. The new system is to check the health of the banking system in the place of the present compliance based transactions.
   The RBI said that a committee had recommended this. The fact that this writer recommended this in the last letter is not known to the people.
    The RBI said that only 30 major banks alone would come under the new risk based supervision system.
    If the work load of a financial institution warrants, say, 25 man hours work per day, there must be a supervisor deputed by the Government. The Government need not expend any money for this. The institutions would pay salary. Someone would take the credit for this suggestion also is a different matter.
    The Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India, on 21 March 2013, said that the existing supervisory system was very efficient. However, he added that there was a problem in the system.
     There must be supervisors to supervise the RBI also. Had there been a supervisory system, the Governor RBI, would have asked the Government to use the Re.3 lakh crore in the PF for public investments.

    According to some reports in the third week of March 2013, the ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and the Axis Bank were caught in acts of money laundering. The details were not released.
   In this connection, it must be noted that the ICICI bank used the PF money to trade in gold. As such it must be in possession of a huge amount of black money.

   The DMK, on 19 March 2013, withdrew support to the UPA government saying that the government caused the dilution of the US sponsored draft resolution against Sri Lanka in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at Geneva. The DMK had demanded the inclusion of the word “genocide” in the draft resolution.
     Within two days - on 21 March 2013-, the CBI raided the house of DMK leader Mr. M.K.Stalin in connection with a car import case registered in 2011. A few other places also were raided. Thus 22 imported luxury cars belonging to Mr. Srinivasan, promoter of India Cements Ltd (ICL). and 11 cars of others were seized. The CBI said that they were imported with the knowledge of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence by evading tax of about Re.50 crore.
    While the raids were going on, Finance Minister Chithabaram strongly disapproved the raids. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that his government was not behind the raids.
   Further, the raids were stopped at midway and the luxury cars were not impounded but returned to the owners.
      It may be recalled that the CBI on 19 November 1998 raided an office of the RIL and seized some documents in vain. The present raid is similar to that one.

    The Government, on 21 March 2013, sold 10.8 per cent shares of the public sector Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) for about Re.1500 crore. The Public Sector LIC bought a major portion. Thus, the Supreme Court of India has done enough for this fiscal.

       The New Indian Express, on 24 March 2013, reported that the public sector banks were in a debt trap as the Non Performing Assets had gone from Re.71080 crore in March 2011 to 1.55 lakh crore in December 2012. A supervisory system would have averted this.

     A Delhi court, on 25 March 2013, sentenced former CBI DIG O.P. Sharma for one year imprisonment for accepting a bribe of Re. 1 lakh for not invoking TADA against the Jain brothers in the “Jain hawala case”.

      The Indian companies made 72 acquisitions abroad worth $11 billion in 2912. The Hindu reported this on 22 March 2013.
    The Hindu on the same day said that the flip flops in the economic policy made India a bad environment for foreign and domestic investment.
     It is pertinent to recall that the RBI, on 4 July 2002, decided to give public money to buy the PSUs. Later, public money was given to private parties to buy assets abroad.
    The recipients said that the foreign exchange converted many countries into the colonies of India.
   Ironically, now they ask the reason for not utilizing the PF money for public investments.
    Should India colonize other countries after denying not only freedom of information but also pension?
   Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must show mercy and give a reply.

     The Hindu, on 25 March 2013, said that there were two parallel systems of justice in India- one for the privileged and another for the rest. The paper said this in connection with another case.
  
    The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on 26 March 2013, deregistered 15 aircraft of Kingfisher Airlines to enable global leasing companies to take them back.
      When the licenses were granted to fly on international routes in 2004, the present writer pointed out the unconstitutional nature of the decision. Rejecting the letter, Mr. Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways was given Re.7000 crore through the stock market in 2005. At the same time, Mr. Vijay Mallya of Kingfisher was granted loan. Which one would survive? Could the Government deny this?
    A study - conducted to find out the reason for the suicides among army personnel - revealed that harassment at the hands of the superiors served as the final trigger for the soldiers to end their lives. The Hindu reported this on 26 March 2013.
    The newly recruited soldiers and the police personnel do not give due respect to the seniors mainly because of the uncertainty in Government pension. Heavy workload is another reason.  This situation demoralizes everyone in public service.

     This is Letter No.218.
    The Supreme Court of India does not give any answer even for the letters forwarded to it by the President of India. Thus, the people are not fully conscious of its ways. The Supreme Court, in fact, wants the last vestige of consciousness to slip from them. Therefore, the Chief Justice of India must “show mercy” and give answers to the unanswered questions before his retirement.


   The facts from 10 March 2013 to 28 March 2013 are being submitted to His Excellency the President of India and the Supreme Court of India on 29 March 2013.
    The same letter is being sent to the Chief Justice of India and the Chiefs of the Indian Army and Indian Air Force for necessary action.

V. Sabarimuthu
26-3 Thattamkonam
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Mulagumoodu
629167
Tamil Nadu State
INDIA
Phone: 04651275520. Mobile: 9486214851
29 March 2013.




 





Saturday, March 9, 2013

217.INDIA; The Private Companies.


217

A SUPERVISORY STRUCTURE

              The last mail was submitted to His Excellency the President of India on 24 February 2013. The same mail was sent to the Supreme Court of India, Indian Army and Indian Air Force.   Later, it was sent through post to the President of India and the Chief Justice of India; and posted in the blog www. howeverythinghappenedinindia.blogspot.com

      The Ministry of Civil Aviation, on 25 February 2013, stripped Kingfisher Airlines of its flying slots.
       Thus the Government blackens one more page in the history of India.
        Kingfisher Airlines is public investment. The Government should run it.

     The New Indian Express, on 26 February 2013, said that the year 2013 was turning out to be worse.
   The paper said this after observing the contents of the last letter. The paper wants some industries to flourish at the expense of the rest to make a better year.

    The CBI raided two dental colleges in the Tamil Nadu State on 27 February 2013.  
      The last letter restrains the Government from raiding any legally established institutions.  It may be recalled that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on 24 August 2004, described this as a tyranny. He said this to convert public assets into private assets is a different matter.

        BJP leader Mr. Revisankar Prasad and Communist leader Mr. D. Raja, on 27 February 2013, demanded a Supreme Court of India monitored probe into the helicopter scandal.
         The Supreme Court conceals 216 letters of this writer alone. The above leaders know this. Yet they propagate the law that ‘what the Supreme Court does can never be wrong’.

      Union Finance Minister Mr. P. Chithambaram presented the Union Budget for 2013-2014 on 28 February 2013.
       As usual, the budget was silent about the money in the Provident Fund (PF) and Pension Fund. It did not talk anything about the black money associated with the PF money either.
    Further, it was silent about the pension component of the salary income. As this writer mentioned this in this work, the Government should have noticed it.
     There was a provision to sell the shares of the Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) for Re.55,814 crore.
    Curiously, the excise duty on mobile handsets priced over Re.2000 was raised from 1 percent to 6 percent.
     China sells mobile handsets all over India for Re.500 to Re.1000. Therefore, one would club this duty with the raid on Nokia-India Ltd.

   Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on 3 March 2013, addressed the BJP National Council. The media gave great publicity to this - apparently as part of the A.K.Antony centred politics (ACP).

    The public sector State Bank of India (SBI) identified some properties of the Kingfisher Airlines for attachment.
      On what ground did the SBI give loan to the above company? Did it supervise the method of utilization? Or what role did it play for the security of its money? How could it throw away money like this?

       Finance Minister Mr. P. Chithambaram, on 5 March 2013, said that the Government would monitor the public sector and private sector undertakings.
      Thus the Government tentatively accepts the message of the last letter. The present writer used the word “supervise” and Mr. P. Chithambaram uses the word monitor.
    Effective monitoring might lead to the conversion of private companies into public companies.
    In this connection, it must be pointed out that in order to monitor a District Co-operative Society; the Government deputes two officers in the rank of registrar. This could be extended to all entities that use public money.

     Congress leader Mr.Rahul Gandhi, on 5 March 2013, said that his ideal was Mahatma Gandhi. He called him his “Guru” (teacher).
     All leaders in India - except the present writer- are the true followers of Mahatma Gandhi. The present writer is a different man because this work seeks to secure real FREEDOM not through fasting, “satyagraha”, processions or speeches.
     Mr. Rahul Gandhi, on the same day, said that he wanted to empower the youth to prevent an explosion.
      This work has caused an explosion - more powerful than a nuclear blast -in India. He knows this.
      If the people get FREEDOM, neither the Government could refuse to supervise the institutions nor could the Supreme Court restrain the Government from effectively supervising them.

       Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on 6 March 2013, said that the Congress-led UPA performed better than the BJP-led NDA.
       Any repudiation would have exposed the Prime Minister. Therefore, the BJP digested what he had said. It did not even murmur anything about the Re.3 lakh crore in the PF because the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties had joined together in a small room to do away with it.

         BJP leader Arun Jaitly, on 6 March 2013, moaned that investment atmosphere in the country had changed from that of enthusiasm to sense of cynicism.
     Mr. Arun Jaitly believes that this work converted private companies into public companies.
      However, there is no room for cynicism because a supervisory structure would save the promoters of the companies from going to jail - as in the case of Satyam Raju. In fact, Mr. Raju would be enthusiastic because he might get back Satyam Company.
  

   The Indian tax authorities, on 6 March 2013, accused Cadbury-India of avoiding about $ 46 million in taxes.
   What did the tax authorities do for many years?
   However, it is heartening to note that they chose not to undertake any raid.

    Mr. M. Ravichandran, Director, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), on 6 March 2013, said that the promoters of many self-financing engineering colleges had opted to close down their colleges.
    If the Government cannot run the sick colleges, it shall not grant affiliation.

   The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), on 5 March 2013, disclosed that there was a corruption of Re.10,000 crore in the Re.52,000 crore farm debt waiver scheme. The Prime Minister said that stringent action would be taken against the culprits.
        In this connection, it must be noted that the above scheme was devised to pave way for giving the PF money to private parties.

       The Government of Kerala did not release pension for the month of February 2013 to the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) workers drawing more than Re.14000 per month.
     Pension is a fundamental right of the people.
    If the people get freedom to go through this work, they would get angry with the chiefs of the armed forces because the welfare of the soldiers is closely related to the welfare of the people.
     An officer commissioned in the Indian Army after 2003 will have paid not less than Re. two crore towards Income Tax before his retirement. Yet, he will not get pension from the Government!
      The chiefs of armed forces should have pursued this matter.

      The Hindu, on 8 March 2013, reported that the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) opposed the performance audit of the CAG. Instead, it wanted the CAG to undertake a financial audit.
    The RIL is more a public property than the Kingfisher Airlines. However, the audit should be a universal one and not a selective one. An army of officers is necessary for this.

    The government sold 2.06 shares of the public sector Rashtrya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited for about Re.100 crore on 8 March 2013.
     The Supreme Court should have directed the Government to release this work to the press before selling the shares. It did not do so. Thus it added one more murder to its credit.
       The Supreme Court could do anything except destroying justice. Does not the Supreme Court destroy justice by not releasing this work to the press?
      The facts from 24 February 2013 to 9 March 2013 are being submitted to His Excellency the President of India and the Supreme Court of India on 10 March 2013.
    The same letter is being sent to the Chief Justice of India and the Chiefs of the Indian Army and Indian Air Force for necessary action.

V. Sabarimuthu
26-3 Thattamkonam
Vellicode
Mulagumoodu
629167
Tamil Nadu State
INDIA
Phone: 04651275520. Mobile: 9486214851
10 March 2013.


V.Sabarimuthu