tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-297452172024-03-14T08:11:09.664+05:30Ashish AggarwalAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-22270254434032957412016-05-19T20:00:00.000+05:302016-08-10T15:47:00.370+05:30Designing taxi regulations for the 21st century
App-based aggregators are disrupting the transportation business world-wide. Existing regulatory and policy frameworks were not designed for this new reality. This has resulted in some knee-jerk reactions globally to do something.
Nearer home, this is exemplified by Delhi Government. On May 1, the State Chief Minister had tweeted a fresh warning after Uber resumed surge pricing: “…Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-22290721930691220872016-05-11T12:45:00.000+05:302016-05-11T12:48:45.265+05:30Case Summary: NCDRC order against Jaypee Group
The National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has in record five months ordered Jaypee Group to compensate home buyers for delay in construction. The case summary is discussed below.
The gist of the order dated May 2, 2016 is:
1. Give possession within 3 months. After that pay penalty @ Rs 5000 per day.
2. Pay delayed interest @ 12% on total amount paid by the consumer (fromAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-560823581336464292016-03-17T07:30:00.000+05:302016-03-17T10:38:51.496+05:30Why are we stuck with India Post?
People in large cities no longer need to depend on India Post except for sending occasional package/ letter to some small town, official work (Speed Post) or where official proof of delivery is needed (Registered Post).
City folks would get stuck occasionally, like me, when they order something from US using USPS, or any other shipping where India Post is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-79909705153860885322016-03-17T06:30:00.000+05:302016-03-17T06:30:17.738+05:30Ordered something using USPS - India Post? You should:
India Post's FPO near ITO, Delhi
1. Not expect timely delivery even though the package might reach India within three days.
2. Not expect to find the helpline easily. The India Post website has reams on whom one can complain to -- but no details of customer care to get answers. For Delhi one may try 011-23233325. It took me 15-25 minutes just to connect. Their internet might be slow. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-32716235443704605242016-03-10T09:45:00.001+05:302016-03-10T09:57:34.672+05:30Progress on Financial Sector Legislative Reforms
The FSLRC
submitted its recommendations for structural reform of the Indian
financial regulatory architecture in 2013. Subsequent budgets have
promised implementation of parts of these recommendations. The Union Budget
2016 has proposed to implement a few more of these. This post takes a
stock-check of the FSLRC-related promises made in the Budget Speech of
2015-16 and summarises the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-11828957821331908342016-03-09T22:37:00.000+05:302016-03-10T14:48:30.536+05:30Full text of NGT order: Rs 5 crore pass for Art of Living Foundation to run its WCF!
Read the full text of the NGT order passed today. The gist is:
The Applicant (complainant) approached the NGT at a late stage (wrote to the Lt. Governor on 11.12.2015 but approached NGT only on 08.02.2016) and by then the damage was already done -- NGT now cannot stop the event and ask for removal of the construction material and restoration of the area at this stage.
Applicant did not do Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-80667188254285094972016-03-09T19:26:00.001+05:302016-03-09T19:26:50.776+05:30Yamuna floodplains destruction: photos today - March 9, 2016
Main stage
Back side of stage
From Mayur Vihar leaf of the DND flyway
Pontoon bridge
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-61126359394512765312016-03-08T20:41:00.000+05:302016-03-14T08:45:43.944+05:30Yamuna: The river is dead. Grab the land.
If it was possible to kill a river which was already dead -- the Art of Living's World Culture Festival planned for 11-13 March 2016 has managed to do it by ruining about 1000 acres of Yamuna's floodplains.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed expert committee which visited the site on 20.2.2016 had observed in its report:
Entire flood plain between river and DND flyway has been Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-82443838457475997242015-06-22T09:00:00.000+05:302015-10-14T11:49:16.613+05:30Release of information in machine-readable format
Most businesses like airlines, hotels and restaurants benefit from
making this information available as electronic feed. For some of the
functionalities to come together, one needs data from government
sources. For instance, the ubiquitous global positioning system (gps)
data that so many applications use is a government resource available
for free in an electronic format which computers Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-31527243893995876702015-03-01T21:40:00.000+05:302015-03-03T12:41:06.813+05:30Union Budget 2015: A conservative plan
Union Budget 2015: A conservative plan
Ashish Aggarwal
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s budget is unlike last year’s plan where the revenue and expense estimates were both a bit iffy.
The fears on last years plans have now been confirmed, revealing a torment, which is avoidable even in a household budget! For example, last year’s budget aimed for a 20% hike in tax revenue but managed Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-5244318319242147512014-09-24T08:54:00.002+05:302014-09-24T08:54:46.309+05:30Real estate falls in a blind spot
There has been an increased focus on reforming the financial services over the last decade or so and improving its regulatory framework. At one level it is therefore somewhat inexplicable how similar approach has bypassed the real estate sector which accounts for single biggest investment in their lifetime for most people. Perhaps, the tangle is just too complex.
Recently, the competition Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-18139229513247506292014-07-12T09:35:00.000+05:302014-07-12T09:35:25.880+05:30In defence of a unified financial regulator
The union finance minister has put his weight behind the FSLRC report in his recent budget speech. One of the key recommendations of the FSLRC is move towards a unified financial regular. One of the main criticism of this idea is that it would lead to creation of a 'bureaucratic giant'. Well, the FSLRC does not just stop at the recommendations, it takes into account the pitfalls in execution andAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-64931071144796509962014-06-30T13:48:00.000+05:302014-06-30T13:48:12.476+05:30Review: Lottery's tax leg-up over pension!
Selling lottery has a tax leg-up over selling pension! This and some other quibbles for the FM to consider this budget:
Exempt income from distribution of NPS & NPS lite from Service Tax (ST). Income from sale of lottery tickets is exempt from ST so why not income from sale of socially relevant products like NPS and NPS Lite?
Make NPS and pension plan of mutual funds tax exempt on Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-72250942845529574562014-06-26T10:05:00.002+05:302014-06-26T10:05:59.646+05:30Remove anomalies, update taxation of pension, insurance & savings.
Remove anomalies, update taxation of pension,
insurance & savings.
Budget time sets off a queue at the FM’s door
for tax reliefs and benefits. While the FM can give tax relief to tax payers,
poor perhaps need to be motivated directly as they are not in the tax bracket.
One easy pick for the FM this year could be the NPS
Swawalamban benefit - this is fast receding in its 'valueAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-21618241360157723362014-06-09T09:39:00.002+05:302014-06-09T09:39:59.175+05:30Target 200-mn in NPS by 2019, club EPF into NPS & encourage reverse mortgage
I have been witnessing the pension reforms closely since 2003 and despite the mixed outcome in the last decade, there is so much that we can achieve in the next five years. I wrote an article in FE on what we should target.
Reform redux
Target 200-mn in NPS by 2019, club EPF into NPS & encourage reverse mortgage
Financial Express, June 9, 2014
It’s been a decade since the pension Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29745217.post-60570796929102182382013-01-01T22:22:00.000+05:302014-10-02T22:31:15.843+05:30Tracing Back: Opinion articles on pension reforms and market published during 2006-12
The Missing Pension Market, Mint, August 2012
(http://www.livemint.com/2012/08/21213625/The-missing-pension-market.html)
Social Security for the Poor, Humaneity, Singapore, August 2011
(http://digital.turn-page.com/issue/44607/22)
Back to the real issue: mis-selling, Mint, August 2010
(http://www.livemint.com/2010/08/01235428/Back-to-the-real-issue-misse.html)
NPS: A Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09636013401158941683noreply@blogger.com