@OrangeJuiceTN No one is going to visually identify an aircraft in today’s battlefield. They will be identified by their radar emission and flight profile.
@MapOsnit Generational wealth maintained by Crony capitalism in a third world nation where there is no rule of law. In fact law abiding citizens are sneered at 😁
A country where the kids and grandkids of the richest family are American citizens, and the Foreign Minister's son is an American citizen, and the most powerful security Czar's son is a British citizen, is a country where the elite have tied their future not with the Motherland, and hence they'll have no reason to take a stand that upsets their foreign beneficiaries in the least bit. We are living that reality right now as the country is driven into reverse gear.
Atleast back in the day, they used to distribute cash, liquor and biryani once in 5 years and out of their own party fund.
Now they are doing it every month using tax money. Same money which should've been spent for better schools, midday meals, hospitals, clean water.
@bykarthikreddy Many are migrating? population . They usually don’t register for vote . So calculation will be a bit skewed. Not supporting congress though.
The latest EPFO reply, read alongside the two earlier answers, completely dismantles the Government’s carefully constructed narrative used to justify meagre pensions under EPS.
“EPFO’s own employees draw an average pension of Rs. 37,045 per month”.
But the workers who sustained the system tell a different story:
* 35.9% (29,25,898 out of 81,48,490) survive on Rs. 1,000 or less per month - more than one in every three pensioners
* Over 60% (49.15 lakh) receive below Rs. 1,500
* 96.58% receive below Rs. 4,000
Meanwhile, the financial position of the scheme itself reveals no such scarcity:
• EPS corpus stands at Rs. 9.93 lakh crore as on 31.03.2025
• Interest income alone was Rs. 58,668.73 crore in 2023-24
* Other income added Rs. 863.62 crore - taking total extra income from the corpus fund to “59,532.35 crore”
Against this, the total pension paid to retired workers in 2023-24 was only “Rs. 14,990.45 crore” - barely about one-fourth of the annual income generated from the corpus, without even touching the corpus itself.
At the same time, EPFO’s own establishment and administrative expenditure in 2023-24 stood at Rs. 5,942.51 crore - nearly 40% of the total pension paid to elderly workers. “In effect, for every Rs. 2.5 paid as pension, Rs. 1 is spent on administration.”
The contrast is indefensible:
Those who administer the scheme receive dignified pensions averaging Rs. 37,045 per month, while the workers who contributed to it struggle to survive, with the overwhelming majority receiving less than Rs. 1,500 per month.
Social security cannot become a system where administrators receive Rs. 37,000 and workers are asked to live on Rs. 1,000- Rs. 1,500.
#rajyasabha #epfo #pension
“The American ppl are very much like the children of a Mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living & don’t want to know, but then they wonder why someone just threw a firebomb thru the living room window. This is exactly who we are”
—Bill Blum,
The downfall of Team-BHP needs to be studied. 20 years of reading it, and I’ve never seen it this bad. Post CARS24 takeover—serious enthusiasts seem to have checked out, and the threads reflect it.