@BaluGorade No local shopkeepers pays income taxes, no matter how big and how many shops they own at prime locations across the city. If some shopkeeper files taxes, they will wipe off all income by showing some expenses. Salaried class is punished for life!
Pune's garbage collection system is facing a massive crisis, and the reason behind it is absolutely shocking. Out of over 10,000 workers assigned to keep our city clean, only about 40% are actually doing their jobs on the ground. A detailed internal report by the solid waste management department reveals that around 450 to 500 sanitation workers are allegedly deployed at the private residences of political leaders, including MLAs, corporators, and former office-bearers. Instead of cleaning the streets, these municipal employees are reportedly being used for personal duties like housekeeping and driving, all while drawing their full salaries from the taxpayer-funded PMC budget.
What makes it worse is that this isn't a new issue. The investigation shows that some workers have been completely absent from their original cleaning postings for 5 to 10 years. Even though a detailed report on this mess was submitted to senior civic officials last year, political pressure and frequent transfers of senior officers have successfully delayed any concrete action. With the city's cleanliness visibly suffering, PMC Commissioner Naval Kishore Ram has now stepped in and ordered a strict verification process, promising that anyone found guilty of exploiting the system will face consequences.
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A 5 lakh donation to PM Cares gets full tax exemption.
But spend 5 lakh on your parents’ hospital bills, and only 50,000 qualifies for deduction while the rest is still taxed.
Helping the system is rewarded.
Helping your own family in a medical emergency is treated like a personal expense.
Medical bills are crushing middle-class families, yet meaningful tax relief is still missing.
I am a CBSE Class 12 student.
After receiving unexpectedly low marks in Physics, we applied for photocopies of my answer sheets through the CBSE reevaluation process.
Today we received the copies.
And I am shattered because the Physics answer sheet uploaded by CBSE is not mine
We hear about some constables to low level officers amassing say even Rs.100 crores through corruption.
This is the kind of wealth even many successful entrepreneurs and professionals cannot build in their entire life time.
We are one of the very corrupt societies in the world.
@EquityValueIn Helios is managed by fraud infested management. Their founder was baned by SEBI once. Old Bridge is genuine and beating #PPFAS broadly. It seems to be the underdog who is challenging the cult-like culture of PPFAS.
I don't know whether you remember.
I was one among the first to repeatedly raise to government existence of both STT and long term capital gains are terribly unfair for investors. This goes against the commitment given in the parliament that STT was introduced only in lieu of capital gains tax.
More than domestic investors, this hurts FIIs more. Adding salt to the injury, long term capital gains were further increased in 2024.
I would have posted dozens of tweets in this regard tagging both Prime Minister and Finance Minister.
As always, BJP IT cell started personally attacking me that I don't want to pay taxes. How many ever times I explained the logic, that many times or more I was personally ridiculed.
For many reasons including our government apathy, FIIs are only net sellers for last many years. In parliament, we ridiculed FIIs stating that retail investors are good enough for us and FIIs are exiting a great market called India.
I pointed out how even countries like Singapore and other developed nations give importance to FII money. BJP trolls said FIIs are losing opportunity to make money out of the greatest market in the world.
Even if we are greatest, this arrogance is unwarranted. Arrogance would ensure we don't remain great.
Now we are trying to see how to conserve forex by avoiding destination weddings, foreign vacations and so on.
The elephant in the room is billions of dollars flowing out of the country every month due to FII selling. Instead of trying to address that major issue, we are focusing on overseas trips by a small percentage of Indians. Misplaced priorities.
Our finance minister still do not the feel the need to call FIIs for an open meeting and address their tax issues and other concerns.
We are absolutely tone deaf.
Today, the BJP's agenda is only one thing, win elections. Not by governance, but by creating social divisions and manipulating the electoral system. That’s where their focus is, not on improving your quality of life.
@BaluGorade To be honest HDFC Flexi Cap has been beating Parag Parikh Flexi Cap for long time. See below. Maybe sometimes holding too much cash for too long has its own drawbacks; no strategy is full proof or risk free #hdfcamc#ppfas
Certain things don't make any sense. Difficult to explain with any meaningful rationale or logic.
Saw how cheap a decent home near London trending on Twitter. This is not the first time we are seeing a such things. Forget about America or other parts of Europe, I've seen posts where Alps facing houses in Switzerland available for few crores.
Don't know why housing is so expensive in India. What is there to pay say a million dollars for a flat given our pathetic roads, drainage, water connection and so on.
I used to think these things would change. Now I've completely given up.
There is absolutely no logic in pricing of real estate in India. Either you pay what is asked or be left out. I don't think our real estate prices would reflect reality ever.