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Diesel price hikes – The same old story for the ‘AAM AADMI’
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It’s not the first time, and probably it’s not the last time, our Scamy corrupt Govt has increased prices of fuel and LPG cylinder. According to TOI, center Govt is looking to fetch an additional of 20,300 crores in a year . There is only one man who will get affected by this price hike, the famous “AAM AADMI” of the Indian republic, multiply this with a billion that is the impact of this decision. As a concerned “Aam Aadmi”, who is living hand to mouth living in a metro, this has certainly affected my budget.
One reason which I had heard about on one of the news channels, was that they cannot continue the subsidy on Diesel and LPG as center Govt is bearing a huge loss on subsidy, which is somewhere around, Rs.1,67,00 Crores. Ok I agree Mr. minister with you, but I just want to ask you one question, why don’t you recover this money from, your scams.
Let’s look at some recent numbers, which we all had seen from different news sources:
2G scams, Coalgate scam, which have been, around Rs 1,70,000 crores and 1,86,000 crores respectively. If Govt has distributed 2G spectrum and Coal properly through proper auctions, it would have easily made money, and probably would have recovered money easily.
One another important fact which you would have noticed is that, fuel prices are getting hike after every 3 or 4 months. Every time we hear that oil companies are running in loss, and they need money which is being raised through hike in prices. Interesting whether you increase the prices of the oil or not, stock prices of these companies are always up. They are always in buy recommendation of stock research companies. These companies are raising a lot of money through shares from the common man, and also from the price hike, which is being paid by none other than, the famous “AAM AADMI”.
Another fact which is contributing in fuel hike is taxation, and if I am not wrong there are two taxes applied to fuel. Every time you buy fuel for your Car, you are paying tax to the state Government, and to the Center Govt. Now interestingly, both the Governments make profit with fuel hike, and still the state an the d center Government are always short of money. Himachal’s state Government has a huge loan from World bank, and so is the case with center Government.
In some states like Kerala, they have reduced their share through state tax from fuel, which is why fuel prices are less in Kerala. I just want to ask our state Government that why they can’t reduce state Tax on fuel and provide even a little relief to its public. But they would not take such a step, simple reason is they can blame center Govt for this, and can continue to fill their own pockets. It’s such a shame that both national parties are involved in this kind of dirty politics.
Never in the history of Indian government, we witness such a shameless government in India, which comes out with price hike after 4 months on living essentials, and adding a bonus to that, would be a minor scam, costing few lakhs crores rupee to us. Like the government scams, protest against government is also a keep happening activity and shameless minister would continue to say,”Do whatever you want to do, it’s you only who had elected us, and we would keep on doing the same for the next few years”.
It’s time we should take these matters seriously, and ask our Govt, who is the boss?
It’s the Aam Aadmi who had trusted you and elected you to serve them, but now you are ruling like a
dictator. Never in my life I had understood the value of my vote, but certainly last few years had changed my thoughts completely. I now understand the importance of selecting the right candidate for my state and the country. As an informed citizen of this country we should think about the Aam Aadmi, who is none other than us only. Till the time don’t send the right candidate in the assembly or in the parliament, this Aam Aadmi is going to suffer.
Article Contribution: Vishal Sharma, a HW reader
Shimla-In yet another instance, two private bus operators in Shimla city were seen creating a nuisance for the public by jamming the traffic. A reader clicked some pictures at the BCS bust stop in Shimla city on February 19, 2022, at about 8 PM and shared them with us. The reader alleged that two private bus operators, namely ‘Komal’ and ‘Chadda’, indulged in a verbal spat, most probably over their schedule. While the drivers argued, one of the buses remained parked in the middle of the road, choking the traffic. The staff of these two buses indulged in a verbal spat for about 5-10 minutes during which the general public faced a huge inconvenience. The reader has requested the Traffic Police Shimla to take action against such operators and discourage them from adopting such a bullying attitude that they don’t even hesitate to block the entire road.
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Sundernagar-Many people visit the Sundernagar lake in Mandi district and litter along the road. Winds carry all those packets and plastic bottles into the lake. This practice of littering is unlawful because it costs millions in clean-up projects. It portrays a bad picture of an area. Littering is a huge threat to the aquatic life too. In my view, the solution is awareness, responsibility, sensibility and concern for nature. We as a society need to play a big role. At least, dustbins should be installed along the lake. Otherwise, the negligence in the present will affect us in near future.
-Blog and Picture By Divya Acharya, Sundernagar
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Shimla-A youth from a small town of the Mandi district – Sarkaghat- started as a freelancer and went on to launch his own start-up in 2014. By 2021, the start-up grew into a company that has garnered international clients and also designed and developed websites and web apps for several Departments of the Himachal Pradesh Government.
Netgen IT Solutions Pvt Ltd- a young agile company- has, so far, developed websites for the Department of Information Technology, Women & Child Development, Rope & Rapid Transport Development Corporation, HP Milk Federation Cooperation, and the HP AIDS Control Society.
Besides, it also developed HimSuraksha Abhiyan App (National Health Mission) and the website of the Department of Tourism & Civil Aviation along with a Services Portal.
Further, the website of the Department of Information & Public Relations and the single window system was also developed by NetGen.
Having developed over 2500 websites, Netgen IT Solutions has an imprint of having worked for clients spread over 25 countries in Europe, America, Asia and Australia.
Bootstrapped as a Start-Up on 7th July 2014, the company has evolved to offer a diverse set of services for web, e-commerce and mobile solutions that have enabled Global and Indian business to adapt to a Digital First environment. In seven years, this Shimla-based company has carved out a niche for itself.
The company started with a small team of just four people, and today it employs strong-heeled 25 IT professionals. The skillset of web developers, designers, networking specialists, social media marketers and others is expanding with the growth of the company.
To mark the NetGen Foundation Day, the company hosted a live inter-action of the team members with some clients to understand the need for future technologies and solutions for a fast-changing business environment in the shadow COVID pandemic.
Mr Rajneesh Rana, Founder and Managing Director of the company, is a computer science graduate. Speaking about the company’s journey, Rana’s says, “Stepping out from working as a freelancer at the small township of Sarkhaghat, in Himachal Pradesh, to launching a start-up company, was my first step in entrepreneurship. The company was founded on a shoe-string budget with a small capital outlay. After overcoming the initial hesitancy, we’re on the firmer ground today.”
With the growth in demand for IT Services, the company in the initial year faced manpower shortages. The management took to train and equip freshers in a mentorship program to meet its needs for IT Professionals and also to equip others to find gainful employment elsewhere. Netgen till date has trained over 50 freshers with essential and advanced IT skills. Most of them for the first time in their careers got exposure to the IT Industry.
The company’s IT Technical Team today is professionally equipped to work in 20+ technologies that can be deployed across a vast network of industries.
The Netgen team of IT professionals has expanded the services that the company now provides. A multitude of projects employing creative website design-development; customised software products; e-Commerce solutions; server administration – web security – networking services; mobile application design – development; social media marketing; stand completed.
“There is a growing demand for many other IT and IT-enabled services that the company has successfully delivered for Global and Indian clients,” said Rajneesh.
“Since the breakout of the COVID pandemic, the demand for online services has increased. It created an environment that demands moving things onto digital platform, bringing more opportunities for the IT sector ,” added Rajneesh.
“Take the case of the Government of Himachal Pradesh, India. To secure baseline health data of the over 70 lakh residents in the state and to prepare effective strategies for countering the spread of the pandemic in challenging hilly terrain, the state government needed a simple but effective IT-enabled solution to capture the data as fast as possible,” he said.
“The ‘Him Suraksha Abhiyan’ application designed and developed by NetGen IT Solutions was used by thousands of teams spread under 2300+ sub-centres. In just over a month, the software solution created successfully captured the data of over 68 lakh residents of Himachal Pradesh,” he added.
The 70:30 Percent (%) Global – Domestic revenue stream of Netgen has prepared the company to expand both its export and domestic service portfolios, said Rajneesh.
Mr Ravinder Makhaik, Director of the company says, “growing steadily, Netgen is a debt-free, profit-making company. A healthy mix of domestic and international businesses, with sound financials, gives the company strength to take up more challenging projects. Our portfolio of government projects is making good progress.”
Founded as a 1 lakh authorized capital company and with annual revenues rising at a 25 % compounded annual growth rate, the Netgen Board of Directors has decided to expand the authorized capital of the company to Rs 10 lakh to meet future growth needs.
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