Friday, March 13, 2020

India has no gender bias in oppression.

"On 6 March crude oil prices crashed big time," as "The price of Brent Crude (one of the main benchmarks for oil prices) has fallen from close to $52 per barrel on 6 March to $31.49 per barrel on 8 March," wrote Vivek Kaul. The government will save a lot of money. "Between April 2019 and January 2020, India had imported 188.4 million tonnes of crude and paid $87.7 billion for it. The average price for India's basket of crude has dropped from $64 to $34.52. But, what about consumer? In May 2014, when crude oil cost $106.85 per barrel, "The price of petrol in Delhi then was Rs 71.41 per liter," while on 1 March 2020 it was Rs 71.71 per liter when the price of crude had dropped to $50 per barrel. Because of taxes. This means we are paying 118% more than the dealer price of Rs 32.93 per liter. "The Vice President of India, Shree M Venkaiah Naidu has said that every citizen must consider it as his sacred duty to pay taxes as development and welfare measures would suffer if governments do not get adequate revenues." Welfare means a whole list of social schemes, ostensibly to help the poor, but in reality to help politicians. Like the farmers' loan waiver which was promised to win assembly election in UP, and Rs 6,000 for every farmer which was promised to win general election in May last year. This government is very conscious of duties of citizens and it will shoot to kill to ensure that we abide by our duties. Alarmingly, "The Union budget for 2020-21 took a bold step to enshrine taxpayer rights through a 'taxpayer charter' in India's income tax statute," wrote Dash and Kaur. It should be modeled on the US Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TBOR) which has set up a Taxpayer Advocate Service "which protects taxpayer rights and ensures accountability of tax authorities". This government does not believe in any accountability for itself. For instance, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that professionals, like "big doctors, lawyers, chartered accountants etc" are cheating on their income tax payments he has no hesitation in giving tickets to criminals guilty of heinous crimes to win power in UP. To protect our most sensitive data, including medical records, the data protection bill has strict punishment for companies for violating confidentiality but says, "All or any of the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any agency of the Government in respect of processing of such personal data." Like China, the government has set up face recognition technology without any discussion. "We are using face recognition software to identify people behind the violence. We have also fed Aadhaar and driving licence data into this software, which has identified 1,100 people." said Home Minister Amit Shah in parliament. Earlier, we were assured that the police cannot access biometric data on Aadhaar. "Scholars of India's political history will see strong similarities between the position of the BJP today and the Congress of the late 1960s and early 1970s," wrote Neelanjan Sircar. Sycophancy in Congress led to Indira Gandhi's emergency which led to mass arrests of opponents. Indira Gandhi was a woman, Modi is a man. No gender bias in oppression in India.

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