Former Congress Minister of Finance P Chidambaram, as part of one of his 'noble' schemes, had aspired to ensure 'minimum human intervention' in tax assessment and execution. In a way, he wanted a faceless tax administration system. He couldn't execute it though he efficiently played the system to maximize his political fortunes. Working on this 'noble' scheme, the NDA government has purportedly come about with a scheme branded as "honoring the honest taxpayer." Time will tell whether the ...

Modi 2.0 continues with disrupting the power structure and its patronage system built over the last 50 years. This has made the power and pelf seeking rentier class go helter-skelter and turned them into bitter critics of the NDA dispensation. While Modi 1.0 was limited in its disruptive game to demonetization/remonetization that overnight turned the assets of the political, business, and intellectual rentier class into naught, thus crippling their ability to bring about a regime change in ...

Modi 2.0 continues with disrupting the power structure and its patronage system built over the last 50 years. This has made the power and pelf seeking rentier class go helter-skelter and turned them into bitter critics of the NDA dispensation. While Modi 1.0 was limited in its disruptive game to demonetization/remonetization that overnight turned the assets of the political, business, and intellectual rentier class into naught, thus crippling their ability to bring about a regime change in ...

The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday decided to set up a National Recruitment Agency (NRA) that will conduct a common preliminary examination for recruitments to various Group B & C (non -technical) posts in the central government. The NRA will conduct a common preliminary examination for various recruitments in the central government. The incumbent DoPT Secretary C Chandramouli says that approx. 03 Crs candidates appear for about 1.24 lakh vacancies in th...