Tue Jan 23 22:10:58 2001
Name:Ranbir singh
Email:ranbirbobby@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, To decrease black money, Erase Wealth tax & increase the slab rates on income tax.The higher tax collections will take careof loses.A person who has paid tax on a perticular amount should be aable to keep his money in banks for any length of time and only his earnings from interst should be taxed , subsiquantly.Another VDS should be allowedafter which serious raids be carried out.Also for over production in wheat and potatoes or other vegies,buy them at control prices and destribute to poor Indians in orissa,rajasthan and other states either free or against work schemes.Such schemes can be in the form of labour or socal in nature. GOOD LUCK. Ranbir Singh

Tue Jan 23 22:11:52 2001
Name:PrashantKumar
Email:gbp_kumar@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please group taxable corporate taxe paying companies into projects on Health care, Super Highways, Highways and roads Sports acadamies. Arts and traditional crafts and fields, maintaining monuements, Research labs establishing centeres for auyrveda, sanskrit promotion and vedic learning which can sustain old pundits as they hold a key to vast sources of knowledge usefuel in many inventiosn, new cures from old texts, Establisiing centere slike IIT's and IIM's in South, Centeral and East India. Krech and child care centres for working women in their companies etc. preventing

Tue Jan 23 22:15:08 2001
Name:sunil Bhaskaran
Email:ktsunil@hotmail.com
Suggestions:We would appreciate if you could come up with good NRE investement plans for the year 2001

Tue Jan 23 22:15:57 2001
Name:Shivam Rajgaria
Email:shivamrajgaria@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr.Sinha, I would like you to make India an Asian Economic Powerhouse by opening up India like China And Thailand and Malaysia. Recently I had visited KL and I was so impressed by the development there that I can never imagine that to be happening in India atleast for 50 years. But sIr you can change this by opening up India and attracting more Investors. So please try your best and start competition with China and we'll vote you back next time around. Shivam Rajgaria. Calcutta.

Tue Jan 23 22:17:27 2001
Name:a
Email:a@b.com
Suggestions:aaa

Tue Jan 23 22:17:35 2001
Name:R.RAJAGOPALAN
Email:lalitha7@eth.net
Suggestions:Please roll back the retirement age of Central Govt.employees to 58 years. Instead of paying money in cash 12% interest bonds could be issued for a new VRS scheme accepting employees.The salaries of class I employees have increased manifold after pay commission.There is need for reducing the vacancies of class I posts. The class I officers sabotage any cut in vacancy of their cadre. The Govt.departments are having an inverted pyramid structure today. Where there was one class I officer today 5 officers are functioning simply because the promotion for class I officers are time bound. Vacancies in lower levels are surrendered to show economy in expenditure but higher level posts are never surrendered.The honourable finance minister should do something to reverse the trend otherwise this trend will have a demoralising effect on lower level cadre.All surcharges should be abolished to simplify the tax structure.There is scope for abolishing a number of Central Govt.departments.States should be given incentive for reducing non plan expenditure.The excise and custom duties may be divided into 4 slabs of 5,10,15 and 20%.Multinational companies and other corporates could be encouraged to cut advertisement expenditure and spend money thus saved in developing infrastructure such as road etc.The publicity could be given by Doordarshan free of cost to corporates doing good work on water drainage and infrastructure development.The revenue loss of Doordarshan may be made good by Govt.through grants.Unproductive expenditure on advertisement thus could be curtailed.Thanking you,

Tue Jan 23 22:18:26 2001
Name:P R SINGH
Email:p_rsingh@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:The highest tax slab of 30% starts at Rs.1.50L. It was 1.2L in 95-96, 1.0L in 89-90. after 12 years the highest slab should start from Rs.4-5 L. The rates should be Rs.0.50L to 1.50L-10%, 1.50L to 4.0L-20%, >4.0L 30%. Surcharge should be abolished on individual as it was imposed purely as temporary measur and has continued for 2 years.This will automatically improve collection as people hiding income will show upto Rs.4.0 L income. Strict compliance of rthe law should be enforced. There should be no need to submit return for Salaried tax payers upto Rs.1.5L taxable income to reduce unnecessary paperwork in the department which should concentrate on high networth individuals.

Tue Jan 23 22:19:53 2001
Name:R.RAJAGOPALAN
Email:lalitha7@eth.net
Suggestions:Please roll back the retirement age of Central Govt.employees to 58 years. Instead of paying money in cash 12% interest bonds could be issued for a new VRS scheme accepting employees.The salaries of class I employees have increased manifold after pay commission.There is need for reducing the vacancies of class I posts. The class I officers sabotage any cut in vacancy of their cadre. The Govt.departments are having an inverted pyramid structure today. Where there was one class I officer today 5 officers are functioning simply because the promotion for class I officers are time bound. Vacancies in lower levels are surrendered to show economy in expenditure but higher level posts are never surrendered.The honourable finance minister should do something to reverse the trend otherwise this trend will have a demoralising effect on lower level cadre.All surcharges should be abolished to simplify the tax structure.There is scope for abolishing a number of Central Govt.departments.States should be given incentive for reducing non plan expenditure.The excise and custom duties may be divided into 4 slabs of 5,10,15 and 20%.Multinational companies and other corporates could be encouraged to cut advertisement expenditure and spend money thus saved in developing infrastructure such as road etc.The publicity could be given by Doordarshan free of cost to corporates doing good work on water drainage and infrastructure development.The revenue loss of Doordarshan may be made good by Govt.through grants.Unproductive expenditure on advertisement thus could be curtailed.Thanking you,

Tue Jan 23 22:21:26 2001
Name:Chetan jha
Email:chetan_jha@yahoo.com
Suggestions:please stop the populist measures. its important to teach the people that there is no free lunch in life.

Tue Jan 23 22:21:41 2001
Name:Ranbir singh
Email:ranbirbobby@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, To decrease black money, Erase Wealth tax & increase the slab rates on income tax.The higher tax collections will take careof loses.A person who has paid tax on a perticular amount should be aable to keep his money in banks for any length of time and only his earnings from interst should be taxed , subsiquantly.Another VDS should be allowedafter which serious raids be carried out.Also for over production in wheat and potatoes or other vegies,buy them at control prices and destribute to poor Indians in orissa,rajasthan and other states either free or against work schemes.Such schemes can be in the form of labour or socal in nature. GOOD LUCK. Ranbir Singh

Tue Jan 23 22:21:50 2001
Name:SSUDARSAN
Email:vanson@md3.vsnl.net.in
Suggestions:Hon.Finance minister please be tough.You don't have to rob paul to pay peter.Cut subsidies and make Indians work for their money

Tue Jan 23 22:21:58 2001
Name:Subrat Shaw
Email:subrat_shaw@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, Please stick to your promise of reducing the govt. expenditure.

Tue Jan 23 22:22:47 2001
Name:S.A.alagarsamy
Email:alagarsamy@vsnl.com
Suggestions:sir please take a secret survey how your dept officers are living in luxury,,, They go and raid a lottery walla and it is anybodys guess how much they will account for Govt?? 2.All corrupt politicians should not be in politics...their money shall be confiscated. 3.Use to raid all revenue earning officers and see the huge heap of money being invested in assets. :Do not tax agriculture farmers..it will destroy our fabric of Rice bowl.For example Russia had put and destroyed all kulaks and you see today Russia is starving for food. we must give all help to farmers. Reduce all unnecessary posts in Govt For Example You go to AGs Office we can see how many are working and how many are in Chats and cafes.. Reduce them by 50% and increase computers and E govrnance... sincerely s.A.Alagarsamy 36 c divyam apts 474 first main Road Mogappar Chennai-58 india

Tue Jan 23 22:23:50 2001
Name:hr.kalihari
Email:hrkalihari@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:to encourage savings,the limit of saving to be increased from Rs 60000.00

Tue Jan 23 22:24:27 2001
Name:Sekhar
Email:sekhar_vr@lycos.com
Suggestions:Please increase the Standard Deduction, do away with surchage and provide some tax relief to the Salaried class

Tue Jan 23 22:24:31 2001
Name:Raju Ananthanarayanan
Email:araju67@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Mr. Sinha, As an NRI I would like you to take serious steps which would encourage NRI investment in infrastructure development projects in India. If we can have better roads, water for everyone and enough power India would prosper a lot. Also urgent steps need to be taken to eliminate corruption. Like in the US the government should withhold tax and put the responsibility of claiming refunds on the individuals. Unless this is done there is no way you can ensure that everyone files the tax returns. Good Luck. Raju

Tue Jan 23 22:25:07 2001
Name:S.A.alagarsamy
Email:alagarsamy@vsnl.com
Suggestions:sir please take a secret survey how your dept officers are living in luxury,,, They go and raid a lottery walla and it is anybodys guess how much they will account for Govt?? 2.All corrupt politicians should not be in politics...their money shall be confiscated. 3.Use to raid all revenue earning officers and see the huge heap of money being invested in assets. :Do not tax agriculture farmers..it will destroy our fabric of Rice bowl.For example Russia had put and destroyed all kulaks and you see today Russia is starving for food. we must give all help to farmers. Reduce all unnecessary posts in Govt For Example You go to AGs Office we can see how many are working and how many are in Chats and cafes.. Reduce them by 50% and increase computers and E govrnance... sincerely s.A.Alagarsamy 36 c divyam apts 474 first main Road Mogappar Chennai-58 india

Tue Jan 23 22:25:59 2001
Name:inder.bhatia
Email:b_inder@vsnl.com
Suggestions:Introduce pass book system for intatax payers wherein I.T.Paid by individuals is recorded.When he riches age of sixty five years government may provide the social secuity serviece to him

Tue Jan 23 22:26:31 2001
Name:Adesh Kumar
Email:adeshadk@hotmail.com
Suggestions:The Tax filing should be fully computerised and one need not to see the face of corrupt babus to pay bribe and get his return money.

Tue Jan 23 22:26:33 2001
Name:inder.bhatia
Email:b_inder@vsnl.com
Suggestions:Introduce pass book system for intatax payers wherein I.T.Paid by individuals is recorded.When he riches age of sixty five years government may provide the social secuity serviece to him

Tue Jan 23 22:29:00 2001
Name:PREMAL
Email:munnadoshi@hotmail.com
Suggestions:WATING FOR UR BUDGET IT SHOULD BE POOR PEOPLE ORIENTED NOT FOR WHO ALREADY ARE RICH TRY TO MAKE POOR A MIDDLE CLASS MEN.

Tue Jan 23 22:29:31 2001
Name:venugopal adyapady
Email:vga@vsnl.com
Suggestions:Reduce the retirement age of al employees to 56 years instead of 60 years thus reduce staff strength. Make all people to pay the Income Tax compulsorily by ordering all IT authorities to raid very rich people's house. At present only gOVT. Employees are paying the I.Tax sincerely.

Tue Jan 23 22:30:04 2001
Name:venugopal adyapady
Email:vga@vsnl.com
Suggestions:Reduce the retirement age of al employees to 56 years instead of 60 years thus reduce staff strength. Make all people to pay the Income Tax compulsorily by ordering all IT authorities to raid very rich people's house. At present only gOVT. Employees are paying the I.Tax sincerely.

Tue Jan 23 22:31:00 2001
Name:manas kumar tapadar
Email:manastapadar@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:please increase the upper limit of the annual earnings upto which one does not have to pay taxes.please keep in mind the plight of the poor people while making your budget.

Tue Jan 23 22:31:06 2001
Name:Vivek K. Mehta
Email:vivmehta@vsnl.com
Suggestions:1.I would request that the savings under Sec 88 of the ITax Act be increased to Rs. 1,20,000 plus Rs.20,000 for infrastructure projects. The current limits of Rs.60,000/- is too less. With the increase in these limits, the savings rate will go up for the country while giving greater tax relief to individuals. 2. I would request that both the surcharges to the tax amount be withdrawn. 3. The interest on housing loans be increased under section 24 of the ITax act.

Tue Jan 23 22:32:20 2001
Name:deepali
Email:d_haridas@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Income tax should be charged irrespective of caste and creed.in Tripura state tribals have IT exemption, even when they are earning around Rs.5,00,000/- per year. This is highly unfair. Kindly look into the matter.

Tue Jan 23 22:33:38 2001
Name:Hitesh Shah
Email:ShahH@Bellatlantic.net
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Sinha: Please, make sure you keep poor to middleclass people in mind while budgeting. Although, I am in US, I have seen many middle class people suffer and complain about day to day living. Thanks, Hitesh Shah New York, USA ShahH@Bellatlantic.net

Tue Jan 23 22:36:23 2001
Name:suraj
Email:surajbadiger@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Heloo, Plz Don't make Budget just coz of every year we/you have to do it, Do a Budget which can reachable to all common people, hope you don't mind it

Tue Jan 23 22:36:40 2001
Name:prakash chandalia
Email:mahanagar@vsnl.net
Suggestions:Kindly take some serious steps so that Indian Language Newspapers can do well. Think about Newsprint.

Tue Jan 23 22:40:39 2001
Name:G.Sathiyanarayanan
Email:sathiyanarayanan@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Some concessions in income tax for the salaried section of the people,may be granted, as they are no tax evaders. Hence a lesser tax may be levied for them. This will make many happy. Thanking you, -G.Sathiyanarayanan.

Tue Jan 23 22:41:37 2001
Name:Kamal
Email:kamalk@vertibra.com
Suggestions:Dear Jashwant! How are you?

Tue Jan 23 22:42:27 2001
Name:Parveen Gupta
Email:Parveen_Gupta-PT1221@email.mot.com
Suggestions:1. Simplify Income Tax rules. 2. Expand the tax base by including more services under the tax net and by changing the IT slabs. 3. Allocate more money in the budget for IT enforcement related departments so that people not paying taxes can be caught and brought to book.

Tue Jan 23 22:43:38 2001
Name:Rajarshi Bhattacharya
Email:rajarshi_bh@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Sir, I am very proud of what you have been doing for our Country so far. You have given the country good budgets in the past and hopefully you will give us a good budgte this time as well. The sole motto should be to encourage both domestic and foreign investments and speedy privatisation. India should become globally competitive. People here in the US have very high regards for the technological prowess of us, Indians. We must lay a great emphasis on improving infrastruture like roads,railways,airways,power, etc...We should have a good and high bandwidth and IT backbone and should make PCs less pricy so that common people can afford it. Access to teh internet should become easier and the govt. should remove all kinds of red tapism which comes in the way of progress. Remove or atleast reduce subsidies. make the lokpal bill a reality. I strongly vote for a fixed term for any position. Also, increase the salaries of the politicians. We should strive to achieve what China has achieved. We must lay strong emphasis on core manufacturing and throw open the automibile sector. I am absolutely bewildered to know that a Toyota camry costs 50 grand USD in India whereas here it costs 18 grands. Please pay attention to upgrading the law enforcers. They cannot match an AK-47 with batton sticks. Improve the patrolling capabilites of the cops. Emphasis onn education and more schools should be made. Invite private sector participation in education. Technology has already started improving the rural Indiaand it should do more. That's it....We are all very proud of you and looking forward to a great, good, higly investor friendly budget.

Tue Jan 23 22:43:50 2001
Name:Sandeep Patwardhan
Email:sandeep.patwardhan@mail.sprint.com
Suggestions:Mr FM There are so many areas where India can save money and It is pitty that No FM has taken serious action on this. To give few are cut all expenses on security of old PM's and above those Gnadhi's who are having fun on Indian tax Payer's money. Also make tax code simpler and easier so that there is no confusion left among illeterates. Also it is pity that only service classes pay taxes in India whereas all other professions Farmers, Business tycoons, Lawyers, Doctors can have fun by bypassing taxes. I think it is high time for India to take some good thing from US as far as Taxing Citizens is concerned. In US every body pays taxes. Rather there is no choice left. So instead copying USA for MTV's and other nonsense it will be good if we take close look at US's tax code and may be change it as per our need and implement in India. If you have a will then you can do it, which anyway not many politicians have these days. One disappointed Indian who has no Hopes from Indian Politicians for Country's Future.

Tue Jan 23 22:44:08 2001
Name:Radhika Chitale
Email:Radhika-chitale@consultant.com
Suggestions:Our best regards and best wishes to you and our motherland ! Jai Hind !!!! Om hari !!!!!!!

Tue Jan 23 22:46:25 2001
Name:shiril
Email:purpletoe35@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Try doing something which atleast sounds good.

Tue Jan 23 22:46:52 2001
Name:fdfgfdg
Email:prane@iitk.ac.in
Suggestions:hgfhjhjjkkbnmnbm

Tue Jan 23 22:50:27 2001
Name:rsmaheshwari
Email:mstco@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:reduce customs duty in pure silk yarn so that we can compete with silk yarn smuggled.just 10% reduction in duty will increase revenue by more than double because bangladesh and nepal will automatically the import of silk yarn.

Tue Jan 23 22:50:41 2001
Name:rmcarvalho
Email:rmcarvalho@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear FM A few suggestions for the ensuing budget exercise: 1)Raise standard deduction to 50,000/= 2)Assure public that tax proposals will be fixed for 3 years 3)Abolish surcharge on tax 4) Abolish slabs of taxation and 5) Introduce a flat rate , say 25% tax across the board. This will encourage people to earn more knowing that all will be taxed equally. 5)

Tue Jan 23 22:51:20 2001
Name:anil kapadia
Email:anilkapadia@yahoo.com
Suggestions:raise exemption limit to rs.70000/- catch the so called small vendors of paan and other foodstufs in large cities & towns as they earn more than rs. 2000/ per day. also allow an extra rs. 20000/- deduction on children's school fees and other expenses on production of suitable proof of expenses. please roll back dividend tax to 10%as it will induce company managements to part with more dividends to their shareholders.

Tue Jan 23 22:52:40 2001
Name:vinant prahlad
Email:vinnu_zepooh@usa.net
Suggestions:sir, please take some harsh measures to bring the indian economy back on rails. and please do not rollback anything. thank you.

Tue Jan 23 22:52:43 2001
Name:anil kapadia
Email:anilkapadia@yahoo.com
Suggestions:raise exemption limit to rs.70000/- catch the so called small vendors of paan and other foodstufs in large cities & towns as they earn more than rs. 2000/ per day. also allow an extra rs. 20000/- deduction on children's school fees and other expenses on production of suitable proof of expenses. please roll back dividend tax to 10%as it will induce company managements to part with more dividends to their shareholders.

Tue Jan 23 22:55:08 2001
Name:zahir akhtar
Email:zahir_ali@hotmail.com
Suggestions:You are destroying all small industries, after 5 years there would be monopoly and middle class people will become poor too. Please do some thing on the small scale industries and do not put more tax burden on employed person, rather put tax burden on rich and bigger industires, Poor and employed person don;nt have any loppy as enjoyed by Rich and big indus. people whom you listen and always give better deal. Come out of this and begin working for people rather than a broker to indus. and supporting y your family people and trust Thanks hope you improve.

Tue Jan 23 22:55:23 2001
Name:dr.k.k.punmia
Email:punmiakanti@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:increase the 1st slab /limit to 85000/- impose luxury tax.

Tue Jan 23 22:57:01 2001
Name:raja Sharma
Email:Touch1@sprint.ca
Suggestions:There should be flat Vendor Permit fee for all the small vendors,shops etc. e.g. Paan Shops, Choley/Puri,sidewalk hawkers and vendors etc. This should be in form of monthly/quartely/yearly basis eg. Rupees 10 per month licence fee as permit from the Municipality of the District they are operating in. This money will help the Municipality, thus making them less dependent on the Tax money from State or Center Tax Pool. This Vendor permit fee should be frozen for five years so that the outcry of future raise of the fee cannot be made as an issue by the vendors. This is very reasonable and they make enough money to pay Rs.10.00 as Vendor Permit. This will help in lots of Municipal projects of the District. As we know Millions of Indians are NOT paying any taxes,sales Taxes or Business Permit fee which is resulting in loss of revenue in millions of rupees. Since every person uses the facilities of the city why should NOT every Indian be made responsible for the responsibility. Thank You

Tue Jan 23 22:57:16 2001
Name:Prabhakar Reddy Tada
Email:tadapr@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Honourable Finance Minister of India, I would like to submit couple of things to you for your consideration. Firstly, a cursory look at the NSS estimates of consumption expenditure contained in 55th round makes it clear that the urban and rural unemployment has risen so much in the nineties though we have implemented economic reforms in true spirit. Therefore, my humble submission is that please take care of rural sector by allocating more funds and designing employment generation activities such as developing agricultural infrastructure etc. Secondly, thanks for controlling the fiscal deficit. However, we need to curtail the non-plan expenditure on a high priority basis. Thanking you sir, Yours sincerely, Prabhakar Reddy Tada

Tue Jan 23 23:00:20 2001
Name:SUDHIR J GHATGE
Email:sudhirjghatge@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Shri. Yashwant Sinha, Kindly include the pharmaceutical products & Organic Chemicals under Rule 57 AD of (CENVAT) Central Excise Rules, 1944 as it is practically very difficult to maintain separate inventory considering the process carried out by such industry. Proportionate reversal of Cenvat credit would be more convenient as it is not economical convenient as well as they will have to maintain statutory records as per Drugs & Cosmetic Act and solvents and other excepients can not e stored separately for the sake of compliance of Rule 57AD or to forgo cenvat credit. Kindly include these two commodity under Rule 57AD in line with the other products such as tyres and b & w tv. Kindly look at the practical difficulties and help our industry to comply perfectly in the subject matter. I hope you will really look into this matter as your excise staff is unnecessary creating problems in this regards. With regards, SUDHIR J GHATGE

Tue Jan 23 23:01:35 2001
Name:Narayanan Thondugulam
Email:tv_sriram@yahoo.com
Suggestions:I just want to emphasize the need to improve infrastructure. Only the govt. can take initiatives here and improve the backbone of the economy which is infrastructure. It's a tough job but you got to start somewhere

Tue Jan 23 23:01:39 2001
Name:ravi
Email:v.kiran@mailcity.com
Suggestions:Hi, I would like suggest that please try to reduce the decision making time and decentralize the power to the lower authorities to realise the power of India becoming a super power in this century

Tue Jan 23 23:01:46 2001
Name:R R Mohanty
Email:rmohanty@softhome.net
Suggestions:Dear FM, The salaried class remains panicky every year before presentation of the budget with the apprehension of a tax hike and hike in prices of essential commodities.But all the successive budgets systematically over look the agonies of this salaried middle class in their desperate search for realising more tax and containing fiscal deficit.. But alas, same doesn't apply to the business men,traders and even millions of small dukandars..Virtually all of them go away with paying little or no tax...And the salaried class becomes the sacrificial lamb all the time.Why so? Why can't you devise proper method of collecting taxes from them? I would suggest 1.A total revamp in the structure of IT dept.,making it more focussed and result oriented and accountable to you and the public. 2.A long but sustained efforts of getting every body including smallest shopkeepers into IT roll book. 3.Some how merging various tax collection entities into a single window which makes tax collectionn easier and smoother. 4.Introduction of severe punsishment for tax defaulters,Loan defaulters,political patronage not withstanding(The figure for nationalised banks are alarming) 5.Total implementation of IT in all these dept. to do away with all kind of paper works, to the extend that the Tax histories of Individuals and entities be kept in CDs instead ofkeeping them in those antinque files and letting to gather dust. And above all die hard honesty on the part of yours and your dept. in implementing such measures.. Best wishes and regds

Tue Jan 23 23:02:31 2001
Name:Shrirang Anant Limaye
Email:shri_limaye@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Petroleum wastage at Octroi posts. 1.All companies to submit Octroi register, like RG 23 -part1. 2. Oct. staff shall audit on similar lines to excise. 3. Penalties to be stringent. 4.Collect octroi per month basis to maintain cashflow to corp, muncipalities etc. 5.Collect deposits towards octroi as advance equal to weighted average of last 3 months. These measures shall reduce petroleum bill considerably, since traffic will be smoothened. Also delays will be avoided.

Tue Jan 23 23:05:31 2001
Name:Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy
Email:vkfree23@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Dear Shri Yashwant Sinha, There must be allocation of funds for environmental purity and anti-pollution measures. I'd appreciate if you can initiate some programmes in collaboration with the suitable ministries & departments. It should also include provision for cleaning up rivers/streams which are polluted with toxic chemicals & substances. Maybe an allocation similar to the Infrastructure Allocation proposed by Shri Chidambaram, a few years ago could be a good start. I wish a consensus is build up on these lines and quick action is initiated. I am sure everyone wants a Clean India as much as a Free India. Thank you, Sincerely yours, Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy Sunnyvale, CA 94087 USA.

Tue Jan 23 23:05:58 2001
Name:Dr M S Jogad, University of Nebraska Lincoln NE68588-0111 USA(Now) S B College of Science, Gulbaraga-585103, Kar, India
Email:mahjogad@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Please do not put tax to agriculture based industries. See that farmers to get benefit for his goods. Give more budget to improve higher education in particular to physics education.

Tue Jan 23 23:06:32 2001
Name:jipad
Email:jipad@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Pl. increase taxes on all luxury things , including Cigarette,Wine ,coke,pepsi. Pl. reduse the price of rice ,wheat & cooking oil. Reduce the price of transportation of day to day necessary goods. Pl. increase the cost of Air Tickits, First Class & AC coach. But reduce the ticktes of ST Bus Fare, Second Class Train fare. Thanks

Tue Jan 23 23:06:39 2001
Name:K.Ganesh
Email:sharanyaganesh@eth.net
Suggestions:Incometax exemption limit should be raised to atleast Rs 1 lakh in view of the high inflation and depreciation of value of rupee in the forex market. Govt has plenty of other means to raise revenue.

Tue Jan 23 23:06:52 2001
Name:Dr M S Jogad, University of Nebraska Lincoln NE68588-0111 USA(Now) S B College of Science, Gulbaraga-585103, Kar, India
Email:mahjogad@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Please do not put tax to agriculture based industries. See that farmers to get benefit for his goods. Give more budget to improve higher education in particular to physics education.

Tue Jan 23 23:07:24 2001
Name:PARASURAM
Email:parasu001@rediffmail.com
Suggestions: Sir, i would suggest that Dividend Tax be brought to 10 % b) May be limit for tax free medical reimbursement shuld be increased to Rs 20,000. c) Surcharge for Indls should be removed... d) should induce more savings...may be govt can reduce the interest rate of PF etc, but increase the quantum of invst in Sec 88 from Rs 60000 to Rs 75000... Thanks and all the best

Tue Jan 23 23:07:34 2001
Name:Priya George
Email:prgeorge@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Add another condition for compulsory filing of returns for persons owning shares, increasing the 1 in 6 to 1 in 7, together with reducing the current dividend tax from 22% to 11%

Tue Jan 23 23:09:20 2001
Name:ak singh
Email:ak_patna@rediff.com
Suggestions:Pls bring down the prices on computers,medicine and books. Give some relief to common tax payers . Cut down on govt non productive expenses.

Tue Jan 23 23:10:19 2001
Name:EcoBoost
Email:flyboy_xl5@yahoo.com
Suggestions:best of luck.

Tue Jan 23 23:11:57 2001
Name:prasanna_bhanpurkar
Email:prasanna_bhanpurkar@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:dear Sir What Kind of budget this year will be announce can you reply me

Tue Jan 23 23:13:01 2001
Name:madhavi
Email:mvemuri@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Can you please reduce day to day commodities and gas prices

Tue Jan 23 23:13:06 2001
Name:sridhar harivanam
Email:sridhar_h@yahoo.com
Suggestions:sir, do something about the fall of rupee value in the international market. we, indians are ready to do anything for this. we will accept anything you decide, but do something to rise the rupee value.

Tue Jan 23 23:13:45 2001
Name:Wilson Mehta
Email:vipmehta@emirates.net.ae
Suggestions:simplify the income tax on indiviuals income like in U.S.A. and reduce administaration expenditure on dirext tax collections

Tue Jan 23 23:13:52 2001
Name:shailesh parikh
Email:shaileshbhagwandas@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:please increase Income tax exemption limit. Please allow Itax sec 88 limit. Pl reduce subsidies. Make PSUs competitive. Look for common people Thanks

Tue Jan 23 23:17:08 2001
Name:kk
Email:jkj.io@yahoo.com
Suggestions:jfgdgfhikyy

Tue Jan 23 23:17:22 2001
Name:K Meenakshi Sundaram
Email:kms@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Remove the income tax, Wealth tax and Excise Duty. Instead collect fixed sum from every resident in India. This will mean only income to Govt without any need for BIG adminstrative machanism.

Tue Jan 23 23:23:03 2001
Name:padma
Email:padmakms@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Remove the excise duty like in USA to make the products become affordable to every public. This will also provide a corruption free level playing field for all the Manufacturers. Find a simple alternate system to make good the reduction in revenue on account of this.

Tue Jan 23 23:32:00 2001
Name:Pradeep DESHPANDE
Email:gmtpl@vsnl.com
Suggestions:(1) Reduce Customs Duty on CRGO Steel used for Transformers , and Increase duty on Transformers as finished products. This way, Indian Transformer Industry can flourish and be a supplier to world.

Tue Jan 23 23:32:12 2001
Name:Dr. Satyabrata Maiti
Email:satyabratamaiti@hotmail.com
Suggestions:For better healthcare reimbrushment of medical bills in Central Govt. for common diseases may be withdrawn. People are making them ill by abuse of medicins by taking excess medicins since it paid by the Govt.

Tue Jan 23 23:34:26 2001
Name:ravi kb
Email:ravikb31@yahoo.com
Suggestions:I would like to know how will you bridge the gap between agriculture products and non-agr. products. These days agriculture products has no value where as the others has got overwhelming support and enjoying at the expense of agriculturists. Eg. cocanut available for Rs.2 per pc. How many cocanuts required to buy a computer if u think to educate the people.

Tue Jan 23 23:34:31 2001
Name:Dhananjoy Das
Email:joy_das@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Namsteh Sinhajee, I have been keen on echonomic reforms eversince the days it cam eot my consious .. Sinhajee I would request you to go-ahead with disinvestment in all the sectors which have been showing potential loss in business over past few years which includes verious utility Dept(this could to some extent also remove corruption in such dept). I would say Govt should act as an Elderly Father/Mother who askes the other members of the family to do things in a certain right way rather than doing everything all by itself.. this would provide Govt woth substantial amount of Money in-hand to do other welfare activities which are more important to people than actualy protecting the interest of those lazy bump people working in the utility Govt Dept. For that matter some part of the disinvestment money can be used to payoff the loan's and ever increasing Deficite.. Thanks Sinhajee.. looking forward to a excelent Budget.. Regards, Dhananjoy Das

Tue Jan 23 23:35:29 2001
Name:surendra
Email:akkena@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:please see to it, that the rupee value increases...

Tue Jan 23 23:35:36 2001
Name:Prashant
Email:a_patriotic_indian@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Finance Minister, I am sure you will try your best to give the People a healthy and a good budget. The thing what I wanted to Point out was that Tourism is one area where we can earn a lot of revenue for the country. THis is one area where you can focus on. Tourism in the long run can become a money spinner for India. As I can see, India is not the primary tourist destination for most of the European & American Countries. You may be well aware that the Europeans & Americans spend a lot of money on travelling and if we can funnel even a part of this money, it will help India a lot. What we need to do is promote a few of the tourist places (not all) to start with. Make these places conducive for tourism (stay, security, etc) Once that is done, promote Tourism extensively in these countries. I hope you can do something about this. A couple of years of effort should really help us do wonders for the future. Wishing you all the best for the budget. Prashant

Tue Jan 23 23:37:30 2001
Name:kalyan sengupta
Email:senguptakalyan@hotmail.com
Suggestions:A person is allowed to say in India 180 days to remain NRI but for TR he is aloowed to stay in India not more then 180 days in last two years before he actually returns to Inidia. This anamoly should be removed.

Tue Jan 23 23:38:01 2001
Name:Vijay Chavva
Email:vkchavva@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Be bold, take tough measures, Invest some thing on population control and anti-corruption, they will definitely fetch you good returns in short and long term. Vijay Chavva

Tue Jan 23 23:38:18 2001
Name:Pankaj Jain
Email:ssinfotek@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Why owners of large farm houses cannot be taxed on their income from agriculture?

Tue Jan 23 23:38:26 2001
Name:Shiv
Email:Shiv@India.com
Suggestions:Mr.Finance Minister, Don't bother about us (current generation). We will some how manage. But please do something for our children. They should live in a proud, powerful and prosperous India! Thank you

Tue Jan 23 23:38:54 2001
Name:praveenarora
Email:praveenarora86@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Respected F.M the best part of the coming budget would be to abolish the dividend tax. This would really send positive signals not only to investors here but also to overseas investors

Tue Jan 23 23:39:02 2001
Name:sandeepan
Email:sundeepan@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Reduce the excise duty on packing material so that everything gets it's package.

Tue Jan 23 23:45:59 2001
Name:aditya
Email:adityas9@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Sir, lady labourer.worked at my residence.......she originated from bihar.has six children ..one as old as 3yrs. came to earn money. india can never prosper genuinely if poor,who work and mind you sir dont beg.have a respectable future.not only for them.but.. for their children.which are even more important. thank you aditya

Tue Jan 23 23:47:43 2001
Name:Advait
Email:advait@iwon.com
Suggestions:Hello Mr.Sinha, We wish you all the best in presenting the sort of budget which would usher in an era of economic prosperity and freedom for each and every Indian Citizen. -Advait and Madhu

Tue Jan 23 23:48:04 2001
Name:Kedar Phadke
Email:kphadke@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Hon. Finance Minister Sinhaji, Let me start of by saying that I have tremendous respect for the current government & the fashion in which it is functioning. In India, playing the role of a finance minister is a really tricky affair since you have to really walk a fine line when it comes time to making hard decisions. Decisions which will hit the common man hard by way of higher cost of living etc but in the long term these steps will pay off. Not all human beings are given this gift of really looking into the future & envisioning where this great country of ours should be in the next 5-10-20 years. It is very difficult to appease everyone especially when we have a coalation government but hard decisions have to be taken if you want to have a better quality of life in the future. I must say that you play a very important role in shaping the economic future of India & alongwith the support of great visionaries like the Hon. Prime Minister Vajpayeeji we shall achieve our goals. Just today I read about the temple issue being raked up again & some statements from a senior VHP leader that "There could be mid-term elections if secularists (the Bharatiya Janata Party's allies) withdraw support to the National Democratic Alliance Government on the Ram temple issue. Under the circumstances, if the government has to fall on the issue, so be it,". It really pained me to read it since in this electronic age, it is still personal goals/ego that still matters & the good of the country has no meaning. I hope that these statements made by VHP turn out to be false & that the government continues till it's full term & beyond. I wish you all luck with the faith that we shall win in the end. Jai Hind.

Tue Jan 23 23:48:49 2001
Name:sunny
Email:sunnyee@mailcity.com
Suggestions:devalue the rupee to boost exports or we will soon be eaten up by china

Tue Jan 23 23:49:47 2001
Name:Abhishek Vashishth
Email:avashishth@usa.net
Suggestions:1. Increased allocation for health & familly Planning. Objective should be to bring fertility rate to regenerative level of 2.1 child per mother. 2. Education for all. So that we have a workforce which can take value adding jobs and has a civic sense. 3. Lower excise duties in industries facing onslaught of foreign dumpings. 4. Freeze every departments outlay to current levels. Every one has to get more efficient with the money they get from Budget. They have to find new and creative ways to deal with there problems and target withing the resources that finance ministry is already allocating it. They can't keep on asking for more funds for there new coming problems. It's basically like transfering there problems to Finance Ministry in terms of increased deficit. And everyone knows that there is so much of wastage of fund in every department, they just have to cut that wastage and not there objectives to contain themselves within there allocated budget.

Tue Jan 23 23:50:22 2001
Name:Satyendra Dixit
Email:satyendra.dixit@funb.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, Why don't Central Govt. put some restrictions on State Govt.'s on their mismanagement of Public Money ? Almost all the state Govt.'s are on the verge of Bankrupcy, Don't u think they are misusing public's trust on them ?

Tue Jan 23 23:51:14 2001
Name:chandrakant kaklyankar
Email:c_kalyankar@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, We ned infrastructure.It creates jobs and takes us to progress.It needs HUGE funds.Why not float Bearer BONDs using black money to be used for infrastructure?PAN s are still trickling in !! Why not give contracts to some NRI from Silicon Valley ?We are having census too.. Why not give something like USA's social security numbers to all individuals? If anybody can do it, Yashwant Sinha, alone can do it, with his IAS background. It is non controversial and invite tenders only from NRIs .Time bound..One year or less to be quoted by the party with strict penalty clause.

Tue Jan 23 23:53:33 2001
Name:paruljain
Email:paruljain_385@yahoo.co.in
Suggestions:want to have financial assistance to pursue study in abroad. moreover there should be rebate in the price of petrol.

Tue Jan 23 23:59:38 2001
Name:Ashwin Muthuvenkataraman
Email:ashwinmuth@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, I would like to bring to your notice that it would be very helpful if the Directory of official Web sites could give a web link that would summarize the requirements for NRI's to export goods from India to other countries. With the present web sites it makes it difficult since a lot of information has to be collected from across different web sites to start an export business. Your help in this regard will be very much appreciated. Thanks Ashwin

Tue Jan 23 23:59:55 2001
Name:Vidya
Email:vidyask@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Respected Sir It is nice to see the different reforms that are being brought in india, especially regarding the improvement of the financial status in india. But the concern is the corruption that is rampant in the current system and the amount it affects a common citizen of india. it is really pathetic that to get even the smallest administrative work done we land up paying one or another person in the administrative system just to get a work done by him/her . until and unless this is rectified we wonder whether the reforms will really pay its result. In a way u cannot blame them ,especially if you go to one of the administrative offices their work environment is so bad that it is more like a junk yard. Secondly, we have a law and order controlling body (i.e Police) who have a very sorry infrastructure and who do not have a suitable level of resources and infrastructure (especially the lower cadre, which in turn results in something called as corrupt cops), it is more like they are present only as an ornament and do not have the necessary authority or facility or motivation to implement for what they are supposed to do. and of course the way that every other rich guy (or a politiciam) or a rich guys (or a politicians) kid winds up getting away with his mistake either by paying the administration or by using his/her "CONTACTS" I really wonder that even if a good cop is present , whether he will be allowed to do his duty Until and unless this is fixed I do not see any interesting future for india. The dream that INDIA can become a economic super power will be nothing more than a dream. regards Vidya

Wed Jan 24 00:02:15 2001
Name:Muthu
Email:rmuthuk@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Please make sure that the integrity of Indian budget be maintained and not decided by the influencial few sitting in USA. Also make a decision like a finance minister and not like a political leader.

Wed Jan 24 00:04:41 2001
Name:Ashwini Law
Email:lawa111@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Pls reduce I Tax rates.

Wed Jan 24 00:04:57 2001
Name:mahesh rao
Email:mahi52@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Tourism needs a lot of attension

Wed Jan 24 00:05:39 2001
Name:Peter K. Fern
Email:pk@saintly.com
Suggestions:All extravagent expenses not related to tradition BUT RELATED TO COMMERCIAL PROMOTIIONS CAN BE TAXED/ Like Valinties Day Tax all sales on the merchandise -greetig cards telephone on that day can be trebbled. ST can be increased on bouqettes, gidt titems etc as there is nothing wrong as they are making money on it. Like wise Nee Uear Sal isa big commercial event so a month of promotions go on it tax and benifit from all extravagent spending, it is not a poor mas's event any way. To some extent Diwali alos, but traditional items can be spared all high end stores can be taxed here as in other areas poor people must not be affected. PLEASE PREATE A FUND AND INCENTIVE FOR GOOD WORK which can beat curruption. Liek tatkal scheme for P&T and Railways all activites of Govt can have such a scheme where if a person pays higher he can get it faster. a middle range and a normal course range. With the workers [staff getting more incentive for normal and less for the higher ones [faster applications] They must expalin why they prefered to take the 3 levels monthly. People with competence will take normal course, greedy ones may take the faster course -both sides. In the long run all works can come in normal route and curruption reduced in fot eliminated. All members of a family of a currupt famil must be denied - education in inexpenise schools, admission in good coleges, jobs, elevations etc. as a deterent. Family members who expose the parent or sibling must be rewared with jobs and cash incentives so as to keep family itself as social political unit. Unemployed yuth can be given free trainig camps for idetifying curruption ends and be rewareded with jobs or loans for their projects etc.

Wed Jan 24 00:07:04 2001
Name:Amit R.J.
Email:amitrj20@usa.net
Suggestions:Dear sir, I would like to see more sops for the computer industry both the software and the hardware. For India to really progress computers should be cheaply available. Introduce methods that will also promote growth in hardware sector which is severely lacking

Wed Jan 24 00:07:39 2001
Name:srinivas Goli
Email:srini_goli@yahoo.com
Suggestions:I don't know if there is any budgetory allocation of funds to provide water for each and every corner of the country. But I would like to see some implemetaions with true effort. This is a basic need and needs a coolective approach to reduce many different kinds of problems. Thanks & Regards Srinivas Goli.

Wed Jan 24 00:07:45 2001
Name:Priji Thomas
Email:priji_t1@hotmail.com
Suggestions:The tax base in India is very low. Please take steps to include all the businessmen in the tax base. Currently it is only the Govt. employees and the people working in the private firms who are paying taxes.

Wed Jan 24 00:08:38 2001
Name:Basker Mathrubootham
Email:baskerm@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Reduce taxes to a flat 20% for incomes above 200,000. Do not tax people who earn below. Also, reduce the price of petrol significantly. It is being used mostly by the poor people who commute usingbpetrol driven vehicles. The rich anyway don't mind paying extra for the vehicle running on diesel. This will improve spending power and also create a better and stable economy. basker Mathrubootham

Wed Jan 24 00:17:37 2001
Name:Murali Mohan Deshpande
Email:dmurali_mohan@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Hello Sir, In our economy only the salary earning people are paying tax sincerely and there is no proper monitoring of income. So I request you to kindly take steps in order to appropriately reduce the burden on us by properly getting the income tax from the people who are not paying it. Thank you, Regards, Murali Mohan

Wed Jan 24 00:18:13 2001
Name:Vijay G Reddy
Email:vijay_gopalareddy@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Hello Mr.Sinha, I am currenly working in US as a software Engineer, Given a chance, I would like to build a Huge database of Unique Number assigned to each citizen of India, which then can be use by all the other databases (locally) to keep track of their records. This will opens doors to commerce and increase the credibitlity of each citizen who wants do anything legal in India. It can also be used to stop crime and corruption. I hope you would consider this idea. With best regards, Vijay

Wed Jan 24 00:18:35 2001
Name:mukesh jain
Email:mukesh1@bom6.vsnl.net.in
Suggestions:Sir, please make changes in tax system. I do not mean any deduction in tax rate, but simplicity . also,make only one time tax i.e. remove sales exsise & many other taxes.for e.g. if actual mfg. cost is Re.1/- than charge Rs.2/- as one time tax. thank you.

Wed Jan 24 00:21:46 2001
Name:Pulak Barua
Email:pulak_28@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Sir, you should do some thing to enhance the value of rupee. one of the suggestions are: 1.to cut down the cost of security to the VVIP's 2.middle men should be avoided 3.more emphasis should be on the export as this one of the important way to generate money 4. turiesm should be given priority 5. as the country is in a transformation phase and Information TEchnology is the buzz word you should not go for funding in the rural areas, you can easily use the village post offices for these matter by training the postman & cutting a lot of cost in the postal department thank you sir

Wed Jan 24 00:21:53 2001
Name:zoheb ainapore
Email:zohebsa@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:devise a plan to control population cause if that is achieved then -more jobs -less poverty which will ultimately lead to a better india

Wed Jan 24 00:22:43 2001
Name:Rajesh Kotian
Email:rajeshkotian@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, I have some very valid suggestions as far as Salaried Income persons are concerned 1. As compared to self employed / business individuals, salried persons pay a substantial percentage of tax Why can your govt give some incentives eg raise the standard deductions - and not just make it applicablle for Income below 5 lakhs 2. Reduce Income Tax for individuals and create an expenditure tax or may be hike luxury items' excise duty 3. Hike the allowance for principal repayment of Housing Loans to atleast Rs. 50000 (from Rs. 20000) Sincerely Rajesh Kotian

Wed Jan 24 00:24:43 2001
Name:Shantanu Das
Email:dasx0019@tc.umn.edu
Suggestions:Dear finance minister, Please make private participation more prevalant and more relevant in the Indian scenario, Particularly for infrastructure sectors like power, roads, aviation, and telecom. Capitalism works really good if its enforced 100%, it does not work at all at even 99.9%. So with this years budget, please make sure that petty red tapism in otherwise good policy decisions are removed and they really take off with the good intentions with which they were originally designed to address.

Wed Jan 24 00:30:25 2001
Name:Abhishek Mandala
Email:abhishek_mandala@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Sub : Tax on automobiles. I dont think for a country like us we need more cars on the road without the proper infrastructure. I have the following suggestions: 1. Increase the tax on cars sales and registration and make sure that money goes into the development of roads. 2. Invest a good part of the taxes u collect from this in public trasportation. 3. It is VERY IMPORTANT for us to bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots. 4. I am confidant that by increasing the taxes on such luxuary items you investing the collected taxes into related fields you will get the good will from both sides of the isle. I wish you and the govt. the best wishes. Sincerely, Abhishek

Wed Jan 24 00:32:12 2001
Name:Md.Asad
Email:arsuabdy@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Sir,At the outset I request your goodelf to kindly keep the position of common man in mind while presenting the Budget 2001. As the IT field is growing at a huge pace,more importance is to be given towards duty concessions of computers and computer related components.

Wed Jan 24 00:39:32 2001
Name:Krishna Sundarraj
Email:saikrishnas@sify.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Sinha, First and foremost I take this oppurtunity to congragulate you for the comendable work you are doing at some of the toughest time India has ever seen. I hope as a citizen of India that the disinvestment process for which you have given a new life under your leadership and vision should carry and the just one suggestion that proceeds of the process should be used to retire our large debts and a law should be enacted for the same. All the best sir, God Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba be with you. And one another humble request try to evolve a strategy to make education, health care free of cost and as you have always said more importance to infrastructure, rural development, and meeting the basic amenities of people.

Wed Jan 24 00:40:11 2001
Name:Jay Ramaswamy
Email:jramaswamy@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Mr.Minister First of all, wish you a happy new year. I am an NRI. Can you able to stop the stinky corruption in the IT Department, Madras. The bad breath of corruption is scaring me to come and settle in India. My Regards, Jay Ramaswamy

Wed Jan 24 00:44:03 2001
Name:Pankaj Bhargava
Email:apbhargava@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please remove corrupt customs officials from Delhi international airport.

Wed Jan 24 00:44:12 2001
Name:Sridhar Rao M
Email:msrao_77@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, The Trend in IT industry is changing. More and more companies are looking for Asia as base for Software Development mainly due to shortage of IT professionals, and cost of labour. We have to compete with China, Israel, Russia and others. We have edge over them in terms of having large number of english speaking IT s/w professionals. But we have a major problem with us too. Those countries have upperhand in the area of Infrastructure. The lack of proper infrastructure, i.e., Electricity, roads, telecom etc. Unless we improve in them. The companies will only invest in certain cities, and our aim of oppurtunity for all, will be only a dream. And how will we increase the quality of life of an average indian .. thru IT.. when it is only available in certain places., to certain people... So I request you to give more focus to Infrastructure.. as it is the backbone of any nation..

Wed Jan 24 00:49:50 2001
Name:dr g shivalingam
Email:shivling@omantel.net.om
Suggestions:mr finance minister charity should begin from home so reduce govt expenditure by 15% without affecting the programmes for the poor there is too much of wastage of scarce resources by cent govt and state govt god save india from this reckless wastage of national resource

Wed Jan 24 00:50:08 2001
Name:ramki
Email:srramki@mailexcite.com
Suggestions:I think Agriculture and Infrastructure need good amount of attention. Proper distribution of funds is another area where concrete steps are required, which I think the cabinet and you have already recognised. Please do proceed in the same direction. It is essential the money allotted for infrastructure and poverty alleviation reaches the right people at the right time. Agriculture should not be ignored. At the same time, unnecessary subsidies which are exploited by large scale farmers need to be explored and reduced or totally eliminated.

Wed Jan 24 00:50:15 2001
Name:Balaji Raja
Email:balajiraj@rocketmail.com
Suggestions:Please dismantle the cross-subsidies as soon as possible. You know and we know that it is doing more harm than good to the economy of the nation.

Wed Jan 24 00:54:42 2001
Name:P S Rao
Email:polurirao @hotmail.com
Suggestions:Retirement Age of all government employees to be reverted to 58 years. The terminal dues to such employees to be paid in the shape of Security instruments issued by RESERVE BANK OF INDIA to over come the immediate cash flow. To make this mode of payment acceptable the intrest accrued on it to be totally exempted from tax or special provision to be made in the tax laws to limit such exemptions till maturity period and taxable at the rate prevailing on the date of withdrawl allowing allowance in the normal way. Leave travel concession to be limited to only once in four years instead of once in two years. No commutation of pension to be allowed.

Wed Jan 24 00:55:42 2001
Name:Satish Raj
Email:satma@ix.netcom.com
Suggestions: Please look at establishing a food processing,preserving and storage commission whose mission is to reduce foodstuff wastage levels to <15%.

Wed Jan 24 01:03:49 2001
Name:Ram Deshpande
Email:rdeshp@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Pl accept our congratulations for good government. Please look into 1. Tax incentives for IT industry. 2. Open internet 3. Increase tax paying percentage, ithink it is around 1% of population. Have everyone file tax returns. 4. Encourage credit card usage. Brings more accountability and saves treasury in printing currencies. 5. Have govt policies and info available on line. Jai Hind.

Wed Jan 24 01:04:07 2001
Name:bhagawatilal bafna
Email:pista_in@yahoo.com
Suggestions:pls make the economy fast moving. it will be very helpfull to live in this country,it is very difficult day by day. thankyou

Wed Jan 24 01:08:27 2001
Name:srikanth palwai
Email:spalwai@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr Sinha, It would be great if you can cut excise duties on automobiles and divert a part of it to a fund for road devlopment in rural areas. Thank you, Srikanth

Wed Jan 24 01:10:40 2001
Name:Prashant
Email:pnirantar@yahoo.com
Suggestions: Can this year’s budget encourage reducing corruption and population? Budget can help reduction in corruption by - Funding to keep information on web sites. - Information such as public property, personal property information (titles), motor vehicle information, Weather information, maps, information from collector’s office for which it takes months just to see the certain documents etc. - Facility to print various government forms - Procedures to automatically complete some of tasks such as paying bills to government departments such as electricity, telephone, water. - More man power and money to Law and order departments, such as police, RPF, Anti-corruption etc. - Increase salaries of Government employees by reducing their benefits. - Budget can help reduction in population by - Encouragement to people with only 2 kids. - Funding money towards family planning

Wed Jan 24 01:15:17 2001
Name:Anantdeep Singh Dhillon
Email:asdhillon@india.com
Suggestions:Sir, I just want to say please donot impose new taxes on salaried class and please donot make petrol costlier.Just tax liberaly and pin the defaulters.Do something for students.

Wed Jan 24 01:18:12 2001
Name:Jaspal Narang
Email:jaspaln@yahoo.com
Suggestions:I feel that some attractive scheme should be proposed in this 2001 budget for attracting NRI investors in different fields like industry, deposits/bonds etc.

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