Imagine if mayors gave city-specific daily briefings on coronavirus, and not a joint secretary sitting in New Delhi. India needs to give more powers to its mayors.
After all, towns and cities in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand have directly elected mayors with fixed terms, but few would argue that they are better administered.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
Writing comment straightaway because I know article will be wishy washy without any logic.
Here is my soln: end all taxes on labour.! Let rich property holders pay their taxes. Why labour is subsidizing rich property holders? Everybody will pay taxes as per their properties. What is wrong in this model and why the h eLL nobody ever talks about correcting Nehru blunder of taxing labour? (1961 with income tax + 1997 for service tax+2016 for hefty increase in service tax and renaming it gst)
Unless this is corrected nothing ever will happen except wishy washy articles.
I am all in for more empowerment of local governments in normal times for the benefita already listed above. But, allowing mayor of all cities of India to take a call on technical aspects like testing and tracing strategy, would be counter productive. Barring few big cities, others don’t have such technically skilled mayor’s for pandemic
This is a great idea, but how do citizens get the system to change? The current set up is increasingly centralising everything. States administrations are losing their power, how can we convince that city administrations be given more power?
A good example of what this idea implies would be the present state of the NCR. It is massive urban agglomeration spanning 4 different states. Common sense would dictate that it is better managed as a single entity and yet it is not.
The question really is how do we citizens bring the necessary changes?
Writing comment straightaway because I know article will be wishy washy without any logic.
Here is my soln: end all taxes on labour.! Let rich property holders pay their taxes. Why labour is subsidizing rich property holders? Everybody will pay taxes as per their properties. What is wrong in this model and why the h eLL nobody ever talks about correcting Nehru blunder of taxing labour? (1961 with income tax + 1997 for service tax+2016 for hefty increase in service tax and renaming it gst)
Unless this is corrected nothing ever will happen except wishy washy articles.
I am all in for more empowerment of local governments in normal times for the benefita already listed above. But, allowing mayor of all cities of India to take a call on technical aspects like testing and tracing strategy, would be counter productive. Barring few big cities, others don’t have such technically skilled mayor’s for pandemic
This is a great idea, but how do citizens get the system to change? The current set up is increasingly centralising everything. States administrations are losing their power, how can we convince that city administrations be given more power?
A good example of what this idea implies would be the present state of the NCR. It is massive urban agglomeration spanning 4 different states. Common sense would dictate that it is better managed as a single entity and yet it is not.
The question really is how do we citizens bring the necessary changes?
Ask for ending all taxes on labour. Most of it goes to center and thus they will never share it with states.
Only property taxes. Right now it is subsidized by 99% by the poor working people.! Why are we subsidizing rich property holders?
Very brilliant idea.Mayors in India come together working on this pandemic will get better and reach out people about covid-19 awareness much more.