Gift on Republic Day !

       Yesterday Indians welcome 61st Republic Day with great zeal, zest and fervor. During past sixty years India has achieved lot of milestones but unfortunately they are over shadow by failures which needs to be eradicated from our system as soon as possible so that people of this country lead happy, prosperous and peaceful life. As per news some decisions has been taken by Punjab Government on or around 26th January to increase their revenue but putting additional burden on to the residents of Punjab as these decisions are directly related to the resident and industrialists of Punjab to generate revenue. Some of them which are going to make furious residents of state are below coded –

• In today’s environment even to think of life without electricity is scary thought but it is the tragedy of North India’s one time most prosperous state Punjab which is under severe shortage of electricity not only in summer season when demand shoot because of running of some additional devices like Fans, Coolers, Fridges’ and Air Conditioners but also from last year in winter season also people are living life with five to six hours power cuts and the reason given by Electricity Board is that electricity they get from neighbouring states in summer season now they are giving back to them as they get from them on banking basis plus their demand increase and they are running short of power generation, so it mean people of state have to live throughout years minimum five to six hours power cuts in winter season and thirteen to fifteen hours in summer season at the same time some days are exceptional in the year when people get uninterrupted power supply regardlessly summer or winter season and they are –

      o  When high level politicians visited their area then they get power supply without any load shredding.
      o  Special/Important/Festival day during year like yesterday it was Republic day and power cut in
          the state was around for one hour.
      o  At the time of election in the state whether it is State Assembly, Municipal Committee, Panchayat 
          or Loksabha ,from time of announcement of election till voting day at least one and half month period
          people get non stop twenty four hours electricity in the area where election takes place.
     So until and unless Punjab Government not take any initiative to increase the power generation then consumer of Punjab State has to wait above coded three occasions to get uninterrupted power supply for twenty four hours.

• Common people/Salary Class/Government Employees/Students are some categories of commuters who uses Government transportation most frequently, will get hole in their pocket with the decision of Punjab Government which they have taken yesterday to increase the bus fare from forty nine paisa per kilometer to fifty Six paisa per kilometer. It will certainly make frequent commuters upset and angry.
• Government Employees who were going to retire this year and at the age of fifty eight years old get benefits from Punjab Government decision that this year they will get one year extension and are not going to retire, the numbers of total employees are almost twenty five thousand.
• To increase the revenue Government has taken one more decision to increase the Value Added Tax (Vat) from four percent to five percent and on five percent vat surcharge of ten percent levied which will hit badly competitiveness of Punjab state producers as their products in the market will cost more then other states considering the fact they are already facing increase input cost of their products because of drought, power cuts.

We are living in the era of competition where only one thing apply to sell the product in the market and that is
                                    Better quality at low price
as consumer has lot of options available to pick the product they are looking for and mass of this country opt and consider the product which is lesser in price then they look for company, so to make level playing field for the local producers State Government should had given some sops to them, otherwise coming time can be harder and tougher for them in the market.