Harmful Decision

     It is the responsibility of the Government to protect, develop and efficiently take care of its assets, but sometimes lobbies close to ruling party take advantages and misuse their relations by successfully amending the policies of government which give them huge financial profits but at the expenses of government exchequer .It is not restricted to any particular area of country but throughout India this tradition is in practice and ruling party bend to the pressure of lobbies, but if government do favour & amend policies or reduce taxes just to please lobbies then it will hamper prosperity ,effect residents of that particular part, financial losses to the coffer of government ,also hit badly balance sheet of public undertakings and by the bias & helpful policies in the long run sector / business will be control by private parties and they will remain in the business until and unless their known leader rule the state, when change in governance take place then they opt to exist simply lack of favourable back up which make innocent people victim as they are the direct sufferer.
    Examples of favouring private parties / individuals often highlighted by media and latest addition in this series if we believe the reports and if it is true ,it is from Punjab State and action of policy makers clearly indicate that shift /amendment in the policies / reduction in tax structure will be harmful for the state’s two public transports namely Punjab State Roadways and Pepsu Road Transport Corporation and the change make just to benefit handful of parties who are in the business of transport, but this will spoil and make big question on to the existence of both transports, as per information available tax collected by state government now on ordinary buses at the rate of Rs 2 and 25 paisa per kilometer and Rs.6 and 47 paisa per kilometer from air condition buses and as per government sources to benefit commuters from scorching heat in the summer season which touches last year 45 degree temperature, has given permission to the bus operators to convert their ordinary buses into air condition buses and then from them on such buses tax will be collected at the rate of 0.50 paisa per kilometer which is far less even from ordinary buses and tax benefits to them from currently 6.47 paisa per kilometer will be almost thirteen times . This is certainly good news to the private bus operators ,which are countless in the state and lot of them have relations with the leaders or are in the ruling party or ministers and they have send their buses to the workshops to convert them to air conditions. Certainly question rises here that government can also modify their buses to air condition and as per rough estimates there are more then twenty two hundred buses which are plying of both transports within and outside state, ridiculous answer comes from concerned department that because of financial crunch they won’t take advantage of new policy of the government ,so it mean both transports buses will be run in ordinary category and they have to pay almost five fold more tax then from air condition buses plus addition to this they will lose commuters also because why one will opt ride on these buses in summer season when they will have advantage of air condition buses ,it mean in this summer season state government own buses will have to face competition created by policy makers and certainly summer is going to sweat both transports and department.
    To entitle public with best, affordable services is always welcome move but if it provided and created at the behest of government or public undertakings then it is certainly harmful for the government and its revenue as then their own assets will become white elephant which is worthless but keep on generating financial losses, instead of adding their share to state coffer will start swallowing government money and always be in need for financial assistance simply because either to keep on running sick public undertakings then government will have to pump money or suspend services.