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Monday, January 31, 2022

Diff. Between Private Company Officer and Govt. Officer....Read the next two posts in sequence.

Read the next two posts in sequence...
Diff. Between Private Company Officer and Govt. Officer 

Private Company Officer:
Question: How many balls are there in an over?

 Answer: 6

Full Marks

 If this was a Question to Govt. Officer - 

For Govt. Officer the answer would be WRONG and he will say - 

" Private company Officer answered the question. However, he has not understood the questions correctly. Answer points to a lack of in-depth understanding and conceptual clarity on the subject. Correct answer is 1 ball which is delivered 6 times, if the umpire(as defined under bye law 19 of Rule 2) did not declare any no ball in all those deliveries. 

In case the umpire, as defined above, declares a No Ball as defined in the Byelaws 24 Rule 3 of the Laws of Cricket (Lords), then there will be an additional ball delivered, using the same ball, for every no ball declared by the umpire. 

Note that such additional balls will not be counted towards the number of balls”.

 Similarly for a wide ball under Byelaw 25 Rule 3 of the Laws of Cricket (Lords) an additional ball will be delivered for every wide ball declared by the umpire. 

 Thus keeping in view the Rules 19, 24 25 of the Laws of Cricket(Lords) the answer is 1 ball. 

However, if the ball used for the said deliveries suffers or undergoes such transformation or such other changes which, the umpire, on an appeal being made by the bowler, deems unfit for use, the ball may be changed/replaced with another one. Only in such a case, will there be use of multiple balls in an over.

(The officers may assume that the batsmen did not hit a sixer, thereby forcing the ball to go out of the park causing another ball to be used)''
This is a corollary to the Cricket Ball controversy of GB

As is the wont in Government the matter was referred to a second Government Officer GO2 for his comments. They were as under:

The matter has been examined in detail. It is felt that the first Government Officer (hereinafter referred to as GO1) did not fully appreciate the definition of what is a ball. Rule 22 of the Laws of Cricket (2000 Co 4th Edition 2010) defines an Over as consisting of six balls. the object delivered in a ball is referred to as "The Ball" or the "Cricket Ball" .  GO1 therefore erred in confuring a "ball" with the "Cricket Ball"
By dint of Rule 22, therefore it is unequivocally stated that an over normally consists of six balls unless a ball is declared invalid under Rule 19, 24 or 25. In case of the latter the number of balls actually are increased by the number of invalid balls but such invalid balls are not counted towards the number of balls.
It is stated that the Private Company Officer was correct in his assessment.
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37 slab i.e 2.66% Increase in DA for Bank Employees from February 2022

AICPIN – IW for December 2021 has been released by Labour ministry on 31.01.2022. After declaration of AICPIN-IW for October, November, December 2021, the DA hike for Bank employees from 1st February 2022 are known to us for 11th 

The latest CPI (IW) with the base year 2016 for October 2021, November 2021 & December 2021 is 124.90, 125.70 & 125.40 respectively. The expected DA based on CPI(IW) numbers is 32.97% from Feb 2022. The existing DA rate for the period of November 2021 to January 2022 is 30.38%. Hence there shall be an increase of 2.59% in dearness allowance of bankers for the period from February 2022 to April 2022 i.e. an increase of 37 DA slabs over the existing 434 DA slabs for the period of November 2021 to January 2022. 







Friday, January 28, 2022

NVS Stenographer, Mess Helper & Other 2022 – Apply Online for 1925 Posts

Name of the Post: NVS Various Vacancy Online Form 2022

Post Date: 14-01-2022

Total Vacancy: 1925

Brief Information: Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) has published a notification for the recruitment of Assistant Commissioner (Group-A), Female Staff Nurse, Stenographer (Group C), MTS & Other vacancies. Those Candidates who are interested in the vacancy details & completed all eligibility criteria can read the Notification & Apply online.

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS)

Various Vacancy 2022

 

 

Application Fee

  • Exam Fee for S.No 01, 02 : Rs. 1500/-
  • For S.No. 03: Rs. 1200/-
  • For S.No. 04 to 12: Rs. 1000/-
  • For S.No.13, 14, 15: Rs.750/-
  • Payment Mode: Through Online By Using Credit Card, Debit Card, Net Banking
Important Dates

  • Starting Date for Apply Online & Payment of Fee: 12-01-2022
  • Last Date to Apply Online & Payment of Fee: 10-02-2022
  • Date of CBT: 09-03-2022 to 11-03-2022 (Tentative)
Vacancy Details
Sl NoPost NameTotalUpper Age LimitQualification
1Assistant Commissioner (Group-A)0545 YearsMaster’s Degree in Humanities/ Science/ Commerce with 5 Yrs. Experience.
2Assistant Commissioner (Admin) (Group A)0245 YearsGraduate Degree
3Female Staff Nurse (Group B)82Upto 35 YearsXII Class/ equivalent/ B.Sc (Nursing)
4Assistant Section Officer (Group C)1018 to 30 yearsDegree, Computer Knowledge
5Audit Assistant (Group C)1118 to 30 yearsB.Com
6Junior Translation Officer (Group B)04Upto 35 yearsDiploma/ PG (Relevant Subject)
7Junior Engineer (Civil) [Group C]01Upto 35 yearsDiploma/ Degree (Civil Engineering)
8Stenographer (Group C)2218 to 27 yearsClass XII, Shorthand speed
9Computer Operator (Group C)0418 to 30 yearsDegree, one year Computer Diploma
10Catering Assistant (Group C)87Upto 35 YearsClass XII, Diploma (Catering)
11Junior Secretariat Assistant (Group C)63018 to 27 yearsSenior Secondary, typewriting Knowledge
12Electrician Cum Plumber (Group C)27318 to 40 Years10th, ITI (Electrician/ Wireman / Plumbing)
13Lab Attendant (Group C)14218 to 30 Years10th/ 12th Class (Science), Diploma ( Laboratory Technique)
14Mess Helper (Group C)62918 to 30 YearsMatriculation
15Multi Tasking Staff (Group C)2318 to 30 Years10th Class


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Common Person's Income Dips as the Rich Become Richer in India

A recently-published Oxfam report titled ‘Inequality Kills’ has revealed that in 2021, as the pandemic wreaked havoc on India’s economy, 84% of families in the country saw their incomes fall. However, during the same period, the number of billionaires in the country increased, going from 102 before the pandemic to a total of 142 presently.

What’s more, the collective wealth of these billionaires shot up this year to the record high of 57.3 lakh crore, lending truth to the ever-popular maxim in the country: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

The Oxfam report has also raised the popular question of whether the Modi administration is, in actuality, a government for businessmen, seeing as the wealth of two popular individuals who have often been accused of being close to the administration – Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani – has increased drastically, with the latter accounting for almost one-fifth of the total increase in the wealth of India’s wealthiest citizens.

To unpack these revelations and the many more covered in the Oxfam report and to better understand the challenges India faces going forward, The Wire‘s Mukul Singh Chauhan spoke to Pravin Jha, a professor at the JNU Centre for Economic Studies and Planning


Thursday, January 20, 2022

Income tax must be abolished to boost economy: Subramanian Swamy

ust ahead of the Union Budget 2022-2023, when the economy is reeling under the third wave of the COVID-19 infections, Subramanian Swamy, economist, mathematician and Member of Parliament, in an exclusive interaction with Business Today, discussed various aspects of the economy and steps needed to bring it back on the right track. Edited excerpts. 

BT: The Budget is around the corner. So, if you would have been the finance minister, what would have been the immediate policy decisions you would take right now to mitigate the impact of the pandemic?


SS  Firstly, I would announce that effective from April 1, till we are back to normal, no income tax will be paid by anybody. And once normalcy comes, I think we should start making that permanent. Secondly, I would reduce the interest rates on loans from the present prime lending rate of 12 per cent down to 9 per cent. That's also within our hands; banks can do it and raise the fixed deposit interest rates from present 6 per cent to 9 per cent. So that people save more. At one point, we were saving 36 per cent of GDP and 80 per cent came from household industries. Today, we are down to 31 per cent. And this means your investment is also down because investment comes from savings. Secondly, I would lower interest rates. Thirdly, I would ask Gadkari to build as many roads as he can, and we will finance it, print notes. But I must say that [the] Modi government failed from June 2016 because, if you plot the GDP growth, it has been coming down from 8 per cent to 3 per cent since 2016. 

BT: You have been a proponent of abolishing income tax but that would be a big revenue loss for the government. How is it feasible as far as revenue hit is concerned? 

SS: I remember hearing the same language when P. V. Narasimha Rao was the prime minister, he said, “How can you remove controls and licenses? We have nothing in place.” One day he abolished it, and nobody will remember that. I first suggested this in the beginning of our tenure as BJP government, we were getting revenue from income tax around 4 lakh crore, which is nothing, you can look at the whole Budget, and it has now gone to perhaps to 8-9 lakh crore. At that time, when I said it, I said there are alternative ways of raising resources without taxation, like auctioning 2G licenses, how much did you get from the first auction? 4 lakh crore -- exactly what the income tax was. Then there is the option of raising resources from coal auctions. There's no shortage of alternative sources for the government to raise taxes. And if the economy is booming, people are willing to give taxes. Also put a rule saying that income of companies which are reinvested will be exempt from taxes altogether. So, the savings rate will go up and, with this, growth rate will also go up. 

BT: According to you, what is the recipe for sustainable growth and job creation and how can Indian economy get back on track? 

SS: The best way is to handle the demand factors in such a way that supplies get exhausted, in the sense that people buy it.  Also, there should be motivation to produce more. For ex-RBI governor, Raghuram Rajan was of the view that to control inflation, increase interest rates. But if you raise interest rates, you also put a lot of MSMEs out of business, which means you will raise unemployment. I must add that unemployment today is more than what it was 10 years ago.  

BT: So we know that after the first and a second wave, the economy was on the path of the recovery. So how do you assess the state of the economy as of now? 

SS: Firstly, we have still not regained the level of the fourth quarter of 2019-2020, just before the start of the pandemic. Few days ago newspapers said that the finance ministry estimates that the growth rate will be 9.2 per cent in FY22. Firstly, the MSME is excluded in the calculation. Second, the third quarter data has still not come. So it's really two quarters.  

In the meantime, the World Bank has cut down GDP projection data to 8.2 per cent. Now at this moment, I would only say that we have failed to combat the ill effects of the pandemic on the economy. But more importantly, this pandemic accentuated the decline, the decline that started in 2016. And in the third quarter of 2022, we had come down to 3.1 per cent growth rate in GDP on an annual basis, which means this is worse than Jawaharlal Nehru. 

BT: The share of private consumption in the GDP has been falling, inflation has been rising. So currently inflation is at 5.99 per cent. So this is a sort of a double whammy for the policymakers. So how should they tackle a situation like this? 

SS: We began with excess supply. The supplies were much more than the demand. We began that way so at that time we needed to boost the demand and we fail to do it. For instance, in my opinion, till the pandemic was over we should have abolished all income taxes, saying you don't have to fill forms to pay income tax. And you should have gone in for large public works. I think things were not done and I must say finance ministry has been a hopeless failure. 

BT: How do you see the idea of asset monetisation, national infrastructure pipeline and Gati Shakti master plan? Do you think any of them are a game changer?  

SS: No, because they will take at least five-six years. In India, they were talking about the privatisation of Air India from 2017. All the Prime Minister’s strength was put in for privatisation of Air India, and finally got it done at the end of 2021. And that is all haphazard because still the deal is not through in a formal sense. So, the climate is not for these things, the time is for bubbling of ideas, people should be invited, encouraged. They should be blunt; they should criticize and should be listened. 

BT: If we want to achieve $5 trillion economy dream, what should be the growth rate? And how can we achieve it? 

SS: To have $5 trillion economy we need 14.8 per cent growth rate per year. I think India is capable potentially to have that growth rate when P. V. Narasimha Rao came; he produced the growth rate of 8 per cent because all he did was to empower the people. India's capacity to grow has been demonstrated once by Narasimha Rao. And I'm telling you, we can also demonstrate in future and overtake China in another 10 years. 



PENSION UPDATION AND 100% DA - DO NOT GET DISHEARTENED

PENSION UPDATION AND 100% DA - DO NOT GET DISHEARTENED
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In today’s hearing, The Supreme Court has given 3 months’ time. The IBA has to report by that time. If the finalization of the report is not completed by then, the IBA should submit an interim report.
Reliable sources indicate that, at least, the 100% DA matter may be announced before 31/03/2022. The number of cases of pre-2002 retirees are less in numbers and the cost load for this will not be high. Hence this matter may well be resolved. Please remember the conversation of the New IBA Chairman a few weeks before when he said that “the Pension Updation matters will be done by 31/03/2022.”
As this year the Public Section Banks are doing well as far as profitability is concerned. Hence the capacity to take care of the Cost Load will be good. Hence by 31st March 2022 the announcement on Pension Updation is also high.
 

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

The relationship between governments and businesses is always changing.

 The relationship between governments and businesses is always changing.
After 1945, many countries sought to re­ build society using fi�rms that were state­owned and ­managed. By the 1980s, faced with sclerosis in the West, the state retreated to become an umpire overseeing the rules for private fi�rms to compete in a global market—a lesson learned, in a fashion, by the communist bloc.
Now a new and turbulent phase is under way, as citizens demand action on problems, from social justice to the climate.
In response, governments are directing fi�rms to make society safer and fairer, but without controlling their shares or their boards. Instead of being the owner or umpire, the state has become the backseat driver.
This bossy business inter­ ventionism is well­intentioned.
But, ultimately, it is a mistake.
Signs of this approach are everywhere, as our special report explains.
President Joe Biden is pursuing an agenda of soft pro­ tectionism, industrial subsidies and righteous regulation, aimed at making the home of free markets safe for the middle classes.
In China Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” crackdown is designed to curb the excesses of its freewheeling boom, and create a business scene that is more self­suffi�cient, tame and obedient.
The European Union is drifting away from free mar­ kets to embrace industrial policy and “strategic autonomy”.
As the biggest economies pivot, so do medium­sized ones such as Britain, India and Mexico.
Crucially, in most de­
mocracies, the lure of intervention is biparti­ san.
Few politicians fancy fi�ghting an election on a platform of open borders and free markets.
That is because many citizens fear that mar­kets and their umpires are not up to the job.
The fi�nancial crisis and slow recovery amplifi�ed an­
ger about inequality. Other concerns are more
recent.
The world’s ten biggest tech companies
are over twice as big as
they were fi�ve years ago and sometimes seem to behave as if they are above the law.
The geopolitical backdrop is a far cry from the 1990s, when the expansion of trade and democracy promised to go hand in hand, and from the cold war when the West and the Soviet Union had few business links.
Now the West and totalitarian China are rivals but economically intertwined. Gummed­up supply chains are causing infl�ation, reinforcing the perception that globalisation is overextended.
And climate change is an ever more pressing threat.
Governments are redesigning global capitalism to deal with these fears. But few politicians or voters want to go back to full­ scale nationalisation.
Not even Mr Xi is keen to reconstruct an empire of iron and steel plants run by chain­smoking commis­ sars, while Mr Biden, despite his nostalgia for the 1960s, need only walk through America’s clogged West Coast ports to recall that public ownership can be shambolic.
At the same time the pandemic has seen governments experiment with new policies that were unimaginable in December 2019, from perhaps $5trn or more of handouts and guarantees for fi�rms to indicative guid­ ance on optimal spacing of customers in shopping aisles.
This opening of the interventionist mind is coalescing around policies that fall short of ownership.
One set of measures claims to enhance security, broadly defi�ned. The class of indus­
tries in which government direction is legitimate on security grounds has expanded beyond defence to include energy and technology. In these areas governments are acting as de facto central planners, with research and development (r&d) spend­ ing to foster indigenous innovation and subsidies to redirect capital spending.
In semiconductors America has proposed a $52bn subsidy scheme, one reason why Intel’s investment is forecast to double compared with fi�ve years ago.
China is seek­ ing self­suffi�ciency in semiconductors and Europe in batteries.
The defi�nition of what is seen as strategic may well expand further to include vaccines, medical ingredients and minerals, for example.
In the name of security, most big countries have tightened rules that screen incoming foreign investment. Amer­ ica’s mesh of punitive sanctions and technology export controls encompasses thousands of foreign individuals and fi�rms.
The other set of measures aims to enhance stakeholderism. Shareholders and consumers no longer have uncontested pri­ macy in the hierarchy of groups that fi�rms serve. Managers must weigh the welfare of other constituents more heavily, including staff�, suppliers and even competitors. The most visible part of this is voluntary, in the form of “esg” investing codes that score fi�rms for, say, protecting biodiversity, local people or their own workers.
But these wider obligations may become harder for
fi�rms to avoid.
In China Alibaba has pledged a $15bn “donation” to the Common Prosperity cause. In the West stakeholderism may be en­ forced through the bureaucracy.
Central banks and public pension funds may shun the securi­ ties of fi�rms judged to be anti­social. America’s antitrust agency, which once safeguarded con­ sumers alone, is mulling other aims such as helping small fi�rms.
The ambition to confront economic and social problems is admirable. And so far, outside China at least, bossier govern­ ment has not hurt business confi�dence.
America‘s main stock­ market index is over 40% higher than it was before the pandem­ ic, while capital spending by the world’s largest 500­odd listed fi�rms is up by 11%. Yet, in the longer term, three dangers loom.
High stakes
The fi�rst is that the state and business, faced by confl�icting aims, will fail to fi�nd the best trade­off�s. A fossil­fuel fi�rm obliged to preserve good labour relations and jobs may be reluctant to shrink, hurting the climate. An antitrust policy that helps hun­ dreds of thousands of small suppliers will hurt tens of millions of consumers who will end up paying higher prices.
Boycotting China for its human­rights abuses might deprive the West of cheap supplies of solar technologies. Businesses and regulators focused on a single sector are often ill­equipped to cope with these dilemmas, and lack the democratic legitimacy to do so.
Diminished effi�ciency and innovation is the second danger. Duplicating global supply chains is extraordinarily expensive: multinational fi�rms have $41trn of cross­border investments.
More pernicious in the long run is a weakening of competition. Firms that gorge on subsidies become fl�abby, whereas those that
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are protected from foreign competition are more likely to treat customers shabbily.
If you want to rein in Facebook, the most credible challenger is TikTok, from China (see Schumpeter).
An economy in which politicians and big business manage the fl�ow of subsidies according to orthodox thinking is not one in which entrepreneurs fl�ourish.
The last problem is cronyism, which ends up contaminating business and politics alike. Firms seek advantage by attempting to manipulate government: already in America the boundary is blurred, with more corporate meddling in the electoral process. Meanwhile politicians and offi�cials end up favouring particular fi�rms, having sunk money and their hopes into them. The urge
to intervene to soften every shock is habit­forming.
In the past six weeks Britain, Germany and India have spent $7bn propping up two energy fi�rms and a telecoms operator whose problems have nothing to do with the pandemic.
This newspaper believes that the state should intervene to make markets work better, through, for example, carbon taxes to shift capital towards climate­friendly technologies; r&d to fund science that fi�rms will not; and a benefi�ts system that protects workers and the poor.
But the new style of bossy government goes far beyond this. Its adherents hope for prosperity, fairness and security.
They are more likely to end up with ineffi�ciency,
I request one and all to read lead editorial from ECONOMISTS
Vishwas Utagi
16/1/2022

NARENDRA MODI'S GRAND SCHEME ARE BIG FAILURE

 


CENTRE RECEIVES RS 6651 CR IN INTERIM DIVIDEND FROM 12 PSU YET GOVT WANT PRIVATIZATION


Tuesday, January 11, 2022

HOW BANK MANAGERS CONDUCT UNIT INSPECTION?

With the economy hit by the COVID-19 crisis, banks are now preparing for a possible spike in bad loans. According to experts, bad loans (NPAs) of the banks are expected to rise to 11-11.5% of the total advances by March 2021. In this context of default risk by the COVID induced lockdown continues to exacerbate the repayment capabilities of borrowers, credit monitoring is of paramount importance.  The lenders in this situation have to cut losses and save possible humiliations of being named as a bank with a huge volume of bad loans. Credit monitoring is the process of periodically reviewing your credit reports for accuracy and changes in the creditworthiness of the borrower that could be indicative of fraudulent activity. So the regular inspection of the borrowers’ unit (factory, godown, etc.) is one of the utmost important activities of the post-sanction monitoring. The unit inspection/Godown inspection conducted by the lenders at regular intervals is to verify the actual use of the loan to see whether it has been used for the purpose for which it was originally sanctioned. Bankers have developed expertise in the method of assessing the value of stock inspected by them out of many years of experience.

By conducting regular inspection of borrower’s unit /factory, bankers notice on many occasions, the irregularities like shortage of stock, stoppage of work in the factory, presence of other bank’s name board indicating financing by them on the same security, etc. Factory units/godown inspection also helps to identify the obsolete stock /rejected/returned goods being included in the stock register to compute drawing power. Hence bankers shall conduct site inspections by an element of surprise. Experienced bankers have the knack of measuring and ascertaining the value of stock according to the activities of the borrower. For example in rice mills, chemical factories, etc., where raw material/finished goods stored in huge storage vessels. They ascertain the value of such stock by measuring the length, breadth, and height of the container. The value of work in process is verified through the logbook by noting down the issues and deliveries. Verification of electric meter for the consumption of electricity and electric bills helps bankers to ascertain the value and volume of production, by computing the consumption in relating it to the annual bill so as to arrive a certain level of production for a given period.   The Cost of goods purchased and sold can be verified through invoices thereby ascertaining the paid stock and receivables.  The information gathered from employees on the conversation during factory/godown inspection can be of early warning signals that may have an impact on the recovery of money lent or affect the security charged to the lender. The method of inspections is not uniform; it varies according to the type of activities of the borrower, the size of the borrowing, and the reputation of the borrower. It is also a practice to conduct a stock audit once a year through professional auditors, in the cases of large borrowal accounts.

One of the effective tools of credit monitoring is the drill for obtaining and scrutinizing the stock statements and conducting periodical factory /godown inspection. Bankers can neglect these only at their peril. The main purpose of the factory/godown inspection by the bankers is to ensure that the business of the borrower is running without the problem. The material and machinery, hypothecated to a bank is available and properly maintained and any features could be identified. The inspection gives an opportunity to study the extent of the borrower’s involvement in the business. Last but not least to verify that the money is utilized by the borrower for the purpose bank lent:

  1.  The inspecting official should study the sanction terms & conditions before making the visit.
  2.  The visit should be at times without prior information to the borrower.
  3. The inspecting official should take the latest stock statement with him/her along with the details of outstanding/DP, security details, insurance detail, and irregularities in the account if any. (Stock statements are required to be submitted by the borrower on a weekly/fortnightly or monthly basis as per sanction terms.).
  4. In the case of Pledge form of advances (Key Cash Credit) banks will have symbolic delivery of the inventory and banks will also be accountable for loss if any.
  5. There is a need for godown inspection even where the working capital limit is in the form of bills finance only. This helps banks to check whether the unit is producing bills for purchase even when the stoppage of work in the factory or unit is closed.
  6. The visiting official needs to check the following. a) The working of factory/ business. b) The items of security offered. c) Bank’s hypothecation board is placed at the appropriate place. d) Registers maintained for production, sales, goods movement, power consumption, etc. e) Inspections to be done regularly on advances related to inventory financing and also block assets such as land building and machinery, etc.
  7. In the case of machinery is hypothecated to the bank, inspecting officials should ensure that old/defunct machinery is not shown to them as new machinery.

Ultimately that unit/godown inspection should mainly serve the following purposes:

The level of raw materials, semi-finished goods, and finished goods are not only maintained in the record but are also physically available.

One bank should not finance the same security already financed by another bank. A shortage of stock or stoppage of work is immediately noticed.

Drawing power being arrived only on paid stock excluding redundant or unpaid stocks.

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