5.1 How
will three line TCP-draft reduce poverty in 4 months?
5.4 Dispatching mineral royalties
5.7 How much is spectrum royalties?
5.8 How much is mineral royalties?
5.9 Effect of land rent collection
5.10 Effect of not collecting land rent
5.12 Complete draft of proposed MRCM
Gazette Notification
5.13 Please note the last two clauses of
the PM-RP law-draft I have proposed
5.14 Cost of dispatching payments to 120
crore citizens
5.15 Wont this decrease Govt income? NO.
Govt income will increase.
5.16 West has no such MRCM law-draft. Why
do we need it?
5.17 MRCM draft and human rights
5.18 Land rent and comparison with
Communism
5.19 Ethical arguments wrt MRCM
5.20 Shouldn’t the money be used for
infrastructure , education etc?.
5.21 Don’t give cash to citizens, as they
will blow away cash on alcohol
5.22 Summary of comparison on MRCM or
non-MRCM scenario
5.23 What great men said on
rents/ownership of plots
5.24 Stand of other politicians and
activist-leaders on MRCM
5.25 How can YOU help in bringing MRCM
draft in India’s Gazette?
5.26 Why I propose first mass-movement on
TCP-draft, and not on MRCM-draft?
The day citizens and Mahatma Udham Singh manage to convince PM to print TCP in Gazette
Notification, I or someone else will inward MRCM-draft as an affidavit under
clause-1 of TCP-draft. What is MRCM-draft? The MRCM-draft describes an
administrative procedure which will enable a national level officer to
deposit rent of Govt plots and mineral royalty
directly into each citizen’s bank account. (see
section-5.3 for details) . How much will that amount be? Depends of prevailing
land rent and prevailing mineral royalty – may be Rs 200 per month per person
to may be Rs 800 per month per person. Now how many crore citizens do you
think do not want this ethical Rs 400 (may be less or much more) a
month? I believe that over 40 cr citizens want ethical money, and so TCP will ensure that
PM gets convinced to print the MRCM draft in the Gazette. And once MRCM draft is printed in the
Gazette, we commons will get about Rs 400 (may be less or may be more) per
month person, and thus poverty will reduce within 3 months.
Is TCP-draft must to get
MRCM-draft printed in Gazette? IMO, yes.
Because if the pro-MRCM activists
insist on waiting till they get majority in Parliament and then printing
MRCM-draft in Gazette, then there is possibility that MRCM-activists be waiting
for ever. First they may never get majority in Parliament. And worse, even if
they get majority, there is possibility that their own MPs will sell out and
refuse to print MRCM-draft in Gazette. Eg in 1977, Janata Party MPs had
promised to enact Right to Recall laws before election, and after getting
elected, later they all refused to pass Right to Recall laws. So IMO,
MRCM-activists should focus on creating mass movement on TCP-draft, and then
use TCP-draft to get MRCM-draft passed rather than wait for election victory. A
mass movement on MRCM-draft is not a bad option --- it will give positive
feedback to mass-movement for TCP-draft. The drawback of mass movement on MRCM
draft is that disintellectuals will get ample chances
to raise doubts against MRCM-draft and thus disperse the movement. That’s
because MRCM-draft is over 4 pages long and disintellectuals
can raise questions on each clause. Whereas since TCP-draft is only 2-3
clauses, it is difficult for disintellectuals to
disperse the “movement for TCP-draft” by raising frivolous questions.
So please note – my
proposal is not that citizens should vote my Right to Recall Party into power
and then my RRP MPs will enact MRCM law-draft. And I also do not ask citizens
to initiate mass-movement to make PM print MRCM law-draft in the Gazette. My proposal
is --- we, citizens of India should ask PM to take citizens’ opinion via
SMS/ATM using TCP on whether MRCM-draft should be printed in Gazette or not.
The citizens’ opinion will enable PM to decide whether MRCM-draft should be
printed or not. I will accept the decision of PM after TCP.
The land rent over IIMA plot, JNU plot, all UGC plots, Ahmedabad
airport plot, all airports plots and 10000s of such GoI
plots and royalties from all minerals, coals and crude oil of India must go we
the Citizens of India and our Military and no one else. And royalty, rent must come
directly, not via any schemes.. eg
say rents from GoI plots and mineral royalties in
Apr-2013 comes as Rs 45,000 crores. Then as per the MRCM Gazette Notification I
proposed, Rs 15000 crores will go to the Military and about Rs 300 will go to
each citizen in his post office or bank account. If every citizen withdraws
cash once or twice a month, this would need no more than 150,000 clerks all
over India. Existing nationalized banks have over 600,000 clerks. So the
distribution of cash is feasible. The direct cash distribution MRCM draft would
create may translate into an income of over Rs 8000 per person per year
and also lowering of land/house prices. Per person, not just per family. And thus MRCM draft will reduce poverty,
increase income and thus increase demands for goods. The increase in demand for
goods will increase local industries and thus increase employment. The increase
in local industries will improve engineering skills and this will improve
weapon manufacturing So less poor Hindus will turn
towards Christianity or Naxalism or both. And one
year after this law-draft passes, if 3rd child is born, then both the parents
will get 33% less rent (those who already have 3rd child won't be effected). So
this law-draft will also control population..
Right to Recall
the main officer
1. One of the clauses of the draft of MRCM GN says
: “the PM shall appoint a NLRO (National
Land Rent Officer), whom the citizens of India may replace using the following
procedure ... ” . The replacement procedure is as follows
°
Any citizen can pay deposit equal
to MP election and register himself NLRO candidate.
°
Any citizen of India can walk to Talati’s office, pay Rs 3 of fee and approve at most five
persons for the NLRO position. The Talati will issue
receipt with his voter-id#, persons he approved etc.
°
The Talati
will put citizen’s preferences on Govt website with
his voter-ID.
°
A citizen can cancel his
approvals any day as well..
°
The PM’s secretary will publish
the approval counts of each candidate
°
If a candidate gets approval of
over 50% of all registered voters
(all registered voters, not just those who have filed their approval) then PM
will expel existing NLRO and appoint that candidate as NLRO.
°
If any person has over 50%
approvals and has 2% more approvals than existing NLRO, then the PM will
appoint the person with highest approvals for that position.
2. So the Right to Recall over NLRO will ensure that NLRO will be
much less corrupt and will deliver the rent money to citizens.
3. The NLRO will allocate plots which has been declared as property
of the Citizens of India by a law-draft or a National Jury verdict that
specifically authorizes the NLRO allocate that land.
Collection of rent
4. One of the clauses of proposed MRCM-GN says :
“The Citizens of India hereby decide and declare that the plot of IIMA, plot of
Gujarat Vidyapeeth Ahmedabad, plots of all IIMs and
the plot of JNU is the property jointly and equally owned by the Citizens of
India. These plots are NOT property of the State or the State of India or the
Union of India or any other private/GoI entity, but
these plots are property of the Citizens of India. Further, all the plots of
all UGC funded universities and colleges not owned by private companies or
trusts are declared as the property of the citizens of India. And all plots
under Central Govt and Govt
entities are also hereby declared as the property of the Citizens of India..
5. Another clause says : all plots under following Ministries/Dept will also come under NLRO :
o
IIMs, all UGC funded colleges and
universities except science, medicine and engineering
o
Airports, all buildings owned by
Air India and Indian Airlines
o
Ministry of Youth Affairs and
Sports
o
Ministry Consumer Affairs and
Public Distribution
o
Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting
o
Ministry of Information
Technology
o
Ministry of Rural Development
o
Ministry of Small Scale
Industries & Agro and Rural Industries
o
Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment
o
Ministry of Textiles
o
Ministry of Tourism and Culture
o
Ministry of Urban Development and
Poverty Alleviation
o
Planning Commission
6. [About IITs, IISc etc : A separate GN we demand says: --- All the IITs, NITs and IISc shall come under DRDO and the DRDO director shall be
the Chief Officer of these colleges and shall appoint Deputy Chiefs in these
colleges to run the day today operations. The
colleges teaching science and engineering will come under Ministry of Science
and will not come under NLRO. However, the excess lands which these colleges
have will come under NLRO]
7. For the unused land, NLRO will divide the land in plots of
appropriate sizes as he seems most profitable rent wise. NLRO will hold auction
for each plot. The conditions for auction will be as follows
o
The lease will be for 5, 10, 15 , 20 or 25 years as decided by NLRO. The lease shall
never be more than 25 years
o
The bidders will give bids for
monthly rent and bidding period which can be less than maximum lease period. So
bids will be in (monthly rent , months lease) format.
One person can submit multiple bids. Minimum lease period will be 12 months.
o
The weight of the bid will Monthly_Rent / log(Lease_In_Months). i.e. more the
rent, higher the weight and longer the lease, lesser the weight.
o
The bids will be open
o
The NLRO will give the plot as
per weight of the bids.
o
NLRO will charge 3 months rent as deposit.
8. During the lease time, the NLRO will revise the rent every 3 years
based on % change in the land prices in the 1sq km area around that plot and %
change in interest rate from the day the plot was leased and the day when rent
revision occurs.
9. After the lease time is over, NLRO will hold a fresh auction,
where in existing lease holder will get benefits
o
his weight will get multiplied by 1.25 to 1.5 depending on years he
has paid rent.
o
he may increase his bid within 1 month after auction is over.
o
the existing lease holder will get 2 to 6 months new rent when he
vacates.
10.But if existing lease holder loses the auction, then he can move
or sell the fixtures on that land. But he will need to vacate that land.
11.If the plot is currently being used and occupied (eg IIMA plot),
NLRO will take the mean land price in past 3 years of sale in 1 km area round
the plot and decide the price of plot and set yearly rent as (market_price * prime_interest_rate/3)
for next 10 years. The rents will be revised every 3 years. After 10 years, an
auction as in clause-6 will be conducted.
Dispatching rents
12.The NLRO will give 34% of the rent collected to Defense Minister
for the purpose of strengthening Military and providing weapons and weapon-use
education to all citizens.
13.The NLRO will distribute 33% of the rent collected every month to
the citizens born in that State or residing in the State for past 15 years,
with maximum limit of twice the National per capita rent given last year.
14.The NLRO will distribute the rest 33% the rent collected every
month to the citizens of India
15.The share will be zero for those below age of 7 years, 1/4th
to those below 14 years, half for those below 18 and same afterwards.
16.One year after this law-draft is passed, the rent a person obtains
o
will increase by 33% if he has no
kids
o
will increase by 33% if he has
only 1 daughter
o
will remain at par if he has (1
son) or (1 daughter, 1 son) or (2 daughters)
o
will decrease by 33% if he has
more than (2 daughters, 1 son) or (1 daughter, 1 son) or (2 sons) or (3
daughters) and in which youngest kid is born 1 year after the law-draft is
passed
o
will decrease by 66% if he has
more than (3 daughters, 1 son) or (2 daughters, 2 sons) or (1 daughter, 2 sons)
or (3 sons) or (4 daughters) and in which youngest kids is born 1 year after
the law-draft is passed
17.The rent paid will be 33% higher for men above 60 and women above 55 ; and will be 66% higher for men above 75 and women above
70.
As of now, the mine plots are
auctioned to the one who gives highest royalties. The same procedure will
continue but may get modified later to improve the bids. But the one change MRCM
Group demands and promises is that mine royalties and crude oil royalties will
go to commons and Military directly.
All plots under State Govt not used by Police, Courts, Military, Prison, Govt Schools, Govt Hospitals , State Transport bus stations and plots
specifically exempted by law-draft shall be up for rent collection. The State
Land Allocation Officer shall collect the rents and give 34% to Military, 33% to citizens of India. Whether the land
is under State or Center, the rent is divided in the same fashion.
Now in MRCM-draft I have proposed
all citizens of India get same amount --- no State gets anything extra from its
own resources. If that becomes a political problem in times to come, then all
States may be given more from their resources, which means they will get less
from others resources. IOW, this may not make much of a difference.
The Govt of India, Central
and States, have 10000s of plots with huge marker
value. Here is a small example
Plot Name |
Area |
Price per sq meter |
Plot’s market value |
IIM Ahmedabad |
100 acres |
Rs 40,000 |
Rs 1,400
crores |
IIM Lukhnow |
200 acres |
Rs 20,000 |
Rs 1,600
crores |
IIM Lucknow (Noida) |
10 acres |
Rs 50,000 |
Rs 200
crores |
IIM Kolkata |
135 acres |
Rs 20,000 |
Rs 1,000
crores |
IIM Indore |
190 acres |
Rs 15,000 |
Rs 500
crores |
JNU |
1000 acres |
Rs 40,000 |
Rs 16,000
crores |
Gujarat Vidyapeeth |
25 acres |
Rs 40,000 |
Rs 400
crores |
Gujarat University |
250 acres |
Rs 35,000 |
Rs 3,500
crores |
TOTAL |
|
|
Rs 27,000 crores |
(Please note that above land
prices too less compared to real market price as on May-2009. The prices in
sep-2012 were at least 2.5 times of above)
So what shall be the rent if
these plots are given out to builders? Rent of the nine plots at 3% of market value
of plot = Rs 27,000 cr * 3/100 = Rs 810 cr a year = over Rs
7 per citizen per year. Now these plots are no where
as valuable as many other prime plots such as Mumbai Airport, Ahmedabad
Airport, Bangalore Airport etc. Here are more examples
Plot Name |
Area |
Price per sq meter |
Approx market value |
Ahmedabad Airport |
1850 acres |
Rs 40,000 |
Rs 29,600 crores |
Mumbai Airport |
1100 acres |
Rs 100,000 |
Rs 44,600 crores |
Delhi Airport |
5000 acres |
Rs 100,000 |
Rs 200,000 crores |
Banglr. Airport (new) |
4050 acres |
Rs 10,000 |
Rs 32,400 crores |
Banglr. Airport (old) |
1000 acres |
Rs 100,000 |
Rs 40,000 crores |
Calcutta Airport |
1500 acres |
Rs 30,000 |
Rs 18,000 crores |
Chennai Airport |
4800 acres |
Rs 40,000 |
Rs 76,800 crores |
TOTAL |
|
|
Rs 440,800 crores |
(Please note that above land
prices too less compared to real market price as on May-2009. The prices in
Apr-2011 were at least twice)
So what shall be the rent
if these plots are given out to builders? Rent of these airport plots at 3% of
market value of plot = Rs 440,800 cr * 3/100 = Rs
13,224 cr year = Rs
120 per citizen per year !!
The Govt
has about 50000
plots by one estimate. Even if rent from each plot is as small as 20 paise per person per year on an average, the rent exceeds
Rs 12000 per person per year. Either we commons will get this rent or land
prices will drastically decrease (latter is what will actually happen) which
will enable us commons to buy homes at lesser % of our incomes and start
businesses.
The lease cost of 3 spectrums –
2G, 3G and
S-band was over Rs 200,000 crores for 20 years. If the spectrum is not leased
for 20 years but rented, and rent is taken year-wise, then assuming 6%
interest, EYI (equated yearly installment) would be over Rs 15,000 crore or Rs
120 per citizen per year (not per month). Now there are just three spectrums
--- all spectrums added may give about twice the yearly rent.
The mineral royalties
estimation is possible, but varies as the selling prices fluctuate. Here is an
estimation based on Jun-2008 prices. The estimation uses following method,
which are borne from laws I am proposing. As per laws I am proposing, the mines
and oil wells will be leased using competitive bidding. So the charge miners
would charge will be rock bottom low and will depend on prevailing labor wages
in India and cost of equipment. Now in the laws I am proposing the Govt would charge international selling price from the
buyers. The difference would be royalty of which 67% will go to citizens
directly and 33% would go to the Military. Following is my estimate of crude
oil royalty based on jun-2008 prices
Crude oil
Oil international price = US$140 per barrel
Extraction price in India = below $25 per barrel including all
costs.
(As on Jun-2008 oil companies charge $55 per barrel and make huge
profits which becomes loss due to buying oil at $150 from international market.
$25 is price Indian oil companies were charging in early 2000s to Indian
refineries. To that add the fact that Indian oil companies are hugely over
staffed and over pay their employees. eg clerk in ONGC
gets about Rs 20000 including all perks and expenses while clerk in private
gets Rs 8000 or so. This expenses can be decreased).
Production in India = 660,000 barrels per day
= 660,000 * 365 barrels per year
= 24,09,00,000 barrels per year
= 24 crore barrels per year
Population = 110 cr
Per capita Production in India = 0.22 barrels per Indian
per year
Profit per barrel = US$ 115
Total profit in dollars = 0.22 * 115 = $25 dollars per Indian
Dollar price rate = Rs 45 per dollar
So profits in rupees = $25 * 45 = Rs 875 per common per year
If crude oil prices drop to US$ 70 per barrel, then
profits will reduce to about Rs 250 per citizen per year.
Iron Ore
production = 123 million tonne
=
12.3 cr tonne
=
0.11 ton per Indian citizen
price = 150 dollars per tonne
= Rs 7600 per tonne
mining cost = Rs 300 per tonne
Profit per tonne = Rs 7200
Profits per common = 0.11 * Rs 7200 = Rs 730 per year
IOW, if crude oil is given to
refineries at International price, and profits are dispatched to every Indian, every
Indian will get Rs 875 a year. This will decrease as oil prices decreases and
will increase if oil price increases. This was just crude oil. The royalties
that come from coal, natural gas, granite, marble, kota stone, copper, alumina, iron ore and waters also
form sizeable amounts. Once citizens know that they are getting mines’
royalties, they will curb the mine mafias and this will enable honest people to
enter the mining business and thus royalties will increase by several folds. As per my guesses and estimates, the mine
royalties will exceed Rs 4000 to Rs 6000 per person per year
So mine royalties and land rents
will add to about Rs 18000 per person per year. Of this 33% will go to
Military. So the citizens will get about Rs 12000 per person per year. This
money is not dole, it is money from the plots and minerals we citizens own. The
money is not coming from any tax. There is no “tax the rich, feed the poor”
proposal. It is simply about minerals and plots that we citizens own.
The MRCM draft is the mother of
all changes. We are proposing other changes only to bring this change and to
ensure the change stays after bringing it. As of today, land rent and creation
of new M3 are the principal two reasons why we commons are poor. The forth
demand shall reduce us commons’ poverty.
Once the land rent act is
enacted, one of the two things will happen ---
1. either we commons will gain say Rs 500 to Rs 1000 per person per
month of land rent OR
2. the price of land will fall, as renting makes hoarding very
expensive
The latter is more likely. Now if
price of land falls, then housing price and thus rents will fall, which will
improve quality of the lives of us commons. Many of us commons who live in
slums will be able to move to say 1BHK flats. And if price of land falls,
number of businesses will rise (since as real estate cost drops, it becomes
easy for craftsmen to start their business), and we commons will have far more
jobs and better salaries. Higher industrialization would increase the mineral
prices, and so the mines’ royalties will increase. So in any case, the proposal
of land rent from IIMA plot, other IIM plots, JNU plot and 10000s of plots and
mines we commons own is bound to benefit us commons by a substantial amount.
So land rent and mine royalties
proposal will create incomes, reduce poverty, improve
land and houses availability to the poor and middle class. Thus it will
increase purchasing powers of the poor and middle class. The increase in
purchasing powers will increase demands and thus increase industries and which
will increase employment and skills. And it shall also strengthen our Military.
The effect of not collecting is
plain injustice, exploitation of poor via rich and unfair increase in economic
equality. eg Consider airport plots. Consider Delhi
Airport. It serves 2 cr passengers a year. It has
rent value of Rs 6000 cr per year. i.e.
Rs 6000/2 = Rs 3000 per passenger.
Consider an eliteman who used the Delhi airport 20
times in a year. But by not charging him land rent of Rs 3000 per flight, his
richness increased by Rs 600,000. And every common of India lost Rs 60 per year
as he did not get any land rent from the Delhi Airport plot he owns. This only
increases the wealth/income gap by unfair means of rent denial.
Will the rent collection
over-burden the passenger? Once MRCM and wealth-tax comes, the land price will
decrease and so land rent will decrease. Plus, the airport officers are wasting
away huge plots. Once MRCM comes, the airport officers will rent the plots for
hotel, houses, offices etc on temporary basis. So
final charge on passenger will not be Rs 3000, it will be way below Rs 500. And
yes, it will increase burden on the passenger and this is because he is using
that plot that we commons own.
The rent is to be collected and
dispatched by officer titled as National Land Rent Officer (NLRO). The rents
will be determined by standard calculations based on market prices and interest
rates, so NLRO does not have discretionary powers there. But he does have some
discretionary powers in deciding plot sizes and plot boundaries. So he can
favor elitemen by making plots unnecessarily too
large and in return he can collect bribes from elitemen.
So what would stop NLRO from siphoning whole or part of the rent into his
pocket? Well, the proposed MRCM-draft has clauses which shall enable us commons
to expel/replace NLRO. These replacement system aka Right to Recall
is the key that shall enable us commons to find an NLRO who believes in
dispatching rents to us commons.
# |
Procedure For |
Procedure / instruction |
. |
Section-1 : Registering citizens Approvals for NLRO
candidates |
|
1.1 |
- |
The word citizen would mean a registered voter This GN will become effective only after over 37 cr citizens have registered YES on it. |
1.2 |
PM |
PM would appoint an IAS officer as NLRO (National
Land Rent Officer) . |
1.3 |
CS (Cabinet Secretary) |
|
1.4 |
CS |
The CS may assign above task to any class-1 officer. |
1.5 |
Talati |
|
1.4 |
Talati |
The Talati will put the
preferences of the citizen on Govt website as
decided by the CS or Collector with citizen’s voter-ID number and his
preferences. |
1.5 |
Talati |
|
1.6 |
CS |
On every Monday, CS may publish approval counts for
each candidate. |
. |
Setion-2 : Replacement of NLRO |
|
2.1 |
PM |
The word citizen would mean a registered voter of India |
2.2 |
PM |
If a candidate gets approval of over 50% of ALL
registered citizen-voters (ALL, not just those who have filed their approval)
in a district, then PM may expel the existing NLRO and appoint
the person with highest approval count as NLRO. |
2.3 |
PM |
|
2.4 |
PM |
|
. |
Setion-3 : Ownership of plots under GoI |
|
3.1 |
Supreme Court judges , High Court judges, PM, all
citizens |
|
3.2 |
SCjs, HCjs, PM, All citizens |
All plots under following Ministries/Dept will come
under NLRO : o IIMs, all UGC funded colleges and universities except those
teaching science and engineering o Airports, all buildings owned by Air India and Indian Airlines o Ministry of Tourism and Culture o Ministry of Information and Broadcasting o Ministry Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution o Ministry of Human Resource Development o Ministry of Information Technology o Ministry of Rural Development o Ministry of Small Scale Industries & Agro and Rural
Industries o Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment o Ministry of Textiles o Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation o Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports o National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) o Planning Commission NLRO will have NO jurisdiction over land plots owned
by private persons or companies or trusts or land plots owned by State Govt or Cities or Districts. He will have no jurisdiction
on plots used by Military , Courts, Prisons, Railways,
Bus Stations, Govt Schools till class XII and tax
collection offices. |
3.3 |
PM, All officers |
All IITs, NITs and IISc
shall be made part of DRDO, and the DRDO director shall be the Chief Officer
of these colleges or shall appoint Deputy Chief Officers in these colleges to
run the day today operations. The other colleges
teaching science and engineering will come under Ministry of Science and will
not come under NLRO. |
. |
Setion-4 : Collection of rents from GoI owned plots |
|
4.1 |
NLRO |
For the unused land, NLRO will divide the land in
plots of appropriate sizes as he seems most profitable. NLRO will hold
auction for each plot. The conditions for auction will be o The lease will be for 5, 10, 15 , 20 or
25 years as decided by NLRO. The lease cannot be more than 25 years. o The bidders will give bids for monthly rent and bidding period
which can be less than maximum lease period. So bids will be in (monthly rent , months lease) format. One person can submit multiple
bids. Minimum lease period will be 12 months. o The weight of the bid will Monthly_Rent
/ log(Lease_In_Months). i.e. more the rent, higher the weight and longer the
lease, lesser the weight. o The bids will be open o The NLRO will give the plot as per weight of the bids. o NLRO will charge 6 months rent or
collateral as deposit. o the tenant will be free to evacuate land any day and stop paying
any rent |
4.2 |
NLRO |
During the lease time, NLRO will revise the rent
every 3 years based on % change in the land prices in the 1sq km area around
that plot and % change in prime lending interest rate from the day the plot
was leased and the day when rent revision occurs. |
4.3 |
NLRO |
After the lease time is over, NLRO will hold a fresh
auction, where in existing lease holder will get benefits o his weight will get
multiplied by 1.1 to 1.5 depending on number of years he has paid rent. o he may increase his bid
within 3 months after auction is over. o the existing lease holder
will get 20% to 50% the 6 months’ advance rent new lease holder is paying
depending on number of months he had held the land. |
4.4 |
NLRO |
But if existing lease holder loses the auction, then
he can move or sell the fixtures on that land. But he will need to vacate
that land. |
4.5 |
NLRO |
If the plot is held by an existing entity, the
entity will get 25% plus (25% * lease in months /300), maximum of 50% , bonus in the bid i.e. its bid will be multiplied with
1.25 to 1.50 , but no more. |
4.6 |
NLRO |
If the plot is currently being used and occupied ,
NLRO will take the mean land price in past 3 years of sale in 1 km area round
the plot and decide the price of plot and set (market_price
* prime_interest_rate/3) as yearly rent for next 10
years. The rents will be revised every 3 years. After 10 years, rules stated
from clause-1 onwards of this section will apply |
4.7 |
NLRO |
NLRO will give 34% of rent collected to Defense
Minister for the purpose of strengthening Military and providing weapons and
weapon-use education to all citizens+. |
4.8 |
NLRO |
1. NLRO will dispatch 33% of the rent collected every month to the
citizens residing in the State for past 10 years with limit of twice the
amount received by citizens of India in last year. 2. NLRO will dispatch rest of rent collected every month to
citizens of India. |
4.9 |
NLRO |
One year after this law-draft is passed, the rent a
person obtains will change as follows : o if has (0 sons), (0 son, 1 daughter), (0 sons, 2 daughters)
, it will be 33% more and will be 66%
more after he is 60 years o if he has (1 son, 0 daughter), (1 son, 1 daughter), (1 sons, 2
daughters), it will be 15% more and will be 33% more after he is 60 years o if he has (2 sons, 0 daughter), (2 sons, 1 daughter), it will be
same – no increase and no decrease o if he has (2 sons, 2 daughters) or (3 sons , 1 daughter) , the
rent will be 33% less o if he has more children than above mentioned cases, then he will
get 66% less rent Here, twins will count
as one child, and adopted children will not count. |
4.7 |
NLRO |
The rent paid will be 33% higher for men above 60
and women above 55 ; and will be 66% higher for men
above 75 and women above 70. |
4.8 |
NLRO |
No rent shall be paid to child below 7 years ; the rent to citizens between 7 to 14 will be 1/rd the normal and between 14 and 18 will be 2/3rd
of the normal rent paid. . The rent for children below 14 years will be given
to the mother, unless a Jury has instructed NLRO to give it to father or
other relative or mother has passed away. Further, if a Jury has found that husband with one
or more child is uncaring, then Jury can instruct NLRO to give half the rent
to be obtained by the father to the mother.
In such case, NLRO will give half the rent to father and other half to
the wife. |
. |
Setion-5 : Collection of Mineral Royalties |
|
5.1 |
All Dept Secretaries |
All the Department Secretaries who are in-charge of
mines or crude oil wells or collecting royalties from mines or crude oil
wells are ordered to send the royalties collected to NLRO |
5.2 |
NLRO |
The NLRO shall divide the royalties amongst Military,
the citizens residing in the State and citizens of India in the same ratio as
Land Rent described in the Ordinance dealing with distribution of Land Rent |
. |
Setion-6 : Citizens’ voice |
|
6.1 |
District Collector |
If any citizen wants a change in this law-draft, he
may submit an affidavit at DC’s office and DC or his clerk will post the
affidavit on the website of Prime Minister for a fee of Rs 20/- per page. |
6.2 |
Talati (or Patwari) |
If any citizens want to register his opposition to
this law-draft or any section or wants to register YES-NO to any affidavit
submitted in above clause, and he comes to Talati’s
office with voter-ID and pays Rs 3 fee, Talati will
enter YES/NO and give him a receipt. The YES-NO will be posted on the website
of the Prime Minister. |
Please note the last two clauses
of the draft proposed above. These two clauses are nothing but TCP. Every draft
of mine has these two lines repeated. Why this repetition? Symbolic value
apart, the repetition has political value. It may happen that an MRCM activist
has to confront an anti-MRCM eminent intellectual. Then MRCM activist can
challenge him to provide the drafts of the laws he wants, and then ask them to
add the lines 6.1 and 6.2. If the adversary opposes the last two lines’
additions, then he can be accused of being anti-common. And if he accepts these
two line addition, then effectively his proposed law-draft implements TCP,
using which MRCM law-draft can be brought using citizens’ YESes.
The two line addition shows that
“demand for TCP” is not just a clone positive concept but something more. The
TCP is a law-draft that can be added to any law-draft and, and once that
law-draft with TCP clauses is passed, these two TCP clauses can be used to
bring all 200 laws I have proposed. IOW, TCP is a touchstone i.e. even if all
laws are bad, but if one law-draft has two TCP clauses, then all good laws can
be enacted. And the two line addition is sufficient to thwart any undemocratic
law-draft. Because if an undemocratic law-draft has these two lines, it will
get rejected in few days or weeks by citizens.
How easy/difficult it is to
dispatch land rent and mineral royalties to 120 cr
commons? This task can be done using Universal Banking System (described later)
in which every citizen will have exactly one citizen-account in State Bank of
India (or a Govt Bank or Post Office) at the branch
of his choice. The amount dispatched by NLRO will be added to the citizen’s
account and withdrawal can be done at most once a week in denominations of Rs
100/- for free. The account owner will need to bring his passbook with photo and
the cheque with signature and thumb print to be put in from of cashier and
camera inside the bank. Later, ATM can also be used. With this very restricted
procedure a cashier can give out 30 payments per hour or about 200 persons in
his 8 hour shift or about 5000 payments in a month. So to deliver one payment a
month to 120 cr citizens, the SBI would need
120cr/5000 = about 240,000 cashiers. Further, till a child is of 14 years, the
payment will go into mothers’ account and so the number of clerks required will
reduce by about 30% to 180,000 clerks. IOW, using about 180,000 cashiers India wide , some 10000 supervisors and 10000 other staff, it is
possible to dispatch 120cr payments every month. And as ATM become more
widespread, the number of clerks needed will further reduce and number of
cash-outs per month can be increased to 3 per month.
To decrease impostering,
the persons in a locality may form a group of at least 10 person and maximum of
20 persons to be referred as “group of reciprocal witnesses”. If the person is
member of group of 10, then restriction is that at least 5 persons in that
group must accompany him when he goes for withdrawal. In general, all ten will
go for withdrawal on the same day and same time. If the person is part of such
group, everyone in group will get the amount at together and thumb prints of
five mutual witnesses will be taken on the payment receipt.
One argument I get against MRCM
is that managing a network of 200,000 clerks will be impossible and so instead
the money should be spent in education, health etc. Well, to teach 25 cr kids between age of 5 and 17, we would one teacher per
100 students at least i.e. 25 lakh teachers. The floor space needed in schools
needed will be at least about 1 sqm per student i.e.
25 cr sqm of floor space.
To serve 100 cr citizens in Hospitals, we would need
at least one doctor per 2000 citizens i.e.500,000 doctors and about 10,00,000
nurses. In addition, we would require 1000s of buildings for hospitals. IOW,
providing education to 25 cr students and health to
100 cr citizens requires 20-100 times more staff than
staff to dispatch 100 cr rent payments. So while I do
support education, health etc. I see no need to cancel the “rent dispatch”
scheme on the grounds of “number of clerks” needed. The number of clerks needed
to 100 cr payments every month dispatch payments is
no more than 200,000 and is far less than alternative schemes.
If all mineral royalties go to
citizens, wont Government fall short of funding?
First, as per my proposal, the
33% of mineral royalties do go to Government (Military), which can be seen as
33% income tax on every common and his income from mineral royalties and land
rent. Now this 33% will INCREASE after 67% goes to citizens. How?
Consider mineral royalties today.
Today, for a granite block that is worth Rs 100 in market, whose extraction and
transportation cost is below Rs 10, Govt gets
royalties of Rs 5 or even less. Why are the bids so low? Because the local
mining contractors hire criminals to ensure that more miners cannot come and
bid in the Collectors’ offices to submit the bids. But the criminals are able
to operate ONLY because they have support of MLAs, MPs, Ministers, CMs, PM, IPS, IAS and relative lawyers of the judges. IOW today,
using criminals, MLAs, MPs, Ministers, CMs, PM, IPS, IAS and relative lawyers
of the judges ensure that lions’ share of deemed royalties come into their
hands via the mine contractors and criminals they bless. Now today, I activists
were to tell commons that commons should fight against these Ministers, IPS,
IAS and judges’ relative lawyers, then two key questions arise –
1. how can a common fight? and
2. why should a common risk his
lives or spend time to do so?
The name MRCM-Recall answers both
these key questions. MRCM answers the second question : if mineral royalties are
going to citizens then the citizens have reason to ensure that criminals who
stop good mining contractors getting killed or imprisoned. And the Recall
answers the first question : using Right to Recall over Policemen, judges, CM etc the citizens can ensure that police chiefs, judges,
Ministers who promote criminals are replaced ASAP by individuals who are
pro-common. So “MRCM-Recall” will increase the mineral royalties to several
fold, and that will also increase the royalties that Military gets. Thus, the sum total of govt
income from minerals will increase from MRCM, NOT decrease.
In the same way, consider the
issue of Govt plots. Today, PM, CMs give away a large
number of GoI plots for a price fraction of market
price. The Right to Recall CMs, RTR-PM provides means by which citizens can
stop this. And MRCM i.e. giving land rent to commons and Military gives a
reason to citizens to stop this. Every time, a CM, PM rents out the land for
rent below market value, the citizens will feel a loss, and when the loss
exceeds some tolerance amount, they will spend Rs 3 file for an approval and
replace him. Or better, fear of replacement and subsequent punishments will put
a check on CMs, PM while doling away lands for bribes. So the net rents will
increase and so the 1/3rd of the rent that goes to the Govt (Military) will also increase.
So
MRCM-Recall proposals increase the net Govt incomes
from minerals and land rent – they do not decrease it. It also increases the incomes of the commons. Then who loses?
The criminals and mine contractors will be small losers --- the real losers
will be IPS, IAS, Ministers, CMs, PM, super elitemen who
own huge mine, relative lawyers of judges etc. And those who oppose MRCM-Recall
proposals, are only benefiting the criminals, mineral ore contractors, IAS,
IPS, relatives of judges, super elitemen who own huge
mines etc and no own else. Many eminent intellectuals
are on their payrolls and so vigorously oppose MRCM-Recall proposals to serve
their interests.
I have been campaigning for the
procedures by which we commons can get mineral royalties and plot rents. All
the eminent intellectuals have opposed this demand and tried tooth and nail to
show that it is unconstitutional, bad economics etc. Having failed, they say
“West does not have this procedures to give Royalties to commons and so why
should we have this procedures?”
Well, US has income tax of 40% to
50% with low evasion and few exemptions. US also has about 1% wealth tax on
lands. And US has 45% of inheritance tax upon death. The taxes are used for welfare schemes and
benefits do reach commons, as Jury System has ensured low corruption. The
Indian eminent intellectuals opposed wealth tax, high income tax and are
against inheritance tax and so funds allocated to welfare is next to nothing.
And Indian eminent intellectuals also killed Jury System in 1956, and so
corruption runs amok and funds get siphoned out. I have proposed 30% income
tax, 2% wealth tax and 30% inheritance tax to improve Military Industrial
Complex, engineering education and general education needed to manufacture
weapons. And I have also proposed Jury System to reduce corruption so that
delivery improves and poverty reduces. But this method of reducing poverty and
poverty deaths will take years. Whereas giving mineral royalties to us commons
directly, reducing poverty and poverty deaths is possible within mere 4 months.
About 1 cr
persons die every year in India --- well death is natural. But if they had Rs
100 per month more food and medicine, at least 5-20 lakhs of the 1 cr who died last year could have lived 2-10 years longer.
Some 55 out of 1000 children born last year in India died, where
as this number was 23 in China and 5 in Cuba. The number 55 per 1000
translates into 11 lakhs in year 2007. So out of these 11 lakh infants who died
in 2007 in India, at least 5 lakhs could have been saved if their families had
a few hundred rupees a year extra to spend on food and medicine.
IOW, as of now in India, poverty
is the biggest killer and biggest violator of human rights. One economists once
said that a bomb death gets more attention than 10000 hunger deaths. That is
mainly because newspapers are written by 0.01% of Indians and only top 15%
population in India reads them. A bomb may hurt them but hunger is too remote
for them. Which is why eminent intellectuals, NGOs and media-owners and
media-readers insist on focusing on individuals cases and insist on defocusing
poverty, poverty
deaths.
MRCM draft is the most landmark
demand in human rights, as this reduces the number of deaths that occur due to
lack of money to buy food and medicines. Sadly, all eminent intellectuals have
opposed this demands and IMO, activists should shun these eminent intellectuals
for good.
Many equate the MRCM proposal to give mineral royalties and land
rent from GoI plots to commons with Communism. The
MRCM proposal has nothing to do with Communism. Following are the differences
# |
MRCM |
Communism |
1 |
I first proposed MRCM per-se in oct-1998, but the proposal that land
rent from private as well as Govt plot should be
collected and divided amongst all citizens was given by Thomas Paine in 1790,
some 28 years before Marx was born |
Marx
was born in 1818, and words such as Marxism , Scientific Communism etc came into existence into 1850s |
2 |
MRCM confines to Govt owned plots and minerals, and has nothing to do with
ownership of factories. In fact, MRCM encourages private ownership of
factories so that bid amounts for plots and minerals increases |
|
3 |
MRCM is a coded proposal |
Communism is a vague concept
and has dozens of meanings, and none has procedure code attached to implement
it. |
4 |
In MRCM , rent directly goes to citizens. |
Suffices to say that there is no similarity between MRCM and
communism.
I explain ethical issues wrt MRCM as follows : Consider a pond where 1 crore liters of rain water
falls every year and there are 100 persons in the village. I will ask you a
question, and please read further ONLY after answering this question
: Who should , as per YOUR ethics and economics principles,
get how many liters of water?
If you are hell bent on not answering this question, I will firmly
tell you that there is NO way I can explain you MRCM proposal, because you want
to hide your motives, because you have ill motives. And you are anyway free to
oppose MRCM. I will repeat the question.
A village with population of 100 has a pond which gets 1 crore liter of water
per year via rain. Then who amongst these 100 as per your ethics and economics
principles should get how many liters of water?
Some 2500 years ago, Plato told me that in ethics and politics,
one must answer the question he asks or else he should shut up for ever and never ask any questions. So I will answer the
question I am asking you to answer : each person
should get same i.e. 100,000 liters of water. No matter how much land he owns,
no matter how much water he needs, no matter how intelligent he is or how
foolish he is, no matter whether he is alcoholic or drug addict or not --- each
person should get 100,000 liters --- not a liter less not a liter more.
Every eminent economist in the world opposes my proposal. As per
some self-certified socialists economists, water should be allocated by Neta, babu, judges as per best
social and economic needs as decided by Neta, babu, judges. Some self certified
rightists will say that Govt should sell the whole
pond to some private company and let that private company sell the water. And
there are people who also insist that water should be given to people in the
ratio of lands they own. And there are 100s of other answers. I request you to
spell out the procedure you will use to decide who should get how many liters
of water.
Why I propose\demand 100,000 liters equal for all? Since no one
does any labor to fill the pond, no one has more right than others and thus all
have equal rights and thus all should get 100,000 liters per year. Whether the
person has land or not, whether he is intelligent or not and whether he is
alcoholic or not --- all did equal labor i.e. zero labor to fill the pond. And
so all should have equal rights. And by same logic, each citizen has equal
rights over royalties coming from coal, crude oil, iron ore, marble, bandwidth etc.
The ethics over distributing land rent on Govt
plot is as follows
1. Say a person owns a plot/flat. Then who should get rent coming
from that plot/flat? Obviously the owner.
2. Say the plot/flat belongs to 10 persons, then who should get the rent?
Obviously, all 10 in the ratio of their ownership.
3. Say the plot/flat belongs to some large company like Reliance with
say 3 crore shareholders. Then who should get the rent from that plot/flat?
Obviously, all 3 crore shareholder in the ratio of their ownerships.
4. Now consider plot of Delhi Airport. It belongs to 120 crore
commons of India. And so the land rent should come to all of us 120 crore
commons.
Now are citizens owner of the Delhi Airport plot or is Govt of India owner of that plot? I don’t want to argue
this question. If someone walks into your home and tells you that your home
doesn’t belong to you, then IMO, you will offer insults and not arguments. Same
way, I claim that all non-private plots in India are property of us 120 cr commons of India, and if anyone differs, I have only
insults for him. If someone says that the plot of Delhi Airport does not belong
to citizens of India, and belongs to Govt of India, I
have only insults, no arguments, for him.
But to keep courts out of it, I propose that citizens should force
MPs to add a line in Constitution which declares citizens as joint owners of
all non-private plots. Once this line is added in Constitution, the debate will
formally end. Of course this line is not needed right away. Once Right to
Recall Honorable Supreme Court judges comes, the Honorable Supreme Court judges
will willingly rule that all plots owned by Govt are
property of us commons. So adding a line in Constitution will be simply
respecting the wish and will of the Honorable Supreme Court judges.
(Understanding this section requires information on RTR-PM-draft
explained in section-6.6. So I request reader to re-read this again after
reading chap-6)
I have come across alternatives to MRCM-draft-proposal, which says
that money obtained from land rent and mineral royalties should be used for
education, infrastructure etc and not directly give
to us commons. This section is to rebut these proposals.
First, in MRCM citizens gets 66%, and rest 34% goes to Govt. 34%
is same as highest marginal income tax rate in India as in july-2012. So it is
not that entire money is going to citizens. Also, the % may increase or
decrease from 34% depending on Military’s needs which will depend on
possibility of war with enemies such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Saudi
Arabia, UK and USA. Nevertheless, the alternative which involves “give 0% to
citizens and spend 66% on education, health, infrastructure etc”
needs to be rebutted.
The first rebuttal is procedural. I would request reader to note
that my demand is NOT that “MRCM-draft should be printed in Gazette” but my
demand is “TCP draft should be printed in Gazette and then using TCP draft,
activists may gather public opinion on MRCM-draft, and PM’s decision will be
final.” So adversary will be very much welcome to put his alternative proposal
of not giving rent from Govt plots directly to citizens, but using that
money for education and infrastructure. The citizens may decide whether to file
YES or which one, or none. And finally, PM will decide which draft will go on
Gazette. There is level field – pro-MRCM and anti-MRCM people both are at same
distance from citizens and PM. So summary of this rebuttal --- let TCP come,
and then citizens and/or PM will decide the fate of MRCM and its alternatives.
The second rebuttal is based on real life scenario. Say I take
flat at rent from you. And when you come and ask for rent, say I reply “I wont pay any cash rent, because if I pay you cash, you may
blow away cash in liquor etc. So instead of giving you rent as cash, I will
give you health care, education, improve
infrastructure in your society etc etc”. I don’t think you would like me as a tenant. The
issue is discretion as well as lack of trust. If I decide what is good for you,
even if I am honest, you may not like my decisions. And if I an dishonest, I will siphon out
all rent money and you will end up with no cash or no facility. So do citizens
of India have faith in Govt (i.e. Ministers,
IAS, IPS and judges) of today i.e. Jul-2012. Just as you want cash rent for
your flat or plot and not rent in kind, same way we 120 crore commons also want
cash rent (minus 35% to run Military) for the plots we own.
The third rebuttal is that as follows. Consider case-I where 66%
money is going to citizens and 34% to Govt and
consider case-II where all 100% money goes to citizens and none to citizens.
Then in case-I, Govt will get more money
!!! Why? Because in second case, the Ministers\IAS\IPS\judges and elitemen will siphon out all money into their pocket, and
citizens have no reason or means to stop. The only way citizens can stop such
siphoning out is by making PM print RTR-drafts in the Gazette over
Ministers\IAS\IPS etc. But if RTR comes, then MRCM will come next day. So a
scenario in which citizens get 0% rent from Govt
plots is possible only if there is no RTR over Ministers\IAS\IPS. And in that
scenario, the Ministers\IPS\IAS and elitemen will
devour all land rent from GoI plots and all
mineral\spectrum royalties and leave nothing for infrastructure, health , education etc. So we have two stable scenario –
(RTR + MRCM) and (no RTR, no MRCM). The scenarios (no RTR, MRCM ) is not
stable, because in absence of RTR, the Ministers/IAS/IPS will try to remove MRCM-draft
from Gazette and MRCM strengthens citizens and weakens Ministers/IAS/IPS/elitemen and so citizens will try to get RTR-drafts printed
in Gazette. The bitter striggle will go on till one
succeeds. If we commons succeed then there will be regime with (RTR, MRCM)
drafts in Gazette. And if elitemen succeeds, then
regime will be (no RTR, no MRCM). Likewise, (RTR, no MRCM) is also not stable.
Because if there is RTR, citizens can easily force PM to print RTR in the
Gazette.
So consider the two stable scenarios – (RTR, MRCM) and (no RTR, no
MRCM). In second scenario, the Ministers\IAS\IPS\judges and elitemen
will siphon out over 95% mineral royalties, spectrum royalties, land rent etc and Govt will get not even
5%. Whereas in first case, due to RTR, Govt officers etc will fail to siphon out even 1%, and Govt will get 35%. So Govt
revenue will be higher in first case.
One of the pet argument of all 80G-activists is that cash must not
be given to citizens because citizens will blow away cash on alcohol and so
instead of cash, money should be spent on education, health, roads etc.
In the scenario of (no RTR, no MRCM), much of the money will go in
the hands of mining-mafia, elitemen and Ministers\IAS\IPS\judges
and elitemen and they too will blow it away on
liquor. Because though mining mafia, elitemen,
Ministers, IAS, IPS and judges are smaller in number, they drink far more
expensive liquor like champagne, whiskey etc. So in (RTR, MRCM) scenario,
lesser money gets blown away on liquor than in (no RTR, no MRCM) scenario.
Now my rebuttals to argument that “citizens may blow away money on
liquor is ---
1. yes, some x% of citizens
will certainly blow away some or most of royalty money they get on liquor. But
then, what % of citizens are chronic alcohol addict? Less than 10% in males and
less than 5% in females. To be specific, say each of the 120 cr citizens is getting Rs 400 per month on an average i.e.
Rs 48,000 crores per month or about Rs 576,000 crores per year. How many crores
will get spent away on liquor?
2. Further, in MRCM, the money goes to each family member, it is not
that money of family is allocated to head of the family.
3. Further, the money meant for children below age of 14 years goes
to mother and females are less prone to addiction. Also, (see clause-4.8 of
MRCM-draft given in section-5.12), if a father is uncaring, a Jury can instruct
NLRO to give half the rent to the mother.
4. once tax on liquor becomes just enough to meet Govt
expenses to meet liquor-borne diseases, the price of liquor will drop so low,
that only a small fraction of income will go in liquor and rest will remain
with him. Ethically speaking, tax on liquor should be just enough to meet the
increase in Govt health expenses due to alcoholism.
Today, the tax on liquor is way too high because the elitemen
have bribed MLAs\MPs not to collect money needed to pay policemen, Govt staff etc using wealth tax,
but instead use liquor-tax. And the elitemen also
bribe disintellectuals to hide wealth tax and
campaign against wealth tax. Once TCP draft gets printed in Gazette, wealth tax
will come, and so tax on liquor will reduce to health expenses borne due to
alcohol. Thus liquor price will reduce.
5. Further, if citizens decide to remove legal punishments on opium
and confine to social punishments, then opium consumption will increase but
liquor consumption may further reduce. And opium is so cheap that it will not
take away big part of the addict’s income. Now again note, I am NOT saying that
“Right to Recall Party when comes into power will de-punish opium consumption”.
All I am saying is that “we should campaign for TCP-draft and Jury-draft, and
once TCP/Jury drafts get printed in Gazette, the citizens will put their
opinions on whether opium consumption should be punished or not”. Now in case
citizens de-punish opium consumption, then expenses of liquor may reduce, and
so lesser money obtained from MRCM will go on liquor or opium.
So all in all “citizens will spend all money on liquor” is only
10% correct i.e. probably only 10% of money will get wasted away on liquor. And
in scenario without MRCM, the money will go to mining mafia, elitemen, Ministers, judges etc
and so greater amount will go in expensive liquor like champagne, whiskey etc.
I request the reader to note clearly that of 4 scenarios (no RTR,
no MRCM) , (RTR, no MRCM) , (no RTR, MRCM) and (RTR,
MRCM) --- only 1st and 4th are stable, the 2nd
and 3rd are not stable. No amount of tricks or “neetee”
will create (RTR, no MRCM) scenario and so IMO, it would be time-wasting to
speak about merits of (RTR, no MRCM) scenario. Only comparison between (no RTR,
no MRCM) and (RTR, MRCM) scenarios is useful.
Now when (no RTR, no MRCM) and (RTR, MRCM) scenarios are compared
along any dimension, (RTR, MRCM) scenario turns out to be far superior along
ALL dimension. There is no trade-off to speak.
Atharvaved says : Aham Rashtrim Vasunam Sangamani i.e. I the nation own the natural resources.
Thomas Jefferson, the second President of USA said
"It is a moot question
whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all... It
is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual
has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By
an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or
movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the
moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the
property goes with it. …." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 1813.
The founding father of USA,
Thomas Paine, in 1790, in his landmark essay Agrarian Justice said that rents from
ALL plots, be private or Govt owned, should be
collected and divided amongst citizens !! So ownership
of land is something that has been very controversial topic since long and many
great men have opined that Govt plots belong to all
citizens equally. MRCM is an extension of that idea.
All MPs in Congress, BJP, CPM, CPI have
opposed very concept of MRCM. Even opposition MPs such as Subramanian Swamy have opposed MRCM. And almost all eminent intellectuals
oppose MRCM. They insist that mineral royalties not be given to citizens, but
should be used in schemes like education, health etc. These politicians and
eminent intellectuals oppose TCP because these politicians themselves own
mineral mines or they get huge bribes from miners. Many of the miners are
MNC-owners. These MNC-owners and other Indian miners give huge payments to
TV-channel-owners on regular basis. So these MPs know that if they support
MRCM, they will lose media coverage, and so they have all opposed MRCM.
The activist leader such as The Anna and Chhote
Anne have all also opposed MRCM. They oppose MRCM because they heavily depend
on MNC-owners and Indian miners for media coverage. The MNC-owners and Indian
miners are paying TV-channel-owners to cover them. And they all know that they
will lose media coverage if they were to support MRCM, and so The Anna and Chhote Anne have all opposed MRCM.
All in
all, all MPs, MLAs, eminent intellectuals and activist leaders
oppose MRCM because they rightly fear that elitemen
and Missionaries will stop supporting them if they were to support MRCM.
Please order PM and Loksabha Speaker via
SMS that your Yes\No sent via SMS on any bill presented in the Parliament
should be posted on the website of Parliament. Pls
send order to PM via SMS to print TCP draft described in section-1.3 of this
book at http://rahulmehta.com/301.htm in Gazette. Please also read chap-13 of
this book at http://rahulmehta.com/301.htm . It has
several steps where-in you can spend 6 hours a week and help to bring TCP
drafts in Gazette in India. The steps involve giving order to PM\CM via SMS,
distributing pamphlets, informing citizens on motives of leaders such Congress
MPs, BJP MPs, The Anna etc who oppose MRCM, giving
newspaper ads, contesting elections on RTR, MRCM, TCP etc. Once TCP gets
printed in Gazette, MRCM will get printed in 1-2 months.
I propose printing MRCM-draft after printing TCP-draft, and I am
not in favor of mass-movement for MRCM-draft. Why?
Because if activists initiate mass-movement on MRCM-draft, then
MPs and eminent intellectuals who oppose MRCM will get opportunity to debate
upon every clause of MRCM and make 10s of petty good-looking but useless
variations such (i)only poor should get royalty and
not rich, so that poor get more royalty (ii)citizens should get 100% and not
66% (iii)citizens should not get direct cash because they will blow away cash
on liquor etc and instead get services like
education, health etc. … and many more. Once TCP gets printed in Gazette, each
suggestion can be refuted by “yes, pls submit
affidavit demanding that change” and given the useless of these suggestions,
all the suggestions will fall flat. But in absence of TCP, given that opponents
of MRCM have more money to pay mediamen and activist
leaders, they will prevail with their useless suggestions in media and
activism. But it is difficult for them to oppose TCP, because anyone who oppose
TCP can be called as someone who wants to suppresses
the voice of dalits, women, commons etc and can be made to bad look. And so it is easier ask
activists to ask their activist-leaders to support TCP and if the
activist-leader refuses, then expose him before his activists. This way, it
decreases the support of corrupt-activist-leaders and increases support for
TCP-draft.
Let me re-state. In RTR-movement, one important goal is to
convince more and more non-80G-activists to spend time on RTR-drafts. Now
non-80G-activists will never go towards leaders of Congress, BJP, CPM etc as they are all already
exposed. But they are likely to have become followers of activist-leaders like
The Anna etc because these activist-leaders get huge
positive coverage from paid-mediamen. The recallists will need to put a proposal before The Anna etc that would The Anna refuses or evades without giving
any excuses that his own activists like. If MRCM-draft is put, then activist
leader can refuse and evade the proposal by citing “he is changing topic” as
excuse, and an excuse that many of his activists will accept. But TCP-clauses
are something that can be added to any proposal (like Janlokpal)
and non-80G-activists can be convinced to support it, without facing allegation
of “topic change”. So it is easier to get activists’ support on TCP-clauses and
thus convince him that his activist leader is fake.
So IMO, it will be more time efficient to campaign for (TCP-draft
via mass-movement, and MRCM-draft via TCP-draft) proposal amongst activists
than campaign for MRCM-draft via mass-movement proposal.
I will discuss this issue of TCP-draft first or MRCM-draft first
issue in more detail in chap-13.
1. How much was crude oil production India in 2008? Assuming cost of
production did not change in 2008 from that in 2006, and if $135 per barrel was
collected from buyer, how much money would citizens of India get, as per your
estimate? And if $50 per barrel was collected from buyer, how much money would
citizens of India get, as per your estimate?
2. What is the land area of Mumbai airport? What is the approximate
price per square meter? How much would citizens of India get if rent is 3% a year
of the market value?
3. What is land area of the largest university in your district? How
is approximate price of the plot and rent per citizen of India assuming rent
rate of 3% of value a year?
4. Does Indian Budget consider land rent deemed as subsidy?
5. Why do eminent intellectuals of India insist that we commons MUST
not get mines’ royalties directly and get it only via schemes?
6. Why do eminent intellectuals of India insist that we commons MUST
not get land rents directly and get benefits only via schemes?