I support the increase in the drinking age to 25......

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maha-raises-drinking-age-to-25-yrs/articleshow/8688386.cms

The Maharastra government have decided to increase the age of drinking to 25 from 21 and I totally support this..
But along with this they HAVE TO implement the following LAWS as well..

1. The retirement age for all Government officials and ministers be made 65 (that way they are not from another era)

2. The pay to these guys increased and all subsidies cut completely. (so no free travel, no cheap food etc feel the pinch that the aam janta feels)

3. Ban on all ministers and government officials from smoking and consuming alcohol in any form. (after all how will they rule if they are intoxicated)

4. No free stay should be provided to them. (let them try buying houses like all people and see if they can afford to pay the 60 - 40% OR try living on the obscene rents that regular people have to pay)

5. No one with criminal cases against them will be allowed to stand up for any of these jobs. (either the judical system will hurry up or we would have got rid of the rotten apples)

6. All their promises should be made their appraisal points and after each year their salaries should be increased or decreased as per their performances. (at least they will stop making false promises or actually start working on them)

7. Their timings have to be clocked. (lets see how much time they put into work)

well I think I could go on and on.. but will save that for when they increase the drinking age to 30...
So these laws should do for now.. what say Maharastra government upto it..?
  

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JAN LOKPAL BILL is this victory?

So the government gave into Anna Hazare's fasting and what he has done is in turn is wake up a nation to ask, talk, blog, protest etc etc. So as I understand it now we will have a committee of people who will have the power to look into the corrupt. So a LokPal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge, say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. 

Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished. Not like, Bofors scam or Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, that has been going for last 25 years without any result. But what if the people that get appointed are also corrupt? then what? Is not the government the same thing, after all we only have elected these people. All I can say that this is only a group of people who will be in charge of reducing corruption. 

Also what I didn't like in all of this was the way the things were one to achieve this. So every time we feel something is wrong we will go on hunger strikes and hold governments or organisations at ransom, what happened to talks and discussions. Well I guess this was better than a strike, or stone throwing or those kind of methods.     

But is it not in our hands to reduce corruption, don't we all give the traffic cops  a 50 or a 20 to avoid getting a challan or do we not pay to speed up our work like to get our ration cards or passports or papers from the government office. Don't people bribe others to get some work done, some do it to win Job's / Contracts in their favor. So then how can we stop others from doing something that we don't even think twice before doing?

So is there a solution to all this madness, well if this Bill passed reduces corruption then great or we all go back to our corrupt ways. The only way I feel that you can make people correct their behavior is fear. As kids we were all afraid of punishment, well at least most did, those who got punished more often had got used to it and it stopped effecting them later.

So here are some of my suggestions towards punishments if people are found guilty,
1. Ban these from Job role that they are doing for a period in relative to the crime say starting from 5 years onwards. eg, a person caught taking bribe should be banned from working in that position for that period across that medium.
2. Hefty fine should be for all cases, like 10 to 100 times the amount.
3. Jail in serious cases for sure.
4. Both parties the giver and the receiver should get charged..


I could go on and on but will that be of any effect, I don't know, may be its just up to to me to change myself and hope all would be doing the same.

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