Thursday, January 24, 2008

Cash Ban

Here is what came to my mind while thinking recently about the corruption in Kashmir. This might be applicable to lots of places but since we are kashmir bloggers so we will talk about Kashmir.
So here are my two cents. We should completely ban money in the market. Purchasing anything with cash should be made illegal. Instead all our money should stay in the bank. We may not even need to print currency bills.What we should have instead is electronic cards. All the payments made only using these cards. Each person would have his/her money's equivalent in the bank and they would be able to use only as much as is in their banks, using these electronic cards.
This technology will possibly make sure that I can't pay money to anyone unless the person accepting the money has a machine and an account to accept it. All the business owners and the government will have that facility. For those business owners who are very poor I guess we could help them in purchasing the equipment. There will be some initial costs involved but in the long run we will have a much less corrupt state. We will also save money in printing the bills.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

All jumbled

When I look at Kashmir today it looks all jumbled up, to me. I tend to compare life here in Fort Collins with that in Kashmir. It seems we have the same needs in Kashmir as the people in this country. I take a look at the management here and wonder why is it so different in my home. In this town if I want to go to play golf ( just an example), I can go ahead pay for my rentals and the time spent in the golf course and that is it. It might cost me $10 which is the same as a person would earn in an hour. So easy. Kashmir has golf courses too but how accessible are they for a student like myself. I can go to any park here and use one of the tennis courts to play for as long as I want. I don't pay anything for using that space. Why is it so impossible for something like this to happen in Kashmir. One reason I feel could be because some of my tax dollars that I pay everyday here are used to build these places and made accessible to everyone.
In Kashmir people wouldn't either pay their taxes or when they pay it would be used by some corrupt officials to make themselves richer.
Everything seems so inaccessible in Kashmir unless you are either an officer in the civil administration or some police officer or very rich and have connections. GOD, you need connection even to visit a wild life sanctuary. You could have allowed us to go to these parks and we could pay for the entry to these parks . This money could be used for the maintenance of the animals there and the parks. Countries don't become rich or great by complicated processes but by simple steps which are people friendly.