JPC :: Joint Parliamentary Committee

Know and understand what is Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)?
Let us understand what is Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)?

In India we got many types of inquires, methods are good but final aim of this committees is that
No Punishment but these inquires are good to expose corrupt people or for entertainment.

Joint Parliamentary Committee is appointed to look, inquire into particular matter or subject or fraud, something which is important for nation.

How Joint Parliamentary Committee is formed?
What is the procedure to form Joint Parliamentary Committee?

Joint Parliamentary Committee is formed when motion is adopted by one house and it is supported or agreed by the other house.

Another way to form a Joint Parliamentary committee is that two presiding chiefs of both houses can write to each other, communicate with each other and form the joint parliamentary committee.

How many persons can be members of Joint Parliamentary committee?

The rule is simple -
The Lok Sabha members are double compared to Rajya Sabha.
Example –

If Joint Parliamentary committee has 10 Lok Sabha Members then 5 members will be from Rajya Sabha and total member of JPC will be 15.

The strength of a JPC may be different each time.

When the first Joint Parliamentary committee was established?

On August 6, 1987 the first JPC was instituted to inquire into the Bofors contract
on a motion moved by then defence minister K C Pant in the Lok Sabha.
The JPC submitted its report on – 26 April 1988
India got nothing after JPC in this case.
In this JPC inquiry opposition parties boycotted this inquiry and report was tables but again opposition parities rejected the JPC committee report.
Indian tax payer’s money and time was wasted.

The 2nd JPC was formed to inquiry into Harshad Mehta scandal.
The recommendations of the JPC were neither accepted in full nor implemented by the government of India.
Again 2nd time Indian tax payer’s money was wasted and time was wasted.

3rd JPC was set up to inquire into Stock Market Scam.
Chairman of this committee – BJP member Lt Gen Prakash Mani Tripathi
Report Submitted on – 19 December 2002
What happened after this JPC report?
Report was not implemented
Again tax payer’s time and money was wasted.

4th  JPC was formed to inquire into pesticide residues in soft drinks, fruit juice and other beverages and to set safety standards.
Committee Head was NCP chief Sharad Pawar
Submitted Report on 4th February 2004
Committee found soft drinks got, contain pesticides.

5th newest JPC to be formed to inquire into the 2G scam .

But again we Indians got nothing again waste of time and waste of money and again we demand JPC without demanding changes in JPC working and JPC powers.

Please remember the laws are made in such a way that today or tomorrow or day after tomorrow any JPC or PAC may be formed we Indians will get nothing.
The rules are made in such a way that criminals should enjoy them.
And honest people should fear them, without doing anything land up in jail.

What are the powers of Joint Parliamentary committee?

1.JPC can collect oral or written evidence from the experts.

2.The proceedings of parliamentary committees are confidential. Please note in majority nations this type of committees work in open and day to day there work is available for public. Only corrupt nations need confidentiality.

3.Normally ministers are not called to give evidence

4.SM – Ministers are gods how can they cheat the nation? Even if they cheat it is there birth right to cheat the nation.

5.JPC can inspect all documents related with the inquiry.

6.JPC can invite interested parties for inquiry.

7.JPC can send summons to people to appear before them, if person does not obey summons it is considered as contempt of House.

8.The Speaker has the final word on any dispute over calling for evidence

9.Against any individual or production of a document, even government can deny access to documents if government feels it is related with safety of state. What is safety of state? Only God knows.

I feel that following new powers should be given Joint Parliamentary Committee
Following new laws or amendments or sections should be added to the powers of JPC.

1.JPC should work openly

2.JPC should put all documents and evidence daily on internet.

3.JPC should finish inquiry in 1 month.

4.It should be compulsory on government to follow recommendations given by JPC.
If government wants they can approach to Supreme Court. It should be compulsory for SC to give judgment in 1 week in this type of cases.

5.JPC should get power to arrest any Minister exception should be Prime Minister.

6.During JPC probe no political party should be allowed to withdraw support of Government if they do so the party should get automatically banned forever without any appeal and they should be debar to contest any public or private elections for next 25 years.

Improving India – The TWO-WORD Mantra

TWO-WORD MANTRA

Published 6 years ago

By Shashi Tharoor
“The Hindu”, Online edition of India’s National Newspaper
February 01, 2004

The single most important thing that can be done to improve the world, is perhaps this — educate girls.

 

ONE of the more difficult questions I find myself being asked as a United Nations official, especially when I have been addressing a generalist audience, is: “what is the single most important thing that can be done to improve the world?” It’s the kind of question that tends to bring out the bureaucrat in the most direct of communicators, as one feels obliged to explain how complex are the challenges confronting humanity; how no one task alone can be singled out over other goals; how the struggle for peace, the fight against poverty, the battle to eradicate disease, must all be waged side-by-side — and so mind-numbingly on. But of late I have cast my caution to the winds and ventured an answer to this most impossible of questions. If I had to pick the one thing we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra: “educate girls”.

It really is that simple. There is no action proven to do more for the human race than the education of the female child. Scholarly studies and research projects have established what common sense might already have told us: that if you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.

The evidence is striking. Increased schooling of mothers has a measureable impact on the health of their children, on the future schooling of the child, and on the child’s adult productivity. The children of educated mothers consistently out-perform children with educated fathers and illiterate mothers. Given that they spend most of their time with their mothers, this is hardly surprising.

A girl who has had more than six years of education is better equipped to seek and use medical and health care advice, to immunise her children, to be aware of sanitary practices from boiling water to the importance of washing hands. A World Bank project in Africa established that the children of women with just five years of school had a 40 per cent better survival rate than the children of women who had less than five years in class. A Yale University study showed that the heights and weights for newborn children of women with a basic education were consistently higher than those of babies born to uneducated women. A UNESCO project demonstrated that giving women just a primary school education decreases child mortality by five per cent to 10 per cent.

The health advantages of education extend beyond childbirth. The dreaded disease AIDS spreads twice as fast, a Zambian study shows, among uneducated girls than among those who have been to school. Educated girls marry later, and are less susceptible to abuse by older men. And educated women tend to have fewer children, space them more wisely and so look after them better; women with seven years’ education, according to one study, had two or three fewer childen than women with no schooling. The World Bank, with the mathematical precision for which they are so famous, has estimated that for every four years of education, fertility is reduced by about one birth per mother. The reason Kerala’s fertility rate is 1.7 per couple while Bihar’s is over four is that Kerala’s women are educated and most of Bihar’s are not.

The more girls go to secondary school, the Bank adds, the higher the country’s per capita income growth. And when girls work in the fields, as so many have to do across the developing world, their schooling translates directly to increased agricultural productivity. One marvellous thing about women is that they like to learn from other women, so the success of educated women is usually quickly emulated by their uneducated sisters. And women spend increased income on their families, which men do not necessarily do (rural toddy shops in India, after all, thrive on the self-indulgent spending habits of men). In many studies, the education of girls has been shown to lead to more productive farming and in turn to a decline in malnutrition. Educate a girl, and you benefit a community: QED.

I learned many of these details from my colleague Catherine Bertini, this year’s World Food Prize laureate for her tireless and effective work as head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme. As she put it in her acceptance speech for that prestigious prize: “If someone told you that, with just 12 years of investment of about $1 billion a year, you could, across the developing world, increase economic growth, decrease infant mortality, increase agricultural yields, improve maternal health, improve children’s health and nutrition, increase the numbers of children — girls and boys — in school, slow down population growth, increase the number of men and women who can read and write, decrease the spread of AIDS, add new people to the work force and be able to improve their wages without pushing others out of the work force — what would you say? Such a deal! What is it? How can I sign up?”

Sadly, the world is not yet rushing to “sign up” to the challenge of educating girls, who lag consistently behind boys in access to education throughout the developing world. Some 65 million girls around the world never see the inside of a classroom. And yet not educating them costs the world more than putting them through school.

UNICEF’s energetic head Carol Bellamy, releasing her flagship State of the World’s Children report, said bluntly: “the failure to invest in girls’ education puts in jeopardy more development goals than any other single action.” In our own country, we have a long way to go. And we boast one State, Bihar, which has enthroned an illiterate woman as Chief Minister — as if to showcase its abysmal figure of a 23 per cent female literacy rate, one of the worst on the planet. But her seven daughters did indeed receive an education — so perhaps, after all, there are grounds for hope.

Certainly, there is no better answer. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan put it simply: “No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower infant and maternal mortality, improve nutrition, promote health, including the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and increase the chances of education for the next generation. Let us invest in women and girls.”

IPL 4 Ground Breaking Auctions

After the 2006 auctions when Dhoni was taken by Chennai for whopping 6 crore , the auctions for the 4 th edition of IPL was another money spinner .

Ending months of controversy around the League’s own financial deals and its teams’ ownership holdings, the ten franchises finally shook hands with the 139 cricketers who will form the core of the high-profile domestic Twenty20 event that begins in India on April 8.Gautham Gambhir was the highest paid one , a whopping $2.4m [Rs.9 crore+] . Another starking note was that many of the oldies were rejected and are yet to get a team including biggies like Ganguly,Gayle and Lara .The event was streamed live on SET MAX.

The following is the list of IPL franchisees, players and their bid price auctioned at IPL-4.

Deccan Chargers
Dale Steyn: $1.2 million (200,000)
Cameron White: $1.1 million (300,000)
Kumar Sangakkara: $700,000 (300,000)
Kevin Pietersen: $650,000 (400,000)
JP Duminy: $300,000 (200,000)
Shikhar Dhawan: $300,000 (100,000)
Ishant Sharma: $450,000 (200,000)
Pragyan Ojha: $500,000 (200,000)
Amit Mishra: $300,000 (100,000)
Dan Christian: $900,000 (55,000)
MS Gony: $290,000 (50,000)
Chris Lynn: $20,000 (20,000)
Juan Theron: $85,000 (50,000)
Michael Lumb: $80,000 (50,000)
Money spent: $6.88m; Money available: $2.12m
Players: Indian: 5 Foreign: 9

Kolkata Knight Riders

Gautam Gambhir: $2.4 million (200,000)
Yusuf Pathan: $2.1 million (300,000)
Jacques Kallis: $1.1 million (300,000)
Brad Haddin $325,000 (200,000)
Shakib Al Hasan: $425,000 (200,000)
Brett Lee: $400,000 (400,000)
Eoin Morgan: $350,000 (200,000)
Manoj Tiwary: $475,000 (100,000)
Lakshmipathy Balaji: $500,000 (100,000)
Jaidev Unadkat: $250,000 (50,000)
Ryan ten Doeschate: $150,000 (50,000)
James Pattinson: $100,000 (100,000)

Money spent: $8.57m; Money available: $0.43m
Players: Indian: 5 Foreign: 7

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Virat Kohli: (retained)
Tilakratne Dilshan: $650,000 (400,000)
Zaheer Khan: $900,000 (300,000)
AB de Villiers: $1.1 million (400,000)
Daniel Vettori: $550,000 (400,000)
Saurabh Tiwary: $1.6 million (100,000)
Dirk Nannes: $650,000 (200,000)
Cheteshwar Pujara: $700,000 (100,000)
Charl Langeveldt: $140,000 (100,000)
Luke Pomersbach: $50,000 (20,000)
Abhimanyu Mithun: $260,000 (100,000)
Johan Van der Wath: $50,000 (50,000)
Rilee Rossouw: $20,000 (20,000)
Nuwan Pradeep: $20,000 (20,000)
Mohammad Kaif: $130,000 (100,000)
Jonathan Vandiar: $20,000 (20,000)

Money spent: $8.64m; Money available: $0.36m
Players: Indian: 5 Foreign: 10

Mumbai Indians
Sachin Tendulkar: (retained)
Harbhajan Singh: (retained)
Keiron Pollard: (retained)
Lasith Malinga: (retained)
Rohit Sharma: $2 million (200,000)
Andrew Symonds: $850,000 (300,000)
David Jacobs: $190,000 (20,000)
James Franklin: $100,000, (100,000)
Munaf Patel: $700,000 (100,000)
Clint McKay: $110,000 (100,000)
Moises Henriques: $50,000 (50,000)

Money spent: $8.52m; Money available: $0.48m
Players: Indian: 2 Foreign: 6

Sahara Pune Warriors
Aiden Blizzard: $20,000 (20,000)
Yuvraj Singh: $1.8 million (400,000)
Graeme Smith: $500,000 (400,000)
Robin Uthappa: $2.1 million (200,000)
Angelo Matthews: $950,000 (300,000)
Tim Paine: $270,000 (100,000)
Ashish Nehra $850,000 (200,000)
Nathan McCullum: $100,000 (100,000)
Callum Ferguson $300,000 (100,000)
Wayne Parnell: $160,000 (100,000)
Mitchell Marsh: $290,000 (100,000)
Jerome Taylor: $100,000 (100,000)
Alfonso Thomas: $100,000 (50,000)
Jesse Ryder: $150,000 (100,000)
Murali Kartik: $400,000 (200,000)

Money spent: $8.07m; Money available: $0.93m
Players: Indian: 4 Foreign: 10

Team Kochi
M Jayawardene: $1.5 million (400,000)
VVS Laxman: $400,000 (300,000)
Brendon McCullum: $475,000 (400,000)
S. Sreesanth: $900,000 (200,000)
RP Singh: $500,000 (200,000)
Parthiv Patel: $290,000 (100,000)
Ravindra Jadeja: $950,000 (100,000)
Steven Smith: $200,000 (200,000)
Muttiah Muralitharan: $1.1 million (300,000)
Ramesh Powar: $180,000 (100,000)
Brad Hodge: $425,000 (200,000)
Thisara Perera: $80,000 (50,000)
R. Vinay Kumar: $475,000 (100,000)
Steven O’Keefe: $20,000 (20,000)
Owais Shah: $200,000 (200,000)
Michael Klinger: $75,000 (20,000)
John Hastings: $20,000 (20,000)

Money spent: $7.79m; Money available: $1.21m
Players: Indian: 7 Foreign: 10

Delhi Daredevils
Virender Sehwag: (retained)
Irfan Pathan: $1.9 million (300,000)
David Warner: $750,000 (200,000)
Naman Ojha: $270,000 (100,000)
James Hopes: $350,000 (200,000)
Morne Morkel $475,000 (100,000)
Aaron Finch $300,000 (100,000)
Matthew Wade $100,000 (100,000)
Ajit Agarkar $210,000 (100,000)
Ashok Dinda $375,000 (100,000)
Umesh Yadav $750,000 (50,000)
Roelof Van der Merwe $50,000 (50,000)
Venugopal Rao: $700,000 (100,000)
Andrew McDonald: $80,000 (50,000)
Colin Ingram: $100,000 (100,000)
Robert Frylinck: $20,000 (20,000)

Money spent: $8.25m; Money available: $0.75m
Players: Indian: 6 Foreign: 9

Chennai Superkings
M.S. Dhoni: (retained)
Suresh Raina: (retained)
Murali Vijay: (retained)
Albie Morkel: (retained)
Michael Hussey: $425,000 (200,000)
Wriddhiman Saha: $100,000 (100,000)
Dwayne Bravo: $200,000 (200,000)
Doug Bollinger: $700,000 (200,000)
R. Ashwin: $850,000 (100,000)
S. Badrinath: $800,000 (100,000)
Scott Styris: $100,000 (100,000)
Ben Hilfenhaus: $100,000 (100,000)
Joginder Sharma: $150,000 (100,000)
Nuwan Kulasekara: $100,000 (100,000)
Sudeep Tyagi: $240,000 (50,000)
Suraj Randiv: $80,000 (50,000)

Money spent: $8.66m; Money available: $0.39m
Players: Indian: 5 Foreign: 10

Rajasthan Royals

George Bailey: $50,000 (50,000)
Francois du Plessis: $120,000 (20,000)
Shane Warne: (retained)
Shane Watson: (retained)
Ross Taylor: $1 million (400,000)
Rahul Dravid: $500,000 (400,000)
Johan Botha: $950,000 (200,000)
Paul Collingwood: $250,000 (200,000)
Shaun Tait: $300,000 (300,000)
Pankaj Singh: $95,000 (50,000)

Money spent: $6.2m; Money available: $0.80m
Players: Indian: 2 Foreign: 4

Kings XI Punjab
Adam Gilchrist: $900,000 (400,000)
David Hussey: $1.4 million (300,000)
Dinesh Karthik: $900,000 (200,000)
Shaun Marsh: $400,000 (400,000)
Stuart Broad: $400,000 (400,000)
Abhishek Nayar: $800,000 (50,000)
Praveen Kumar: $800,000 (200,000)
Ryan Harris: $325,000 (200,000)
Piyush Chawla: $900,000 (100,000)
Dimitri Mascarenhas $100,000 (100,000)
Nathan Rimmington: $20,000 (20,000)

Money spent: $6.95m; Money available: $2.05m
Players: Indian: 4 Foreign: 7

 

Pranav Mistry : 6th Sense Technology

Golden Temple

Amritsar:
Amritsar, literally means the Pool of Nectar. Amritsar derieves its name from Amrit Sarovar, the holy tank that surrounds the fabulous Golden Temple. The Sikh cult largely dominate the city. During centuries, this complex of Sikh culture grew from a sacred village pond into a spiritual-temporal center. The passionate pilgrims of the faith of Guru Nanak (15th century), who united Hindu and Muslim elements and initiated a reformation, flocked here generation after generation. 

History unfolded: 
Guru Arjan Sahib, the Fifth Nanak, conceived the idea of creating a central place of worship for the Sikhs and he himself designed the architecture of Golden temple also known as Sri Harmandir Sahib. Guru Arjan Sahib got its foundation laid by a muslim saint Hazrat Mian Mir ji of Lahore in December 1588. The construction work was directly supervised by Guru Arjan Sahib himself and he was assisted by the prominent Sikh personalities like Baba Budha ji, Bhai Gurdas ji, Bhai Sahlo ji and many other devoted Sikhs.

Golden Temple- ‘The Shining Splendor’:
The temple is located on a small island in the centre of a pool called the amrit-sar (‘pool of nectar’) and is connected to land by a marble causeway.The golden colour comes from the overlay of gold foil, hence the name. Golden Temple has a unique feature, here the devotees have to step down to offer their homage unlike other temples where the devotees have to climb up to offer their salutation. 

This wonderful temple of God has been built at the lowest level because it represents the humility of Guru Nanak. The architecture of the temple is considered as the epitome of dexterity and creativity and it represents a unique harmony between the Muslims and the Hindus. Patrolling guards are present all the time to ensure that visitors respect the basic rules when visiting the temple. As long as the rules are respected, visitors of all religions are given a warm welcome. Symbolically, it has entrances on all four sides to show that it is open to worshippers of all castes and creeds.

Front View of Golden Temple

Side View of Golden Temple