Grahakjago (S.K.Virmani)©

GST has been introduced in the country with much fanfare issuing several political statements. One of the statement being heard from the politicians of the ruling party was that all consumers are excited with the implementation of GST. Even the Prime Minister termed it as Good and Sweet Tax. GST is on a basic principle of One Nation One Tax and it has got two elements i.e CGST (Central GST) and SGST (State GST). Prior to introduction of GST, we have VAT system in country. In my view, there is no basic difference as both are with cascading effect at each point of sale i.e the additional tax on value addition and in both the tax systems, the input tax gets credited to the registered dealer by adjusting with output tax. It simply means if the registered dealer has paid an input tax of Rs. 100/- on a commodity and he sells the commodity to next buyer by charging tax at Rs. 105/-, the dealer has to pay the additional tax of Rs. 5/- only. Such facility was available in both terminology...

Why any person will oppose strictest of the stricter punishment to the Rapist in a fastest of the faster track courts? As per the reports appearing in various media including electronic media, a 23 year old girl has been raped in Delhi the capital of India in a moving bus on 16th December 2012. The girl and her male friend were beaten mercilessly and thrown out from the moving bus after stripping them off their cloths. No doubt such incidents are shocking and are shameful for any society and need to be condemned ensuring punishment to the culprits. The debate in the Parliament for making strictest of the stricter laws is just going on. We also agree that there should be the strictest of the stricter laws so that such incidences are brought to the level of ZERO.  Many people including political fraternity are demanding strict punishment to the extent of "hanging till death" . Ram Jethmalani also demanding such punishment. Kasab was seen live on electronic media killi...