Other day I read an article in times on flood and amount funds that government needs to rebuild those villages and towns. It invited suggestions from people on what additional taxes can be levied on people towards this fund. People came up with suggestions asking ministers and govt. officers to use Volvo instead of cars, cut their travel etc.
How much will all this add to? We are talking of 20,000 Crores! With Central govt, giving 1000 crores and road to road fund collection another 1000 crores it's still long way to go.
So how can be solve this? Well, one suggestion that came to my mind was why not use the technology and India's biggest strength, Population to help get there. I don't know the actual logistics and feasibility of this solution but think of it, made sense to me...
We have several hundred mobile subscribers in India, what if for every one rupee that a person spends on his cell, he/she contributes 10 paise towards this fund. Take an average of five rupee spend on phone in a day by one person, you can do that math of how many can be pooled in a day and day after day! Drop by drop you make an ocean. Here everyone gets a chance to contribute and hardly pinch their pockets.
The telcos will have to do some changes to their systems to support this but shouldn't be hard I guess.
You must be wondering if I did send my suggestion to chief minister. Well, I did and haven't heard back still so either it's totally a wacky idea that could be digested or nobody bothered to read my email :)...you know how our govt. works.
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