Normal And Abnormal

As  per available information the travel and tourism sector in India has employed about 42 million people. While comparing the income from this with other selected countries there seems to be a wide scope for bringing in more people into it. According to Travel and Tourism Development Index 2024 published by World Economic Forum India ranked 39th among 119 countries. This itself shows large scope for development of our tourism industry. Contribution from tourism sector to our GDP in the recent past is as below. 2020 - 4.3% 2021 - 5.8% 2022 - 5.9% 2023 - 9.1% Earning from Tourism by top countries in the world in 2023 are given below. USA - $1.8 trillion  Spain - $150 bn Japan - $300 bn France - $200 bn Australia - $60 bn Germany - $100 bn UK  - $120 bn China - $200 bn Italy - $150 bn Switzerland - $20.5 bn As per available information India has earned $231.6 bn in 2023 from tourism sector. (Since these datas are collected from various Web sources, please do not...

I wish to ask humbly and earnestly to my fellow beings of the legal profession whether the agreement on Mullaperiyar between Kerala and Tamil Nadu can be a well founded and valid one. If one gives another an elephant with the agreement duly signed by both that the present owner will ensure that the elephant will remain alive for 999 years. Can any court in India can ratify this just because both parties have signed this senseless agreement? The Mullaperiyar dam which has the approved lifespan of 50 years as per the design and construction engineer of the dam but it has already lived for 129 years (The dam was opened on 10 October 1895) Now if someone says that since agreement stands for 999 years it should function for the set lifespan at the risk of the lives of over sixty lakhs people from six districts of Kerala and also more or less a similar number from Tamil Nadu too.. Our successive governments are least bothered about this  Sword of Damocles. And most unfortunat...

We all frequently say about others and sometimes about ourselves the words of praise, the self-made one . If I say that no one is self-made, many of you may disagree with me. Then I may ask you to name a few self-made persons. You are most likely to come with a long list of people who are self-made.  Okay, now I will come back to you. Is it your choice that you are a man or woman? Is it your choice, the height, colour and shape of your body? Is the eyesight your choice? The hearing power, the functions of all your external limbs are your choice? The working of all your internal organs are your choice? Is the body strength your choice? Are the memory and intelligence your choice? All the answers must be negative, I suppose. Now I shall ask you some final questions. Are your parents your choice? Is the place of birth your choice? The time of birth your choice? When you or anyone else say 'no' to all these queries, how can one say he/she is self-made? I shall, then, af...

The estimated population of the world as of 2025 is about 8.3 billion people. All that we are enjoying today are the outcome of the hardwork of countless number of people. Even every grain of rice coming to our plates are the result of many thousands of people. When we get sick we take medicine and get healed. There may be the efforts of generations behind every tablet or every drop of medicine that comfort us. Each one of us are highly indebted to many people lived here or living here. Are we thankful to those humans? Do we ever think about them? Now, coming back to us. We are in this world, may be, for a few decades. If we look at our story, have we got anything in our mind that is worth to mention that we have done for our fellow beings. When we pass away from here, how many around us and how long will remember us. Have we ever fed a hungry stranger with enough food? Have we ever sent sufficient food to a poor family of your area? Have we ever asked a tired poor one whet...

Reports appeared recently in the News Paper as well as in the WhatsApp constrained me to write this.  A patient admitted in the hospital ventilator was short of money. His relatives requested for one day's time for the remittance. The hospital refused the request and discharged the patient from the ventilator. However, the doctor was kind enough to give an advice. Since the patient was not likely to survive more than a few minutes, the doctor advised the relatives to obtain a death certificate of the patient from some hospitals on the way back home. Unbelievably, the Almighty Doctor interfered and the 'dead man' was brought back to life from the mortuary! In another instance a lady who was supplied capsules from the government hospital found some irritation after taking two capsules. She opened one capsule and found a small nail in it. She then opened one more and found similar object. She was now on the way to hospital where it was supplied from. Today's me...

According to available information only about 82.7 millions people are paying income tax in India. This works out to 6.25% of the population. In USA this is 45% of the population. It may not be that the remaining 83.75% of the population are not liable to make IT payment. Also there could be other reasons to avoid IT payment by at least some more Indians. The gross collection before adjusting refunds of Income Tax in India during 2022-23 is Rs 19.68 lakh crores. If the income of an individual in India in a FY is Rs 1.01 cr, he has to pay a sum of Rs 32,68,875 as IT including surcharge of 15% of the tax amount. The existing tax rate, under optional tax regime scheme, is as below. (The rate shown below are of 2022-23) Upto 3 lakhs -  0% 3 to 6 lakhs   -  5% 6 to 9 lakhs   - 10% 9 to 12 lakhs - 15% 12 to 15 lakhs- 20% Above 15 lakhs-30% Countries with highest rates of income tax are: Chad & Ivory Coast- 60% Sweden - 57% Denmark - 56% Austria - ...