State of Maharashtra has a total of 50 prisons , of
which 9 are Central jails
Between them , they house 25,000-30,000 inmates
The country as a whole, has some 1,387 prisons ,
housing approx 356,000 prisoners
Maharashtra government has decided to introduce "
chip or bracelet " tracking system for prisoners and is in the process of
signing an agreement with the Israeli Government under which , private Israeli
companies will implement this " tracking " project
Why all this rush for a technology driven reform ?
Because , in March 2015 , five criminals had fled from
the Nagpur jail after climbing boundary wall
!
But no one in government seems to be really bothered
with the following :
* There are
billions of high currency notes ( Rs 500 / 1000 ) in circulations
* A whole lot of
these are unaccounted BLACK MONEY income, on which no tax got paid
* Many more
billions are stashed in secret bank lockers , which occasionally "escape"
for purchase of gold/land etc
* High currency
notes worth Rs 34.4 lakh*crore have "climbed" national boundaries and
escaped without "trace" !
* Today ,
Government has absolutely no mechanism to " track / trace " such escapes
* In India more
than 90% of all payments ( for goods and services ) are in CASH , quite a few ,
using these high
currency
notes
* If payments
are made in CASH , no GST / Service Tax can be collected
* But if the
payments get made through official channels ( ECS / Bank Transfers / Credit
Cards / Mobile Wallets
etc ) , then GST can be collected ( or a BTT -
Bank Transaction Tax , can be levied )
Now , instead of " dehumanizing " 30,000
prisoners with a RFID-embedded collar around their necks ( as it
happened with Rajat Gupta of McKinsey fame , a few
weeks back in New York ) , just so that you can track some
5 prisoners , would it not be much better / wiser to :
* Discontinue paper-based currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs
1,000 ( and withdraw in 6 months , with advance notice )
* Introduce plastic currency notes of Rs 500 / 1,000 which
are embedded with RFID sensors ( far thinner than a human hair ! ) ,
always broadcasting their presence to Internet of Things ( IoT )
I believe Govt is launching ONE BILLION plastic currency notes
of Rs 10 denomination , later this year
Let us make this a PILOT PROJECT , by embedding these with RFID
sensors .
We will learn a lot in " tracking " !
* Assign to each such note, a IP V 6.0 address , linked to
its unique note number
* Set up a IT-enabled Technology Platform which will
constantly monitor any accumulation of Rs 500 / 1000
RFID embedded notes in excess of Rs ONE CRORE
within an area of ONE square meter
Why waste time in tracking a few escaped prisoners ?
Why not leverage technology to track those billions of notes and
their criminal owners who are destroying our economy ?
Mr Arvind Subramanian ( Chief Economic Adviser ) should have
recommended this in his ECONOMY SURVEY , instead of suggesting to expand tax
net to cover 23 % of the Indian citizens , against current 4 %
I believe , humble RFID sensor can get ten times more tax
revenue than expanding tax-net to 23 % of citizens !
Incidentally :
Should Shri Jaitley-ji propose expanding the tax-net as
suggested , in his budget speech tomorrow , do you know what would happen ?
You don't need to be a Nostradamus to foresee BJP losing ALL
state and central elections for the next 10 years !
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