In my opinion, the prices of NON-SUBSIDISED cooking gas should be substantially increased in order to better balance the subsidies on subsidised gas, on the assumption that anyone using more than 12 subsidised cylinders per year is unlikely to be poor or even middle class and, therefore, could afford to pay market prices for the additional cylinders.
Similarly, the prices of the higher octane petrol used by the costlier cars should also be freed and sold at market prices.
As for kerosene, it should be considered to give a one-time free single burner gas stove to the poorer sections, and then kerosene should be taken out of the subsidised energy, to be replaced by the gas.
The other area for painless (to the non-neta-babu citizenry) cuts would be to immediately higher independent management experts to isolate and ruthlessly weed out the tens of free-loading-loot areas, which would be running at around 15-20% of the entire budget!
It is long overdue that the summary dismissal instrument is utilised on the criminal-corrupt type of public servant.
Finally, it is high time that independent management experts in Operations Research and related areas are hired on a national basis to streamline manpower-resource deployment and government functioning.
As for the food security bill, perhaps the ration shops should be located only in villages and slum areas of cities.
Victor
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Posted by: Victor Cooper <victor99cooper@yahoo.com>
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