Banking The Votes.

       Banking The Votes.
Amit kumar pandey (SBI-)
Res: Pakri ,Ara Bihar
NOTE: This is a million dollar idea for Free, Fairer and Faster and yet the cheapest way to conduct elections.
India being the largest democracy seems to be the busiest as well. There are always elections taking place in various parts of the country for one reason or the other. And to conduct elections free, fair and events-free in India is a great success for election commission. India being a struggling economy and a country divided by various faith and regions, her elections costs her dearly-economically and otherwise.  In February 2009, Rs.1,120 Crores ($200.5 million) was budgeted for election expenses by the Indian Parliament for the last general election.  Hence, we constantly need to find ways to make our elections cheaper and yet our democratic processes more robust and responding. EVMs were a step in this direction. They accelerated the process of polling and reduced cost by huge margin, but still our elections cost the exchequer dearly. I, therefore wish to put forward a new system of voting- EVTB (Electronic Voting through Banks)
EVTB or Electronic Voting Through Bank will be a system of casting votes using the electronic or the technological platform of banks like mobile banking, internet and ATMs. This mode of adult franchise will change the system of voting for one and all forever because of its embedded benefits. EVTB will have apparently three modes- mobile, internet and ATMs. Out of these mobile is going to be the most important because of its availability, ease and the secrecy it can impart.
Mobile Voting:-
Mobile voting or conducting elections through mobile phones seems to be lucrative but it seems unfeasible unless the platform of banking is attached to it. It becomes easy, feasible, fair and very promising. The two biggest network- telecommunication and banking together will hugely accelerate our process of elections and the whole process will shrink in a day. Yes! India can conduct her general elections in one day.
For the purpose of EVTB we need to identify one bank which will allow itself to bank the votes. We may call this bank Polling Bank. Polling Bank should be one bank which will be nationalized and should have pan India presence having huge public trust and participation. By all standard SBI is most suitable to don the role of Polling Bank in India.
How to do EVTB?
There may be two ways to it- 1. Credit voting Or 2. By means of trust crediting or debit voting. But for either of the two, a special type of account needs to be opened with the Polling Bank.
After filing the nomination paper for a constituency, the collector of the district will allow the candidate to open an account with the main/ identified branch of Polling Bank of that constituency. These accounts will be special accounts where in either debit or credit will be allowed. These accounts may be called VGLs (Voting General Ledger accounts) for collection of votes. VGL a/cs may be like 1950CCCPPPc
Where, C- represents Constituency and P = party or candidate c=check digit.
.  One VGL ac will be allotted to a party or independent candidates. National parties should be given a 3-digit party number along with their symbol. Top nine parties may be allotted any of these numbers (111,222,333,444,555,666,777,888,999) . For no option or for future use 000 could be saved.

CREDIT VOTING:-
 A token credit of Rs.1  through mobile banking/ internet banking/ATM  in one of the VGL accounts from SB a/c of voter having voter id attached to it will amount to casting vote and Voting will be registered against his/her voter id (credentials). Then an automatic reverse posting of Rs.1 from the corresponding VGL ac to the SB ac may be used to confirm the voting (optional)
  The number of credit/debit in a VGL ac allotted to a party will be the no of votes it garnered.
These transactions should be flagged “SECRET” and neither the bank officers nor the account holder will have right to enquire such transaction either through SB ac or VGL ac
On close of polling hour/period the VGLs accounts will get locked. i.e no further credit will be allowed. And on completion of election VGL Accounts will get deactivated. These VGL ac can be activated only by order of District Magistrate on direction of Election Commission.
By means of trust crediting or debit voting:-
It is similar to above. The difference is instead of asking to credit we will ask the voter to debit any of the chosen account belonging to his/her choiced party/candidate.
Benefits of EVTB
1.     Reduction of election related expenditure by huge margin.
2.     Well managed elections. Free, Faster, Fairer
3.     High voter turnout. It could result in 100 percent participation making the democracy strong and robust.
4.     Right to recall and No Choice option can be easily incorporated through this system.
5.     Elimination of violence and election related crime.
6.     Preferential system of voting could be introduced in future.

Note: this is original piece of writing,research and idea by the writer.
Amit kumar pandey (SBI-01650,KolKata, west bengal)
Res: Pakri ,Ara Bihar

Bless Us!!!!!

Taking full-opportunity of the leaves and bemused as always by the love, attention and admiration of the people closer in hearts than distances apart in spaces, I wish to wish blessings of Goddess showering upon all of us. I wish that Goddess (i.e the feminine characters and the virtues which are personified in Durga) comes all alive in those whom I love and to those who dwells in hearts for whom hearts is an organ of life and more for the spirit of life. I wish Goddess blesses every athletes of life with abundance of energy and vigour and at the same time self-restraint and sense of purpose. May the Goddess upon being pleased with the prayers emanating in noble hearts free from pollution of wishes of finding Gold-treasure at the door step, and ever growing Greed rooted in Self-welfare of the most selfish kind bestows the-Consumers-of-life a life fulfilling experience untouched by miseries of poverty of both kind-  absence of wealth and lack of satisfaction.

Thoughts!!

Marriage, family and a whole lot of things seems  sometimes as just a technical arrangement of a life. Life is beyond those technology but not bereft of it.

Empty or Full !

a glass that is empty
is empty,that's said;

but,a glass that is full
is empty i may say!

a glass that is full
is full,that's declared;
but,a glass that is empty
is full i may declare!


hence,a glass that holds
is what eyes behold;
but a glass that beholds
is to whom eyes are hold!

         ©-amit kumar pandey(09/09/2012)

TRIBUTE

We are mortal lives! and we know that. Though hard to believe and we hardly take our mortality as a truth and we fight and degrade the quality of lives of this "grand stage" of Kalidas and Shakespear we share. But a few man do born among the mushrooming population of humans and distinguish themselves to bring pride and purpose to the species of mankind and establish our brand "homo sapiens" (hahaha). Therefore, my tribute is to those great men and women of yesterday who fueled our imagination and dream when we were child. Today they have ripened of their age and are bidding goodbyes...

Here is my tribute to Rajesh Khanna. A self made man for himself and a celebrity for the less-mortals. To become celebrity is great social responsibility. It's important. Since all of men and women can't achieve spectacular success they need someone of their liking in whom they could see their dreams realized. After all we have all memorized that " if you want something with all your heart all the universe conspire to help you achieve that" though rarely do we follow. Most of us even fear to dream. So we choose a celebrity. They live  our dream for us.  Rajesh khanna went beyond stardom and defined "SUPER STARdom" . He created styles. And styles are important things. It allows expansion of yourself. In his domain he achieved unparalleled success.

My tribute to the Man who had courage to leave this world before he left it today for ever!!!! Neil Armstrong! You will live for ever in history and in the memories because nobody will like to delete you to deplete his GK...You symbolizes "giant achievement" of Mankind...as long as the moon-light falls on us.

I also pay my tribute and reverence to all who have listened to their calling and became celebrity because we definitely love to celebrate..

The human within is the FRIEND

With no family around and friends present only in the space of cyber world, you are left to yourself in distant geography.  New people are around. There is new culture to be familiarised with. There may be new syllables for your tongue to be twisted for and your ear to grasp new frequencies of the words of local dialects or language. There may be altogether different set-up.  You have to start afresh to make new relations, new companions to mark that portion of this journey of life. And this all you need because you need to be assisted in tackling the challenges thrown out by the changed environs and also because of our incapability to enjoy happiness selfishly alone. But before we tag acquaintances as our friend in our memory we must ask “what is a friend” (not “who is a friend”). The answer may be “The friend is the content that helps and makes the human we are” Hence, this friend is always with us and capable of adjusting to the on-going changes in the journey of itinerant. It is, therefore, imperative to the aspirants /seekers of high goals to enrich the content on daily basis. This enriched content will accelerate your energy and ambitions and throw you in higher orbit of performances and creations. A real transformation will be witnessed by your senses- from better to much better. You won’t need many companions in flesh if you have this friend wholly recognised and befriended. This is what  I believe …this is what that creates …and creation is the only story that begins…………….

"अभिव्यक्ति "

"अभिव्यक्ति "

मै अपनी अभिव्यक्ति को
पहचान बना कर पेश करू
या अपनी पहचान को
एक अदद् अभिव्यक्ति दूँ।:-(

समझ न पाता किस अोर चलूँ
लू के थपेडों में या शींत की लहरों में
पथरीली राहों पर या लहरों कि उफानों पर
फर्क क्या पड़ता है जब अंज़ाम एक हो
मरने का भय क्या जब इसमें संसय न हो।:-(

पहचान के लिए फिर भी इन्सान मरा जाता है
कुछ करने को वह अपना धर्म समझ जाता है
कुछ भी करना धर्म नहीँ धोखा है
थोपा गया राह ,राह नहीं फासीं का फन्दा है।।;-)

स्वच्छन्दता को मार कर इन्सान, इन्सान न रह जाता है
अब अौर वह मानवता का अौज़ार न रह जाता है
निरस अौर बेज़ान,फिर भी खुद को इन्सान कहता है
पतन को भी अपना उथान कहता है।।:-)

आजादी हीं ताकत इन्सान की
इस प्रवाह को ना रोको
सभ्यता को देती- गति अौर दिशा
इसे कुन्द करके ना रखों।।:-S

मुक्त करो स्वयं को हर बन्धन से
मर्जी कि पथ पर चलने दो
अपने अन्दर कि ऊर्जा को
युँ व्यर्थ ना बहने दो।।:-)

स्वच्छन्दता के पथ पर हीं ,आयाम खुलते है सारे
मर्जी के पथ पर ही ध्येय पाते हैं सारे
उत्साह,ऊर्जा,तन,बुध्दि, मन का उद्देश्य से मिलन होता है
अपने से अपने का सृजन होता है।।:-)

मानवता को नया राह मिलता है
जीवन को नया विश्वास मिलता है
सभ्यता पाता है नया सवेरा
अौर मिलता है मानस को नव प्रणेता।।:-)

अतएव, पहचान कि पाश मे ना पड़
अपने को अभिव्यक्त कर
सही अौर गलत फासले के पार जा
खुद में समा कर खुद को ढुंढला ।।:-):-)


-written and composed by amit kr pandey 10/03/2010

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amit kumar pandey