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As India is ravaged by Covid-19, the only way to defeat the virus is to vaccinate as many Indians in the shortest possible time. Can the government do it?

Thanks so much, Praveen for the insightful and candid discussion. It was ratable to a lot of young people who are interested in having an informed discussion. We had a few party workers join as well 🙂

I have a request – here is the link to the discussion. Can you repost it from your page? Will help us increase the reach. Thank you again and hope to talk to you very soon.

Very few Indians pay income taxes. So, millions of them evade taxes and hide their incomes is the popular notion. But this is a big myth. India has very few taxpayers not because millions of them are hiding their incomes and evading taxes. It is because India’s income tax structure is designed in a way that allows only for a small percentage of people to pay income tax.
Read Praveen Chakravarty's #BQOpinion: https://bit.ly/3kZfF0C

"Charon taraf nirasha hai, but, stock market mein zyada hi josh hai." Praveen Chakravarty analyses the stock market rally in June.
Read his #BQOpinion column here: https://bit.ly/309jF5K

Is the rally fueled by investment or speculation? Praveen Chakravarty mines through months of market data to find out. #BQOpinion
Read: https://bit.ly/309jF5K

The Economic Survey was presented recently by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, who said that he learnt 10 new things while preparing this survey. Praveen Chakravarty learnt 10 new things too in reading the survey.
Read more: https://goo.gl/U5ewzb

Cash in people’s hands would have helped restart the larger economy.
On the morning of 20 September 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a huge cut in corporate tax rates. In a normal situation, such changes are only announced during the budget. Besides, the finance minister presented the budget just a few months back on 5 July 2019. So why the sudden announcement?

Big businesses saved Rs 1,45,000 crores with this slash in taxes. These industry behemoths did not pass on the benefit. They did not set up factories or new jobs, they did not increase salaries of the employees, neither did they reduce the price of the goods for the consumers. Hundreds of big businesses were benefited and decided to keep the money for themselves.

Four months after the announcement of tax reductions, coronavirus gripped the world. In March, PM Modi ordered a sudden total lockdown in the entire nation to contain the spread of coronavirus.
But while daily life came to a standstill with the lockdown, COVID cases continued to climb. Today, millions of people are without a job and no income. Around 6 crore small business have been shut.

Lockdown 3.0 will end soon but the questions of people are endless. Will the PM address the nation to explain what happens after May 17th? Or will he silently issue another order?