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IS INDIA A POOR COUNTRY?  One Must Read It……

 Revelation of Swiss bank accounts

 This is so shocking.......If black money deposits was an Olympics event.... India would have won a gold medal hands down. The second best Russia has 4 times lesser deposit. U.S. is not even there in the counting in top five! India has more money in Swiss banks than all the other countries combined!

 Recently, due to international pressure, the Swiss government agreed to disclose the names of the account holders only if the respective governments formally asked for it Indian government is not asking for the details.......no marks for guessing why?

 We need to start a movement to pressurise the government to do so! This is perhaps the only way, and a golden opportunity, to expose the high and mighty and weed out corruption!

 Please read on......and forward to all the honest Indians to.....like somebody is forwarding to you.......and build a ground-swell of support for action!

 Is India poor, who says? Ask the Swiss banks. With personal account deposit bank of $1,500 billion in foreign reserve which have been misappropriated, an amount 13 times larger than the country's foreign debt, one needs to rethink if India is a poor country?

 DISHONES INDUSTRIALISTS, scandalous politicians and corrupt IAS, IRS, IPS officers have deposited in foreign banks in their illegal personal accounts a sum of about $1500 billion, which have been misappropriated by them. This amount is about 13 times larger than the country's foreign debt. With this amount 45 crore poor people can get Rs 1,00,000 each. This huge amount has been appropriated from the people of India by exploiting and betraying them. Once this huge amount of black money and property comes back to India , the entire foreign debt can be repaid in 24 hours. After paying the entire foreign debt, we will have surplus amount, almost 12 times larger than the foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in earning interest, the amount of interest will be more than the annual budget of the Central government. So even if all the taxes are abolished, then also the Central government will be able to maintain the country very comfortably.

 Just read the following details and note how these dishonest industrialists, scandalous politicians, corrupt officers, cricketers, film actors, illegal sex trade and protected wildlife operators, to name just a few, sucked this country's wealth and prosperity. This may be the picture of deposits in Swiss banks only. What about other international banks?

 Black money in Swiss banks -- Swiss Banking Association report, 2006 details bank deposits in the territory of Switzerland by nationals of following countries:

 TOP FIVE

    INDIA $1,456 BILLION

  RUSSIA $470 BILLION

  U.K. $390 BILLION

  UKRAINE $100 BILLION

  CHINA $96 BILLION

 Now do the math's - India with $1,456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than rest of the world combined. Public loot since 1947:

 Can we bring back our money? It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind -- the loot of the Aam Aadmi (common man) since 1947, by his brethren occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians, bureaucrats and some businessmen.

 The list is almost all-encompassing. No wonder, everyone in India loots with impunity and without any fear. What is even more depressing in that this ill-gotten wealth of ours has been stashed away abroad into secret bank accounts located in some of the world's best known tax havens. And to tha extent the Indian economy has been stripped of its wealth. Ordinary Indians may not be exactly aware of how such secret accounts operate and what are the rules and regulations that go on to govern such tax havens. However, one may well be aware of 'Swiss bank accounts,' the shorthand for murky dealings, secrecy and of course pilferage from developing countries into rich developed ones.

 In fact, some finance experts and economists believe tax havens to be a conspiracy of the western world against the poor countries. By allowing the proliferation of tax havens in the twentieth century, the western world explicitly encourages the movement of scarce capital from the developing countries to the rich. In March 2005, the Tax Justice Network (TJN) published a research finding demonstrating that $11.5 trillion of personal wealth was held offshore by rich individuals across the globe. 

The findings estimated that a large proportion of this wealth was managed from some 70 tax havens. Further, augmenting these studies of TJN, Raymond Baker -- in his widely celebrated book titled 'Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free Market System' -- estimates that at least $5 trillion have been shifted out of poorer countries to the West since the mid-1970.

 It is further estimated by experts that one per cent of the world's population holds more than 57 per cent of total global wealth, routing it invariably through these tax havens. How much of this is from India is anybody's guess.

 What is to be noted here is that most of the wealth of Indians parked in these tax havens is illegitimate money acquired through corrupt means. Naturally, the secrec associated with the bank accounts in such places is central to the issue, not their low tax rates as the term 'tax havens' suggests. Remember Bofors and how India could not trace the ultimate beneficiary of those transactions because of the secrecy associated with these bank accounts?

 IS THERE ANYONE WHO CAN SAVE INDIA ?

 

 Top Comment : VINEET CHOPRA CHOPRA   | 01 23 2009 09:10:58 +0000
Despite all the facts that you have mentioned,i'm still not convinced that INDIA is a poor country because you steal only from a place that has a potential or that is worthwhile and cases like these have also occurred in the past like telgi scam and posed a sever threat to ondia's emerging economy but still india has been undeterred by all these things and emerged more strongly from these crisis...............Nor u nor me alone can save INDIA alone,it's the contribution from each and every responsible INDIAN that matters.
 
4 comments on "IS INDIA A POOR COUNTRY"
  Commented by  vishal goel, Founder, Vismodeep    | 08 10 2009 18:26:01 +0000
Hello, I always argued with my friends saying India is the richest country in the world, as WE Indians never pay our tax properly never disclose proper a/c, and as u mentioned 'corruption', India stands on 70th position in terms of corruption all over the world still it has contributed so much to the swiss bank... 
i appreciate your work and i am not favoring you just by adding a one more comment to this but by taking a initiative to this by sending scrabe around my profile friends and also adding under my articles you may check it on this link http://article-of-thoughts.blogspot.com 
I look forward for people like you who raise their voice...
  Commented by  Sharath Kotian, Development Officer, Life Insurance Corporation Of India    | 06 13 2009 16:38:09 +0000
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Mr Sachin Saxena, I appreciate you for the article posted by you.  Its fantastic.  The facts and figures given by you are really appreciable.
However, all is not lost.  Let us start a think tank to bring back this money which could really make our country solid.
The big question here is HOW?
Well, in my opinion, we can bring back this money, all of them, to India.
You will remember that one of our Finance Minister had floated the scheme of Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme (VDIS) for the wealthy in India to disclose their incomes.  The scheme might not have been successful completely, but you will agree that a lot of income came out in the open.
Why cant we start a fresh think tank to bring back these billions stashed out in Swiss banks.  We have intelligent people with us.  Allow these people to bring back this money and allow them to convert the money in white money in exchange of a small charge and voluntary donation by them towards education/defence/HIV research/IT/...or any such cause which could bring our country more closer to the "developed country' status.
This could give a huge boost to the economy.  The money thus brought in would land in our banks/stock markets/mutual funds/corporate finance/housing development/etc.
The income tax collections for the country will increase from the next year, since this fund will gain interest in the banks/mutual funds or other financial institutions where they will land.
The money which has now been turned into white, will make way to fresh investments in the industial sectors.  Unemployment will be reduced.
There are many such things which comes to our mind which can be done once we get the money which is presently lying in the Swiss banks gathering dust.
Let us stop being jealous and stop hating the guys who have stashed their monies abroad and start thinking constructively.
Sachin, There is plenty of hope for this country.  People like you and me should start thinking positively.  This positivity will one day gather momentum and we all will see the light of the day.
Jai Hind.
  Commented by  Bellala Gopinatha Rao, Project Manager Promax Management Consultants    | 04 13 2009 06:13:19 +0000
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Yes!!!
Actually, the 'ONE -ness' should come from the heart, then only you can see some result. 
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Despite all the facts that you have mentioned,i'm still not convinced that INDIA is a poor country because you steal only from a place that has a potential or that is worthwhile and cases like these have also occurred in the past like telgi scam and posed a sever threat to ondia's emerging economy but still india has been undeterred by all these things and emerged more strongly from these crisis...............Nor u nor me alone can save INDIA alone,it's the contribution from each and every responsible INDIAN that matters.
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