Use eco-friendly paper

If you don't know the fact that mostly papers are made from woods, please learn it atleast now. Predominatly papers are made from woods. Papers made from wood are produced after cutting down huge amount of trees. Nowadays synthetic papers also being used. It is also possible to make paper from many waste products in the world like vegetable waste, fruits waste, grass etc. Though these technologies are invented very long years ago, they are not in practice because of the popularity of wood made papers. These technologies are picking up well after proper education amoung our people. Indian Govertment is doing a good job through KVIC (Khadi and Village Industries commission) by promoting handmade and recycled paper manufactures in small scale.

I met a KVIC beneficiary yesterday. His name is Sundar. He is a young chap left his Charted Accountant courses and career after learnt about handmade paper industry and its benefits to society. He has approached KVIC, got loan and subsidary on capital amount and started his own venture. He is doing excellent service (business) by giving employment to many rural workers. They are bringing up many innovations as products. I am surprised to see photo-frames, purse, pen-stand and many desktop items made out of handmade boards. The quality is very rich.

I am happy to hear State Bank of India has sent a circular to all branches to use eco-friendly paper ten days ago. You too use eco-friendly paper and save trees.

nau - unusual business

I recently visited an excellent jazzy site nau.com. NAU refers to "welcome" in Maori tribe word (New Zealand). The site is colourful. They do apparel business differently. They make dresses with sustainable materials. They are challenging the existing paradigm of dressing and seems to do well. They are partnered with many society or environment oriented organization. They say that thay do unusual business. They share some percentage of their profits to non-profits.

Agricultural Exhibition at Madurai

There is an agricultural exhibition going on at Tamukam grounds, Madurai. I feel this is the first time this exhibition is hosted in Madurai with good advertisement. It is worth spending time there. One can get good amount of information on Agriculture, Poultry, Agriculture related technological advancements etc. Even If you are a doctor / engineer / pilot, you can find a role to play in these field. It is such an open area to play around.

Similar exhibitions shall be planned in metros. People shall get good awareness on agriculture and its related areas. It may trigger thoughts for many investors to invest in it. People can understand farmers problems and try to resolve with advanced technologies. It can bridge the gap between rural and urban.

Taxation - Rich to Poor?!

I have observed many young rich folks (ideally software Engineers), when they get their first job salary in five digit numbers, open their wings broadly and fly over luxury. They don’t even care about their savings or taxes for initial months. They may not worry till for first year unless they get bored about their luxury. I have also seen people who feel savings / tax reductions are complex subjects to understand and they don’t show interest on that. There are few exceptional cases, they may drop some portion to charity right from their first income. Some are so philosophical saying that, atleast it goes to the government only. Let Government do the best to the poor. They may optimize their ignorance with a philosophy!

Let us leave all above people for time being and take the last philosophical cases as it is interesting. These people should understand that their contribution is not going for the needy directly. It goes with lot of bureaucracy overheads. Some peanuts from our share go to infrastructural development or needy poor after paying salaries for all government employees. It is from your salary, Government employees are paid but still they will not respect youL. To do more evil to this, our taxation law is also another problem. The concept of tax is brought to collect from Rich and share it to poor. Whom do you think are more taxed? It is not big company owners whose turnover are in lakhs. It is these educated upper middle class (i.e. Software Engineers). Rich people with companies can spend to all their needs and pay tax to the rest whereas our employed middle class people have to pay tax for their income first and spend for the rest. I don’t know whether these philosophical people might have thought about all these scenarios before they postpone to save / tax savings through charity. If not, please think it over.

So, very small amount is going to poor from rich. Also with sales tax, service tax etc, poor is also forced to pay to Government as rich. So there is no difference in terms of rich and poor for Government. Oops….