Recently every news channel and newspaper are giving one big news about our great leaders. The news is UPA govt, which lead by Congress party is running a very good programme to save the money.

Rahul Gandhi travelled via train and saved Rs. 400.00. Sonia Gandhi travelled in Economy class and saved some thousands. Pranav Mukerji Sir travelled in economy class and saved again some thousands rupees.

I have done a calculation found that by all these activity they will save near to Rs.12 crore in a year if I am not wrong.

So dear friends salute them to save the money.

Now let me give you some other details. If you give news or any advertisement in any newspaper then it will cost you near to 2 lacks and in news channels some more. I have given the cost for one channel and one newspaper. Now if I calculate the cost of news which already been published for the good task is near to 10 crores.

The over and above that if you publish any add in news papers then might be people will believe or not but in this case they will surely believe. Now tell me dear friends how much money at the end of year the govt will save or how much Congress party.

The same policy has been implemented by Atal Behari Vajpayee ji but I do not think any single news printed or shown on any of news channel.

One former PM VP Singh also travelled in Economy class but nobody knows about that.

Recently Govt has purchased 5 new airplane for PM office and the cost is near 4500 crores.

Mamta Benerji is very honest leader she never ever tries to use her power unnecessary. she always try to travel in rail and with out any special treatment.

Jorge Fernandis is one more example of this category.

So dear friends I will not give you any conclusion on this. You think and do whatever you want. Because as per my view money is saving. But who’s I don’t know.

This Information I got from rediffnews.com.

Six humble but serious suggestions to begin with in a country where more than 720 million people live on Rs 20 a day.

1. It is time Rashtrapati Bhavan turns into a knowledge museum for children or a cultural activity centre for India's extraordinary talents. Let the President shift to an elegant and luxurious mansion with 7 to 8 bedrooms in New Delhi. That should be enough.

This British viceregal palace with some 100 rooms is downright vulgar in a people's democracy. The Head of State's move would be great symbolism that the 230 million Indians living below the poverty line can identify with, and a historic one.

2. The best way to identify with the poor is to punish by legal means the utterly illegal exploitation of public funds by the rich and resourceful. In the first week of August, Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam [ Images ] said the top 100 tax defaulters owe the exchequer a whopping Rs 1,410 billion.

The minister told Parliament in a written reply that this amount is more than three times the amount the government spends on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme annually to provide employment to Below Poverty Line families.

Politicians are most welcome to travel by train and fly economy class, but they will serve the country more effectively if all of them unite to fast-track the recovery proceedings against these tax defaulters.

3. The total Non Performing Assets of India's public sector banks is Rs 164.33 billion as of December 2007. Most of these NPAs are part of huge loans taken by industrialists and businessmen who avail of loans using political influence over managers and directors of the banks and then swindle the money.

It is an open secret that most times, if not always, these rich debtors of the nationalised banks are supported by or are closely linked to politicians.

4. In 2008 under the Right to Information Act activist Dev Ashish Bhattacharya unearthed from the Food Corporation of India in writing that more than 1.3 million tonnes of foodgrains had rotted while in storage over the past decade. The FCI is responsible for the procurement and distribution of foodgrains across the country.

Bhattacharya was told by the FCI that almost 50 per cent of the foodgrains was damaged in Punjab [ Images ], one of the leading states in agricultural production where no one has heard of floods or natural calamities.

If the food wastage is controlled, it can feed more than a million hungry bellies.

5. According to government statistics India's fertiliser subsidy for 2007-2008 was worth Rs 225.32 billion. This amount is estimated to be less then half of the requirement, claims a expert in Down to Earth magazine.

The Uttar Pradesh [ Images ] government has admitted in writing in a related court case in 2001-2002 that Rs 12 billion of subsidies were misused by scamsters known as 'khadh mafia'.

6. Actually, the list of corruption of various kinds is too well known and easy to get hold of. Instead of worrying about the mere Rs 200,000 expenditure on tiles and marbles in ministers's offices or homes, concerned citizens should visit this Comptroller and Auditor General's link: http://cag.gov.in/html/reports/commercial/2009_27PA/contents.htm

The CAG's mission is to audit the government's spending to 'improve the quality of governance'.

None of the political parties or political leaders take the CAG reports seriously. Their reports don't have any political weight. Their reports on selective public sector units is worth visiting to know how the political class cares a damn about the public's money.

Thanks
Alok Sharma