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Why   are   there   far   far   more   slums   in   India?


    Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Why are cheatings/frauds more in India compared to West
  3. How can citizens of India reduce frauds?
  4. Non-solutions


Introduction

The purpose of this article is to enumerate and discuss ONLY those factors
  1. which decrease frauds, are present in West, and absent in India
  2. which increase frauds, are present in India, and absent in West
The purpose of this article is NOT to enumerate factors that are present/absent in BOTH countries. Hence a large number of factors, such as moral values, greed etc will get dismissed as non-issues. Why? Becuase greed is present in US/West as well as India. And moral values are at same level in India as well as West.



Factors why frauds are higher in India

Trivial.
  1. The book-keeping system in India is so defunct, that committing frauds is easier.

  2. The courts, thanks to judge-lawyer nexuses, and prosecution/police is so defunct, that acquittal if easy.

Hence more frauds. In US/West, the record keeping system makes checking and cross-checking easy, and hence ability to commit frauds reduce. And due to Jury System, the lawyers cannot manage to obtain undue "benefit of doubt" for their clients, and hence acquitals are NOT so easy. So lesser frauds.

In addition, a large number of frauds, related to land/building etc happen in India, and NOT in West, becuase India DOES NOT have a title verification like Torrence System. Enacting Torrence System would reduce all these real estate related frauds.



How can citizens of India reduce frauds?

Trivial.

  1. Steps 1-3: The citizens should force MLAs, MPs and District Panchayat Members to create procedures that would enable citizens to pass laws in District Panchayats, Assemblies and Parliament. Please read LM.01 to see the procedure using which citizens can pass laws in District Panchayats and City Councils. Please read LM.02 to see the procedure using which citizens can pass laws in Assembly. And please read LM.03 to see the procedure using which citizens can pass laws in Parliament.

  2. Steps 4-8 : The citizens of India, using LM.01-03 can enact procedures CT.05-09. These procedures will create Jury System in Quasi-Courts, Lower Courts, High Courts and also the Supreme Courts, The Jurors DO NOT have nexuses with lawyers, criminals etc and so fraulents person will NOT be able to get acuqitals easily. This will reduce frauds.

  3. Steps 9-12 : The citizens of India, using LM.01-03 can enact procedures CT.10 , CT.11 , CT.13 and CT.15. These procedures will enable citizens to elect/expel Lower Court Judges, High Court Judges, Supreme Court Judges and Public Prosecutors. This reduce the impact of nexuses these individuals have with private lawyers and fradulents, and will thus reduce frauds.

  4. Steps 13-14 : The citizens of India, using LM.01 and LM.03 can enact procedures ID.01 and ID.02. These procedures will create ID systems that will make it easier for private parties, courts and police to trace the scamsters. This will further reduce frauds.

  5. Step 15 : The citizens of India, using LM.01 can enact procedure ID.04. This procedure will create Torrence System over Plots/Buildings. This system will drastically reduce fraids in real estate market.

These TRIVIAL steps will reduce slums. Please note that it is not a requirement that citizens must take all 20-30 steps, and ONLY then slums will reduce. The first three steps on their own do NOT reduce slums --- they only reduce the cost of taking next 20-30 steps. And each step reduces slums by a fraction, irrespective of other steps are taken or not. Togather, they will reduce the slums to near zero. Except steps1-3, there is no significant dependency.



Non solutions : steps even if taken, will NOT reduce frauds

Following are non-solutions i.e. steps even if taken by govt, will NOT reduce frauds
  1. Improving moral character of students/people : Its impossible to improve fradulent's moral character.

  2. Appointing various commissions : like consumer's forums, courts etc. Unless these forums are Jury based, the fradulents simply form nexuses with them, and there will no effective reduction in frauds.

  3. Raising awareness : Unless govt's record-keeping improve, and fradulents' are imprisoned, only awareness about frauds will increase and there will be no decrease in frauds.

There are simply too many non-solutions to re-butt. All these non-solutions have become popular becuase of nexuses of intellectuals with those who benefit.



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