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Sikhs have no future in India
(Op/Ed)
Friday 19th of September 2008
Dr. Amarjit Singh, Khalistan Affairs Center

 

They can only prosper in an independent, sovereign, vibrant Khalistan.

World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business 2009’ report ranks India, to it’s eternal shame, at 122nd out of 181 countries surveyed below Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh & Nepal

Washington D.C.  - India’s 122nd ranking in the latest World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business 2009” report, released last week, which has ranked 181 countries, ridicules Indian government propaganda slogans (like ‘INDIA Shining’ and ‘INDIA an Emerging Super Power’ and ‘INDIA’s Information Revolution’) which dezinformatsiya has been force-fed to over a billion hungry Indians, including 22 million Sikhs living in captivity in Indian occupied Punjab behind a SouthAsian electrified-barbed-wire ‘Berlin Wall’ on the Punjab/Pakistan border. After seeing India’s ranking a much quoted line from that famous play, ‘Hamlet’written by the great English poet and dramatist (1564-1616) William Shakespeare that, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” comes to mind about caste-ridden India’s phony booming business, bogus prosperity and its caste-ridden, dynastic, oligarchic ‘demoNcracy’.

The World Bank has ranked India 122nd (out of 181 countries surveyed world wide) in the latest 2009 World Bank report much below South Asian countries like Maldives at 69th, Pakistan at 77th, Sri Lanka at 102nd, Bangladesh at 110th, and Nepal at 121st. An India where, according to the UN’s 2006 Human Development Report, (link) Chapter 3) an increasing number of its billion plus inhabitants join the growing number of poor every day, 888 million (79. 9% of the population) of whom eke out a miserable living on less than US$.2 per day, while 375 million Indians (34.7% of that population) starve on less than US$. 1 a day.

The World Bank’s 2009 report has ranked economies on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 181, with first place being the best.Ahigh ranking on the ease of doing business index means the regulatory environment is conducive to the operation of business. This World Bank index averages the country’s percentile rankings on 10 topics, made up of a variety of indicators, giving equal weight to each topic. The rankings are from the Doing Business 2009 report, covering the period April 2007 to June 2008. The World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ indicators have been compared across 181 economies of the world. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity, and growth. Economies in this 2009 World Bank report are ranked on their Ease of Doing Business, from 1 – 181, with first place being the best. Rankings are based on time and costs involved in meeting government requirements
  vis-à-vis starting, operating and closing a business. A high ranking (like Singapore’s 1st) on the ease of doing business index means the regulatory environment is conducive to the operation of business. Low rankings like India’s 122nd and Congo’s (at 120th and 181st) indicate an unfriendly atmosphere and chaos for any investor local or foreign. This index averages the country’s percentile rankings on 10 topics, made up of a variety of indicators, giving equal weight to each topic. Among 181 countries surveyed world-wide this year by the latest WORLD BANK’s ‘Doing Business in 2009’ report Singapore is ranked 1st followed by New Zealand 2nd, the United States 3rd, Hong Kong (China) 4th, Denmark 5th, the United Kingdom 6th, Ireland 7th, Canada th, Australia 9th, Norway 10th, Iceland 11th, Japan 12th, Thailand 13th, Finland 14th, Georgia 15th, Saudi Arabia 16th, Sweden 17th, Bahrain 18th, Belgium 19th, Malaysia 20th, Switzerland 21st, Estonia 22nd, S. Korea 23rd, Mauritius 24th, Germany 25th, Maldives 69th, Pakistan 77th, Sri Lanka 102nd, Bangladesh 110th, Nepal 121st, INDIA 122nd, Bhutan 124th, Afghanistan 162nd and Congo Democratic Republic is last at 181st.

The World Bank index for the ‘Ease of Doing Business -2009’ report has been calculated on the basis of the ranking on the simple average of country percentile rankings on each of the 10 topics covered in ‘Ease of Doing Business in 2009’ report. The World Bank project prepared a set of templates or questionnaires for use by staff of the World Bank Group, or other agencies, in their work on business environment issues. The full set of ten topics was built over a period of years. Once published, each topic is updated annually. Ten topics currently available (Starting a Business, Dealing with Licenses, Hiring and Firing Workers, Registering Property, Getting Credit, Protecting Investors, Enforcing Contracts, Trading Across Borders, Paying Taxes, and Closing a Business) are benchmarked and 181 countries have been ranked in each. A comparative chart below of just the eight South Asian countries will give the readers an idea of the difficulties a business man & or investor has to face in doing business in India as compared to countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives, all of whom are ahead of INDIA in welcoming business and investment. Obviously the Nehru dynasty’s evil nexus with the Bania/ Brahmin caste mafia in INDIA does not want to loosen its grip to free the economy of that miserable misruled land the propaganda of booming economy not withstanding. A dekho at the comparative chart of rankings (shown below) of South Asian countries culled from World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business in 2009” report gives a lie to Indian propaganda and should be an eye opener for our readers:-

Comparative Chart of ‘Ease of Doing Business’  in South Asian countries culled from the World Bank’s 2009 report released on September 10, 2008

Ser. No.  Country  World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ 2009 rank  World Bank's ‘Ease of Doing Business’ 2008 – rank  World Bank's  ‘Ease of  Doing Business’ 2006 - rank  World Bank's ‘Ease of Doing Business’ 2004 - rank  World Bank's ‘Ease of Doing Business’ 2002 - rank

1.  Mauritius       24th  27th    
2.  Maldives        69th  60th    98th   31st    84th
3.  Pakistan        77th  76th   134th   60th   138th
4.  Sri Lanka      102nd  101st   93rd   75th    89th
5.  Bangladesh     110th  107th  137th   65th   145th
6.  Nepal  121st   111th  138th   55th  142nd
7.  INDIA  122nd   120th  135th  116th  124th
8.  Bhutan  124th  119th  126th  104th  140th
9.  Afghanistan    162nd  161st
   

The above comparative chart shows that India the ‘Sick man of South Asia’ remains sick. Instead of improving the business environment (Ease of Doing Business) in the period 2002 to 2009 India’s ‘standing march’ performance was worse than the other South Asian countries except Sri Lanka which is involved in a bloody civil war.  Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan improved their ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking substantially while India stood still and did a ‘standing march’ around the 122nd rank. An amusing article about the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business 2009’ reportIndia’s leading newspaper, Times of India, dated 13 September 2008, headlined ‘COUNTER VIEW: Don’t take the report seriously’, by Manika Gupta, is an excellent example of how India’s morally repugnant rulers ‘brain-wash’ the ‘unwashed’ Indian masses. ( Link ) A detailed study of the World Banks latest report, “Ease of Doing Business in 2009,” is therefore called for, by the world’s 26 million Sikhs - 23 million living in Indian captivity and three million living free and prosperous in the Sikh diaspora – to understand that there is no future for the entrepreneurial Sikhs in India. In caste-ridden India only unread effeminate High school dropouts like Signore Rahul Gandhi can prosper. (see Khalistan Calling dated 26 September 2007 headlined, “The Indian demoNcracy, to the eternal shame of a billion Indians, begins a new era of the corrupt Nehru/ Indira dynastic rule,” by clicking.

Above all, there is a special responsibility for the three million strong prosperous Sikh diaspora, living FREE in every nook and corner of the world, (to follow the lead of the ten million strong 1948 Jewish diaspora which created the state of Israel against all odds) to help create an independent, democratic Sikh Buffer state of KHALISTAN in South Asia, which will become a bridge of commerce and peace between South and Central Asia because of its geographic location. Water and food surplus KHALISTAN, boasting many light industries, and geographically stretching from the River Jumna in the East to the Pakistan border in the West, to Kashmir in the North and China on the North East will also separate the perennial warring nuclear-armed nations of Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India. KHALISTAN will also help bring prosperity to the billion and half hungry and angry denizens of the seven countries who inhabit the entire subcontinent in South Asia.


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