After much hue and cry by the BJP, the Finance Minster Pranab Mukherjee today tabled a paper in Parliament detailing the black money stashed abroad by Indians. The largest opposition party- BJP was nagging government over this issue and had accused the latter for prolonging the probe.
The white paper, tabled in Lok Sabha, did not reveal any names of the remitters but detailed methods of bringing money back to India. According to the paper, public procurement and non-profit organizations, the initial public offers, real estate and the jewellery and bullion markets are mainly the black-money generating sources.
Besides this, the Mukherjee’s paper also elaborated methods for curbing the generation of this money. Government will be soon asking Securities and Exchange Board of India P-note are not used for investing black money and bring the P-notes’ subscribers under ‘know your customer’ (KYC) norms.
According to Mukherjee, the government’s strategy of controlling the generation of black money has declined. As per government data, the black money in Swiss bank accounts has come down by Rs 14,078 crore between 2006 and 2010.
The tabling of the paper comes in the back drop of UPA-II completing three years governing the nation. With two years in hand, the government to celebrate this has decided to showcase its performance since it came into action through a “report card” which will be listing its achievements as the falling share markets, currency and never-ending list of scandals has tarnished its image.
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