Hello friends, today i was reading a national business magazine and came across a term 'octroi' which was at least new for me. So i decided to pen down and share my thoughts.
Octroi is a medieval age law introduced in the Roman Ages by which a merchant entering into a city or municipality for the purpose of selling goods has to pay the local bodies like municipality corporation certain taxes.
This law is currently applicable only in Ethiopia and the state of Maharashtra.
Our country expects to grow fast, develop all kinds of businesses, achieve a meritorious corporate level, but is our government providing them with the basic fundamental rights to perform any kind of trade? We often expect our sportsmen to excel at world sports, but do we ever care about the conditions in which they practice?
What iam trying to say, yes we should try to excel in every field but to realize the full potential of our people whether be in sports, businesses, education, we need to provide them with certain basic fundamental rights.
These archaic laws such as 'octroi' represent the obsolete thinking of our system
and makes us ponder upon the need for changes to be made if we want to realize the full potential of this country to roar and sprint like a tiger and not always be content with the pace of an elephant,
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hi arpit ,octroi was a new term for me and so your blog is very informative,u are absolutely right that if we want our nation and people to progress and prosper in life than we need to remove unnecessary blockages. but at the same time there must be certain regulations which should be implemented in such a way that not only it promotes growth and create new opportunities and avenues for people but also save interests of common man or weaker section of society.
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