Black Money:The dark cognate of money

Black Money: a money for which you have not paid tax, money of people stolen either from government or directly from us! Whenever we don't take a bill for our grocery purchase, or pay a bribe to some babu(clerk) or mamu (traffic police), or buy pirated CD, download pirated songs/movie/software, we are contributing to the realm of the black money.
Its kind of fascinating that as there is "matter and anti matter" , we have "money and Black money". Both were created at the "moment of creation" (of course their individual creation).
They coexist, with out interfering to each other. But there is one thing very different about this cognate of money with that of matter. Matter cannot be converted to Antimatter but money can!
Its like playing the role of its cognate twin.

I believe that e-money or plastic money is a good solution to this twin brother devil. Once, while getting my CNG car refulled, the man at the gas station gave a very fantastic pragmatic idea of dealing with balck money problem. That was "sare currency note badal ke naye chhaapo to sara kala dhan, jo bekar pada hai, ekdam khatam". The government should cancel all the old notes and issue a new currency. They should slowly replace the existing currency and support e-money and plastic money. This will reduce the value of all those crores of rupees of black money to a pile of scrap (raddi). And then , at least that heap of black money cant be used to fertilize the corrupt business practices and also the crime and terrorism. but as most of the black money is with the poerfull businessmen or Netas(politicians), this kind of change has to come with a very string political will to fight against black money!
Till than,dont pay bribe, dont buy pirated CDs, and use your debit/credit card instead of paying cash or take a billl (pakka bill..not just a rough paper).

Improvement of girl's education in rural areas

Woman development and empowerment is a key requirement for the growth of any society. And education is that can make that possible. But unfortunately, in rural areas of India, which comprises a very large part of India's population, due to poverty, children are not able to go to school. Woman and kids work in fields at very low wages. Mostly the work from woman and children comes free with the employed man labour. And in such scenario, even the daily school meal scheme is unable to attract poor kids to school. Over that the corruption level in the system which leaks most of fund to the corrupt officials makes it worse.

We all are aware of this problem. Talking about this on this forum won’t help at all. We should take some action. We all have some links to village, our neighbours, distant relatives and friends can coordinate in this. If each one of us supports one girl child, give her fees and basic monthly expense that her family will otherwise get by putting her in some child employment, it will really make a difference. And in long term, we can make a informal group of such girls who will themselves got o the families and will motivate and pursue the parents of girls to send them to school. An amount of 2000/- may not be large for we living in the cities, working on our laptops and spending 500 for a lunch. But that money is enough for a month’s expense to a family in a village. So we, if cumulatively support such group, things will really take shape. There are NGOs but they also have limitations and again no one works for free. So it will be better if we try implementing this at personal level, giving few hours a week to work towards this. At very minimum, we can at least support the poor families in our vicinity, be it the domestic help working at your home or a peon in your office. We don't need to go too far to find a poor family.