A political alternative needs a plan: budgets, rooftops and self-reliance
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the plan — 2 November 2024
you saw my numbers for pondy. any politician who promises they’re the alternate should come out and say why they’re the alternative candidate.
what exactly are they going to do to make this state rich? what are their plans? how exactly are they going to make the lifestyle of the people rich?
what are their plans to take that state’s population to $50k per capita in the next 15 years?
how are they going to make it truly federal union of state and shift the balance of power to the state (true to its constitutional union of state) by making it self sufficient? what are those goals? give us a 10 year plan to achieve that without impacting the poor.
i want that. otherwise, meh.
if you’re not saying all of that and just focusing on overlying policies - you’re merely competing against existing parties with the same thing they’re also running with.
you might be a great leader. but will you be able to form a great team with a fan club which is used to aggressive actor against actor attacks?
politics is different. news monopoly is different.
public perception is different. the team you form shouldn’t have loose tongues - which will be used to decimate your image in public.
the chances that they can even survive seasoned political parties it wing itself is low.
then the existing parties grassroot level infra is a machine.
i have zero reason to have bias since i am not a part of tn. i will take a popcorn and enjoy.
breakdown of pondicherry’s 2024-25 budget: all figures are in inr.
revenue:
- local resources: 6,914.66 crore.
- central assistance: 3,268.98 crore.
- borrowing (market, nabard, huidco): 2,066.36 crore.
expenditure:
- total expenditure: 12,700 crore.
- revenue expenditure: 10,969.89 crore.
- capital expenditure: 1,730.2 crore.
major expenditure categories:
- salaries: 2,574 crore.
- pensions: 1,388 crore.
- loan repayment/interest: 1,817 crore.
- power purchase: 2,509 crore.
- welfare schemes: 1,900 crore
few things which i did.
[a qualification: these are proposed budget changes, not spending changes implemented in government. the savings and growth targets need a costed model, including transition costs, before they can be treated as achievable outcomes.]
i decreased spending.
actually ended up increasing welfare schemes while reducing welfare spends that ended up providing both heavily nutritious veg and non veg breakfast and lunch for children in schools (at a baseline expanded welfare in every scope while expenditure dropped - more on how. there was too many wastage)
decreased reliance of pondy on tourism and increased it on increasing it/it’s and manufac industry
increased pondy’s own energy sustainability rather than buying power.
ran up numbers and let me show some graphs
(will release the entire thing later on how i did this)
see the solar energy revenue graph.
i am assuming pondy’s debt from outside markets to be at 5k crores. if it’s more it’ll take more than 10 years to bring it zero.
its self reliant in 5 years.
but you get the point.
the rooftops — 16 March 2026
do i hate most climate change sustainable solutions? yes. ive gone through the reasons beforehand
do i hate solar? no. do i hate how they claim the solar in that auroville kitchen works? yes, its inefficient, bad and retarded.
then how do we use solar in pondy? mandate 3-5kv solar installations on all rooftops in all existing residential buildings and more in commercial - partner with national banks to cover 100% apart from the subsidy and make sure it’s connected ongrid.
give approvals to newer buildings only if they have this. maintenance is easy to monitor. flag those houses which drop down below the required output. send people to investigate. easy.
instead of paying excessive electricity bill, you pay that as the emi.
now pondy has enough power. excess? sell to the govt, reverse checks and the govt can sell that excess power to tn or somewhere else.
pondy has an energy issue. summer is hitting now.
and so much more. i am scratching the surface.
the same question for tamil nadu — 20 April 2026
is tamil nadu’s debt really a threat?
no it isn’t. tn can quickly become self sufficient if they’ve the guts to do it. but the party to do that will only remain in power once. they’ll never get re-elected.
unpopular choices always tend to have that consequence.
but tn has enough leash to go for a long way with current policies before the state has any long term threat.
it becoming energy efficient by itself by implementing roof top solar panels on all homes mandatorily [i’ve talked about this before] will lift a huge burden.
what’s the plan?
whenever you talk about a political candidate alternative,
bring to me someone who knows what state their current state/country is and who is presenting a solid plan on how they’re going to turn that place up.
what’s the plan?
you don’t even have to get the solution. atleast quantifying the problems we have is the first step.
as soon as you identify the problem, and you’re showing enough agency and willingness to solve it, you’ll find brilliant minds willing to join hands with you to help form the solution.
that’s good governance.
everything else is a mask.