What is your feeling when you get a portable TV as a gift.

This is only for my state. My state is known as "TAMIL NADU", meaning the land of Tamils. (Tamil is the name of our language).You got a good point, regarding taxes. Of course you should know, that none of the governments througout the world never reduces taxes. The taxes only go up, they never come down. Regarding water, the government is doing its level best, but you know India is a large country, and our state is quite a big state, and it is bigger than some of the states of Europe. One more thing you have to remember is we have been independent only for the last 62 years, and before that we were under British rule.

During the British rule, even though they did some good things to us, most of our wealth were sent to England, and most of our treasures, like the Kohinoor Diamond are in the show cases of English museums. Why I mentioned about British rule was, India was partitoned and left as a poor country. Then our rulers went in for a socialist model of government, and the people did not even have any entertainment. Only now, India is becoming a developing country, and our state government thought the long suffering people should have some basic entertainment. Originally, the TV was supposed to be given to people who did not posses any TV. Later on to make people like me happy, and hope I would vote for them in the next election, they have started giving it to many others. You might say it is a waste of money, but at least this government had kept its promise, which it made before the election. They promised a TV, and they have given it. They promised a gas stove for people who did not have one, and they gave it.(I did not get it, since we already have a gas cylinder).They promised rice at 4cents a kilo and they gave that also. Once again I was not a beneficiary, because it is for people below the poverty line.

I know about British rule there but fail to see what that has to do with money being wasted on free televisions. I presume its some kind of bribe then to influnence you to vote a certain way but never believe you are getting a free tv.

Thanks for the response lidiam84. The thing is the government is giving some thing to us instead of taking everything for them. Regarding education, my government is taking a lot of pains, so that the children will come to school and study. One of the benefits is the poor children are given mid day meals free in the government and the corporation schools. The thought being that atleast for the meals the poor parents will be forced to send their children to school. Our government has also banned child labour, so that the parents do not send their children for work.

forgot to say this... but congratulations on the TV anyways! your lucky among them all to get them! :p

waw, that sounds like a very good plan... and I mean especially the part where they give meals at school... that is well planned!

It is quite nice on the part of the government to give coupons for a Digital Box for your TV. I hope our government also gives us a free Digital connection. Yes I already have a TV, and in fact I recently changed my old 29 inch CRT to a 42inch LCD.Now I have a cute 14 inch color TV which I can keep in my bedroom.

Well I suppose you could say it's nice though here in the USA we recently we're in a manner of speaking forced to go to digital or else we'd have no t.v. A friend of our who lives out in the woods can not get many channels on the digital box so it's a waste that he got said box... I am glad you've gotten a new t.v. and as you've put "cute" so you can watch television in your bedroom as well!

Well as I mentioned it is the power of Democracy. If you want to get elected, the next time, it is better you give the things you promised.

I already have a TV, I cannot sell this TV, since it is illegal to sell the set which has been given by the government. This is response to you answer which you have given in this discussion, regarding tile layers, I did not mean any thing wrong, what I wanted to say was, we are not able to get people to lay the tiles, since, because of industialization of my state, most of them have got work in the factories, and we have to import workers to lay down tiles, from other states.

I see!Well, keep it apart just in case your old one gets damaged. :). And if old one gets damaged, find some tv repairer to sell the parts to.

Thanks for the response.

you are welcome!

Yes, since this is a first. I will take care of this precious gift.

This is the real power of democracy. They promised to give a TV during their last election campign. Now that they have come to power, they have started to give all the things which they have promised during the election. Thanks for the response.

I hope you will also get your TV as early as possible. I have heard that they want to finish the distribution before the end of 2010.

It is illegal to sell or gift this TV, since this was given by the government.

Thousands of people in my state have been given the free TV. They have been distributing it for the last two years. I have got it a little bit late.

One of the few people in the world for who TV is not giving entertainment or happiness.

My government has been on a giving spree. They have given gas stoves with connections to some poor people, and have also given cycles to school children. The way things are going, during the next election some political partys might start promising Lap tops, and motor cycles to the electorate.

Yes, I am thinking of keeping it in my bedroom, since this is the first gift, I have got from my government.

Since this is a gift from the government, it is illegal to gift or sell this TV to anybody.

I cannot give it to anybody, because it has been put in the TV, that it is a gift from the government. Furthermore it is illegal to sell or gift this TV to others.

It is the power of the people. My government has not only given a TV, it has also given gas stoves to poor people as well as cycles to all the students of government schools. Hopefully, next time they might give us a lap top.