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EAS.09   ---   Equal   Allowance   System   over   Crude   Oil   and   Natural   Gas





DRAFT-1 (citizens need to pass this draft in the Parliament)

Transfer    of    Crude Oil    from    Union    to    the    States

  1. The Union Govt of India will declare all the crude oil and natural gas in a State, as the property of the citizen-residents of the State, after the State Assembly passes a resolution requesting the transfer of crude oil and natural gas.

  2. The resolution must be passed with DIRECT YESes from over 33% of voters of the State, not merely the YESes of MLAs.

  3. The State Govt may or may NOT purchase the oil/gas companies owned by the Union Govt working in the State's oil/gas fields. Upon purchase, the State Govt need not retain ALL the employees serving in that company.

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  DRAFT-2 (citizens need to pass this draft in the State Assembly)

Equal Allowace System over Crude Oil and Natural Gas

 
Equal Allowance System over Crude Oil and Natural Gas --- Section   1   :   Preamble
  Every citizen resident in the State has equal rights over royalty obtained by the crude oil and natural gas under the ground in that State's land, as crude oil and natural gas is given by the God, and it is NOT created by the labor of any humans in perticular. This Act is to create administrative procedures, using which, citizens can directly obtain royalty over crude oil and natural gas.

Section   2   : Format of the act
2.1 Many of the clauses of this law are procedures or instructions, which may be an order or a request. The clause has list of persons for whom that procedure/instruction is meant for.

Section   3   : Appointing senior officers and plotting of oil/gas fields
3.1 [Person responsible for this procedure : Minister of Petroleum, State Govt] Within 15 days after passing of this law, the Minister will appoint 1 Registrar, 1 Field Plotting Officer and 1 Crude Oil Gaurd for the State. In addition, the Minister will also appoint an Oil Exploration Officer.

3.2 [Person responsible for this procedure : Mine Plotting Officer] Within 30 days after appointment, the Mine Plotting Officer will publish the plot boundaries for the oil/gas fields in the State, and for each plot, he will decide the length of lease and the amount of oil/gas the mining company may mine every year from that plot.

3.3 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] The companies interested in mining the oil/gas from the plots will register their bids PUBLICLY before the Registrar. The bid will be in terms of fraction of oil/gas mined that the companies would give to the citizens. The company which bids the highest fraction will get the lease of the mining plot.


Section   4   : Procedures to allocate Oil and Gas Allowances
4.1 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive : Registrar ; ] The Registrar will issue a serial number to any person or company which wants to obtain the oil and gas from the fields.
4.2 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, Registrar’s Clerks ; Purpose: Allocation of citizen’s oil and gas allowance] (i) When the citizen gives his ID and oil and gas user's serial number, the clerk will allocate Oil and Gas Allowance of that citizen to that user. (ii)The clerk will provide a receipt to the citizen which will have citizen’s ID card number, user’s number, date and a serial number. (iii)The citizen can change the user any day.
4.3 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, Clerks; Purpose: Funding of Allocation] The clerk can charge a fee of upto Rs 5 from the citizen per allocation
4.4 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar] Every month the Registrar will issue the list of oil/gas users and list of citizens who have given allowances to them.

Section   5   : Procedures to allocate oil and gas
5.1 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Oil Gaurd ; Purpose : to ensure that oil/gas is allocated as per the allowances held by the users] At oil/gas fields, the Oil Gaurd will ensure that oil/gas drilling company is distributing oil/gas to the users in the proportion of allowances they have obtained from citizens. (*)


Section   5A   : Procedures for providing pensions to Elders

Same as section 5A of EAS.01.
(please click here to see the entire section. )

Section   5B   : Procedures to reduce population growth

same as section 5B of EAS.01
(please click here to see the entire section. )

Section   6   : Procedures to replace Crude Oil Guard, Registrar, Plotting Officer and Oil/Gas Drilling Company
6.1 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] Any citizen of India who wants citizens’ Approval for the position of Oil Guard in a zone can register himself with the Registrar of that zone. The Registrar will charge a registration fee of Rs 1000 and a monthly fee Rs 100 per month. There will be no fee after over 5% of ALL citizens have approved the candidate.
6.2 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar, Registrar’s clerks] A citizen residing in a zone can present his ID and specify the serial numbers of (at most 5) candidates he Approves for the position of Oil/Gas Guard. The clerk will enter the requests in the systems and give the receipt to the citizen. The citizen may change his choices any day any month.
6.3 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] The clerk may charge a fee of upto Rs 5 from the citizen.
6.4 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] The citizen can withdraw his Approvals any day. There will be no fee from withdrawing the Approvals.
6.5 [Person responsible for this procedure : Minister of Petroleum] If any candidate is approved by highest number of citizen-voters and over 25% of ALL citizen-voters in that zone, the Minister will appoint him as new Crude Oil Guard within 2 days. If any candidate is approved by over 25% of ALL citizen-voters and his approval is 1% more than existing Guard, the Minister will appoint him as new Guard within 2 days. The Minister cannot remove the Guard, previously approved by citizens, unless Approval goes below 20% of ALL citizens.
6.6 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar ; Purpose:] Word "citizen" in the context of Approval, means citizen above 18 and registered voter resident in the city
6.7 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, CM ; Purpose: Replacement of Mine Plotting Officer] The Registrar and CM will also use procedures listed in 6.1 - 6.5 to enable citizens to replace Mine Plotting Officer.
6.8 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, CM ; Purpose: Replacement of Mine Plotting Officer] The Registrar and CM will also use procedures listed in 6.1 - 6.5 to enable citizens to replace Registrar.
6.9 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, CM ; Purpose: Replacement of Mine Plotting Officer] The Registrar and CM will also use procedures listed in 6.1 - 6.5 to enable citizens to replace the mining company on any of the plots.

Section   7   : Other Details
7.1 The rupee amount used in this text uses July-2000 price levels. The officers in-charge can adjust the amounts every six months using RBI’s Inflation Index.
7.2 If the officer does not execute a procedure or ignores an instruction stated in this Resolution/Act, a citizen can file a complaint before the Grand Jurors of the Districts in which the zone falls. Under this law, a citizen cannot complaint before any Minister, officers or judges.
7.3 The Jurors will judge this Act, guidelines, intentions as well as the facts related to the case


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 (*) ---- How can this be accomplished. I have NOT been able to fully draft the code necessary to do so. So for the time being, I propose that distribution scheme should be left to the discretion of the Crude Oil Guard. The citizens may expel him using RLPP or Jury Trial if he acts malaciously.