Thursday, December 22, 2011

how else to use 100,000 c r meant for subsiding non poor

Food subsidy Bill is a betrayal of self respecting, hardworking and creative people of india. Making 60 per cent of rural India and 50 per cent of urban india stand in the queue for 6kg grain per person per month shows how little state trust markets even where they work. People ability to work hard and earn their food is being compromised. Because state does not want to remove absolute poverty in most poor regions for ever, it wants to distribute food even to those who dont need, much less deserve this subsidy. what else could be done with 100,000 cr rupees? support creative and innovative people in informal sector for whom we just have Rs 8 cr p a; support participatory micro watershed and irrigation projects in dry regions. Any body who does not understand this must visit vidharbha and also suarashtra, gujarat and see teh difference. In maharashtra, farmers commits suicides but no effort to conserve water in situ, promote non chemical pest control methods and provide smal machineries to farmers. It is shame that government does not intend to promote innovations and technological change in rural and urban india and instead wants to offer a feast to rats!!! (both natural and human rats who wil pilfer much of these grains..). Government can not store what it already procures, it want to procure more, depress private procurement and thus fuel inflationary pressures. i am a great supporter of state intervention to remove poverty but not this way... certainly not,

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