HOW WOULD BE MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE PUBLIC CAUSE
MANOHAR MANOJ, EDITOR, ECONOMY INDIA,PRESIDENT-INDIAN YOUNG JOURNALISTS ORGANISATION
Ladies and gentlemen, I feel this is a very good initiative on the part of National Journalist welfare board Orissa branch, to organize seminar on the “Accountability of media for the common public” on the eve of national press day. I am also happy that you have invited me all the way from Delhi to deliver keynote address for this function. You have also invited many dignitaries and media person for their viewpoint and their perspective on this very topic.
Ladies and gentlemen, No doubt, Media day by day is becoming inseparable part of our whole system. We can not complete any task of nation building or making public opinion for any kind of social change without taking the help of media. But despite all this what I think, the existing Mass Media, it does not come under any solid category, What I mean to say, does mass media really work as fourth estate of democracy? Does mass media really act as a mission for the social change in the country? Is mass media erupting as an emerging industry of our national economy? To some extent you can say mass media is a mix of above all those thing, to sum up, this is an agent of publicity or opinion building to some bit, which can not be completely rated as a representative of any single big category of a democracy.
First of all I will talk about mass media as a fourth estate of democracy. It is very commonly said that media is fourth pillar of democracy. No democracy can survive without the existence of free press. It means media will work as fourth pillar along with legislature, executive and judiciary on the basis of separation of power comprised with mutual checks and balances which is one of the basic theories of democracy.
Media, as fourth estate of democracy—I would like to say this saying is just a prevalent and conventional conception; it does not have any legal or constitutional validity. Tell me, in which constitution, it is mentioned that mass media will work as an institution which will keep it parallel to the other 3 prescribed pillars of democracy.
In order to this, Let us talk about the biggest democratic constitution of world, the Indian constitution; our constitution does not mention at all that free press will be here which will work as fourth pillar in India. Only our index of fundamental rights under article 18, it is said we will have the freedom of expression for all citizens of country. Only this one line of fundamental right allows us to express any thing against any individuals or institutions. In the same way if anyone has money or capital, he can establish a media organization or a newspaper to say anything against anyone. Under this perception the institutional establishment of mass media organization has nothing to do with the constitutional requirement of the country.
Now we try to look into the status of media in the context of public requirement. The word mass media literally means the media for the masses. Do you think, in India, media is really attached with the all masses of the country; means are all citizens of the country networked with the mass media, whether it is newspaper, radio, TV or internet. Despite the rapid growth of mass media still only 20 percent of population read newspaper in the country. Less than 50 percent population view TV or listen radio, less than 10 percent population have access to internet.
Second question is that, have concern of all masses of the country been covered in mass media in an appropriate way? So far the size of media coverage is concerned, in India; media is still in the ambit of mouthpiece arena rather than medium for the masses. There is no adequate space for the common citizen other than politicians, film stars and cricketers and some newsmaker kind of things in our mass media. What I mean to say, India requires equality of expression rather than freedom of expression, equality of expression can only guarantee the democratic need of one billion people of the country. Unfortunately it did not happen in the country. In last 60 year, the journey of mass media has been full of many hotchpotches.
Now we come on the second perception, does mass media work as a mission in India?. We always expect mass media to work in a missionary manner and thus we want it to go all out against all kinds of exploitations occurring in the society, to oppose all kind of injustice, to oppose all kind of maladministration and bad governances, irregularities, backwardness, oppressions etc which are occurring in the society. In order to that media has to always work for the betterment, for the welfare of the masses. I think there are no problems for the media to play such kind of role rather media has been doing this job quite nicely in yesteryears. But the most important question is who will sustain the media? Who will be the caretakers of media? Who will hold the viability of mass media? Who will guarantee the smooth career of all media people who are working in innumerable small, medium and large media organizations of the country?
Mass media organization need the cost and return balances just like any other business organizations. Any mass media organization whether it is newspaper or radio station or TV channels or a news website or outdoor media, it needs investment on account of both fixed capital and variable cost so that it can be operated and sustained for the longer period of time. We all know that the selling of newspaper, viewing of TV channels, or subscribing of news website, what we pay for them, It hardly constitute a fraction of its total cost. Newspaper is the only industry in the world, which products are sold at below cost of production. Any manufacturing industry despite the presence of a tough competitive environment, always have a cost plus pricing of their product, but the newspaper industry is exception. Though even in some European countries, newspapers are sold free of cost. There is same case with the news channels, what they get out of pay channel subscription, it hardly constitute a fraction of their cost. So under this scenario how can we say mass media can work as an industry? We must know this fact; the majority of costs of a media organization come through advertisement. The advertisement, which is a kind of information which comes directly from the informers and it, is paid coverage items which may be contradictory to the editorial contents like news, analysis or investigation reports or footages, which are unpaid one.
Nowadays we hear a lot about Paid news. There is big uproar over it. I am not going to say this is bad or good. But there are many questions which have to be redefined before the general public. One must know that almost all mass media are being feeded news by PR companies and PR departments. These organization work for corporate, politician and political parties, work for government depts., NGO and social organizations, film world etc. these agencies take money out of these organization’s publicity budget. They give their news and publicity material to different Mass media under this very perception that they will carry these news under media’s social commitment. I don’t say that under this process, media people are not being pampered, they are being given party and gift etc. they are given priority while giving facilities on the part of publicity seeker organizations. But, now media masters have decided to take charges for those news coverage especially during elections time, which is being called paid news. It is to be clearly stated, we have plethora of news items, and they all want to get publicized. In this context media people and desk coordinator play their power and whims and fancies. In this circumstances, what we see many valid and remarkable news item are not getting covered.
We all know lots of blackmailing and bargaining are taking place while covering any news items. It is very difficult which are PR Kind of news and which one is socially and national important news. We have many people who are ready to expend their budget in order to getting publicity of individuals or product or organization. But we do not have news ethics; it is left either over tradition or over discretion of media people. It is unfortunate we have very few media people who regard their media profession in a missionary manner; they do not have proper judgment and appropriate observation regarding their news planning, news selection and its placement. For them media is also just like another job.
The biggest difficulty under this system is that one who does not have paying capacity; his genuine concern get ignored by the capitalist media. I think if we have genuine advertisement policy, at least on the part of government, these problems might have been averted. The main parameter of today’s advertisement is number of circulation and TRP. This is the root cause of the entire problem. In order to enhance circulation and TRP, media become poised to carry all sensational and spicy news to any extent. So what we see media are hugely after sex, violence and all kind of yellow journalism because they want to have more and more readership and viewership anyhow so that they can have more say over advertisement. The slab rates of advertisement are decided shier on the basis of these points. Govt. must give preference to those kind of content of journalism which can ensure the solemn objectives of media, to provide information, education, awareness, knowledge and all kind of empowerment which can raise voice against all kinds of odds in forms of injustice, exploitation, inequalities, human rights and backwardness etc. if good content being made one of the fundamental criteria for getting advt., many evils of mass media will automatically go away. But the problem is that intention of government is not good, they pamper only those media who somehow favors govt. The impartiality, neutrality, the objectivity of coverage items and wide public concern, these are the factor which our media house must follow and govt. should frame media policy on this line.
Coming on the advertisement front, we all know there is farce competition among different media set ups to garner more and more advertisement. It is decided by what, it is circulation numbers for the print medium, it is TRP for the TV channels, it is log in numbers for the news website etc. The TRP and circulation ratings are the factors which are always on the top of minds of all media organizations. The idealistic perception of news coverage, which is based on giving priority to welfare of the masses have gone to the backburner now and all those coverage have come in the forefront , which has a more revenue potential for a media organizations. In order to this, all those coverage which has the capacity to capture the psyche of readers or audiences, are always taken into account by the media organizations. So we have always high readership or viewer ship of nude photograph, crime and sex coverage and all the sensational kind of thing which has nothing to do with the lot of masses. This is as much true as political party, who opt those kind of issues in order to attract and collect the people which are very easy to use, like caste, community, language and region kinds of issues, these factors have been always proved to be very easy to galvanize the people . In the same way it is very easy for a mass media whether it is newspaper or TV channel or a cinema to sensationalize the public on sex, violence nudity and various non sense negative kinds of things because people have psyche to get in touch with this issue. It consequences all ethics of mass media gets buried and good media finds it in hobnobbing situation.
We have many examples when a media set up became popular overnight by covering sensational kind of things, a politician got popular after the deliverance of riotous speech. Under these circumstances it is very difficult to decide an ideal benchmark for a mass media organization. It can not fully adopt missionary approach, because it has to survive financially. It can not work as an industry, because there is a big gap between its cost and return. It can not work as fourth estate of democracy because it does not have constitutional validity. It can not adopt ethics, because it has to blindly go for high TRP in order to generate revenue. So ultimately a proper reconciliation between market and public interest is needed for the mass media. It is true, both are contradictory to each other, but the reality is that a proper equilibrium is always needed between them.
In the meantime what we see the black money, the hawala money is coming in a big way in Mass Media, It is not the debt capital from the commercial banks, which is coming in media, Because this black money holder knows it very well that he is not going to get a proper return over his black money’s investment, he only needs a armory out of this investment in media which could pass on his other business and other activities through the safe pass.
At last the plight of journalist especially the career of young journalist invites us for a very detail discussion. I think the class who goes all against all kind of exploitation prevailing in the society, himself a great exploited lot in many ways. Our government, the main regulator of our society, is stick with accreditation and press club only so far their intervention in mass media is concerned. Govt should go much beyond of it and must provide a numbers of majors for the complete welfare of all media people in the country.
Thank you
(This lecture was delivered by Manohar Manoj, Editor& publisher, Economy India, president, Bharitya Yuva Patrakar Sangthan on the eve of national press day function, organized at Bhubaneswar on 16-11-2011)
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Big gap exist between MSP & MRP
Manohar Manoj
In India the existence of food inflation is not due to hike in MSP rather due to higher MRP of all food items. There is huge gap between minimum and maximum price which ranges between 50 percent to 500 percent.
Minimum support price (MSP) for wheat, to be marketed in 2012-13, has been increased to Rs 1,285, an increase of 14.7 per cent (by Rs 165 a quintal) over last year’s MSP. “The MSP of barley has been fixed at Rs 980 per quintal, up 25.6 per cent (by Rs 200) from last year,”.
The MSP of gram has been fixed at Rs 2,800 per quintal, a 33.34 per cent hike (of Rs 700) over last year; while that for lentil (masur) has been fixed at Rs 2,800 a quintal, up 24.4 per cent (by Rs 550) over last year. The MSP for rapeseed/mustard is Rs 2,500 a quintal, up 35 per cent (by Rs 650); while that for safflower has been fixed at Rs 2,500 a quintal, up 38.8 per cent.
This increase was termed by English media as inflationary, the high going food inflation will be further aggravated by this decision, they say. They do not the know the actual position of Indian’s food market comprised of all cereals, pulses, oil seeds,vegetables& fruits. In India the existence of food inflation is not due to hike in MSP rather due to higher MRP of all food items. There is huge gap between minimum and maximum price which ranges between 50 percent to 500 percent. In fact in India the minimum support price does not include the costs whenver the maximum price consists of huge profit surplus. If we do not give a better and cost plus prices to the farmers, it will badly affect the supply chain of the food items which will ultimately check the inflationary pressure over the food market.
But in this circumstances, UPA is all set to present Food security act in the monsoon session of parliament. According to UPA Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi, mentor behind this bill, all BPL family members will get about 35 KG of food grains at the rate of Rs. 2 per KG wheat and Rs. 3 Per KG rice. According to her it will ensure food security to almost all poor people of the country. The makers of this policy are of the view that it will give a great edge to UPA just like MNREGA, a job guarantee scheme in rural area. They also think there would be no point other than food security act for them to face next Lok Sabha elections, because this government is seriously surrounded with the issue like corruption and price rise. And financially this act will cost around l, 00,000 crore to the nation's kitty.
The irony is that the present UPA government which is facing several charges related to the issues of corruption and food inflation, this food security act will further start a new vista of corruption and food inflation both, take it guaranteed. After initial opposition by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his expert team of economists ultimately this bill has been forcibly brought out only because it will likely to give a big political advantage to the UPA.
Because in most of state government the scheme of cheap food distribution scheme have brought victory to them, in the same line Central government is thinking. So on the most occasion, Mr. Sharad Pawar who gives generally nonsense statement, have now rightly opposed this food security bill. In stead he has pleaded for the direct transfer of food subsidy to the poor consumers.
Food security act will bring great imbalances over the economy in general and agronomy in particular. The government which is trying to wipe out all subsidies through allowing market forces to operate or transferring subsidies directly to the needy ones, is again erecting a big sand palace of subsidies. Our present public distribution system is already crippled with corruption which is consuming around 50 thousand crores of rupees. The whole food administration comprised of minimum support price, procurement of food grains and its storage in FCI go downs and it’s distribution through PDS are so faulty and subsidy consuming, the furthering of this system will make it a big den of corruption. The second point is that our consumers whether living in urban area or rural area, they want their consumption as per their choice, not by force. The demand and supply forces of whole food distribution will be completely misshaped. The double chain of food supply will bring great imbalances over the food market and post farm management.
The existing PDS system and FCI have already become subject to be scrapped, because it is doing nothing. First it is growing the burden of huge subsidy on the public treasury. Secondly it is not paying better remunerative price to the farmers, so they could get great incentive for better cultivation and can ensure consistent and regular supply of all food items over the longer period of time. Thirdly the existing system is promoting black-marketing because of double supply system. Fourthly it is killing the choice of consumers.
We should not forget still large chunk of subsidized food grains are being distributed through PDS and as mentioned above 50 thousands crore rupee being spent over that, now it is being given a greater ambit. If Mr. Pawar is saying this food subsidy should be given directly to the farmers in stead of distributing via red card or yellow card. There is nothing wrong it it. Govt. must enhance the purchasing power of poor people so that they can purchase it according to their own choice. Govt. can do only one thing that is to raise the wages of MNREGA worker, agriculture worker, the daily wage earner so that have enough purchasing power to spend as per their will. The fact is that despite the existence of PDS, poor do not want to waste their time on making different food cards and wait for food to come in PDS shop, in the meantime they prefer to purchase their food items in open market.
Second thing is that a PDS dealer gets a very meager amount for his commission;they pay supply inspector a fix amount of money also. despite this they do not want to loose PDS dealership, why? It clearly means they sell their food items in open market and thus corruption generates out of it. The third point which is very important, the poor food consumer are food producer also. We talk about interest of consumers, but we do not talk about interest of farmers. Why? If parallel supply system will continue, farmer's produce will become cheaper in market. We already are facing food inflation in the economy. It is happening because we do not have minimum and maximum price cap for all food items.
A million dollar question is ,despite huge food inflation, why are farmers not getting better remunerative price for their produce. During the harvesting season almost all agriculture produces are become completely underpriced. These are sold even lower than MSP, the rate which is decided by government to ensure to check the further fallibility of price at the harvesting season. MSP is always criticized that it does not cover real cost of the production. Despite of this, in many parts of country because of the absence of FCI network, farmers are compelled to sell their produce at very minimal rate. This is the fundamental reason why our farmers are not getting better incentive to produce more. If in a year any particular agriculture items becomes costly, farmers get motivated to grow more, but
next year govt. does not ensure a fix price of it, resultantly prices getting down and down and in the subsequent year farmers get disappointed.
On the whole the food security act will act as antidote for the farming community and the whole food supply system will get hampered because of duality of price. Ultimately this act will consume a huge amount of subsidy and thus the non plan expenditure will go up skyrocket tingly high. One should be clear in their mind that food subsidy is neither an agriculture subsidy nor a part of it, rather it fuse the open market benefit of agriculture. We should know this fact that our agriculture is going on minus subsidy term. It means our farmers are not getting even their actual cost of production.
We are not saying that PDS should be totally scrapped. It is relevant for the places where natural calamities take place. It is relevant in the tribal areas, hilly area, desert areas. Here it will definitely help in providing supply chain of food grain items. It can be utilized in the war zone area; it can be utilized for ensuring no starvation. It should be utilized for any kind of casualty for any family living in rural areas. And these areas can be given subsidy. But these areas would hardly constitute even 10 percent of existing food subsidy, so it will serve a huge amount of subsidy, which can be spent in raising the productivity and purchasing power of both farmers and rural laborers.
Thirdly it will smoothen the market forces and leave the choice over the consumers. It will resist huge amount of corruption. When sugar was decontrolled, we never faced scarcity of sugar. At present both producer and consumer are happy in respect of sugar. But now we are again entering in the controlled regime so far food grain is concerned. It will create lots of problem for producer and consumer as well as the government kitty. qqq
In India the existence of food inflation is not due to hike in MSP rather due to higher MRP of all food items. There is huge gap between minimum and maximum price which ranges between 50 percent to 500 percent.
Minimum support price (MSP) for wheat, to be marketed in 2012-13, has been increased to Rs 1,285, an increase of 14.7 per cent (by Rs 165 a quintal) over last year’s MSP. “The MSP of barley has been fixed at Rs 980 per quintal, up 25.6 per cent (by Rs 200) from last year,”.
The MSP of gram has been fixed at Rs 2,800 per quintal, a 33.34 per cent hike (of Rs 700) over last year; while that for lentil (masur) has been fixed at Rs 2,800 a quintal, up 24.4 per cent (by Rs 550) over last year. The MSP for rapeseed/mustard is Rs 2,500 a quintal, up 35 per cent (by Rs 650); while that for safflower has been fixed at Rs 2,500 a quintal, up 38.8 per cent.
This increase was termed by English media as inflationary, the high going food inflation will be further aggravated by this decision, they say. They do not the know the actual position of Indian’s food market comprised of all cereals, pulses, oil seeds,vegetables& fruits. In India the existence of food inflation is not due to hike in MSP rather due to higher MRP of all food items. There is huge gap between minimum and maximum price which ranges between 50 percent to 500 percent. In fact in India the minimum support price does not include the costs whenver the maximum price consists of huge profit surplus. If we do not give a better and cost plus prices to the farmers, it will badly affect the supply chain of the food items which will ultimately check the inflationary pressure over the food market.
But in this circumstances, UPA is all set to present Food security act in the monsoon session of parliament. According to UPA Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi, mentor behind this bill, all BPL family members will get about 35 KG of food grains at the rate of Rs. 2 per KG wheat and Rs. 3 Per KG rice. According to her it will ensure food security to almost all poor people of the country. The makers of this policy are of the view that it will give a great edge to UPA just like MNREGA, a job guarantee scheme in rural area. They also think there would be no point other than food security act for them to face next Lok Sabha elections, because this government is seriously surrounded with the issue like corruption and price rise. And financially this act will cost around l, 00,000 crore to the nation's kitty.
The irony is that the present UPA government which is facing several charges related to the issues of corruption and food inflation, this food security act will further start a new vista of corruption and food inflation both, take it guaranteed. After initial opposition by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his expert team of economists ultimately this bill has been forcibly brought out only because it will likely to give a big political advantage to the UPA.
Because in most of state government the scheme of cheap food distribution scheme have brought victory to them, in the same line Central government is thinking. So on the most occasion, Mr. Sharad Pawar who gives generally nonsense statement, have now rightly opposed this food security bill. In stead he has pleaded for the direct transfer of food subsidy to the poor consumers.
Food security act will bring great imbalances over the economy in general and agronomy in particular. The government which is trying to wipe out all subsidies through allowing market forces to operate or transferring subsidies directly to the needy ones, is again erecting a big sand palace of subsidies. Our present public distribution system is already crippled with corruption which is consuming around 50 thousand crores of rupees. The whole food administration comprised of minimum support price, procurement of food grains and its storage in FCI go downs and it’s distribution through PDS are so faulty and subsidy consuming, the furthering of this system will make it a big den of corruption. The second point is that our consumers whether living in urban area or rural area, they want their consumption as per their choice, not by force. The demand and supply forces of whole food distribution will be completely misshaped. The double chain of food supply will bring great imbalances over the food market and post farm management.
The existing PDS system and FCI have already become subject to be scrapped, because it is doing nothing. First it is growing the burden of huge subsidy on the public treasury. Secondly it is not paying better remunerative price to the farmers, so they could get great incentive for better cultivation and can ensure consistent and regular supply of all food items over the longer period of time. Thirdly the existing system is promoting black-marketing because of double supply system. Fourthly it is killing the choice of consumers.
We should not forget still large chunk of subsidized food grains are being distributed through PDS and as mentioned above 50 thousands crore rupee being spent over that, now it is being given a greater ambit. If Mr. Pawar is saying this food subsidy should be given directly to the farmers in stead of distributing via red card or yellow card. There is nothing wrong it it. Govt. must enhance the purchasing power of poor people so that they can purchase it according to their own choice. Govt. can do only one thing that is to raise the wages of MNREGA worker, agriculture worker, the daily wage earner so that have enough purchasing power to spend as per their will. The fact is that despite the existence of PDS, poor do not want to waste their time on making different food cards and wait for food to come in PDS shop, in the meantime they prefer to purchase their food items in open market.
Second thing is that a PDS dealer gets a very meager amount for his commission;they pay supply inspector a fix amount of money also. despite this they do not want to loose PDS dealership, why? It clearly means they sell their food items in open market and thus corruption generates out of it. The third point which is very important, the poor food consumer are food producer also. We talk about interest of consumers, but we do not talk about interest of farmers. Why? If parallel supply system will continue, farmer's produce will become cheaper in market. We already are facing food inflation in the economy. It is happening because we do not have minimum and maximum price cap for all food items.
A million dollar question is ,despite huge food inflation, why are farmers not getting better remunerative price for their produce. During the harvesting season almost all agriculture produces are become completely underpriced. These are sold even lower than MSP, the rate which is decided by government to ensure to check the further fallibility of price at the harvesting season. MSP is always criticized that it does not cover real cost of the production. Despite of this, in many parts of country because of the absence of FCI network, farmers are compelled to sell their produce at very minimal rate. This is the fundamental reason why our farmers are not getting better incentive to produce more. If in a year any particular agriculture items becomes costly, farmers get motivated to grow more, but
next year govt. does not ensure a fix price of it, resultantly prices getting down and down and in the subsequent year farmers get disappointed.
On the whole the food security act will act as antidote for the farming community and the whole food supply system will get hampered because of duality of price. Ultimately this act will consume a huge amount of subsidy and thus the non plan expenditure will go up skyrocket tingly high. One should be clear in their mind that food subsidy is neither an agriculture subsidy nor a part of it, rather it fuse the open market benefit of agriculture. We should know this fact that our agriculture is going on minus subsidy term. It means our farmers are not getting even their actual cost of production.
We are not saying that PDS should be totally scrapped. It is relevant for the places where natural calamities take place. It is relevant in the tribal areas, hilly area, desert areas. Here it will definitely help in providing supply chain of food grain items. It can be utilized in the war zone area; it can be utilized for ensuring no starvation. It should be utilized for any kind of casualty for any family living in rural areas. And these areas can be given subsidy. But these areas would hardly constitute even 10 percent of existing food subsidy, so it will serve a huge amount of subsidy, which can be spent in raising the productivity and purchasing power of both farmers and rural laborers.
Thirdly it will smoothen the market forces and leave the choice over the consumers. It will resist huge amount of corruption. When sugar was decontrolled, we never faced scarcity of sugar. At present both producer and consumer are happy in respect of sugar. But now we are again entering in the controlled regime so far food grain is concerned. It will create lots of problem for producer and consumer as well as the government kitty. qqq
Monday, August 8, 2011
रेसेर्वतिओं और सोसिअल injustice
Rajartha
Reservation, Is this for Social Injustice
By Manohar Manoj, Editor, Economy India
Reservation, which is termed as synonymous to the social justice in India has been one of the most debated political topic in last 65 years of post independence period. The political reservation given to the SC and ST for the legislative houses followed by job reservation in the government services, latter on percolated in the form of Mandal commission during 1970 decades. Reservation for SC and ST was provisioned just at the time of making of the Indian constitution. Though it was said that reservation will be valid for the next 10 yrs only. But at every 10 years it was extended through constitutional amendment.
It is notable here that this move of extension of SC ST reservation has never been opposed by any section of social groups or political parties in India. But mandal commission which was formed for the purpose of providing job reservation for the other backward casts of the society, brought lots of fur ore among the upper castes. It consequently country witnessed a very heated debate and agitation on all public forums whether reservation was justified or not. It was observed that a deep demarcation have got erupted between reservationist and anti reservationist in the country. Today, we have two opposing groups of pro reservationist and anti reservationist in the country. On the one side pro reservationist are of the view that thousand of caste who were suppressed for the thousands of years will get or getting an outlet through the policy of reservation. On the other side anti reservationist say the policy of reservation is actually against the basic principal of justice and equality in itself.
Let's try to see what the core truth of the both plea is. Both the line of plea contain half truth and half false. The first plea that thousands of castes have been suppressed for hundreds of years, it is very much factual and historically true, but reservation has really helped them, it is not true. On the other side, anti reservationists say that this policy is basically against the ideology of justice. It is true but if they say OBC SC ST Communities will be always remain inefficient in this system, only upper castes are efficient, it is totally wrong. Now we try to know as a nation and society as a whole what do we want? Do we want to achieve actual social justice for the 3/4th population of the country?.
Reservation, which is basically meant for social justice, has it really been instrumental in achieving the objective of social justice for the 80 percent population of the country. Is it really able to provide equality of opportunity to the all in the country or it is just proved as a political clout which benefits those who are indulged in the politics of backward castes? In actual terms this policy of reservation both political and administrative have been helpful in making some people MP, MLA, IAS and PCS out of some elite backwards through creating caste emotion and caste vote bank and the whole process of social justice ends up here only. This objective would be never being achieved through policy of reservation, neither in the past nor in the future.
What we see 70 crore backward population are at the same place where they were earlier. They are no where the ambit of benefit of reservation, even majority of them, did not fulfill the first step to find the benefit of reservation.
70 crore backward population are no where within the ambit of benefit of reservation, even majority of them, does not fulfill the first step to find the benefit of reservation. The thing which should have done for getting the objective of social justice in the country, that was not done at all in last 60 yrs? It was the creation of social infrastructure and major program of social empowerment for this major chunk of population.
This agenda was dimmed under the policy of reservation, the policy which was for the sake of immediate benefit of elite backwards, one who had better economic background and better access to the education and human development. 60 percent of OBC population and 90 percent of ST ST population is illiterate and ignorant and they are actually suffering from social injustice. This objective was never taken into account by the pro reservationist. Because reservation was cause for the elite OBC but non elite OBC were utilized in creating emotion of backwardism and doing so they were deprived from the empowerment process. So, what we see the majority of population have not got social justice in the country and their whole lot have been buried under the interest of elite backwards in terms of reservation.
Roughly 65 percent dalit population and 45 percent OBC population in India are illiterate. Among the OBC literate, if we count the percentage of high school, UG and PG and technically qualified people, it would be around not more than 10 percent of Dalit and OBC population. This is the population which is fighting with upper caste for getting the benefit of job reservation and admission in educational institutions but they represent themselves as if they are fighting for the all backwards. Until unless we have mega empowerment program of social and educational empowerment the present program of social justice is meaningless. Pro reservationist says the reservation quota of job and admission is not being fulfilled. But do they think why these quotas are not being fulfilled. This is shame for our whole system that 65 percent OBC population is not able to fulfill even 26 percent quota. At the same time 24 percent SC ST population is not able to fulfill 24 percent reservation. The reasons are obvious. According to the law of proportion, the eighty percent population of dalits and OBC must have say over the 80 percent of this system, it is not happening because for getting the reservation one should have to be educated, which is not heeded. Fundamental question is empowerment, not the reservation, because it act as crutch,
Actually, one who gets the benefit of policy of reservation, he can get it without reservation also, so our main agenda should huge investment in the social empowerment program for the rest of OBC and Dalit class. Reservationist say, proportion of different OBC SC ST castes in different government jobs are pathetic, every year govt. releases data of it, will it not be a better option, let government bring a full human development status of all weaker castes of the society, how many of them are literate, how many of them are under matric, matric pass, UG, PG, Technically qualified etc. how many of them are getting bank loans, how many of them got their land right, how much resources have been allocated for the upliftment of backward classes etc..
If datas related to this are pessimistic, every year it should be reviewed and analysed. There should be mass campaign for it. If the empowerment process is slow and suffering from lackluster, reservationists should organize a mass movement for it. This would not be a social justice; rather it would be a greater social justice which is earnestly required for the Indian society. Only this move will be able to include about one billion backwards in the mainstream of country.
It is irony that in our country every thing is solved in a patches or considered according to different vested groups, which is not in the greater interest of society and nation as whole, that is why we have ignored the question of agriculture at the cost of industry and rural development at the cost of urbanization.
The context of reservation has changed now. Previously politics was being applied behind every policy and program of development, now economics is being considered behind any development programs. That is why whenever we talk about development we talk about infrastructure. Because everybody knows this facts infrastructure is prerequisite for the development. Roads, railways, transport and communication, electricity, without it we can not bring development. If it is such then how can we ensure social justice and community development without creation of social infrastructure?
This is fact, upper caste are still dominating the whole system which is unjustified according to law of proportion but at the same time reservation for the OBC is also equally unjustified because it nurture few elite at the cost of masses. In this county the greater social justice would be only ensured when 80 percent share come under the hand of OBC. It is ensured only when social empowerment is guaranteed.
Today in this country politics of reservation is hot and has taken a separate root now. Previously backwards were treating upper caste as their class enemy. And now the elite OBC and SC ST have given opportunity to other non beneficiary caste. So among the dalits, mahadalits have emerged, among the OBC , extreme backwards and among the Muslims, pasmanda have emerged as their rival groups. Today Gurjars are fighting with Meena community in Rajsthan, because they think that almost whole ST reservation in India is galloped by single Meena community of Rajsthan. So this will have never ending story. And politicians are using this ploy in their vote bank interest Now politics is being done dalit vs. mahadalit, backwards vs. extreme backwards, Paasmanda vs. Upper caste Muslims etc.
There are many more points which should be discussed in the context of reservation. One should consider it whether the present creation of job sufficient enough to absorb 30 crore youth of this country. Our social status would be determined by government jobs only. How much this reservation would benefit the process of self employment in agriculture, trade and industry?
In India small industries did not rise till they get reservation. When reservation was removed they started to compete big industries rather they started to beat them on many front like export, employment generation and foreign exchange. This is reality that crutch of reservation will never help the cause of weaker class; they will have to give empowerment program at mass scale. And this would be real social justice and greater social justice for the billion of backwards.
Reservation, Is this for Social Injustice
By Manohar Manoj, Editor, Economy India
Reservation, which is termed as synonymous to the social justice in India has been one of the most debated political topic in last 65 years of post independence period. The political reservation given to the SC and ST for the legislative houses followed by job reservation in the government services, latter on percolated in the form of Mandal commission during 1970 decades. Reservation for SC and ST was provisioned just at the time of making of the Indian constitution. Though it was said that reservation will be valid for the next 10 yrs only. But at every 10 years it was extended through constitutional amendment.
It is notable here that this move of extension of SC ST reservation has never been opposed by any section of social groups or political parties in India. But mandal commission which was formed for the purpose of providing job reservation for the other backward casts of the society, brought lots of fur ore among the upper castes. It consequently country witnessed a very heated debate and agitation on all public forums whether reservation was justified or not. It was observed that a deep demarcation have got erupted between reservationist and anti reservationist in the country. Today, we have two opposing groups of pro reservationist and anti reservationist in the country. On the one side pro reservationist are of the view that thousand of caste who were suppressed for the thousands of years will get or getting an outlet through the policy of reservation. On the other side anti reservationist say the policy of reservation is actually against the basic principal of justice and equality in itself.
Let's try to see what the core truth of the both plea is. Both the line of plea contain half truth and half false. The first plea that thousands of castes have been suppressed for hundreds of years, it is very much factual and historically true, but reservation has really helped them, it is not true. On the other side, anti reservationists say that this policy is basically against the ideology of justice. It is true but if they say OBC SC ST Communities will be always remain inefficient in this system, only upper castes are efficient, it is totally wrong. Now we try to know as a nation and society as a whole what do we want? Do we want to achieve actual social justice for the 3/4th population of the country?.
Reservation, which is basically meant for social justice, has it really been instrumental in achieving the objective of social justice for the 80 percent population of the country. Is it really able to provide equality of opportunity to the all in the country or it is just proved as a political clout which benefits those who are indulged in the politics of backward castes? In actual terms this policy of reservation both political and administrative have been helpful in making some people MP, MLA, IAS and PCS out of some elite backwards through creating caste emotion and caste vote bank and the whole process of social justice ends up here only. This objective would be never being achieved through policy of reservation, neither in the past nor in the future.
What we see 70 crore backward population are at the same place where they were earlier. They are no where the ambit of benefit of reservation, even majority of them, did not fulfill the first step to find the benefit of reservation.
70 crore backward population are no where within the ambit of benefit of reservation, even majority of them, does not fulfill the first step to find the benefit of reservation. The thing which should have done for getting the objective of social justice in the country, that was not done at all in last 60 yrs? It was the creation of social infrastructure and major program of social empowerment for this major chunk of population.
This agenda was dimmed under the policy of reservation, the policy which was for the sake of immediate benefit of elite backwards, one who had better economic background and better access to the education and human development. 60 percent of OBC population and 90 percent of ST ST population is illiterate and ignorant and they are actually suffering from social injustice. This objective was never taken into account by the pro reservationist. Because reservation was cause for the elite OBC but non elite OBC were utilized in creating emotion of backwardism and doing so they were deprived from the empowerment process. So, what we see the majority of population have not got social justice in the country and their whole lot have been buried under the interest of elite backwards in terms of reservation.
Roughly 65 percent dalit population and 45 percent OBC population in India are illiterate. Among the OBC literate, if we count the percentage of high school, UG and PG and technically qualified people, it would be around not more than 10 percent of Dalit and OBC population. This is the population which is fighting with upper caste for getting the benefit of job reservation and admission in educational institutions but they represent themselves as if they are fighting for the all backwards. Until unless we have mega empowerment program of social and educational empowerment the present program of social justice is meaningless. Pro reservationist says the reservation quota of job and admission is not being fulfilled. But do they think why these quotas are not being fulfilled. This is shame for our whole system that 65 percent OBC population is not able to fulfill even 26 percent quota. At the same time 24 percent SC ST population is not able to fulfill 24 percent reservation. The reasons are obvious. According to the law of proportion, the eighty percent population of dalits and OBC must have say over the 80 percent of this system, it is not happening because for getting the reservation one should have to be educated, which is not heeded. Fundamental question is empowerment, not the reservation, because it act as crutch,
Actually, one who gets the benefit of policy of reservation, he can get it without reservation also, so our main agenda should huge investment in the social empowerment program for the rest of OBC and Dalit class. Reservationist say, proportion of different OBC SC ST castes in different government jobs are pathetic, every year govt. releases data of it, will it not be a better option, let government bring a full human development status of all weaker castes of the society, how many of them are literate, how many of them are under matric, matric pass, UG, PG, Technically qualified etc. how many of them are getting bank loans, how many of them got their land right, how much resources have been allocated for the upliftment of backward classes etc..
If datas related to this are pessimistic, every year it should be reviewed and analysed. There should be mass campaign for it. If the empowerment process is slow and suffering from lackluster, reservationists should organize a mass movement for it. This would not be a social justice; rather it would be a greater social justice which is earnestly required for the Indian society. Only this move will be able to include about one billion backwards in the mainstream of country.
It is irony that in our country every thing is solved in a patches or considered according to different vested groups, which is not in the greater interest of society and nation as whole, that is why we have ignored the question of agriculture at the cost of industry and rural development at the cost of urbanization.
The context of reservation has changed now. Previously politics was being applied behind every policy and program of development, now economics is being considered behind any development programs. That is why whenever we talk about development we talk about infrastructure. Because everybody knows this facts infrastructure is prerequisite for the development. Roads, railways, transport and communication, electricity, without it we can not bring development. If it is such then how can we ensure social justice and community development without creation of social infrastructure?
This is fact, upper caste are still dominating the whole system which is unjustified according to law of proportion but at the same time reservation for the OBC is also equally unjustified because it nurture few elite at the cost of masses. In this county the greater social justice would be only ensured when 80 percent share come under the hand of OBC. It is ensured only when social empowerment is guaranteed.
Today in this country politics of reservation is hot and has taken a separate root now. Previously backwards were treating upper caste as their class enemy. And now the elite OBC and SC ST have given opportunity to other non beneficiary caste. So among the dalits, mahadalits have emerged, among the OBC , extreme backwards and among the Muslims, pasmanda have emerged as their rival groups. Today Gurjars are fighting with Meena community in Rajsthan, because they think that almost whole ST reservation in India is galloped by single Meena community of Rajsthan. So this will have never ending story. And politicians are using this ploy in their vote bank interest Now politics is being done dalit vs. mahadalit, backwards vs. extreme backwards, Paasmanda vs. Upper caste Muslims etc.
There are many more points which should be discussed in the context of reservation. One should consider it whether the present creation of job sufficient enough to absorb 30 crore youth of this country. Our social status would be determined by government jobs only. How much this reservation would benefit the process of self employment in agriculture, trade and industry?
In India small industries did not rise till they get reservation. When reservation was removed they started to compete big industries rather they started to beat them on many front like export, employment generation and foreign exchange. This is reality that crutch of reservation will never help the cause of weaker class; they will have to give empowerment program at mass scale. And this would be real social justice and greater social justice for the billion of backwards.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Crowing on Corruption
Raj artha
Crowing On corruption
By Manohar Manoj
This is one of the most valuable moments in our nation’s life. Everywhere there is surrounding sound of anti corruption talk. Corruption, the crux of all problems, being faced by country, ultimately being debated in such a large scale. There is such a huge unanimity now on this issue among various section of society, which was just a rarity in the past. But in a way it seems what we are seeing, is not only a melodious sound of corruption, it is a deep crowing kind of sound also on corruption. Because on one side there are some groups who want to do either netagiri or they want to become messiah, through their symbolic movement against the PM, sitting in Delhi? The problem which has gripped millions of govt. offices and organizations of the whole country responsible for the plight of one billion population, can not be addressed with the symbolic agitation in the capital city of the country.
On the other side the ruling congress party is just trying to manage the whole thing in stage management manner in order to sustain its government. The present government is just following it direction as per the direction of political wind. The party which has almost ruled the 90 percent period in the post independence period has never been serous on the issue of corruption, which crippled the whole system and set-up of our polity, administration, economy and society. Why PM is saying now that I do not have magic stick to crush corruption. The question is why government was not considering the corruption as major issue in last 65 years. Why it did not give priority to this fundamental issue. Was congress party waiting some mass movement before initiating any major action against corruption?
Even during the commonwealth games preparation, when some irregularity and lapses in the work were raised, government did not take it very seriously. Because till that time it was considered this is part and parcel of India’s public life. There is rarely any instance of public construction work in India, where commission are not taken and given. But when media repeatedly covered the lapses and dillydallying in the CWG projects, then government became serious. Subsequently on 2 G Scam, media which was earlier silent, all of sudden became vociferous. In spite of that government was not ready to take action on tainted ministers and other officials. The conclusion is that the whole regime of congress party in general and this UPA govt. in particular, has never a vision to make country corruption free. They always wanted to maintain status quo. They don’t take any action unless some agitation, some media coverage or pressure of opposition party took place. So under these circumstances the statement of PM is meaningless.
Till upon there are two event which took place in capital city. First was hunger strike by Anna Hazare on the drafting of Jan Lokpal bill and second was Baba Ramdev hunger strike Ramlila Maidan on the issue of revealing of black money. Both agitations were managed by congress party in different way, which is not a solution at all of such a gigantic problem. Anna Hazare’s agitation has both plus and minus. It is taking Jan Lokpal bill, which looks very ideal in theory, but ultimately it is pleading for the formation a separate power center. We already have four pillar of democracy in the form of legislature, executive, judiciary and unofficially but in reality the press. It these four pillars with the help of check and balance policy of democratic governance, could not curb corruption in the country, what is the guarantee that fifth power center will make it possible. Secondly we have millions of matter related to day to day corruption, it is not possible for Lokpal to address all cases of corruption which is happening everyday both at micro level and macro level. Lokpal may have some inspirational affect on down the order set up of governance, but the basic necessity is how we change the culture of governance?. It can not be brought in with the help of any single way whether by institution of Lokpal or separate bench of Supreme Court on the matter of corruption. We need variety of measure which contains policy measure. Penalty and rewards, law and institutions, social set up, control and decontrol, effective utilization of market and regulatory authority, identification of some role model organization. Like that. It is question for both government and agitating organization on corruption. Have they full survey and status report over the issue of corruption prevailing at all three tier of governance viz. center, state and at local body. Have they full statistics on the malfunctioning and irregularities very block office to south block office. We have innumerable departments and its related offices. How these organizations function and corruption germinate here. What are the loopholes? Even organization like transparency international has no work on petty corruption in India. They bring data of corruption states wise and department wise.
The issue of corruption requires a complete redefinition of governance and style of its functioning which is not being taking into account by either parties. Still 99.99 percent public of our country do not know fully about their government, its institutional set up, its hierarchy, its schemes and programs, its style of functioning. Even journalists who go into the deep of the government organizations, they are not able to know about the full information about government, under these circumstances how can we say public are better governed.
Now we come on the agitation of Baba Ramdev. Baba is raising the issue of corruption in patriotic manner but his motives are hundred percent political, no one can deny this. Congress party first tried to manage him by giving extra ordinary respect to him, when he did not find it politically opportune to him, he continued hunger strike, the frustrated congress party just crushed his satyagraha. The whole conclusion is neither party is very serious about corruption. First we should have complete status report on corruption, and then we need a great national resolve to counter it. Because no single party is absolute culprit on this issue. This is interrelated matter. We have a system of penalizing all corrupt at one point of time and rewarding all honest at one point of time. Otherwise culture of corruption would remain in our system.
Let us start it from voting behavior. Do we not know public as a voter is also corrupt. This is the starting point of political corruption. Why honest people do not dare to fight elections and if he fights out, he is not able to win it. We have witnessed so many elections and the formation of several government s, but how many of them have been held and fought on the issue of corruption, perhaps none of them. 1974 JP movement was also fought on the issue of price-rise, unemployment and corruption, but ultimately 77 Elections was lost by Smt. Indira Gandhi because of imposition of emergency. 1989 election was fought on the issue of Bofors Kichback, but no one got absolute majority. The thing is that elections are fought between political parties basically on the basis of their organizational strength. The issue sprouted in the elections, can not only decide the result of election, it is the strength of political parties, which mainly matters. It is absolutely true that no one can cure this 64 year disease with the one stroke of ordinance. We know that there is no any single measure to curb corruption. A huge policy research, a gigantic criminal justice system, a vast monitoring system, a very authentic social and financial audit system and above all a national accountability bureau is needed. These all have to be executed in a long term manner. But it is also true that gesture of government is not very motivational so we can say that govt. is not very serious on the removal of corruption
Crowing On corruption
By Manohar Manoj
This is one of the most valuable moments in our nation’s life. Everywhere there is surrounding sound of anti corruption talk. Corruption, the crux of all problems, being faced by country, ultimately being debated in such a large scale. There is such a huge unanimity now on this issue among various section of society, which was just a rarity in the past. But in a way it seems what we are seeing, is not only a melodious sound of corruption, it is a deep crowing kind of sound also on corruption. Because on one side there are some groups who want to do either netagiri or they want to become messiah, through their symbolic movement against the PM, sitting in Delhi? The problem which has gripped millions of govt. offices and organizations of the whole country responsible for the plight of one billion population, can not be addressed with the symbolic agitation in the capital city of the country.
On the other side the ruling congress party is just trying to manage the whole thing in stage management manner in order to sustain its government. The present government is just following it direction as per the direction of political wind. The party which has almost ruled the 90 percent period in the post independence period has never been serous on the issue of corruption, which crippled the whole system and set-up of our polity, administration, economy and society. Why PM is saying now that I do not have magic stick to crush corruption. The question is why government was not considering the corruption as major issue in last 65 years. Why it did not give priority to this fundamental issue. Was congress party waiting some mass movement before initiating any major action against corruption?
Even during the commonwealth games preparation, when some irregularity and lapses in the work were raised, government did not take it very seriously. Because till that time it was considered this is part and parcel of India’s public life. There is rarely any instance of public construction work in India, where commission are not taken and given. But when media repeatedly covered the lapses and dillydallying in the CWG projects, then government became serious. Subsequently on 2 G Scam, media which was earlier silent, all of sudden became vociferous. In spite of that government was not ready to take action on tainted ministers and other officials. The conclusion is that the whole regime of congress party in general and this UPA govt. in particular, has never a vision to make country corruption free. They always wanted to maintain status quo. They don’t take any action unless some agitation, some media coverage or pressure of opposition party took place. So under these circumstances the statement of PM is meaningless.
Till upon there are two event which took place in capital city. First was hunger strike by Anna Hazare on the drafting of Jan Lokpal bill and second was Baba Ramdev hunger strike Ramlila Maidan on the issue of revealing of black money. Both agitations were managed by congress party in different way, which is not a solution at all of such a gigantic problem. Anna Hazare’s agitation has both plus and minus. It is taking Jan Lokpal bill, which looks very ideal in theory, but ultimately it is pleading for the formation a separate power center. We already have four pillar of democracy in the form of legislature, executive, judiciary and unofficially but in reality the press. It these four pillars with the help of check and balance policy of democratic governance, could not curb corruption in the country, what is the guarantee that fifth power center will make it possible. Secondly we have millions of matter related to day to day corruption, it is not possible for Lokpal to address all cases of corruption which is happening everyday both at micro level and macro level. Lokpal may have some inspirational affect on down the order set up of governance, but the basic necessity is how we change the culture of governance?. It can not be brought in with the help of any single way whether by institution of Lokpal or separate bench of Supreme Court on the matter of corruption. We need variety of measure which contains policy measure. Penalty and rewards, law and institutions, social set up, control and decontrol, effective utilization of market and regulatory authority, identification of some role model organization. Like that. It is question for both government and agitating organization on corruption. Have they full survey and status report over the issue of corruption prevailing at all three tier of governance viz. center, state and at local body. Have they full statistics on the malfunctioning and irregularities very block office to south block office. We have innumerable departments and its related offices. How these organizations function and corruption germinate here. What are the loopholes? Even organization like transparency international has no work on petty corruption in India. They bring data of corruption states wise and department wise.
The issue of corruption requires a complete redefinition of governance and style of its functioning which is not being taking into account by either parties. Still 99.99 percent public of our country do not know fully about their government, its institutional set up, its hierarchy, its schemes and programs, its style of functioning. Even journalists who go into the deep of the government organizations, they are not able to know about the full information about government, under these circumstances how can we say public are better governed.
Now we come on the agitation of Baba Ramdev. Baba is raising the issue of corruption in patriotic manner but his motives are hundred percent political, no one can deny this. Congress party first tried to manage him by giving extra ordinary respect to him, when he did not find it politically opportune to him, he continued hunger strike, the frustrated congress party just crushed his satyagraha. The whole conclusion is neither party is very serious about corruption. First we should have complete status report on corruption, and then we need a great national resolve to counter it. Because no single party is absolute culprit on this issue. This is interrelated matter. We have a system of penalizing all corrupt at one point of time and rewarding all honest at one point of time. Otherwise culture of corruption would remain in our system.
Let us start it from voting behavior. Do we not know public as a voter is also corrupt. This is the starting point of political corruption. Why honest people do not dare to fight elections and if he fights out, he is not able to win it. We have witnessed so many elections and the formation of several government s, but how many of them have been held and fought on the issue of corruption, perhaps none of them. 1974 JP movement was also fought on the issue of price-rise, unemployment and corruption, but ultimately 77 Elections was lost by Smt. Indira Gandhi because of imposition of emergency. 1989 election was fought on the issue of Bofors Kichback, but no one got absolute majority. The thing is that elections are fought between political parties basically on the basis of their organizational strength. The issue sprouted in the elections, can not only decide the result of election, it is the strength of political parties, which mainly matters. It is absolutely true that no one can cure this 64 year disease with the one stroke of ordinance. We know that there is no any single measure to curb corruption. A huge policy research, a gigantic criminal justice system, a vast monitoring system, a very authentic social and financial audit system and above all a national accountability bureau is needed. These all have to be executed in a long term manner. But it is also true that gesture of government is not very motivational so we can say that govt. is not very serious on the removal of corruption
Monday, March 28, 2011
Cash for Vote Scandal in Parliament
Cash for Vote Scandal in Parliament
Ultimately
Truth Revealed
The UPA-I govt. almost spend 2000 million rupees in managing the required numbers of members and protecting their govt. it was a well planned move of political corruption which was much more bigger than Jharkhand bribery scandal.
It was ten days long market where numbers of political worker, political brokers and even some political journo were wandering around Raisina hills and trying to manage and bargain those parliamentarians who were finding themselves some bit vulnerable because of delimitation of their Loksabha constituencies. They all were thinking if they manage even a single MP in favor of UPA, their political managers will give them 10 crores rupees, the amount which they will never earn in their whole life. Same way MPs were of the view, they can not get such hefty offer of 50 crores in their life. These MP get about 10 crores under MPLAD scheme in their 5 year terms, if they take 25 percent commission, they will earn maximum 2.5 crore in whole term. If a broker takes 10 crore, they will be getting 40 crore which can easily manage the expenses of more than 10 elections.
This was such a big show of political corruption in the country and the whole countrymen were just watching it. Where was the great watchdog of democracy, the media? One organization claimed that it can not remain observer of these things anymore, so we will sting it.
But ultimately what happened we all know, on 25th of July the money power almost seized the political power of this country. The whole sting operation was proved to be worthless. It seemed as if that media organization was working on deputation on behalf of Loksabha speaker, so it handed over the whole sting material to him. The question is, this was the same speaker who had ruled those 11 MPs who were trapped in the plot made by the cobra post dot com and despite the Supreme Court's order in their favor, this speaker had expelled all those MPs form Loksabha. On contrast to that this was the sting operation of real events, despite of this; only a committee was framed to look into these affairs. Now 3 years have passed away , that committee prooved futile. but ultimately wikileaks exposed that scandal.
Leakages of Wikileaks made a great help for who fights to the cause of public rights in the whole world. It exposed the reality hidden in the secrecy of the many governments of world. After US, it unfolded the coffin of vote for cash scam which occured in the Indian paliament in year 2008.
Very surprisingly at that time even no any political party took this issue on a serious note. Perhaps they think if they were in power, they may have also done this. Many expressed wavering of bundles of notes in the Loksabha have made their head down. The question is until the whole episode was behind the curtain then there was no any shame kind of thing, the moment it was revealed before the public through the TV channels, it made many people's head down. What is the meaning of it? I think all 3 MPs who showed the bundles of note in the parliament, in a way they served the nation a lot. At least people of India were able to know what happens in the corridor of Indian politics. Even a fraction of these things comes before public, people can made up their mind that MPs might have not shown these bundles if they have been paid 50 crores or more. In India everyday numbers of scandal are happening, but it does n't become scandal, because it does not have any proof so that it does not come under the scanner of either media or judiciary. Many things are not talked about because it does not have proof.
Now we come to that central point to all these things, the nuclear deal, in the 2 day long sitting of house, members expressed their chants in favor of this deal, some termed it blockade of our freedom, but in true sense both these issue have nothing to do with the concern of common public, the way thing were being managed, that became the main issue, that was the revealing of political corruption. At time ruling party thought that after a period of six months general election is due and main opposition party is not willing to form govt. Despite withdrawal of support by the left parties, on the one side it was the UPA who was ready to spent billions of rupees for protecting their govt., on the other side it was Ms. Mayavati who with the support of left parties also had opened her treasury to purchase the MPs to form the new govt at centre even for a period of six months time.
UPA could have easily protect their govt., but what it did ? It was her great defeat in her so called win because it was the greatest exhibition of political bribery in the country. Govt. survived technically but morally it displayed the worst kind of thing in the political history of India. It was the height of political corruption when one MP was given fifty crore,. knowing this fact that Jharkhand bribery scandal had already busted in this country when Narsimha Rao govt. was formed with the help of some purchased MPs.
If institution like CBI and CVC were not in the control of ruling party, these events would have been come to the forefront.Whenever one becomes prime minister of this country, he regards corruption as big blockade in the way of country's development, gives many ideal speeches on it, but in the course of time he also becomes integeral part of this system. Not only that later on, he becomes great advocates of this very system. Perhaps Man Mohan Singh is also one of this kind of Primeminister. Now he is saying his government did not bribe any MP which was already endorsed by the mandate which his party got in thereafter elections.
A great thanks to the wikileaks. Now, it is amply proved that politics in India has become a big business. It is legally allowed to spent 40 lakh in a Loksabha election, if you desire more, you can even spent 4 crore and then you can make 40 crore by misusing this position. On the other side it was also proved that formation of govt. is the biggest business in this country. That is why if the formation of a government require a billion rupee, many come to finance it, because these all money gets returned back in less than six months period, so The UPA government did it for the sake of protecting its govt. and on the other side Ms. Mayavati was also ready to spend billions of rupees for purchasing MPs in order to becoming Prime minister of this country for merely six months.
The conclusion is that the whole structure of system has knitted in such a way, where we are not in position to pinpoint anyone particularly for the corruption. But surely we have to start cleansing this corruption from some point. It requires great willpower. The same will power what we have been seeing in our polio eradication campaign, what we have witnessed in the implementation of our new economic policy, which enabled the economy to become more competitive and consumer friendly, the policy which brought the Indian telecom market to open in a big way and it was mobile which reached door to door of even rural areas of country. So far corruption is concerned, it is much bigger issue, and it has to start from some point.There is nothing better than the parliament, the prime center of the power for starting any crusade against corruption. But ironically what we saw how the parliamentarians were bought and sold during the vote of confidence. n
The UPA-I govt. almost spend 2000 million rupees in managing the required numbers of members and protecting their govt. it was a well planned move of political corruption which was much more bigger than Jharkhand bribery scandal.
It was ten days long market where numbers of political worker, political brokers and even some political journo were wandering around Raisina hills and trying to manage and bargain those parliamentarians who were finding themselves some bit vulnerable because of delimitation of their Loksabha constituencies. They all were thinking if they manage even a single MP in favor of UPA, their political managers will give them 10 crores rupees, the amount which they will never earn in their whole life. Same way MPs were of the view, they can not get such hefty offer of 50 crores in their life. These MP get about 10 crores under MPLAD scheme in their 5 year terms, if they take 25 percent commission, they will earn maximum 2.5 crore in whole term. If a broker takes 10 crore, they will be getting 40 crore which can easily manage the expenses of more than 10 elections.
This was such a big show of political corruption in the country and the whole countrymen were just watching it. Where was the great watchdog of democracy, the media? One organization claimed that it can not remain observer of these things anymore, so we will sting it.
But ultimately what happened we all know, on 25th of July the money power almost seized the political power of this country. The whole sting operation was proved to be worthless. It seemed as if that media organization was working on deputation on behalf of Loksabha speaker, so it handed over the whole sting material to him. The question is, this was the same speaker who had ruled those 11 MPs who were trapped in the plot made by the cobra post dot com and despite the Supreme Court's order in their favor, this speaker had expelled all those MPs form Loksabha. On contrast to that this was the sting operation of real events, despite of this; only a committee was framed to look into these affairs. Now 3 years have passed away , that committee prooved futile. but ultimately wikileaks exposed that scandal.
Leakages of Wikileaks made a great help for who fights to the cause of public rights in the whole world. It exposed the reality hidden in the secrecy of the many governments of world. After US, it unfolded the coffin of vote for cash scam which occured in the Indian paliament in year 2008.
Very surprisingly at that time even no any political party took this issue on a serious note. Perhaps they think if they were in power, they may have also done this. Many expressed wavering of bundles of notes in the Loksabha have made their head down. The question is until the whole episode was behind the curtain then there was no any shame kind of thing, the moment it was revealed before the public through the TV channels, it made many people's head down. What is the meaning of it? I think all 3 MPs who showed the bundles of note in the parliament, in a way they served the nation a lot. At least people of India were able to know what happens in the corridor of Indian politics. Even a fraction of these things comes before public, people can made up their mind that MPs might have not shown these bundles if they have been paid 50 crores or more. In India everyday numbers of scandal are happening, but it does n't become scandal, because it does not have any proof so that it does not come under the scanner of either media or judiciary. Many things are not talked about because it does not have proof.
Now we come to that central point to all these things, the nuclear deal, in the 2 day long sitting of house, members expressed their chants in favor of this deal, some termed it blockade of our freedom, but in true sense both these issue have nothing to do with the concern of common public, the way thing were being managed, that became the main issue, that was the revealing of political corruption. At time ruling party thought that after a period of six months general election is due and main opposition party is not willing to form govt. Despite withdrawal of support by the left parties, on the one side it was the UPA who was ready to spent billions of rupees for protecting their govt., on the other side it was Ms. Mayavati who with the support of left parties also had opened her treasury to purchase the MPs to form the new govt at centre even for a period of six months time.
UPA could have easily protect their govt., but what it did ? It was her great defeat in her so called win because it was the greatest exhibition of political bribery in the country. Govt. survived technically but morally it displayed the worst kind of thing in the political history of India. It was the height of political corruption when one MP was given fifty crore,. knowing this fact that Jharkhand bribery scandal had already busted in this country when Narsimha Rao govt. was formed with the help of some purchased MPs.
If institution like CBI and CVC were not in the control of ruling party, these events would have been come to the forefront.Whenever one becomes prime minister of this country, he regards corruption as big blockade in the way of country's development, gives many ideal speeches on it, but in the course of time he also becomes integeral part of this system. Not only that later on, he becomes great advocates of this very system. Perhaps Man Mohan Singh is also one of this kind of Primeminister. Now he is saying his government did not bribe any MP which was already endorsed by the mandate which his party got in thereafter elections.
A great thanks to the wikileaks. Now, it is amply proved that politics in India has become a big business. It is legally allowed to spent 40 lakh in a Loksabha election, if you desire more, you can even spent 4 crore and then you can make 40 crore by misusing this position. On the other side it was also proved that formation of govt. is the biggest business in this country. That is why if the formation of a government require a billion rupee, many come to finance it, because these all money gets returned back in less than six months period, so The UPA government did it for the sake of protecting its govt. and on the other side Ms. Mayavati was also ready to spend billions of rupees for purchasing MPs in order to becoming Prime minister of this country for merely six months.
The conclusion is that the whole structure of system has knitted in such a way, where we are not in position to pinpoint anyone particularly for the corruption. But surely we have to start cleansing this corruption from some point. It requires great willpower. The same will power what we have been seeing in our polio eradication campaign, what we have witnessed in the implementation of our new economic policy, which enabled the economy to become more competitive and consumer friendly, the policy which brought the Indian telecom market to open in a big way and it was mobile which reached door to door of even rural areas of country. So far corruption is concerned, it is much bigger issue, and it has to start from some point.There is nothing better than the parliament, the prime center of the power for starting any crusade against corruption. But ironically what we saw how the parliamentarians were bought and sold during the vote of confidence. n
Ultimately
Truth Revealed
The UPA-I govt. almost spend 2000 million rupees in managing the required numbers of members and protecting their govt. it was a well planned move of political corruption which was much more bigger than Jharkhand bribery scandal.
It was ten days long market where numbers of political worker, political brokers and even some political journo were wandering around Raisina hills and trying to manage and bargain those parliamentarians who were finding themselves some bit vulnerable because of delimitation of their Loksabha constituencies. They all were thinking if they manage even a single MP in favor of UPA, their political managers will give them 10 crores rupees, the amount which they will never earn in their whole life. Same way MPs were of the view, they can not get such hefty offer of 50 crores in their life. These MP get about 10 crores under MPLAD scheme in their 5 year terms, if they take 25 percent commission, they will earn maximum 2.5 crore in whole term. If a broker takes 10 crore, they will be getting 40 crore which can easily manage the expenses of more than 10 elections.
This was such a big show of political corruption in the country and the whole countrymen were just watching it. Where was the great watchdog of democracy, the media? One organization claimed that it can not remain observer of these things anymore, so we will sting it.
But ultimately what happened we all know, on 25th of July the money power almost seized the political power of this country. The whole sting operation was proved to be worthless. It seemed as if that media organization was working on deputation on behalf of Loksabha speaker, so it handed over the whole sting material to him. The question is, this was the same speaker who had ruled those 11 MPs who were trapped in the plot made by the cobra post dot com and despite the Supreme Court's order in their favor, this speaker had expelled all those MPs form Loksabha. On contrast to that this was the sting operation of real events, despite of this; only a committee was framed to look into these affairs. Now 3 years have passed away , that committee prooved futile. but ultimately wikileaks exposed that scandal.
Leakages of Wikileaks made a great help for who fights to the cause of public rights in the whole world. It exposed the reality hidden in the secrecy of the many governments of world. After US, it unfolded the coffin of vote for cash scam which occured in the Indian paliament in year 2008.
Very surprisingly at that time even no any political party took this issue on a serious note. Perhaps they think if they were in power, they may have also done this. Many expressed wavering of bundles of notes in the Loksabha have made their head down. The question is until the whole episode was behind the curtain then there was no any shame kind of thing, the moment it was revealed before the public through the TV channels, it made many people's head down. What is the meaning of it? I think all 3 MPs who showed the bundles of note in the parliament, in a way they served the nation a lot. At least people of India were able to know what happens in the corridor of Indian politics. Even a fraction of these things comes before public, people can made up their mind that MPs might have not shown these bundles if they have been paid 50 crores or more. In India everyday numbers of scandal are happening, but it does n't become scandal, because it does not have any proof so that it does not come under the scanner of either media or judiciary. Many things are not talked about because it does not have proof.
Now we come to that central point to all these things, the nuclear deal, in the 2 day long sitting of house, members expressed their chants in favor of this deal, some termed it blockade of our freedom, but in true sense both these issue have nothing to do with the concern of common public, the way thing were being managed, that became the main issue, that was the revealing of political corruption. At time ruling party thought that after a period of six months general election is due and main opposition party is not willing to form govt. Despite withdrawal of support by the left parties, on the one side it was the UPA who was ready to spent billions of rupees for protecting their govt., on the other side it was Ms. Mayavati who with the support of left parties also had opened her treasury to purchase the MPs to form the new govt at centre even for a period of six months time.
UPA could have easily protect their govt., but what it did ? It was her great defeat in her so called win because it was the greatest exhibition of political bribery in the country. Govt. survived technically but morally it displayed the worst kind of thing in the political history of India. It was the height of political corruption when one MP was given fifty crore,. knowing this fact that Jharkhand bribery scandal had already busted in this country when Narsimha Rao govt. was formed with the help of some purchased MPs.
If institution like CBI and CVC were not in the control of ruling party, these events would have been come to the forefront.Whenever one becomes prime minister of this country, he regards corruption as big blockade in the way of country's development, gives many ideal speeches on it, but in the course of time he also becomes integeral part of this system. Not only that later on, he becomes great advocates of this very system. Perhaps Man Mohan Singh is also one of this kind of Primeminister. Now he is saying his government did not bribe any MP which was already endorsed by the mandate which his party got in thereafter elections.
A great thanks to the wikileaks. Now, it is amply proved that politics in India has become a big business. It is legally allowed to spent 40 lakh in a Loksabha election, if you desire more, you can even spent 4 crore and then you can make 40 crore by misusing this position. On the other side it was also proved that formation of govt. is the biggest business in this country. That is why if the formation of a government require a billion rupee, many come to finance it, because these all money gets returned back in less than six months period, so The UPA government did it for the sake of protecting its govt. and on the other side Ms. Mayavati was also ready to spend billions of rupees for purchasing MPs in order to becoming Prime minister of this country for merely six months.
The conclusion is that the whole structure of system has knitted in such a way, where we are not in position to pinpoint anyone particularly for the corruption. But surely we have to start cleansing this corruption from some point. It requires great willpower. The same will power what we have been seeing in our polio eradication campaign, what we have witnessed in the implementation of our new economic policy, which enabled the economy to become more competitive and consumer friendly, the policy which brought the Indian telecom market to open in a big way and it was mobile which reached door to door of even rural areas of country. So far corruption is concerned, it is much bigger issue, and it has to start from some point.There is nothing better than the parliament, the prime center of the power for starting any crusade against corruption. But ironically what we saw how the parliamentarians were bought and sold during the vote of confidence. n
The UPA-I govt. almost spend 2000 million rupees in managing the required numbers of members and protecting their govt. it was a well planned move of political corruption which was much more bigger than Jharkhand bribery scandal.
It was ten days long market where numbers of political worker, political brokers and even some political journo were wandering around Raisina hills and trying to manage and bargain those parliamentarians who were finding themselves some bit vulnerable because of delimitation of their Loksabha constituencies. They all were thinking if they manage even a single MP in favor of UPA, their political managers will give them 10 crores rupees, the amount which they will never earn in their whole life. Same way MPs were of the view, they can not get such hefty offer of 50 crores in their life. These MP get about 10 crores under MPLAD scheme in their 5 year terms, if they take 25 percent commission, they will earn maximum 2.5 crore in whole term. If a broker takes 10 crore, they will be getting 40 crore which can easily manage the expenses of more than 10 elections.
This was such a big show of political corruption in the country and the whole countrymen were just watching it. Where was the great watchdog of democracy, the media? One organization claimed that it can not remain observer of these things anymore, so we will sting it.
But ultimately what happened we all know, on 25th of July the money power almost seized the political power of this country. The whole sting operation was proved to be worthless. It seemed as if that media organization was working on deputation on behalf of Loksabha speaker, so it handed over the whole sting material to him. The question is, this was the same speaker who had ruled those 11 MPs who were trapped in the plot made by the cobra post dot com and despite the Supreme Court's order in their favor, this speaker had expelled all those MPs form Loksabha. On contrast to that this was the sting operation of real events, despite of this; only a committee was framed to look into these affairs. Now 3 years have passed away , that committee prooved futile. but ultimately wikileaks exposed that scandal.
Leakages of Wikileaks made a great help for who fights to the cause of public rights in the whole world. It exposed the reality hidden in the secrecy of the many governments of world. After US, it unfolded the coffin of vote for cash scam which occured in the Indian paliament in year 2008.
Very surprisingly at that time even no any political party took this issue on a serious note. Perhaps they think if they were in power, they may have also done this. Many expressed wavering of bundles of notes in the Loksabha have made their head down. The question is until the whole episode was behind the curtain then there was no any shame kind of thing, the moment it was revealed before the public through the TV channels, it made many people's head down. What is the meaning of it? I think all 3 MPs who showed the bundles of note in the parliament, in a way they served the nation a lot. At least people of India were able to know what happens in the corridor of Indian politics. Even a fraction of these things comes before public, people can made up their mind that MPs might have not shown these bundles if they have been paid 50 crores or more. In India everyday numbers of scandal are happening, but it does n't become scandal, because it does not have any proof so that it does not come under the scanner of either media or judiciary. Many things are not talked about because it does not have proof.
Now we come to that central point to all these things, the nuclear deal, in the 2 day long sitting of house, members expressed their chants in favor of this deal, some termed it blockade of our freedom, but in true sense both these issue have nothing to do with the concern of common public, the way thing were being managed, that became the main issue, that was the revealing of political corruption. At time ruling party thought that after a period of six months general election is due and main opposition party is not willing to form govt. Despite withdrawal of support by the left parties, on the one side it was the UPA who was ready to spent billions of rupees for protecting their govt., on the other side it was Ms. Mayavati who with the support of left parties also had opened her treasury to purchase the MPs to form the new govt at centre even for a period of six months time.
UPA could have easily protect their govt., but what it did ? It was her great defeat in her so called win because it was the greatest exhibition of political bribery in the country. Govt. survived technically but morally it displayed the worst kind of thing in the political history of India. It was the height of political corruption when one MP was given fifty crore,. knowing this fact that Jharkhand bribery scandal had already busted in this country when Narsimha Rao govt. was formed with the help of some purchased MPs.
If institution like CBI and CVC were not in the control of ruling party, these events would have been come to the forefront.Whenever one becomes prime minister of this country, he regards corruption as big blockade in the way of country's development, gives many ideal speeches on it, but in the course of time he also becomes integeral part of this system. Not only that later on, he becomes great advocates of this very system. Perhaps Man Mohan Singh is also one of this kind of Primeminister. Now he is saying his government did not bribe any MP which was already endorsed by the mandate which his party got in thereafter elections.
A great thanks to the wikileaks. Now, it is amply proved that politics in India has become a big business. It is legally allowed to spent 40 lakh in a Loksabha election, if you desire more, you can even spent 4 crore and then you can make 40 crore by misusing this position. On the other side it was also proved that formation of govt. is the biggest business in this country. That is why if the formation of a government require a billion rupee, many come to finance it, because these all money gets returned back in less than six months period, so The UPA government did it for the sake of protecting its govt. and on the other side Ms. Mayavati was also ready to spend billions of rupees for purchasing MPs in order to becoming Prime minister of this country for merely six months.
The conclusion is that the whole structure of system has knitted in such a way, where we are not in position to pinpoint anyone particularly for the corruption. But surely we have to start cleansing this corruption from some point. It requires great willpower. The same will power what we have been seeing in our polio eradication campaign, what we have witnessed in the implementation of our new economic policy, which enabled the economy to become more competitive and consumer friendly, the policy which brought the Indian telecom market to open in a big way and it was mobile which reached door to door of even rural areas of country. So far corruption is concerned, it is much bigger issue, and it has to start from some point.There is nothing better than the parliament, the prime center of the power for starting any crusade against corruption. But ironically what we saw how the parliamentarians were bought and sold during the vote of confidence. n
Monday, March 7, 2011
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RAJ ARTHA
The whole country is almost burning in a galloping price-rise situation. This is a statement neither made by the political parties nor the mass media. In fact this is the real ooh aah ouch of 110 crore population of the country. In fact there have been numbers of price rise situation erupted in the country but this is perhaps the first time when the pocket rich middle class, (the class which have become more affluent after the arrival of new economy policy) have been heated hard by the present price-rise situation, as reported by our electronic media. SO one could easily imagine the condition of that two-third population of the country who is poor, leaves either in remote rural areas or in the city slums and belongs to lower income group or a daily wage earner. In these circumstances, this major chunk of population is left with inadequate and insufficient income for its survival.
We have been witnessed of many situations when massive spurt in the prices of one, two or three commodities like onion, potato, mustard oil or sugar have almost changed the government both at the centre and state level. But now, there is not a one or two or three commodities which are burning in the flame of price rise, almost every daily uses items are witnessing tremendous upheavals in their prices. And these prices are increasing day by day, whether it is Atta(flour), pulses ,rice ,potato ,onion, almost all green vegetables, sugar, tea leaf, turmeric and many more. These items’ prices have been grown by 50 percent to even by 500 percent. The most amazing thing is that this unprecedented galloping price-rise have made the ruling Congress party rather more secure, stable and on a winning note. The result of the last three assembly election clearly approves this perception.
The second most amazing things what we get that despite the mammoth price-rise situation, the rate of inflation is still stagnant and is reeling under 5 percent. Perhaps this is the reason that government of India in general and finance minister in particular is not over worried about this situation. The version of two important dignitaries of this UPA government , Sharad Pawar , the union agriculture & consumer affairs minister and M S Ahluwalia (Deputy chairman, planning commission) both had given their statement in the recently held economic editor conference at New Delhi .Sharad Pawar said ,there is no immediate hope of falling down of prices until the Rabi crops come. He openly said that the government can not resist this present price rise situation. Now we come to the second statement which was made by MS Ahluwallia he says why middle class is worried about the price rise. Are they not happy to delegate some part of there income to the farming community. He was meant that this price rise has enabled the farming community’s income to grow further.
When we analyze the statements of the both the ministers, we find that both are far-far away from the actual facts and ground reality of the country .One thing is absolutely clear that while talking about the price rises, both statements were centered around the agriculture and agriculturist (farmers).Sharad Pawar wanted to say, that the supply of the agricultural commodities is not sufficient enough to meet out the demand of the country. So we are waiting the next crop to come. Meanwhile we have to depend on costlier imports.
Not to mention here that the price is always determined by the demand and supply forces of the concerned items. Firstly we should know that our country is quite capable to produce each an every agriculture commodity. Secondly it is not only self reliant rather it is a surplus producer on many counts whether it is wheat, rice, sugar, tea, potato, onion etc. We do not have petroleum kind of situation on the front of agriculture. It is true we can not produce fuel as per our needs but we can produce the food items even beyond our needs. It means on the petroleum front we are not a surplus state like the gulf countries and on the food front we are not a deficient state like the European countries. That is why we import about two-third of our petroleum needs from the foreign countries. In the same way European countries import about fifty percent of their foods needs. Now a question arises why the country is presently facing supply deficit of almost all agricultural commodities viz. wheat, rice, pulses, oilseeds, milk, potato, onion, tea, sugar. Out of these items, India has been the largest producer of milk &sugar in the world. Under these circumstances what we see that the supply mechanism of most of the agricultural commodities have been badly hampered by its pricing policies .The pricing policy of government of India which is generally reflected by the MSP( minimum support price) ,procurement price , PDS price and open market operations, these all mechanisms have been totally failed. These pricing systems have made the different produces of farmers under-priced and thus made their life miserable. For the last 60 years in India, the farming communities have never got a reasonable return on their input costs and labor employed. It never gives stimulus to produce more and more so that regular and timely supply of the different foods items can be ensured in the market. In spite of tall claims made by the government that she has been very friendly to the farmers in terms of providing input facilities like seed, fertilizer, loan, irrigation network )technical know how etc. These all measures have been managed very badly and have been crippled with corruptions. There has been complete misuse of this money allocated in the name of input subsidy. It has nothing to do with the lot of farmers. Factor like providing better remunerative prices to the farmers, has been always negligent. The agriculture cost and price commission have never measured accurately the input cost of cultivation. It resulted in huge deterrence to the farming community of the country. Generally govt. says, it doesn’t want to make agriculture as an industry because agriculturist will have to pay taxes as industry does. But the fact is that despite paying number of taxes persons involved in industry and organized services are becoming richer day by day, whenever persons involved in agriculture, even without paying taxes becoming poorer and poorer. So only one option is left that is providing better prices to the farmer, not only for the raising their income, but also for maintaining the regular and adequate supply chain of the agricultural items. Though it requires many other things also like ensuring storage facilities, better farmer- trader link and strict implementation of MSP during the harvesting season. So the post harvest management becomes very crucial in this regard. There should be always a minimum and maximum price cap for all the agricultural produces. If the rising prices of agricultural commodities are a problem, the steep falling down prices of the agriculture commodities is not the lesser one. Rather it is a bigger problem which is mainly attributed to the present crisis of supply management. The irony is that wheat is sold at Rs. 7-8 per kg during the harvesting season, is now being sold at Rs. 16 per kg. The potato one time was sold at Rs 2 per kg is now Rs. 20 per kg. The onion which was one time sold at Rs10 per quintal is now being sold at Rs. 2000 per quintal. Now the million dollar question is per kg wheat at Rs. 7-8, per kg potato at Rs. 2. Can it meet the cost of farmers? No never. This is the reason, if a farmer gets the prices of his produces under priced in one crop season whether due to non implementation of MSP or due to non- availability of procurement agencies, he does not get impetus to make cultivation for the next crop season, ultimately resulted in lesser supply.
So Mr. M S Ahluwalia is totally wrong when he says that the present price rise is benefiting the farmers. Actually it is benefiting the traders, hoarders. Farmers are made for the distress; traders are made for the prosperity. If farmers get their due prices they will always get incentives to produce more and more and thus the consumers will be left with adequate supply of food supply, resulting in stabled prices. MS Ahluwalia must know this that 95 percent of the farmers have no any surplus food grain particularly during the off season. Neither they have storage facilities, nor they have alternative source of income so that they are not in a situation to preserve their produces for more than two months after the harvesting time. So the price incentive is a key to the several agricultural problems. If govt. wants to avail permanent demand- supply equilibrium, it should fix the maximum gap of 50 percent between the prices at what farmers sold their produces and the prices which the consumer is purchasing at. But before this, govt. should strictly ensure a reasonable and cost plus prices mechanism, for all their agricultural produces which the farmer produce and also make an environment ,so that prices can’t falling down further. Off- course, there may be some exception of this situation. In condition like war, drought, floods, strikes, price increases up not just because of the supply- restraints.
Our farmers have to be always given handsome prices for their commodities like wheat, rice, sugarcane, oilseed, pulses, potato, onion, milk, and fruits etc. The both under pricing and over priced selling of these items must be made a criminal offence.
Apart from the agricultural items the whole term of UPA has been badly renowned for the price- rise of many items starting from steel to cement, from petroleum products to gold. The stock market, the money market, the bullion market, the real estate market, these all have been on a very high note during this tenure. This govt. had patronized the boom kind of situation in the economy, so it always had a double digit rate of inflation. Now for last one year the global recession has made the country’s economy on a down slide note, resulted in lower rate of inflation but very surprisingly the prices of essential commodity are increasing skyrocketing high ,but who will care it ? We are a democracy and perhaps public has mandated this price rise considering this facts that this is a non treated disease.
RAJ ARTHA
The whole country is almost burning in a galloping price-rise situation. This is a statement neither made by the political parties nor the mass media. In fact this is the real ooh aah ouch of 110 crore population of the country. In fact there have been numbers of price rise situation erupted in the country but this is perhaps the first time when the pocket rich middle class, (the class which have become more affluent after the arrival of new economy policy) have been heated hard by the present price-rise situation, as reported by our electronic media. SO one could easily imagine the condition of that two-third population of the country who is poor, leaves either in remote rural areas or in the city slums and belongs to lower income group or a daily wage earner. In these circumstances, this major chunk of population is left with inadequate and insufficient income for its survival.
We have been witnessed of many situations when massive spurt in the prices of one, two or three commodities like onion, potato, mustard oil or sugar have almost changed the government both at the centre and state level. But now, there is not a one or two or three commodities which are burning in the flame of price rise, almost every daily uses items are witnessing tremendous upheavals in their prices. And these prices are increasing day by day, whether it is Atta(flour), pulses ,rice ,potato ,onion, almost all green vegetables, sugar, tea leaf, turmeric and many more. These items’ prices have been grown by 50 percent to even by 500 percent. The most amazing thing is that this unprecedented galloping price-rise have made the ruling Congress party rather more secure, stable and on a winning note. The result of the last three assembly election clearly approves this perception.
The second most amazing things what we get that despite the mammoth price-rise situation, the rate of inflation is still stagnant and is reeling under 5 percent. Perhaps this is the reason that government of India in general and finance minister in particular is not over worried about this situation. The version of two important dignitaries of this UPA government , Sharad Pawar , the union agriculture & consumer affairs minister and M S Ahluwalia (Deputy chairman, planning commission) both had given their statement in the recently held economic editor conference at New Delhi .Sharad Pawar said ,there is no immediate hope of falling down of prices until the Rabi crops come. He openly said that the government can not resist this present price rise situation. Now we come to the second statement which was made by MS Ahluwallia he says why middle class is worried about the price rise. Are they not happy to delegate some part of there income to the farming community. He was meant that this price rise has enabled the farming community’s income to grow further.
When we analyze the statements of the both the ministers, we find that both are far-far away from the actual facts and ground reality of the country .One thing is absolutely clear that while talking about the price rises, both statements were centered around the agriculture and agriculturist (farmers).Sharad Pawar wanted to say, that the supply of the agricultural commodities is not sufficient enough to meet out the demand of the country. So we are waiting the next crop to come. Meanwhile we have to depend on costlier imports.
Not to mention here that the price is always determined by the demand and supply forces of the concerned items. Firstly we should know that our country is quite capable to produce each an every agriculture commodity. Secondly it is not only self reliant rather it is a surplus producer on many counts whether it is wheat, rice, sugar, tea, potato, onion etc. We do not have petroleum kind of situation on the front of agriculture. It is true we can not produce fuel as per our needs but we can produce the food items even beyond our needs. It means on the petroleum front we are not a surplus state like the gulf countries and on the food front we are not a deficient state like the European countries. That is why we import about two-third of our petroleum needs from the foreign countries. In the same way European countries import about fifty percent of their foods needs. Now a question arises why the country is presently facing supply deficit of almost all agricultural commodities viz. wheat, rice, pulses, oilseeds, milk, potato, onion, tea, sugar. Out of these items, India has been the largest producer of milk &sugar in the world. Under these circumstances what we see that the supply mechanism of most of the agricultural commodities have been badly hampered by its pricing policies .The pricing policy of government of India which is generally reflected by the MSP( minimum support price) ,procurement price , PDS price and open market operations, these all mechanisms have been totally failed. These pricing systems have made the different produces of farmers under-priced and thus made their life miserable. For the last 60 years in India, the farming communities have never got a reasonable return on their input costs and labor employed. It never gives stimulus to produce more and more so that regular and timely supply of the different foods items can be ensured in the market. In spite of tall claims made by the government that she has been very friendly to the farmers in terms of providing input facilities like seed, fertilizer, loan, irrigation network )technical know how etc. These all measures have been managed very badly and have been crippled with corruptions. There has been complete misuse of this money allocated in the name of input subsidy. It has nothing to do with the lot of farmers. Factor like providing better remunerative prices to the farmers, has been always negligent. The agriculture cost and price commission have never measured accurately the input cost of cultivation. It resulted in huge deterrence to the farming community of the country. Generally govt. says, it doesn’t want to make agriculture as an industry because agriculturist will have to pay taxes as industry does. But the fact is that despite paying number of taxes persons involved in industry and organized services are becoming richer day by day, whenever persons involved in agriculture, even without paying taxes becoming poorer and poorer. So only one option is left that is providing better prices to the farmer, not only for the raising their income, but also for maintaining the regular and adequate supply chain of the agricultural items. Though it requires many other things also like ensuring storage facilities, better farmer- trader link and strict implementation of MSP during the harvesting season. So the post harvest management becomes very crucial in this regard. There should be always a minimum and maximum price cap for all the agricultural produces. If the rising prices of agricultural commodities are a problem, the steep falling down prices of the agriculture commodities is not the lesser one. Rather it is a bigger problem which is mainly attributed to the present crisis of supply management. The irony is that wheat is sold at Rs. 7-8 per kg during the harvesting season, is now being sold at Rs. 16 per kg. The potato one time was sold at Rs 2 per kg is now Rs. 20 per kg. The onion which was one time sold at Rs10 per quintal is now being sold at Rs. 2000 per quintal. Now the million dollar question is per kg wheat at Rs. 7-8, per kg potato at Rs. 2. Can it meet the cost of farmers? No never. This is the reason, if a farmer gets the prices of his produces under priced in one crop season whether due to non implementation of MSP or due to non- availability of procurement agencies, he does not get impetus to make cultivation for the next crop season, ultimately resulted in lesser supply.
So Mr. M S Ahluwalia is totally wrong when he says that the present price rise is benefiting the farmers. Actually it is benefiting the traders, hoarders. Farmers are made for the distress; traders are made for the prosperity. If farmers get their due prices they will always get incentives to produce more and more and thus the consumers will be left with adequate supply of food supply, resulting in stabled prices. MS Ahluwalia must know this that 95 percent of the farmers have no any surplus food grain particularly during the off season. Neither they have storage facilities, nor they have alternative source of income so that they are not in a situation to preserve their produces for more than two months after the harvesting time. So the price incentive is a key to the several agricultural problems. If govt. wants to avail permanent demand- supply equilibrium, it should fix the maximum gap of 50 percent between the prices at what farmers sold their produces and the prices which the consumer is purchasing at. But before this, govt. should strictly ensure a reasonable and cost plus prices mechanism, for all their agricultural produces which the farmer produce and also make an environment ,so that prices can’t falling down further. Off- course, there may be some exception of this situation. In condition like war, drought, floods, strikes, price increases up not just because of the supply- restraints.
Our farmers have to be always given handsome prices for their commodities like wheat, rice, sugarcane, oilseed, pulses, potato, onion, milk, and fruits etc. The both under pricing and over priced selling of these items must be made a criminal offence.
Apart from the agricultural items the whole term of UPA has been badly renowned for the price- rise of many items starting from steel to cement, from petroleum products to gold. The stock market, the money market, the bullion market, the real estate market, these all have been on a very high note during this tenure. This govt. had patronized the boom kind of situation in the economy, so it always had a double digit rate of inflation. Now for last one year the global recession has made the country’s economy on a down slide note, resulted in lower rate of inflation but very surprisingly the prices of essential commodity are increasing skyrocketing high ,but who will care it ? We are a democracy and perhaps public has mandated this price rise considering this facts that this is a non treated disease.
Friday, February 25, 2011
3 power centre
PM, CM And DM
A huge Democratic Gap exist Between State Secretariate and Gram Panchayat
There are almost 800 elected or nominated representatives in our national parliament, who are being elected in Lok sabha and Rajyasabha election held on every 5 years and 2 years respectively? We have around 3800 members for the legislative assemblies and councils of 32 states and UT of the country. And we have around 2 lakhs representative for local democratic bodies like gram panchayat, block panchayat, muncipalties and district councils etc. These all reflect a picture and structure of a democratically ruled govt. of republic of India and Indian union. Now we should try to observe how these democratic bodies work for the welfare of public.
At the top level prime minister is nucleus of power who heads the council of ministers and in a way he is the leader of around 800 elected representative of national parliament. Down the order state govt. follow the same suit, means chief minister is the head of state council of ministers and all the MLAs elected in the assembly. In the Indian democratic setup, the third most significant power center is district collectoriate headed by district magistrate,who is not a democratic representative, rather a bureaucrat who hails from Indian administrative service.
When we •talk about public welfare, we must not forget out of all these 3 power centers, local administration is the key, where public is directly attached with govt. in its day to day affairs. It is the block office which renders all kind of development work meant for villages level. Circle office which manages all matter related to land records and revenues, land registry office, renders sale and purchase of land and other properties., local hospitals, local school comprised of .primary, middle and secondary, local police station etc. These all institutions’ work are rendered not by public representatives rather by the civil officials or technicals like engineer or doctor or teacher or police men. The whole set up of welfare providing units actually work basically under the district collector or superintendent of police. Off course we have a third tier of democracy that is called gram panchayat, headed by grampradhan has become active now in a big way after the initiation of grampanchyatraj.
Now we try to diagnose the whole gamut of local administration. In this democracy Primeminister and ministers exercise their executive power that is followed by long pyramid of bureaucratic setup. The Union cabinet control the all 97 subjects allotted to center. Same thing is visible at state level also. The state cabinet headed by chief minister controls the legislative and executive power on all those 56 subjects allotted to the states. At the lower level district magistrate control all the subjects whether it is development or social welfare programs or it is supervising the whole administrative activities. The whole thing lies in this fact that under this democratic set up, the executive power is controlled by minister whether it is at center level or state level. After this there is huge democratic gap from grampradhan onwards . There is no democratic executive and this area is completely dominated by the bureaucratic pyramid. So what about all those democratic representatives who represent their lok sabha and vidhan sabha respectively. What do they to fulfill the different aspirations of their constituency people in day to day governance. Let us look at this base of democracy, at constituency level. These public representatives have to either attend assemblies during the session or to travel their constituency in rest of time. Secondly they are simply taken as an agent for pairvi and sipharis. They don't have any direct role in the administration and executive work in their respective constiutuencies. There is only one provision that is called MPLAD scheme, where they are being allotted 2 crores of rupee every year to spend as per their will in different development activities.
Now the question is, if MP and MLA are the democratic representative then why are they not able to render any kind of day to day administration and governance whether related to public grievances or providing schems’ benefit to the needy people. Off course one who becomes minister out of these MPs or MLAs they enjoy executive power as a democratic representative at the upper level , but they can not control the whole layer of administration single handedly, specially at the lower level. It is followed by bureaucracy, not by democracy.
The whole conclusion is that what is the role of MPs and MLA as a democratic administrater whether at upper level administration or at the local level administration, they are simply the symbol of democracy without having the executive power to render any kind of welfare work except doing recommendation and taking commission in their allotted quota of petrol pump and etc. Though some person may not agree with this point of view because we are habituated of this system but the question is who will be responsible and accountable for the well being of people living at local level, because in a way we all are local people . In all practical purposes local officials are responsible for rendering all kind of public work and these officials have not been made accountable to the public rather they are accountable to the officers sitting above and at last they are accountable to the ministers sitting above. So, who will take care of locals people. On a moral counts, it is MP or MLA who are accountable to public, because they have to face election at every 5 years. But the irony is that they don't have role in administering the public in their own constituency.
Some people can say, the role of public representative is only to observe the work activities of the bureaucratic officials. If they find anything wrong with them, they can report it to upper level. To my mind these things create nexus between politicians and bureaucracy. It does not reflect the character of a democracy. Under these circumstances how can we apply right to recall on our democratic representatives. In actual sense, under this present set-up right to recall should be applied to the local bureaucracy who is directly and vehemently involved with day to day public affairs whether it is related to hospitals or schools, whether it is related to road construction or maintaing regular civil supplies of essential commodities to the poor people. Yes if the public representative is minister and who has executive power at the upper level and if he does some unpopular kind of work, he must be brought under the purview of right to recall. So it is very difficult to introduce the right to recall until and unless MPs and MLAs have ample executive power and they are not made fully accountable to public..
this is need of hour to make a proper coordination between democracy and bureaucracy. In principle it is said that civil servants work under democratic boss, but it is true at the highest level only. This is not ture at the local level. So what kind of interaction must be made between democracy and bureaucracy, this is a big question. In real terms bureaucracy is parallel power system which is very much uprooted in our whole administrative system. Generally what we see in a district there is at least one lok sabha constituency. In some cases one lok sabha constituencies has area in another district also. Will it not be better the formation of district should be based on lok sabha constituencies. It means the lok sabha constituency and district should be same. Means we have 542 lok sabha constituencies and we should have 542 district also which is right now 596. In the same way vidhan sabha seat should be formed blockwise. If these steps are taken it would have more beneficial affect over local administration and will result in a better coordination between democracy and bureaucracy, not only that it will make democracy more realistic and effective and will make bureaucracy more accountable to the public also. Then there will be no arising of issue like political interference in administration.
Under this present setup, usually political interference are done for bad purposes. Actually due to absence of a defined set up there is a hotchpotch situation in the governance , but when the things are get defined, these matters will not arise. Under the new set up democrats will not interfere rather they will involve in a more meaningful ways. It will keep bureaucrat right under the democrat in a more meaningful way and in fact this politician-bureaucratic combo sytem will be more accountable to the local public.
Different kind of services, whether is roads or school , if these things come under the purview of direct elected representative, it will have more positive effect over governance and administration. Though at village level gram pradhan is a elected representative enjoy more executive power than other democratic representatives like MLA and MP. All kind of work whether it is development or any statutory work, it all comes under the complete executive control of grampradhan.Official like VLW works as a coordinating govt. servant only. But here two types of imbalances have emerged. First there are no institution like monitoring committee who can create checks and balances over all decisions taken by mukhiya and on his approach shown towards the villager. But problem is that despite no. of adminstrative work done by mukhiya there is no provision of wage’ salary or any kind of emoluments for them. Whenever MP or MLA get salary and emolument, then why it should not be done for mukhiya. The consequences are that mukhiya usually siphon the development fund..Minister of Rural development Raghuvansh Singh openly says that mukhiya are more corrupt than officers. This statement clearly says that there is a great question mark over our democracy. Though Govt. of Bihar has just announced pay and emoluments for the third tier of democracy.
Nothing to say we need all kind of correction measure for all three tier of democracy. Our present setup is a politician - bureaucrat setup where corruption has become a key problem for the both society and polity; it is not making our economy to grow in a decentralized manner. When MP and MLA will have district and block under their command respectively their political worker will have a more constructive role ,they will be more focused on good governance and election would be more competitive on matter like governance and welfare. And then factor like caste, community and religion would be less pronounced in the elections. nnn
PM, CM And DM
A huge Democratic Gap exist Between State Secretariate and Gram Panchayat
There are almost 800 elected or nominated representatives in our national parliament, who are being elected in Lok sabha and Rajyasabha election held on every 5 years and 2 years respectively? We have around 3800 members for the legislative assemblies and councils of 32 states and UT of the country. And we have around 2 lakhs representative for local democratic bodies like gram panchayat, block panchayat, muncipalties and district councils etc. These all reflect a picture and structure of a democratically ruled govt. of republic of India and Indian union. Now we should try to observe how these democratic bodies work for the welfare of public.
At the top level prime minister is nucleus of power who heads the council of ministers and in a way he is the leader of around 800 elected representative of national parliament. Down the order state govt. follow the same suit, means chief minister is the head of state council of ministers and all the MLAs elected in the assembly. In the Indian democratic setup, the third most significant power center is district collectoriate headed by district magistrate,who is not a democratic representative, rather a bureaucrat who hails from Indian administrative service.
When we •talk about public welfare, we must not forget out of all these 3 power centers, local administration is the key, where public is directly attached with govt. in its day to day affairs. It is the block office which renders all kind of development work meant for villages level. Circle office which manages all matter related to land records and revenues, land registry office, renders sale and purchase of land and other properties., local hospitals, local school comprised of .primary, middle and secondary, local police station etc. These all institutions’ work are rendered not by public representatives rather by the civil officials or technicals like engineer or doctor or teacher or police men. The whole set up of welfare providing units actually work basically under the district collector or superintendent of police. Off course we have a third tier of democracy that is called gram panchayat, headed by grampradhan has become active now in a big way after the initiation of grampanchyatraj.
Now we try to diagnose the whole gamut of local administration. In this democracy Primeminister and ministers exercise their executive power that is followed by long pyramid of bureaucratic setup. The Union cabinet control the all 97 subjects allotted to center. Same thing is visible at state level also. The state cabinet headed by chief minister controls the legislative and executive power on all those 56 subjects allotted to the states. At the lower level district magistrate control all the subjects whether it is development or social welfare programs or it is supervising the whole administrative activities. The whole thing lies in this fact that under this democratic set up, the executive power is controlled by minister whether it is at center level or state level. After this there is huge democratic gap from grampradhan onwards . There is no democratic executive and this area is completely dominated by the bureaucratic pyramid. So what about all those democratic representatives who represent their lok sabha and vidhan sabha respectively. What do they to fulfill the different aspirations of their constituency people in day to day governance. Let us look at this base of democracy, at constituency level. These public representatives have to either attend assemblies during the session or to travel their constituency in rest of time. Secondly they are simply taken as an agent for pairvi and sipharis. They don't have any direct role in the administration and executive work in their respective constiutuencies. There is only one provision that is called MPLAD scheme, where they are being allotted 2 crores of rupee every year to spend as per their will in different development activities.
Now the question is, if MP and MLA are the democratic representative then why are they not able to render any kind of day to day administration and governance whether related to public grievances or providing schems’ benefit to the needy people. Off course one who becomes minister out of these MPs or MLAs they enjoy executive power as a democratic representative at the upper level , but they can not control the whole layer of administration single handedly, specially at the lower level. It is followed by bureaucracy, not by democracy.
The whole conclusion is that what is the role of MPs and MLA as a democratic administrater whether at upper level administration or at the local level administration, they are simply the symbol of democracy without having the executive power to render any kind of welfare work except doing recommendation and taking commission in their allotted quota of petrol pump and etc. Though some person may not agree with this point of view because we are habituated of this system but the question is who will be responsible and accountable for the well being of people living at local level, because in a way we all are local people . In all practical purposes local officials are responsible for rendering all kind of public work and these officials have not been made accountable to the public rather they are accountable to the officers sitting above and at last they are accountable to the ministers sitting above. So, who will take care of locals people. On a moral counts, it is MP or MLA who are accountable to public, because they have to face election at every 5 years. But the irony is that they don't have role in administering the public in their own constituency.
Some people can say, the role of public representative is only to observe the work activities of the bureaucratic officials. If they find anything wrong with them, they can report it to upper level. To my mind these things create nexus between politicians and bureaucracy. It does not reflect the character of a democracy. Under these circumstances how can we apply right to recall on our democratic representatives. In actual sense, under this present set-up right to recall should be applied to the local bureaucracy who is directly and vehemently involved with day to day public affairs whether it is related to hospitals or schools, whether it is related to road construction or maintaing regular civil supplies of essential commodities to the poor people. Yes if the public representative is minister and who has executive power at the upper level and if he does some unpopular kind of work, he must be brought under the purview of right to recall. So it is very difficult to introduce the right to recall until and unless MPs and MLAs have ample executive power and they are not made fully accountable to public..
this is need of hour to make a proper coordination between democracy and bureaucracy. In principle it is said that civil servants work under democratic boss, but it is true at the highest level only. This is not ture at the local level. So what kind of interaction must be made between democracy and bureaucracy, this is a big question. In real terms bureaucracy is parallel power system which is very much uprooted in our whole administrative system. Generally what we see in a district there is at least one lok sabha constituency. In some cases one lok sabha constituencies has area in another district also. Will it not be better the formation of district should be based on lok sabha constituencies. It means the lok sabha constituency and district should be same. Means we have 542 lok sabha constituencies and we should have 542 district also which is right now 596. In the same way vidhan sabha seat should be formed blockwise. If these steps are taken it would have more beneficial affect over local administration and will result in a better coordination between democracy and bureaucracy, not only that it will make democracy more realistic and effective and will make bureaucracy more accountable to the public also. Then there will be no arising of issue like political interference in administration.
Under this present setup, usually political interference are done for bad purposes. Actually due to absence of a defined set up there is a hotchpotch situation in the governance , but when the things are get defined, these matters will not arise. Under the new set up democrats will not interfere rather they will involve in a more meaningful ways. It will keep bureaucrat right under the democrat in a more meaningful way and in fact this politician-bureaucratic combo sytem will be more accountable to the local public.
Different kind of services, whether is roads or school , if these things come under the purview of direct elected representative, it will have more positive effect over governance and administration. Though at village level gram pradhan is a elected representative enjoy more executive power than other democratic representatives like MLA and MP. All kind of work whether it is development or any statutory work, it all comes under the complete executive control of grampradhan.Official like VLW works as a coordinating govt. servant only. But here two types of imbalances have emerged. First there are no institution like monitoring committee who can create checks and balances over all decisions taken by mukhiya and on his approach shown towards the villager. But problem is that despite no. of adminstrative work done by mukhiya there is no provision of wage’ salary or any kind of emoluments for them. Whenever MP or MLA get salary and emolument, then why it should not be done for mukhiya. The consequences are that mukhiya usually siphon the development fund..Minister of Rural development Raghuvansh Singh openly says that mukhiya are more corrupt than officers. This statement clearly says that there is a great question mark over our democracy. Though Govt. of Bihar has just announced pay and emoluments for the third tier of democracy.
Nothing to say we need all kind of correction measure for all three tier of democracy. Our present setup is a politician - bureaucrat setup where corruption has become a key problem for the both society and polity; it is not making our economy to grow in a decentralized manner. When MP and MLA will have district and block under their command respectively their political worker will have a more constructive role ,they will be more focused on good governance and election would be more competitive on matter like governance and welfare. And then factor like caste, community and religion would be less pronounced in the elections. nnn
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