The government which is having many economists , highly qualified supporting team could not able to prevent the high inflation. PM and FM are commenting and despite of their contradictory statement to public,both are optimistic. Now a days government has became mere man of words with lack of action. I hope they have not felt the heat of people because of their such high position devoid of common men. Youth icon going to villages , gossiping with university with his silly statement on responsible government with his poor understanding on the issues, nepotism, autocracy, commenting on opposition, teaching public at large about whats right and wrong will not fulfill the bread and butter for common men . Of course every one work for his / her bread. It needs immediate action to tackle the issue. One of the cabinet minister of union government raised the question in public that why the people are not in the roads if they are facing so called double digit inflation on basic commodities. Without going to know the answer, he commented that because of their government policies people are able to manage despite of double digit inflation since past 2 years. In deed he was professor.
Problem with government is, there are many ministers playing dual role in party as well as in government. Probably they find minimum time or no time to work in government because of their party responsibilities. For many of them party comes first, them self next and at last nation. Many of them work simply to flatter their party or icon-ism of their leaders.
Ruling party has its one preferences and has to balance many factors. They has to keep in mind in off screen the caste factor, money, background , leadership potential , mass support and many other things which are primary for them to sustain. For the nation these things are least bothered but unfortunately it is the custom and convention in parties for their own benefit.If highly intellect is in the group of many dumb ox he behaves like a dumb ox, in the same way well educated one and men of integrity with many colleague dopes of low integrity will become one among them rather.
Today was February 1st. I had been to Kendriya Bhandar to purchase groceries for my home. I saw a heart touching scene. Cereals were placed in racks which were mixed with organic and hybridize products. Organic products are three times costlier than normal one. A poor lady searching for normal products.She was unreadable.( I disagree with educated and uneducated, illiterate division because despite of their education,some times educated one behave like beasts)
She piked up subsidized whole wheat floor and was calculating penny to penny to pick up other groceries. I was in the queue watching her and felt bad about condition of our nation where till today 40% of children are with under nutrition and government is blind. More than one third living are under less than $ 1 per day. I am quoting the commoners. (courtesy : Frontline Magazine, Febuary 11,2011 issue)
Problem with government is, there are many ministers playing dual role in party as well as in government. Probably they find minimum time or no time to work in government because of their party responsibilities. For many of them party comes first, them self next and at last nation. Many of them work simply to flatter their party or icon-ism of their leaders.
Ruling party has its one preferences and has to balance many factors. They has to keep in mind in off screen the caste factor, money, background , leadership potential , mass support and many other things which are primary for them to sustain. For the nation these things are least bothered but unfortunately it is the custom and convention in parties for their own benefit.If highly intellect is in the group of many dumb ox he behaves like a dumb ox, in the same way well educated one and men of integrity with many colleague dopes of low integrity will become one among them rather.
Today was February 1st. I had been to Kendriya Bhandar to purchase groceries for my home. I saw a heart touching scene. Cereals were placed in racks which were mixed with organic and hybridize products. Organic products are three times costlier than normal one. A poor lady searching for normal products.She was unreadable.( I disagree with educated and uneducated, illiterate division because despite of their education,some times educated one behave like beasts)
She piked up subsidized whole wheat floor and was calculating penny to penny to pick up other groceries. I was in the queue watching her and felt bad about condition of our nation where till today 40% of children are with under nutrition and government is blind. More than one third living are under less than $ 1 per day. I am quoting the commoners. (courtesy : Frontline Magazine, Febuary 11,2011 issue)
Leela, thatch maker
“I make thatches out of coconut leaves for a living. I manage to make about 20 pieces a day for a daily wage of Rs.40. I live alone, in a small, leaking hut on half a cent of land my family gave me. The government claims I belong to the above poverty line (APL) category. I am not eligible for ration rice at subsidised price. For most part of the year I have no work. A kilo of rice in the open market costs nearly Rs.30. I skip breakfast and survive on black tea for most part of the day and the half a kilo of rice I buy from the retail shop every three days – and, maybe, some fish. I cannot afford to buy vegetables. I ask God, every day, why do you make me live like this?”
Vijayan, farm labourer
“True, prices are going up. But if people like me cut down on food, how will we do the hard labour in the fields? I have been a farm labourer all my life and there is much demand for my kind of work now. I am sure to get four to five days of work every week, on an average, at Rs.400 to Rs.450 a day. I live with my wife and aged mother. We have been able to manage so far despite the rising prices. But by the end of the week, we have very little savings left.” Rejitha, nanny and domestic help “I am really worried now. I live alone with two school-going children, a daughter aged 15 and a son aged 12. I earn about Rs.4,000 a month, looking after a child for a young working couple six days a week and doing domestic chores for different households on Sundays. I need Rs.1,200 every month for tuition and transport expenses for my children. I need to clear a housing loan of Rs.17,000. But my household expenses have gone up by Rs.1,400 in the past six months. I try to pay the grocer and the vegetable seller some amount every month. But debts are mounting. There is this constant fear about the future.”
Satheesh, part-time company employee
“I have changed my shopping habits. I have stopped buying milk, except a quarter litre every day for my child. We have stopped eating meat. I go to the vegetable market at night on Saturdays, when they sell it cheap, before the holiday. I buy half of our requirement of rice, atta, and so on from the ration shop, and the other half, of better quality, from the open market. We buy fish only on special occasions. We buy onions very rarely. We always go for the cheapest cooking oil. It has been months since we ate out. I have to manage a household with Rs.4,000 a month.”
Chandran, wayside restaurant waiter
“The hotel where I work caters mostly to poor people, workers, labourers and the like. There is a definite change in the past few months: many regular customers who used to order rice and fish curry or meat for lunch are now asking if they can have rice alone, with some gravy perhaps. And we oblige.” Rajan, city vegetable seller “Where they used to buy one kilo they buy less nowadays. Or they go for cheaper alternatives. We have stopped stocking costly vegetables, onions, potatoes, and the like.”
And In National Capital Delhi
IN times of inflation, restaurants and eateries feel the bite of competition. Sample this: “We still serve pyaj [onions] with our meals while most other restaurants have switched to mooli [radish],” Govardhan, the manager of Gopi Restaurant in South Delhi, says. Salad is vital to Delhi cuisine, and onions form an important part of it along with carrots and cucumber in small measure. But the spiralling prices of onions – between Rs.80 and Rs.110 a kilo in the last one month – have completely changed the food pattern in the small dhabas. Govardhan's trade secret? “You just have to use onions more judiciously in the curries. That's it.” Gopi Restaurant is in Yusuf Sarai, which is probably the only lower middle class place to shop in South Delhi. Because of its proximity to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, its numerous dhabas get a lot of business from people visiting the hospital. They stay in cheap hotels for the period of their treatment, which is usually more than a month. With the prices of food served in the dhabas going up in the past year, another business is thriving here: provision stores have started renting out utensils to these people to cook their own food in the hotels they stay in. Jagmoti Baruah from Assam, 60, a kidney patient, has been in Delhi for a month with his wife. “The last time I came here was in 2007. We got a meal for less than Rs.20 then. Now it costs Rs.60. Hiring cooking utensils and making our own food works out much cheaper than eating out,” he says. A few hundred metres from the Yusuf Sarai market is the Green Park market. Here vendors sell exotic vegetables such as broccoli, lettuce, bell peppers, black mushrooms and olives. The fruit sellers here sell imported fruits. Ram from Bihar, in his mid-40s, is the biggest vegetable vendor here. He sells the best onions even during these times of inflation. He sells them for Rs.120 a kilo. “There has not been much difference in onion sales despite the high prices,” he says. He sources the vegetables from Azadpur, the biggest wholesale vegetable mandi in North India, at a price higher than what he paid earlier. “We have to cut down on profits because even though my shop is in Green Park, we cannot sell the vegetables for the prices we demand. You have to stabilise the prices according to Delhi,” he says. In Green Park's restaurants, salads do come with onions. The only thing is that they are not as prominent as they were before. Around 20 kilometres from South Delhi, the crowded streets of Paharganj are home to the largest number of pavement-dwellers. Mohammed Rasheed, who has been living here for the last 30 years, says “Even if we get bread and pulses every day, that is more than enough, sir. Even a plate of dal does not come for less than Rs.30 in the cheapest dhaba here. We are labourers and don't earn more than Rs.50 a day. We don't need salads.” “We have no idea what the government is doing. For us, the only concern is to get any food and to see that the police do not drive us away from this pavement,” another homeless person adds. The middle classes, too, are dropping their pretence of concern for growth in the times of inflation. But one memory is still alive: the defeat of the BJP in the 1998 Delhi Assembly elections, caused solely by spiralling onion prices. A fall from which the party has not recovered.
I hope that none in the government has time to listen to painful voices of people !!!
Its highly unimaginable in present day context even to estimate about minimum commodities price per person with in present tags. Hopefully none of our legislators had complete vision on life of commoners. There is a large gap between rural and urban population which is a dangerous and adverse phenomenon. MNAREGA and other Rozgar policies are not sufficient enough to tackle the issue but it needs integrated development program needs contemptuous and perpetual effort which is impossible for present government in context. Yet there is a hope on integrity of scholars in the chairs who is doing something better than nothing when some one who heads the state is meant just for ceremonious act despite of their discretionary power.
It is the inevitability of the government and its priority for other matters which is in the vital place. Its survivability and image in public for another term to erode the nation is what which matters at most for them.
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