National Food Security Bill: Insecuring Indians …the nation is once again being tricked into sponsoring another major political gimmick of the Congress party, and above all, the Gandhi family. Since when did Mrs Sonia Gandhi and her elitist band of NAC ‘intellectuals’ assume the authority to so single-handedly decide the course of national policies? In such a bleak scenario, where the NFSB has been so voraciously opposed from diverse quarters and viewpoints (including prominent UPA ministers), what are we expected to make of India’s ‘democratic’ process when the government is so explicitly and undemocratically managed by a handful of powerful elite that it is forced to entirely disregard such widespread popular opposition and bend to the will of select individuals? Our fiscal deficit is predicted to exceed the limit of 4.6% of the GDP, as the government has not been able to generate sufficient revenue due to the weakening health of our public sectors, myriad subsidies (such as the fuel subsidy, when fuel is becoming dearer) and deteriorating economic conditions in general. Under such conditions, can we afford additional subsidy burden, knowing well enough that it will go down the drain like other government welfare subsidies? It simply implies that instead of making efforts at tackling the problem of inefficiency and corruption in the existing system, we want to take an easy and short-sighted way out by further erecting new burdensome systems. for complete insightful article visit resurgentindia.org/blog/2012/02/15/national-food-security-bill-insecuring-indians/
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:53:15 +0000
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