News of the day… Prez. promulgates ordinance on Food Security bill.. Me has a foreboding feeling – the middle-class, fasting reducing to be a miniscule number – who are not entitled to subsidized food will be the hardest hit. See, in an effort to supply the humungus amount of foodgrains to feed the garguntan PDS system across the country, the government would go all out to mop up the items from the food surplus states of Punjab and Haryana, and then there is going to be a mad scramble among the wholesale trade from all over India to lay their hands on whatever quantity is available regardless of the asking price. Already the middle-class is groaning under heavy inflation – 300-400% in just 3 or 4 years – examples are those of sugar that sold for Rs.7 or 8 a kilo then, now cost Rs.40, and pulses that would cost Rs.18-20 is over Rs.80 kilo, so also all the vegetables that are sold at Rs.60 in Mumbai! And to cap it all, the huge subsidy to the poor has to be met by the tax-paying middle-class and the affluent. Clearly, the government is myopic and itself lack a pan-India perspective cutting across all strata of the society. All that it is interested in are the votes from the poor to stay on in power so that the ministers and their thousands of minions can prosper.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 07:29:53 +0000
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