The growing disparity and the apathy of GOI, whose economic development focus is mainly urban, from textiles, food processing, steel, chemiclas, vehicles, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, computer software and services, communications etc. While Indian billionaires vie for the title of world's richest man(As per transparency intl.in $ terms India officially boasts 10 billionaires, some 85000 millionaires, increasing by 13-15% yearly and over a million with assets over US$100,000), the underprivileged, the rural population, the idigenous tribes(Adivasis), who roughly make 77-80% of the Indian population, are yet to see any real benefit of rising GDP. The disparity between the highest earning states e.g Goa and the poorest Bihar(incl. Jharkhand) is 10:1. UP, M.P, Orissa, W.B are little better and farmers commiting suicides in droves. India is economically strong, and the aggressively progressive domain of educated anglophone Indian entrepreneurs and insiders with traditional wealth or newly acquired money and political contacts ignoring these stark realities with an attitude of business as usual taking advantage of the petty corruption in the 11 basic services( of around Rs. 21, 068 crores, thats 210 billion Rs. or over US$5 billion) as they exploit and ignore the mass of underprivileged without whose labour and purchasing capacity, however small, the Tatas, the Ambanis, Mittals, Birlas etc. would have to settle for a little less. The illusion that planners, policy makers and donors have perpetuated over the last ten years is that Bharata (rural) needs India (urban). Bharata has given subsidized water, food, labour, raw materials to India. At the expense of Bharata, India has developed enormously. Will India Inc. now share the burden of its vast rural populace. Hence for the next 10 years the budget should be pro poor, especially for the benefit of poor rural farmers/artisans. Also necessary labour reforms in unorganised sector be drafted to stop exploitations.
( Posted: Monday , February 11, 2008 at 02:02 )
Pramod Sinha
Good work Congress!!. Requesting FM to make every Indian very poor and so that the govt belongs to poor and run the country efficiently.
( Posted: Friday , February 08, 2008 at 22:58 )
nitin
Congress at its sycophantic best! Who cares about development? Pro poor means more votes.
Why cant the Congress think of saying something like "the budget should be pro development"?
(probably congress = antonym of progress?)
( Posted: Friday , February 08, 2008 at 04:23 )
Harsil
But we have had 60 years of pro-poor budgets in India. Does anyone want to restructure the delivery systems, or do intentionally throw away hard-earned taxpayer money to line your pockets, while fooling voters with non-existent sops? Won't work too much longer, knaves.
( Posted: Thursday , February 07, 2008 at 09:32 )
Ranjan
Under this governament I havent see any programme for poor or farmers sucessfull and I would least expect Mr Finanace Minister to do something about it.
When the agricultural minister himself is busy with cricket, what will this finance minister do??.........manage finance for their party member?
I do not understand for whome does Mr Chitambram bring budgets for? common people or one particular section.
This time it will be another service tax on service tax on cess on intrest rate.........taking the name of farmers!
( Posted: Thursday , February 07, 2008 at 07:12 )
bala
Please spend some money on tech R&D.Its a shame for our country where ISRO employees getting less than what call center job pays monthly.The PC should come out of his casteist mindset and expand education to all using technology.There is a major financial thrust needed from Govt to encourage R&D work in india rather than making slaves for while collar jobs.But I am not sure how a guy like PC can address this.Atleast MMS should direct him to work on this line.It would be a big contribution by MMS for future India.
( Posted: Thursday , February 07, 2008 at 01:28 )
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