DEFINE POVERTY IN A NEW WAY
I have written a lot on kashmir.Probably, this is the hottest topic today, which is trying to tear our national fabric. Now let us come to the core issue of poverty eradication.
After 61 years of our independence and various poverty eradication schemes adopted by various governments have been a flop. Rajiv gandhi correctly said, only 15% of the money alloted for poor, reach to them. Rest is eaten up by bureacracy from top to the tehsil level. Are the statistics given by govt and world bank correct ? After all the datas are also provided by bureacracy, which are far from reality. In a country like india, where the poor have little access to free primary healthcare and education and cost of living varies across length and breadth of the country.Rs 21/- in urban areas and Rs 14/- in rural areas a day, per person is a fair measure of standard of living ?
The govt.needs to relook its strategy for reducing poverty. Schemes such as National Rural Empolyment Guarantee Scheme, which provides minimum wages can at best provide solutions for the short term. The rapid indutrialisation, especially creating special economic zones, can threaten to displace people from their land and put them into destitution, if adequate measures are not taken to prepare poor for participation in the marketplace. Education and Healthcare becomes critical here.It must be given adequate weightage, along with calorific value, in determining the actual poverty line.
Indeed it is ironical,that in a country of more than a billion, the industry is facing shortage of skilled workers, while over 700 million live on less than rs 85/- a day.Long term plans to address poverty must include measures to not just send all children to school to gain primary education but skill development at secondary school level, so that they become market-enabled.. Only thenn acual reforms be deemed complete.
After 61 years of our independence and various poverty eradication schemes adopted by various governments have been a flop. Rajiv gandhi correctly said, only 15% of the money alloted for poor, reach to them. Rest is eaten up by bureacracy from top to the tehsil level. Are the statistics given by govt and world bank correct ? After all the datas are also provided by bureacracy, which are far from reality. In a country like india, where the poor have little access to free primary healthcare and education and cost of living varies across length and breadth of the country.Rs 21/- in urban areas and Rs 14/- in rural areas a day, per person is a fair measure of standard of living ?
The govt.needs to relook its strategy for reducing poverty. Schemes such as National Rural Empolyment Guarantee Scheme, which provides minimum wages can at best provide solutions for the short term. The rapid indutrialisation, especially creating special economic zones, can threaten to displace people from their land and put them into destitution, if adequate measures are not taken to prepare poor for participation in the marketplace. Education and Healthcare becomes critical here.It must be given adequate weightage, along with calorific value, in determining the actual poverty line.
Indeed it is ironical,that in a country of more than a billion, the industry is facing shortage of skilled workers, while over 700 million live on less than rs 85/- a day.Long term plans to address poverty must include measures to not just send all children to school to gain primary education but skill development at secondary school level, so that they become market-enabled.. Only thenn acual reforms be deemed complete.
posted by vaneet kundra at
Sunday, August 31, 2008
3 Comments:
It is a shame... look at China, a superpower. and india much much behind china. Put all the members of parliament in the parliament house. Lock the doors. Blow them up with bombs.
Let new educated, dynamic young people run the country.
yes its a shame...not only educating people is going to help but yes putting all members of parliament in the parliament house & locking them up will make a difference...yesterday only someone told me that all the money collected for the flood relief is going to all the ministers pockets instead of reaching the poor & affected. so how do u suppose poverty is going to be eradicated from our counrty???//
Dear lavi and Anonymous guy,
I request the anonymous guy, to mention his name. I requested this before also. I must know, who that likeminded person is ! Thanks again lavi, for your straight comments. Politicians deserve this.
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