BELOW POVERTY LINE (BPL)
Sushant Chowdhary
Below Poverty Line or BPL drive ought to have stringency in branding an Indian Family,
taking into consideration its earning status or/and capacity. It needs to be free from
caste, creed, communal and provincial aspects as well.
It should not be brought within the ambit of politics lest the stained politicians, evil
and opportunistic minded may politicize and cash out for achieving their own desirable
missions.
To our utter dismay, we observe that these BPL branded people fall very pretty
frequently in the hands of such cash rich crooks who tend to utilize them to grab their
evil missions without helping them on gradual recovery from poverty line. Lack of
education, culture, alertness and agility together with subject knowledge and undue
dependence upon cash rich crooks surely push them back.
“Gareebi Hatao” slogan, launched once upon a time by late Mrs Indira Gandhi,
the ex-premier of India severely and miserably cut a sorry figure.
Off late the newly elected President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee has been
reported to have wished before the mass media of inject life to the “Gareebi Hatao”
movement, branding it as “Hunger Elimination” from India.
But it remains to be seen, how far he will succeed in his maiden task in his
present capacity as the first citizen and the resident of Raisina Hills.
If a strategic and planned move is taken by framing laws and by-laws in the
shape of a Bill, honoring the Dos and Don’ts within the ambit of Indian Constitution and if
the Bill gets tabled in both the houses of Parliament and consequently gets passed for
onward introduction and implementation thro’ due enforcement and further it is put for
effective operation and implementation, helping the BPL branded families to get rid of
poverty by escalating their purchasing power, and if it succeeds in its mission, then India
can take a sigh of relief that someday, India will be richer and poverty-free on the bill’s
strategic implementation and which will surely turn out to be a vivid example to be
followed in future by the poverty-stricken nations, viz, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and other
African nations, where food security and poverty are on rampage at present and for so
many years gone by.
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