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Arvind Sinha
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Vol. 11, Issue : 4 ,5
April, May 2019
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On Others Pages:
1. Document :
- Communist Platform, Italy
6
2. World Affairs:
- New Zealand
12
- Algeria 13
- Honoi Summit 14
3. Labour File:
- Apple CSR 15
- Shram Yogi Mandhan 16
- Dismantling BSNL 18
summarized the working of this programme as failed to bring out the
beneficiaries from poverty and they were in need of another round of
help to come out of the poverty.
This failure led to another debate that suggested a strategy that
combines asset formation and wage employment as poverty
eradication programme. This led to the formulation of Employment
guarantee schemes which finally culminated in MNREGA.
On the other side, there was an argument that one cannot ask
the hungry people to wait for the results to be yielded by the created
assets and they had to be provided immediately with food. This
argument led to the implementation of schemes like
Rs. 2 a Kg rice, anna canteens etc. this later took the turn as populist
schemes that treated peoples as beggars always waiting to be given
doles from the rulers.
Though the successive governments tampered with the statistics
to show that the number of people below the poverty line had reduced
over the time, the fact of the matter is that the poverty of the masses
of people has reached to gigantic proportions. Even some of the official
studies showed that poverty eradication programmes including the
latest MNREGA had failed in alleviating poverty in the country.
These programmes are a failure because they failed to address
the basic causes for the poverty in India. Even today the tiller of the
land has no right over the land he tills. Neatly 60 per of the tillers of
the land are landless peasants. Without the redistribution of land on
the basis of land to the tiller, there will not be any development in the
country that can provide decent living standards for the people. So
most of the rural population are underemployed because not of their
choice but for lack of alternative opportunity.
The wealth of the country created by the toiling people is being
cornered by the imperialist sharks and a hand full of biog Indian
bourgeois class leaving only a meager protion of national wealth to
the people. Thus the pervading semi-feudal relations and imperialist
exploitation and domination are the main causes of poverty in India.
Unless and until the semi feudalism is eradicated and imperialism is
thrown out of the country, poverty will continue to haunt the people of
India that their lives doomed into misery.
4. Political & Economic Notes:
- Cow cess 20
- Rural Distress 21
5. Statement :
- Pakistan CP 22
- Lanjigarh Violence 23
6. Report :
- Karl Marx bi-centinery
- AP: TDP Govt.Promises ...
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