slogans of culture and civilizations
as if it were the failures of masses.
Burdening the masses with
taxes and cess indirectly by
chanting lofty slogans and schemes
is not a new practice in our country.
Right from the British-colonials, to
their present day heirs-our rulershave been imposing such cess on
common men and toiling masses
and looting them.
Already we are having
Education Cess, Higher educationcess, National High-road cess,
Pure fuel cess etc. through which
the central government is gaining
an income of Rs.1,16,000crores
every year. Besides this the central
government and state governments
are collecting water cess, worker’s
welfare cess and the building and
other constructions’ welfare cess
etc. added to E.S.I.contributions.
Thousands of crores of rupees are
being collected through these
cesses and contributions and none
of these amounts are being spent
for the realisation of the purpose
of these cesses.The construction
workers are left in a destitute
condition despite huge-amounts of
funds areaccrued and accumulated
with the government, to their
supposed welfare. Such has been
our experience for all these 68 yrs.
The benefits as prescribed are not
at all reaching the real beneficiaries.
On the other-hand despite the
so-called development and
advancement of technology even
as on today, the despicable
practice of manual scavenging isa
practice in our country including in
the government organizations. The
conditions of the down-trodden
workers-the dalits-who are forced
and involved in to this work are
inhuman and unacceptable. They
are languishing in deplorable,
unhuman conditions. But the highly
touted ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign,
has nothing in its programmes, to
bring-out the wellbeing and uplift
of these socially and economically
suppressed manual scavenging
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workers and waste pickers. More
over the very recent Maharashtra
government’s decision to showing
the posts of manual scavenging, in
municipalities and panchayats, as
a means of employment shows that
our rulers have staunchly
determined to continue manual
scavenging that too with those
people of drown trodden classes
and sections. This very fact itself
exposes the hypocrisy of our rulers
about their ill-class and casteintentions hidden in their ‘Swachh
Bharat’ proclamations.
Thus the ‘SWACHH BHARAT’
mission proves to be a ruse on one
hand