Govt.should think about senior citizens als o howe they are pulling their livelihood at this stage when cost of every items are shooting up and Interest rates are coming down is there any solution for this explain us. Pl try to solve these problems. Vijai Mehrotra
Already politicians have become prosperous, all govt. servants job is guaranteed even after death by way of pension and medical to the families. Their remuneration is 3-4 times more comparing to any private sector in total. They all have houses of their own. What more prosperity you expect. All others are slaves to be ruled and taxed.
ppl know the capacity(of eu____?) of puppet woman mohan. woman mohan singh is just moving his neck like a kathputli n speaks after approval from sonia.
He admits that there are different views on what constitutes poverty. But then he also goes on to say that poverty has "reduced with increasing speed since 2004" !!
And the view about what constitutes poverty that he obviously takes in arriving at this discovery is that of the Planning Commission's. The latter recently declared solemnly that all it would need for an urban Indian commoner in order to be not poor is an income of Rs. 870/- per month!!!!!!
With Rs. 870/- per month (i.e., an income of Rs. 3480/- per month for a family of four), all basic needs such as food of minimum required nutritious value, shelter, medical care, education, transport, utitilies, etc. are supposed to be met comfortably enough!!!!!!
And this level of income is deemed adequate when the government is withdrawing with increasing speed from public healthcare, education and other services (where the speed has really and heavily increased for the past twenty years) and leaving the field open for private profiteers in the name of reforms!
The Planning commission has been resorting to the dubious means of 'indexed costs' instead of actual costs to decide what constitutes poverty. It does not take the recent unabated run of hyper inflation in food and non-food prices. It merely brings forward the poverty criterion decided in 1973 by 'indexing' it. On the contrary, the same government indirectly admits that its indexing criteria do not
Re: The PM says
by vinay on Aug 15, 2013 01:28 PM
ppl know the capacity(of eu____?) of puppet woman mohan. woman mohan singh is just moving his neck like a kathputli n speaks after approval from sonia.
reflect actual living costs by having the decadal Pay commissions to decide the hikes for government servants. Why, if price indexing was enough, does the government want the expensive and long drawn out services of Pay commissions to decide remunerative salaries for its staff?
The answer is simple. For, while a fairly senior government servant earning a salary of Rs. 1000 a month in 1973 would have got approximately Rs. 18000 in 2012 if living costs were indexed (as done for deciding poverty levels), he or she actually gets more than Rs. 70000 today as a result of the criteria decided by the Pay commissions.
In other words, the government expects commoners to accept that while the middle classes among them need a 70 fold increase in incomes due to increase in cost of living in the last 40 years, an 18 fold increase in income would do for the vast majority among them who are poor! So, the govt. has indirectly decreed that the poor must make do with a fourth of the actual level of income needed for basic sustenance!
And the govt. keeps braying out that it is the solemn duty of the poor to accept such decrees without any critical thoughts or questions.
Re: The PM says
by Priyadarshi Bhattacharya on Aug 15, 2013 01:38 PM
Are you aware that there is a difference between being poor and being poverty-stricken? You can be (and many are)poor, but be above the poverty line. And can you provide any source where the government says 'all these needs will be met comfortably enough'?
Re: Re: The PM says
by piri on Aug 15, 2013 01:51 PM
What is the difference between being poor and being poverty stricken, pray?
Is it that the poor must make do with an income of Rs. 3480/- per month for an urban family of four?
Is it?
So, an income of Rs. 3480/- per month for a family of four would make that family not poverty stricken?
Really?
Play with words can cover up acute poverty?
And perhaps expecting the poor to go on accepting that they are not poverty stricken makes up the central pillar of the Indian version of economic reforms, liberalisation and globalisation?
Actually he meant 'We have envisioned a prosperous Pakistan' and poor Indians.
On behalf of corrupt congressis, we salute to our robot PM for his heartless,senseless, mindless,powerless governance for last 9yrs. MMS, please resign and get Rahul to become PM for an year.
cot in between god and devil, he just life less doll, what his actions has never punch in them, sorry but just wasted or rather pledged his spunkless life for someone, he might have been a PM but what of life , a legacy that as an indan i would like to forget, just waste of time was really capable PM. just shame on you, with such command in economics,what is that you have done for this country, life will move on at future you have created history, but do you justify
Re: i think it is little too late
by brookie on Aug 15, 2013 01:12 PM
He is just clingin onto gaddi, as Sonia wants him to be a scapegoat incase any of her scam broke out.
His body language seems he is kidnapped/hijacked and kept on gaddi.
