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Raj Kumar Makkad (Adv P & H High Court Chandigarh)     15 January 2010

CENTRE AND STATES HAVE FAILED ON PRICES

THE Centre and the states are currently engaged in a predictable mutual blame game on food inflation. The truth is that both have contributed their own acts of commission and omission which have led to the current crisis. That the current crisis — a scenario of over 20 per cent inflation in food articles — could have largely been avoided only makes the failure of governance in this instance worse.

 

It is not as if the government did not know that trouble was brewing. That the monsoons were going to be deficient was known more than six months ago. Sugar, another commodity which has seen a record surge in prices, was going to face a huge shortfall in production, a fact which was known months ago, and sugar mills had even taken some preventive action by importing raw sugar in bulk. That 10 lakh tonnes of sugar so imported are still stuck in ports because of bureaucratic hurdles only compounded the problem. And the actions like UP chief minister Mayawati's move to ban the ' import' of raw sugar into the state, to placate the lobby of sugarcane farmers, only added fuel to the fire.

 

But there are long- term as well as shortterm reasons for the growing pressure on food prices. India's agricultural output has been growing painfully slowly. And, while there is talk of free trade with other nations, the internal market for food articles continues to be enmeshed in red tape and regulations, giving middlemen and hoarders free reign. A mission- mode approach, with concrete steps to increase food production, while removing infrastructure and other bottlenecks in the food market, is the need of the hour.



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(Guest)

When Agricultural lands are converting into real estate business how we will expect more production of food grains? Our MPs, MLAs donot die with hunger. Our cabinets speak lengthy that they will take action to control prices of essential commodities. Both center and state utterly failed to control prices of essential commodities.

Bhartiya No. 1 (Nationalist)     15 January 2010

Essential commodity Act is a tool to earn money. With conniving govt. officials/politicians traders are manipulating prices. Now everywhere elections are over, and Congress Party has got desired result everywhere, so why they should worry and for whom? Even Agricultural lands are being converted into real estate business, there are lots of land lying vacant, without cultivation due to lack of facilities and naxal problem. Just go to naxal hit rural areas, u can get good agricultural land at 10,000/ per Acre. Just Imagine what is the situation.

RAJ KISHORE VAISH (TEACHER CITIZEN OF INDIA)     17 January 2010

 THERE IS NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE CORRUPTION AT PRESENT .....................

                               

HON'BLE CITIZEN'S

                  GET THE COPY OF JUDGEMEMT PASSED BY SUPREME COURT OF INDIA IN THE CONTEMPT PITITION NO.203 OF 1996 IN THE MATTER OF RAJ KISHORE VAISH  V/S THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INDIA AND OTHERS(FEW JUDGES OF HIGH COURT) DO ANY CRIME , ANY CORRUPTION  NOBODY CAN PUNISH YOU TILL THE ABOVE NOTED JUDGEMENT IS LIVE  ...........IN INDIA.

                            RAJ KISHORE VAISH


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