Every ten years the great day arrives when we are counted (Census). This years data includes:
Name, age, profession, qualification, father's name, father's father's name, mother's name, mother's mother's name, names of sons and daughters with their age, qualification, profession, owners of radio, TV, cycle, motor cycle, car, house, years of stay, blah, blah, blah. Remember no CASTE yet.
A family lives on the footpath. They are great citizens of India. No ration card, no passport, no domicile certificate, no census taken, no school, no hospital, no house, no birth or death certificate, they speak a dialect which I can't understand, their children are born and die on the roadside. They are allowed to fill a couple of buckets of water from a nearby society tap. Roadside itself is their lavatory. They are daily wage earners. Buy their requirements from he nearby grocery store on daily basis and make out a living from day to day. They can't count beyond ten-twenty. I did not talk to him about Antyodaya Yojana, Rozgar Guarantee Yojana, GDP, CIP, Inflation, MNCs.
Rajiv Gandhi - 15 paise out of Re.1 goes to villages.
Rahul Gandhi - 5 paise out of Re.1 goes to village ( from father ton son great improvement)
I have no hear to tell the family that it is not poverty. We all are reaping the fruits of globalisation. If the foodgrains are rotting in FCI godowns and sold as cattle feed, it is not because there are no human being with hungry mouths but it is more important to feed cattle.
The story is endless. India is the fastest growing economy. We continue to pay higher prices for our daily needs at a faster pace.
