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of the Modern India
Our India is supposed to be a
modern country which attained its
‘independence’ from the British
colonial rule of exploitation and
plunder 71 years back.
Our rulers boast that ours is a
world’s fastest growing economy,
and proudly proclaim that we got
land-mark achievements by
showing GDP figures that say that
our country is ahead of France etc.
Our rulers travel citing the
distinction awarded to them by the
World Bank-an imperialist financial
organization-for creating a best
atmosphere to do easy business
for the corporate world.
For all these 71 years our
rulers from Nehru to the present
day Modi have been talking about
alleviation of poverty of the people
and launching many a schemes.
We
have
witnessed
the
programmes like ‘Garibi hatao’,
‘Aam Admi’ and schemes like
M.N.R.E.G.A. supposed to be
intended to help the poor in
alleviating their poverty and
hunger. We have also witnessed
the ‘great technological-digital’
advanced Aadhar drive which is
supposed to be instrumental in
fetching all the social-welfare
entitlements to the door of the
poor. We are also aware that a so-
called ‘food security act’ was
enacted with much fan-fare and
propaganda. We are also aware of
the fact that the production of food
in India has reached to 27.5 crore
tones, surpassing the actual need
of food to the people of India 23
crore tonnes as has been
estimated by the World Economic
Forum.
But all these claims and so-
called achievements prove to be of
no help, when it comes to the
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experience of the common people
particularly to the population below
the poverty line. Claims that crores
of people were lifted out of poverty
according to ‘undisputed’ official
figures are in no way a solace to
the poor people who suffer with
hunger and malnutrition and
under-nourishment.
Neither the GDP numbers tell
the story of the plight of the poor
nor the distinction in ease of doing
business reveals whether the lives
of the people are ever improved or
not.
The world hunger index
released last year shows at the
100 th place of the list of 119
countries listed in the world. Our
position is far worse than
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
and Nepal our neighbouring under
developed countries.
According to the U.N. Human
Development Index, India slipped
by one rank to 131 among 188
countries.
But our rulers incessantly
make efforts, to make believe the
people that our country is
developing and progressing and
reaching to the level of a ‘super
power ’.
With
such
false propaganda they are playing the
electoral game of entering in to
and keeping up of the
governmental power without caring
about the well-being of the people
of this country.
‘However the recent horren-
dous hunger-deaths of 3 children
in the very Indian capital Delhi and
some other reported hunger death
in Jharkand state near Rayaghad
shatters the myth of well-being
propagated by the rulers, shaming
us and our country. In fact such
incidents are neither rare nor
uncommon in India. Social activists
claim that hunger deaths are a
common every-day feature in
India, which fact cannot be
ignored. Such hunger-deaths
galore in rural India which are not
reported attracting the media.
The above mentioned hunger
deaths reveal the sardonic fact that
even after possessing the glorified
“all encompassing “Aadhar Cards”,
the victims of hunger were made
ineligible for a ration card and its
benefits!
Not surprisingly as usual the
administration argues that they are
not hunger-deaths but deaths of
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contd from page 20 the areas, for defeating the very
judicial process that has started trail
into inhuman atrocities of the
concerned army officials and
personnel particularly in Manipur
state.
To attempt to project this as a
‘tightening the hands of army’ and
opposing the entire army institution
is nothing but a false hood
assigned at the peoples aspirations
and interests opposing them
fluently with a deadly might which
cannot be allowed in any real
democratic republic!
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generals and attorney generals to
the courts-to Supreme court –as
has already occurred in the case
of Major Lalit Gogoi who used
civilian as a shield to his zeep.
This is how a persistent
attempt is being made syste-
matically against the righteous
aspirations and demands of people
of AFSPA imposed states for the
revocation of the draconian AFSPA
law besides punishing those
responsible for extra-judicial killings
fake encounters, rapes, maiming
and looting of innocent people in