By: Er. H.R.
Phonsa, Jammu
Enlarged and updated
India is one of the most nature
favoured land. Nature has bestowed India with abundant natural resources. It has
world’s high peaks of Himalayan mountains in the North. Himalayan mountains have not only acted as a
natural barrier against foreign
intruders from the North but it controls weather year over making India
as most pleasant place to live. Himalaya
peaks remain covered with snow year over. Our mighty rivers the Ganga, the Brahmaputra and the Indus with their tributaries emanate from
Himalayas. Indian South Plateau having rivers
Subarnarekha, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, etc ( East flowing) and the Narmada, the Tapi or Tapti and the Sabarmati( West flowing). Length of
Indian Coastal line is 7,517 km
out of which the south west Indian coastline along the Arabian
sea has 2908.1Kms
and The South Eastern coastline along the Bay of Bengal has 2094 Kms besides this 2094 coast line
encircles out 572 (Andaman Nekowar )
and 36 ( Lakshadweep) islands .For
centuries the coastal areas besides providing safety from foreign invaders provided easy trade routes supplying in
abundance aquatic food. We are lucky to have the vast water
resources; hot dry land patches (Max. Recorded Temp
520C) of high temperature ranges, snow covered coldest mountain
regions (minimum recorded temp. of minus 480C), world’s wettest place (with recoded per
annum 26,000 millimetres (1,000 in) of
rainfall in 1985), forest green
areas( 23.8 % of land area) making India an all weather Country year around.
Hardly any other country on the world map can boast of such natural treasurer.
India possesses Coal (4th largest reserves in the world), Iron ore, Manganese
ore (7th largest reserve in the world as in 2013), Mica, Bauxite (5th largest
reserve in the world as in 2013), Chromites, Natural gas, Diamonds,
Limestone and Thorium (world's largest along coast of Kerala shores).
We rightly claim to be the oldest
civilisation of the world. Despite all this the distribution of National resources
India has been unfair with its unfortunate poverty ridden population from
centuries. In the world among humen there are colour and economic disparities. But
India has unique character where besides colour and economic disparities,
there are caste hate disparities. There are remedies for other disparities but
not for caste hate among Hindus. Many good hearted reformists have tries to
find solution to caste but have had
little or no success. Even those who
have left Hinduism, for reasons of caste hate disparities, to embrace, Islam,
Christianity, Sikhism, majority have
carried their Hindu castes tags along. India attained freedom after 2200
years from foreign yoke 72 years ago.
Even during this period we have seen India slipping into two Bharats Rich or
elite and poor or deprived Bharat with in India, both having hardly any thing as equality social, economic, caste
unification meeting point.. Even after attaining freedom the condition of
Deprived Bhartiyas have changed but little. India is the second most unequal
country in the world according to Global Wealth Report 2016 compiled by
Credit Suisse Research Institute. A study by
a Berlin-based NGO pegs India as ‘Most Corrupt Country in Asia-Pacific Region.
As many as big 207 scams took place in India involving enormous
money amounts between 1951-2018. In nine
shamefully top scams (2003-2018) Rs
6,71,420 crores were pilfer- aged by
corrupt politicians, business
persons , their relations and henchmen. Elite India is for Bullet Train and the other
is for increase in the frequency of trains besides increase in the number of bogies
so that they climb down from train roof tops into bogies. We
are a home of 21% of world’s poor. As of 2014 showing 58% of the total Indian population were
living on less than $3.10 per day. Indian government planned in 2005 to bring
complete change in healthcare and family planning through Accredited social health activists(
ASHA) and their helpers. But their
monthly honorarium in September 2018 was respectively Rs 3000/-and 1500/- which is slated to be increased to Rs
4500/-and Rs 2500/ from October 2018 claiming as a land mark by the Prime
Minister Mr. Narinder Modi. How these
poor helpless workers are maintaining their families is any body’s guess. As
per the International Rights Group OXFA
"It would take around 17.5 days for the best paid executive at a top
Indian garment company to earn what a minimum wage worker in rural India will
earn in their lifetime, presuming 50 years at work." Elite Bharat has added 19 more billionaires to
reach 121 numbers (2018) from 2017
count of 102 billionaires. This makes India to house the third largest group of
ultra-rich in the world. Mukesh Ambani , who is way ahead of other Indian
billionaires in terms of assets, became richer by $16.9 billion in 2018 (March
07, 2018 ET Now Digital ) with net worth
Net
Worth: $ 39.6 Billion. However in 1998
only Indian Billionaire was his father Dhirubhai
Ambani on
the Forbes' list of billionaires with net worth of $1.2 billion. During last 20
years late Dhirubhai Ambani’s family worth has increased by 2205 %.
But their greed to earn by applying fair and foul means becomes clear in
Scraping, by J&K Governor shri Satya Pal Malik, the Insurance policy with
Reliance saying it was full of frauds( The Daily Excelsior
Oct.25,2018).
In poverty ridden Bharatiyas from 1998 to 2018 as
many as
3, 00,000 farmers ( Indian
Bread producers) committed suicides( (Wikipedia) for various
reasons, out of them bank
loans outstanding and crop failures being major reason. If the number of farm labourers
is added this figure may shoot up many times. Maharashtra State having Indian
economic capital Mumbai has $410 billion ( Rs 27.88 lakh crores) GDP, over 6 %
of National GDP ( 2018-19 estimated). But Maharashtra sadly witnessed suicides of
poor Bhartiyas farmers as large as 70,000 (1995-2017). Mumbai red light areas,
bars, brothels have over 1,00,000
prostitutes, (now called sex workers) out of
their country wide estimated
population of 6,57,829 (Nov.2016 UNAIDS). Underage
population of prostitutes is estimated as 12 Lakhs . All these unfortunate ladies come from deprived Indians with compulsions of
bread earning. The system of Devdassies or temple dancing ladies with in age
group of 6 to 37 years was shame on name of religion and religion manager
Prohits, who sexually exploited helpless ladies coming from deprived Bhartiyas.
The “The Quint, Jan.
2018” quotes that Indian top one
per cent of the population is owning
nearly 73% of the total National wealth
generated, The survey also showed that
their wealth increased by over Rs 20.9
lakh crores during 2017 , an amount nearly
equivalent to Union budget 2017-18 pegged
at Rs 21.47 Lakh Crores. Unfortunate deprived Bhartiyas with 67 crores
population of poorest , as large as half of India, saw their wealth rise by
just 01 per cent.
Unfortunate among poor
Bharat 454 million or 38. 2% of total
population lived below poverty line ( Rangarajan committee report 2014). India
houses 1/3 of world’s hungry, here nearly 20 crores go hungry daily and has
30.7% children (below 5yrs) under weight due to malnutrition.
Estimates show that in poverty ridden India 7000 die
daily of hunger. In July 2018 three
sisters, aged 2,4,8 years died of hunger in National capita Delhi disproving
all claims of government to care of poor Bhartiyas. A shame to managers of secular, Democratic
government affairs with constitutional guarantee
of equality for all .The undernourished Indian population is as high as 14.5%
who are non other than deprived Bhartiyas.
Due to neglect and defective planning manned mostly by Elite Bhartiyas
67 million tons of food grains worth Rs92,000 cores go waste annually ( Clean
India, May 12,2018) where as 7000 daily die of hunger. Recently
World Bank reported that 60% of food subsidies do not reach poor ( Deprived
Bharat) and are siphoned off by middleman or Elite Bharat. Late Rajiv Gandhi Indian
Prime Ministers said in Kalahandi district Orissa in 1985 that out of Rupee One
spent by government only 15 paise reach the intended welfare of downtrodden
beneficiary. This fact is accepted by Mr. Narinder Modi Indian P.M. even after over 30 years in a different form and
percentage. J&K Governor has confessed presence of corruption during
previous regimes including PDP-BJP governments ( The Daily Excelsior
Oct.25,2018).
Unfortunate poor Bharat had in 2011 over 32
crores illiterates (26% of population), 60 millions children of 6- 14 years of
age are out of schools, large numbers of
school drop outs,90% of those who attend schools read very little. Despite
this there is a total divide in imparting education for Elite and Deprived
Bhartiyas, a basic need and Fundamental Right of every Indian
child. For Elite Bhartiyas children have ultra modern education imparting
gadgets, air conditioned class rooms and transport vehicles ,proper student
teacher ratio. Many of them enjoy reading in foreign universities. Where as in Deprived
Bharat many schools are run from under
the tree shades with majority human needs infrastructures missing, at places
the student teacher ratio is as poor as
42:1. The quality of education is so poor that even some teachers cannot write an essay of a few
lines . British Govt. had promised to have 100% literacy in India by 1984, where
as independent India reached 40.76% by 1981 with women literacy as low as
25.68%. Indian budget spending on education has hovered around 3% of GDP which
has proven inadequate to the needs. The private and religions run education
institutions, out of reach of deprived Bhartiyas due to Exorbitant fees , caste
factors but these institutions, are getting liberal government financial aid and lands at throw away prices at the cost of
government institutions financial health. The right to education
is no right to education but right to attend school.
The elite Bharat lives
in palatial buildings with large lawns, ultramodern gadgets fitted. Where as in
deprived unfortunate Bharat living in slums has increased from 5.20 crores in
2001 to 12.8 crores in 2017. A slum is defined “A residential area where
dwellings are unfit for human habitation being in dilapidation conditions,
overcrowding, lack of ventilation, sanitation and having drinking water
facilities in unhygienic conditions”. Four metropolitans Indian cities, where
our majority elites live ,has percentage of slum population as given in
brackets against their names as Delhi (15%), Kolkata (29.6%) Greater Mumbai (42%)
and Chennai (28%). Despite this our first citizen lives in 130 hector
Rashterpati Bhawan, a richest Indian has
27 storey house in4532 m2
plot in Mumbai costing over
$2billion. Not only this in Delhi over VVIP leaders has occupied even after their deaths as their samadhies having area as 245 hectors ( Samadhi of Atal
Behari Bajpai excluded) land along river Yamuna Bank. Some of them died after
2000, when government decided to stop having separate samadhies. Lakhs of acres
of open land is under religious shrines manned by Elite Bhartiyas . Carpet
area of a house in EWS, LIG in Govt scheme house for all is 30m2and 60m2 respectively. An economically weak
section (EWS)
are those persons whose recently revised annual income is up to Rs3,
00,000/-. This category of people can avail housing loan from banks on
subsidised interest’s rates up to Rs 5.00 Lacs to built their own
houses. This amount is insufficient to purchase even a land piece for house in
urban India.
Besides many other tricks
of swindling government money by Elite Bhartiyas NPA is one trick (NPA means Non performing
assets, assets) created by business persons by obtaining loans from banks
against over valued/non existing mortgaged
properties/stores, which have defaulted to return loans. In March
2018 NPA of 26 PSU Banks stood at 10.25
Lakh Crores or 11.8% of the total advances of 13.41%.The NPA stood at just 2.36%
in 2011.It will not be surprising to note that 12 top defaulter companies account
for 25% of total NPA. Out of total defaulters
RBI listed 12 top defaulters with total
out standing NPA of Rs 2,28,668 crores and their net profit (-) Rs 27395
crores for FY 2016. But the union government instead of napping loan defaulters
to recover out standings have pumped into PSU Banks, in 5 years 2011-12 to
2015-16 Rs-15, 95,000 crore. Some of
high profile defaulters have succeeded to safely fly to foreign countries
making their repatriation difficult and costly.
As per
CBI’s report disclosed in Indian Parliament Elite but unprincipled Bhartiya
illegally hold US$500 billions in Switzerland Banks. Unaccented money siphoned through scams and
other such means is big shame on
Indians. Panama leaks (Estimated Rs 1140 crores) show names of high placed
politicians including their relatives, business persons including bureaucrats
who swindled their unaccounted money to foreign land little concerning for poverty at home. Over 3000-4000 tons of gold
is estimated being held in temples.
Single Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala is worth of Rs1.2 Lakh crore and is
reported to hold 1300 tons of gold. This
temple is one out of the 108 Lord Vishnu temples where as RBI as on June,2017 held only 566.23metric
tons of gold. It seems temple
authorities comprising of Elite Indians have no
human heart for diseased ,illiterate,
living below poverty line Indians poor. Accumulated wealth in temples invited
foreigner invaders’ to loot the booty, kill the people enslave men and women in
large numbers. Heartless Brahmin poojaries accumulated precious metals and stones
worth rupees trillions in the name of All merciful, Almighty God at
the cost of miseries of common people who were diseased, naked, illiterates and
ill fed .
Due to lack lust
approach of farm loan wavering the suicide of farmers are continuing. In December 2016 there was Rs 12.6 lakh crores
(Equivalent to1.23 times NPA and 0.039 times of black money held in foreign
banks) as total farm loan ( MOS Agri. in RS) but government gave no
assurance to wave it off. There were 90.2 million households of marginal and
small farmers in 2013 (NSS) who could be benefitted by loan wavering. The marginal and small farmers are those
whose land holding is less than 1-2 hectors (2.5 to 5 acres) .India holds 20
crore acres of wasted land under Indian Railways, State land, degraded forests,
Highways which can be allotted to 4 crore landless persons/farmers at the rate
of 4 acres each family which shall enhance form products besides raising status
of poor farmers ( The Tribune, Ambala May 11,2009).
Despite clear cut Laws to evict land encroachers ,large chunk of government lands are under illegal encroachments by influential persons .In J&K State alone 18,00,000
Kanals or 90000 Hectare government land is illegally encroached
( Daily Excelsior 24/07/2018 Indians
are poor people with rich gods. India is a house of 31million unemployed (
7%).The avenues for employments are fully under control of Elite Bhartiyas. The
share of 3.75% of total country
employment is in Government sector where a little share is with poor due
to reservation in employment for weaker sections (SCs, STs, OBCs). But 3.54%of
total employment opportunities are with private sector, where poor
sections have share in labour and junior
ministerial jobs but tactfully all
managerial jobs are with Elite Bhartiyas.
The chances of
reduction of gap between to influential and deprived Bhartiyas seem little in
the near future. The possibility of change lies faithfully implementing the
constitution provisions of share of deprived Bhartiyas in all the four wings of
democracy viz: political,
administrative, judiciary and media. But the elected representative too comes
from the Elite Bhartiyas their concern for the left over Indian lot has been seen
as lack lust. In the 16th
Lok Sabha we have 449 crorepaties MP’s. The Rajya Sabha is no different where 90%
MP’s(RS) are crorepaties with the richest having assets of Rs 4,078 crores as on 22-3-2018. The Chief Election Commissioner of India has shown his inability to check abuse of black money in elections due to inadequate
laws. He has accepted abuse of social media platforms, fake news, control of
management of electoral rolls, campaign finance, data theft, data harvesting in
polling process. In 16th Lok Sabha out of 541 winners as many
as 186 have criminal cases out of which 112 has serious criminal cases against
them. Even the Apex court has skipped proposing any punitive action against
those elected representatives having well established criminal cases against them, by telling , this
was the domain of elected representatives
to pass any law on this account. It is not understandable that how big political parties will be prepared to bring
any punitive law in the parliament against their own elected persons to whom
they have earlier given party tickets
for contesting elections on party symbols.
The MP’s from the poor strata to fill the
reserved post cannot speak either due to their poor knowledge or due to party
whips and fear to loose seat under anti defection laws. Their selection is on
the basis of their party loyalty and not due to their community loyalty or
community good work done.
In the Indian judiciary only 250-300 families
contribute Supreme court and Hc’s judges since 1947. In the administration majority of senior
administrative posts are held by another few families mostly from higher
castes. The Indian media is held by big corporate houses with little concern
for the poor. Since 1947 many hundred welfare
schemes have been launched, out of which many schemes re-names modified/changed
with the change of every Prime minister.
But these schemes have failed to mitigate the conditions of deprived
Bhartiyas to the desired level.
As per version of Babu Parmanand (
1932-2008) former Governor of Haryana Indian’s
poverty removal lies in faithfully implementing of three problems
1)
Education to all with one
syllabus for all irrespective of caste, creed or religion
and one rate of
school fees for both public and private schools.
2)
Land and House to the landless as per their minimum need.
3) Job to all able jobless hands according
to their skills.
In
India the infamous caste-class-power nexus, which renders most program
implementation vulnerable to hijack through the unholy conspiracy among the
rural /urban elite to the detriment of the rural poor and finally, lax
oversight and soft mechanisms to check and to correct inappropriate program
implementation.
Of late the
Constitution burning incidents are taking place besides open talks by ruling
dispensation members to change the Constitution are no healthy signs for the
country. The right to education is no right to education but right to attend
school.
Elite Indians has created a world of their own
with in India with fencing so high and strong that
hardly any person from the poverty ridden deprived Bhartiyas can penetrate in their domain. Elite Bhartiyas move
by daily rise or fall of census where as poor by the daily market price of Dal
( pulses) and Atta (flour). With 26%
illiterate the Monthly
mobile-wallet payments carry hardly any meaning.
It seems that the only
concern of elites for poor’s is to get their votes during elections. It looks
as India is being run as a business house of Elite Bhartiya and not a welfare
state as per the canons of our Constitution. All pleasures for the elite
Bhartiyas at the cost of all discomforts to the deprived Bhartiyas.
Continuity of these trends are signs to lead
country towards civil war, so need iron hands
free of caste prejudices to check
what has happened in India in the past. India should be above all our
personnel greed to make it again “WE the people of India----- not me a
privileged or deprived Indian”.
For better future of India ,let us listen
seriously to Soami Vivekananda “A
distribution of pain and pleasure is better, than always the same persons
having pains and pleasure”
Words 3267
Dated :-14th
Nov., 2018 By
:-Er. H. R.Phonsa, Jammu
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