04-11-2008, 07:32 PM
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Wow, the great genius, economic-pundits have spoken. What survey did Kamal Nath or Sharad Pawar conduct through the GOI machineries, to arrive at these breath-taking conclusions about changes in eating habits of poor people and about the tamarind-eating south Indians? (Patanjali had noted that Dravida-s are so called because they eat tamarind).
Is it because they are eating more that many poor farmers are also driven to suicide?
If the economic mismanagement of the economy by open loot of funds from the central exchequer (Lalu's fodder scam pales into insignificance compared to this ongoing loot during the last few years), can result in poor people eating more, Sonia Gandhi and her chamcha-s can go round the country and claim it as a victory of the UPA's policies supported by the CPM. The rural employment guarantee scheme launched on the advice the Belgian-born economic kid on the block (Jean Dreze) means an open loot of the exchequer with no accountability and no work to show anyb contribution to enhancing nation's wealth. A culture of dependence is sought to be built among the poor people of the nation by using what Arun Shourie has rightly called 'My hoon na...' answer to every problem related to mismanagement of the annual budget or fiscal policy or allowing share markets to run riot using bogus derivative instruments and promissory notes.
I hope the opposition parties using these great one-liners of Kamal Nath and also Sharad Pawar to wipe the UPA and CPM-chamcha's out of India's political scene.
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Poor are eating more and it's a challenge: Kamal Nath
By - Kay Benedict
NEW DELHI: The inflation rate touched a three-year high of 7% on Friday pushing a panic button in the government as the ruling Congress continued to grope in the dark to arrest the galloping prices of essential commodities.
A few days after agriculture minister Sharad <b><span style='color:red'>Pawar blamed the south Indians for eating more chapatis causing wheat shortage, commerce minister Kamal Nath on Friday said increased food consumption by poor people is a challenge before the government. </b></span>
"We have great supply-side challenges in India at the moment with 15 million people moving from having one meal a day to two meals a day," Nath said on the the sidelines of a conference in Singapore.
"Consumption of foodgrains have nearly doubled," he said. Nath also said the government will take stern action against hoarders and blackmarketeers, a step, the Left parties have been demanding since several months, to contain price rise.
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, undaunted by criticism by a section of Congressmen for his being indifferent to the price rise, said, "there was sufficient foodgrains in the stock and therefore there is no need to worry. And that the steps taken by the government would take a few days to yield results."
Under pressure from the allies, especially the Left which is threatening to launch a "militant" agitation across the country, the union cabinet had on Monday announced a slew of measures to contain spiralling prices. Not satisfied by the "half-hearted" steps such as slashing import duty on crude edible oil and other edible oils, the CPI(M) is planning to call on prime minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the issue.
The Left in conjunction with the United National Progressive Alliance parties are meeting here on Tuesday to discuss contours of a joint agitation against skyward prices.
"Well, I would say this particular price increase is really the effect of certain situations in the international economic," said noted economist Arjun Sengupta. "The problem that has been caused recently is metal price increase. Wheat prices have started slackening, the essential commodity prices are not going up as fast. There is a major problem and it is what to do with the essential commodities," Sengupta said.
"The mistake that everybody is making - according to me - is talking about inflation in general. This inflation is not a momentary phenomenon because our domestic demand has not got out of sync with international demand," he said.
Putting up a brave front Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said, "wait for a few weeks more for the cumulative impact of the measures we have taken. There is no magic button. If the opposition knows one, they should let us know. We are more concerned than anybody else."
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1158662
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Wow, the great genius, economic-pundits have spoken. What survey did Kamal Nath or Sharad Pawar conduct through the GOI machineries, to arrive at these breath-taking conclusions about changes in eating habits of poor people and about the tamarind-eating south Indians? (Patanjali had noted that Dravida-s are so called because they eat tamarind).
Is it because they are eating more that many poor farmers are also driven to suicide?
If the economic mismanagement of the economy by open loot of funds from the central exchequer (Lalu's fodder scam pales into insignificance compared to this ongoing loot during the last few years), can result in poor people eating more, Sonia Gandhi and her chamcha-s can go round the country and claim it as a victory of the UPA's policies supported by the CPM. The rural employment guarantee scheme launched on the advice the Belgian-born economic kid on the block (Jean Dreze) means an open loot of the exchequer with no accountability and no work to show anyb contribution to enhancing nation's wealth. A culture of dependence is sought to be built among the poor people of the nation by using what Arun Shourie has rightly called 'My hoon na...' answer to every problem related to mismanagement of the annual budget or fiscal policy or allowing share markets to run riot using bogus derivative instruments and promissory notes.
I hope the opposition parties using these great one-liners of Kamal Nath and also Sharad Pawar to wipe the UPA and CPM-chamcha's out of India's political scene.
xxx
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Poor are eating more and it's a challenge: Kamal Nath
By - Kay Benedict
NEW DELHI: The inflation rate touched a three-year high of 7% on Friday pushing a panic button in the government as the ruling Congress continued to grope in the dark to arrest the galloping prices of essential commodities.
A few days after agriculture minister Sharad <b><span style='color:red'>Pawar blamed the south Indians for eating more chapatis causing wheat shortage, commerce minister Kamal Nath on Friday said increased food consumption by poor people is a challenge before the government. </b></span>
"We have great supply-side challenges in India at the moment with 15 million people moving from having one meal a day to two meals a day," Nath said on the the sidelines of a conference in Singapore.
"Consumption of foodgrains have nearly doubled," he said. Nath also said the government will take stern action against hoarders and blackmarketeers, a step, the Left parties have been demanding since several months, to contain price rise.
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, undaunted by criticism by a section of Congressmen for his being indifferent to the price rise, said, "there was sufficient foodgrains in the stock and therefore there is no need to worry. And that the steps taken by the government would take a few days to yield results."
Under pressure from the allies, especially the Left which is threatening to launch a "militant" agitation across the country, the union cabinet had on Monday announced a slew of measures to contain spiralling prices. Not satisfied by the "half-hearted" steps such as slashing import duty on crude edible oil and other edible oils, the CPI(M) is planning to call on prime minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the issue.
The Left in conjunction with the United National Progressive Alliance parties are meeting here on Tuesday to discuss contours of a joint agitation against skyward prices.
"Well, I would say this particular price increase is really the effect of certain situations in the international economic," said noted economist Arjun Sengupta. "The problem that has been caused recently is metal price increase. Wheat prices have started slackening, the essential commodity prices are not going up as fast. There is a major problem and it is what to do with the essential commodities," Sengupta said.
"The mistake that everybody is making - according to me - is talking about inflation in general. This inflation is not a momentary phenomenon because our domestic demand has not got out of sync with international demand," he said.
Putting up a brave front Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said, "wait for a few weeks more for the cumulative impact of the measures we have taken. There is no magic button. If the opposition knows one, they should let us know. We are more concerned than anybody else."
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1158662
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