Hello all,
The first misconception is that rural population is pampered and subsidised by the urban.
On the contrary, the rural population is working hard to feed the urban population.
What Abhigyan is rightly referring to are the politicians and middleman and rich farmers.
The ordinary farmer, and most of India's farmers are ordinary, live in desperate conditions.
They don't make any money even with onions at Rs.100 per kg.
I have seen tomatoes being sold at Rs.1 for 4 kilos in Gondia, and in Mumbai they were Rs.4 per kg, around 1998, sixteen times.
Question is, how can the farmers manage anything from such unbelievable low prices for them.
Can't blame them for moving into cities.
But then oddly enough, they have to buy onions at Rs.100 per kg, instead of Rs.6 per kg.
Its not that the distressed people are flooding into Mumbai and other places.
If analysed carefully, its that the huge mega infrastructure projects of thousands of crores that are being imposed onto cities, that are the cause of low wage migrant labour being imported by contractors from out state, to work on these, made to stay at the road side, and then dumped for the next project at even lower wages.
The cycle continues, with the original labour bringing in more and more family members to earn so that they can buy onions at Rs.100 per kg.
To overcome this, former President, Abdul KALAM, had proposed the Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas, PURA project.
However, the vested interests have cleverly manipulated it so that it doesn't work.
Let us not make it an urban rural divide in which the rural guys are the bad.
It is the corrupt vested interests which have ruined India.
We shall overcome.
Thanqx.
Jagdeep
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM, abhigyan jha <abhigyan@undercoverpro.net> wrote:
the price for a kilo of onions is more than the price of 1 litre of petrol.
onions are tax free. petrol has more than 100% tax on it.petrol is scarce (at least supposedly) and has to be manufactured in expensive factories besides exploration cost, cost of geologists etc.onion grows out of land and water.how does onion become more expensive than petrol?guess why - rural politicians run the country...they take urban taxes and don't send a rupee to the cities.urban india again subsidizes rural india by paying ridiculous prices for food. and all this so called rural money once again fattens the rural politician and he wins another election.if you want change at least start asking for a NGO driven census. you will find 75%% of Indians live in urban and semi-urban ghettos. they have been hounded out by the rural feudal lords who actually run this country. and that's why 2 crore mumbai citizens are represented by only 6 people whereas almost empty villages are sending 100s of MPs.why do private agents buy food at rural mandis on behalf of the government?why do the educated taxpaying urban people need to produce 7/12 to buy agricultural land? but the rural population needs no permit to flood the cities?why is land so expensive in in the so called poor rural india? compare land prices in rural india to any poor country and you will realise there is disconnect between the claimed poverty and the land prices.basically if you really want to question the dynamics of corruption and power in india - stop looking at cityfolk and start asking questions of rural politician. the real power and corrupting influence is not coming from corporates in India, it is coming from rural politicians.naxals, rural poverty, lack of public utilities in villages are all myths perpetuated by the rural powers to frighten the educated folk into living right inside their cities. where they can be taxed and looted.which is why Ratan Tata cannot be allowed to put up factories but Yedyurappa and cronies can get as many acres of land as they want.these are the real questions. stop worrying about the traffic.Regards,
Abhigyan JHA
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World's First TV Show On the Internet : http://www.jayhind.tvOn 15-Dec-2010, at 5:56 PM, Rishi Aggarwal wrote:Thanks Sudipt. It would be good to put the contents of the pdf into an excel sheet and then write the action plan/remarks in the relevant columns.
But all this will come to nought unless people are partcipating in large numbers. I had a heated discussion at lunch with a colleague who has just transitioned from the profit to non-profit sector and was complaining about the downfall of Mumbai and I had to remind her how nobody particpates to which she told me people do not have time.
For which I had to remind that people have more than enough time for flop Bollywood movies and other junk but no time to look even into the traffic jam which they will encounter everyday on their road and which eats away 30 minutes of their day everyday. Forget scrutinising the BMC budgets and your councillors performance etc.
Rishi
On 14 December 2010 15:07, sudipt sen <sudiptsen@yahoo.co.in> wrote:Refer the enclosed graph.Attached doc gives an action plan for tackling same- generated by the world bank.Comments, anyone?
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