GOVERNMENT MISLEADING THE NATION WHILE HELPING THE CORPORATE

Foodgrains Surplus is predicted by the Agriculture Minister...

 

Statistics are manipulated to show the figures...

Foodgrains worth crores are reported in the media to rot in the Open Storage Godowns of FCI...

Import of foodgrains continues to increase year after year...

Hunger still continues as ever... with percentage of the poor increasing year after year...

Fertile land is shrinking at an alarming pace allover the nation...

Farmers’ Community is losing numbers as many of them have either shifted to urban cities or else sold their land...

THINK ABOUT ALL THESE HEADLINES... and you will wonder, how the government of India is actually misleading the nation with statistical claims...

It is a well-known fact that Punjab & Haryana the Foodgrain Baskets of India has been facing low yield per acre because of various agriculture related problems, majorly because of heavy usage of Chemical Fertilizer, Pesticides & Insecticides... depleted groundwater has made farmers from Punjab to migrate in states like Madhya Pradesh and Maharastra and even in Africa... And, with millions of hectares of fertile land being acquired by the Government for SEZ, Thermal & Nuclear Power Projects, Industrial Zones, Educational Institutions, Essential Infrastructural Projects and not forgetting the Housing Projects, Commercial Property like Malls, Hotels etc... the total agricultural land is shrinking at an alarming pace.

So how can the foodgrains yield increase?

Statistics are often manipulated by various departments of the government... and this was confirmed by the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee... So one wonders as to why the Government is misleading the nation while helping the corporate, all in the name of Economic Growth.

As per the Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, the insensitive Indian Government  allows foodgrains worth 58,000 crores to rot every year in FCI Open Storage Godowns... and these are highlighted only for a few days by the electronic media (obviously to divert the nation’s attention from serious political issues) and then... the nation’s government doesn’t even bother about such a huge quantity being allowed to waste under government machinery.

Needless to say, it is the well-laid plan of the government, so that the kith & kins of various political leaders, who own liquor distilleries, can buy the readymade material for making high-end liquor at the cheapest rate of Re. 0.60 per kilogram of rotten foodgrains... When the Supreme Court admonished the Nation’s Government about such a callous attitude and ordered to distribute the excess foodgrains to the hungry & poor... the Agriculture Minister said – ‘The Government is buying wheat @ Rs.15/- a kg and so cannot distribute it free.’ The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh even said – ‘Supreme Court cannot ask the Government about Policy Making and the SC should not interfere.’ The Government cannot distribute the excess foodgrains to hungry & the poor, but will allow it to rot, and sell it at a loss of Rs. 14.40/- per kg to liquor barons...

Callousness at its heights...What economic theory is this?

The poor tribal villagers of Tembhali in Maharastra satisfy their hunger eating Imli ka pata (Tamarind leaves) 20 to 25 days a month... and the nation’s Prime Minister doesn’t even bat his eyelid... instead goes on to give them UID...

If our nation, as claimed by the Agriculture Minister and the Prime Minister, is producing foodgrains in excess (in spite of less fertile land)... then why is the nation importing more GMO foodgrains from various countries and exporting our pure Organic foodgrains to other countries? India is the largest producer of pulses in the world, but the ironic fact is that we, as the nation also happens to be the largest importer of pulses from various countries producing GMO pulses in their industrial farming. These imported pulses are not labelled as GMO Products... and it is these GMO foodgrains, which are actually crippling the nation with Cancer, Diabetes, Neurological Disorder, creating high Mental Stress, Heart Problems, Kidney Problems and diseases that were unheard of a few decades ago.

With the rate of the pulses skyrocketing week after week, the poor has escaped the GMO foodgrains... as one can find it is the rich & the famous, who are more suffering from the dreaded disease of Cancer and other deadly diseases...all because of GMO foodgrains that our nation’s Government is importing from other countries. Prices of every foodgrains has been and is increasing at an alarming pace... one wonders how will the poor survive? I was shocked recently on my Bombay trip, to find the common man & poor’s delight the Vada-Pav selling @ Rs. 10/- .... two years ago, it was selling @ Rs. 6/-... it also shows that one who is savouring Vada-Pav in Bombay is actually not a poor man’s delight any more...

First the dal and now the Vada-Pav have been stolen from the poor man’s plate... sweets, fruits, milk, curd, vegetables are all out of the reach of the poor... so in what ways are the Government’s claims true that we are producing more foodgrains??? It is a common economic theory that when there is excess of any good, the rates fall... but, the corrupt governance under the corrupt economist Prime Minister has made everything costly and the escalating cost of food items are killing everybody, including the middle class... so the poor!!!

Well, who really cares for the Poor?

With fertile land shrinking at an alarming pace, how can the produce increase in totality?

What logic is this?

Farmers’ Community is also losing its population because initial investment of farming has increased multifolds – seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, insecticides, labour wages with uncertainty of nature’s fall (rain) – the farmers don’t get a good rate when the harvesting season arrives as traders’ lobby along with the Government Agencies manipulate to decrease the rates of the harvested crops... many farmers have shifted to urban cities shunning farming to survive... and there are many, who have sold their land either because they were acquired or by force by the State Government for various corporate projects.