{"id":203,"date":"2019-03-25T09:41:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kamalsandesh.org\/blogs\/?p=203"},"modified":"2019-04-20T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:10:47","slug":"prime-minister-narendra-modi-already-giving-poor-much-congress-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamalsandesh.org\/blogs\/prime-minister-narendra-modi-already-giving-poor-much-congress-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi Already Giving to Poor Much More Than What the Congress Promises?"},"content":{"rendered":"

N<\/strong>o political party has betrayed India for more than seven decades other than the Congress Party. It gave to the people of India many slogans and very little resources to implement them.<\/p>\n

The Nehruvian era pushed India to the 3.5% rate of growth.\u00a0 When the world was moving fast and opening up, we decided to regulate our economy.\u00a0 Indiraji understood slogans better than economics.\u00a0 Inflation, unemployment, corruption and erroneous policies hindered India.\u00a0 A large part of economic reforms unleashed in 1991, was to undo what she did.\u00a0 In 1971, she gave her legendary slogan \u2018Garibi Hatao\u2019.\u00a0 Her economics was not about increasing production and generating wealth, but only about redistribution of poverty.\u00a0 She supplemented her 1971 slogan while promising in election after election, the welfare of the largest number.\u00a0 Shri Rajiv Gandhi had a historic opportunity to remove poverty.\u00a0 Initially, he showed a desire to do so.\u00a0 But his Government got caught in unsavoury controversies preventing any significant and major changes.<\/p>\n

In 1971, \u2018Garibi Hatao\u2019 slogan was given by Indiraji.\u00a0 For two-third of the last 48 years her party has been in power.\u00a0 Yet, they left behind a legacy of poverty.<\/p>\n

The UPA Government, between 2004-2014, conferred a large number of \u2018rights\u2019 without resources to implement them.\u00a0 The legendary bank loan waiver was announced at Rs.70,000 crore \u2013 a one time measure.\u00a0 Of this only Rs.52,000 crore was actually allocated, a significant part of which went to the businessmen of New Delhi (Ref. CAG Report).\u00a0 The MNREGA was a rural scheme where Rs.40,000 crore used to be promised every year and the actual spent was in the nature of Rs.28,000 to Rs.30,000 crore.<\/p>\n

Today, the Congress President has announced that those whose income is below Rs.12,000\/- per month, would be given a subsidy to \u2018attain\u2019 that income subject to Rs.6,000\/- per month.\u00a0 This announcement is an admission of the fact that neither Indiraji nor her son and certainly not the UPA Government controlled by her descendants, was able to remove poverty.\u00a0 The Congress in general and the Gandhi family in particular, since \u2018Garibi Hatao\u2019 slogan was given, has ruled India for more than two-third of that period.\u00a0 If it has failed to even address poverty during this period, why should India believe it?\u00a0 Even though the details of the scheme are now know, it was said that the payment will be by DBT.\u00a0 The Congress Party\u2019s internal economist has said that there will be no additional burden on the fiscal deficit.<\/p>\n

The loan waiver bluff<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Congress Party in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Karnataka promised a loan waiver.\u00a0 In most places, the promise remains unfulfilled.\u00a0 The party, thus, has long legacy of slogans with no resources.\u00a0 It has a history of bluff announcements.\u00a0 Karnataka so far has spent only Rs.2600 crore, Madhya Pradesh Rs.3000 crore and Punjab Rs.5500 crore.\u00a0 The farmers are still waiting.<\/p>\n

The income support<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The landless and poor, amongst the villagers, get a MNREGA payment. Minimum wages for the labour have been raised by 42%.\u00a0 Today even most industrial workers get more than Rs.12,000\/- a month.\u00a0 The minimum starting salary in Government after the Seventh Pay Commission is Rs.18,000 a month.\u00a0 A small and marginal farmer, besides home, road, toilet, electricity, cooking gas subsidies, crop insurance, MSP payment, will also get an income support.<\/p>\n

The Opposition\u2019s sabotage of the pro-poor initiatives<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

If the Congress Party and its friends have so much concern for the poor in India, why is it that its States are going slow in certifying the list of small and marginal farmers who are entitled to receiving the instalment of PM KISAN?\u00a0 Why are some of the States such as West Bengal, Odisha and Delhi, amongst others, not implementing the Ayushman Bharat?\u00a0 What is the fault of their poor farmers that they want to make them pay?<\/p>\n

How the Narendra Modi Government supports the poor?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last five years, the Government headed by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi introduced the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) through the banking system.\u00a0 Besides subsidies for food, fertilizer, kerosene, 55 Ministries handed over subsidies to the poor through the DBT which was enabled by AADHAAR.\u00a0 The Congress opposed AADHAAR in Parliament and challenged it before the Supreme Court.\u00a0 Ironically, they now want to use the same mechanism.\u00a0 How much is today being given to the poor through AADHAAR,\u00a0\u00a0 DBT or otherwise?\u00a0 If all other payments are also made through DBT, what will the total amount to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Total payment from 55 Ministries to bank accounts under different schemes<\/td>\nRs.1.8 lakh crore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Add food subsidies<\/td>\nRs.1.84 lakh crore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Add fertilizers subsidy<\/td>\nRs.75,000 crore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Add PM KISAN payment for income support<\/td>\nRs.75,000\/ crore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Add Ayushman Bharat subsidy hospitalisation for 50 crore people<\/td>\nRs.20,000 crore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\nRs.5.34 lakh crore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The simple arithmetic is if multiple bank transfers to the five crore poor families, the existing payment to which is mostly being done. The above averages Rs.1,06,800 annually as against Rs.72,000 which is the Congress now seeks to promise through the DBT mechanism.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the above, Rs.5.34 lakh crore, there are several other schemes which provide several thousands of crores more to the poor.\u00a0 What is given towards Awas, cooking gas, electricity, sanitation and many other Government\u2019s social schemes is additional.\u00a0 If the Congress Party\u2019s announcement is tested on simple arithmetic, Rs.72,000 for five crore families works out to be Rs.3.6 lakh crore, which is less than 2\/3rd<\/sup>\u00a0of what is being given \u2013 A bluff announcement.<\/p>\n

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