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Caste Politics Turns leaders Blind to Unique Fair Deal for Poor

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(Image Courtesy: National Commission for Scheduled Castes)

If a Chaiwala (tea seller) can become Prime Minister of the country, what stops a beggar from aspiring for the same coveted post?

The answer lies in the conspiracy of silence among all political parties on India’s most revolutionary socio-political reform mooted by late V.P. Singh in August 1990. He, as PM, mooted the reform as an add-on to the National Front Government’s decision to implement Mandal Commission Report (MCR).

The public thus knows Mr. Singh best as provider of 27% reservation of jobs in Central Government and central public enterprises (CPEs) for other backward classes (OBCs) in keeping with MCR.

Very few persons know that he pitched for two vital caste and religion-neutral reforms for the poor as a class without encountering any opposition. He could not implement the two ideas as his Government fell in November 1990 after withdrawal of support by certain parties.

Mr. Singh’s two crucial forgotten reform proposals are: Reservation of 40% of seats in Parliament and State Assemblies for the poor and fixation of 5-10% jobs quota for poor in the Central domain.

Even Chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Mohan Bhagwat, has not mentioned this unfinished reforms agenda set by Mr. Singh.

Modi-Nitish cheating spat over Bihar is a big blow to Team India

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Enact law on Pre-Poll promised goodies as mooted by Apex Court

(Nitish Welcoming Modi- Edited Image Courtesy: PIB)

The Indian political rope trick over electoral freebies & spoils has entered a new phase. It has moved from freebies incorporated in electoral manifestos to pre-manifesto Centre-State war over offering capital & consumption investments.

It is perhaps for the first time that the citizens are witnessing a pre-manifesto battle of special investment packages (SIPs) for Bihar. And the battle has been masterminded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the ruling alliance in the State led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The battle for political control over Bihar through SIPs should trigger a national debate over institutionalized mass bribery that threatens to reduce democracy to a farce. This is a grey area in the Constitution and the Statute that short-sighted, power-hungry leaders exploit to the detriment of national interest.

Mr. Modi’s Bihar SIP marks another low in cooperative federalism. It makes a mockery of recommendations of two august bodies. And arbitrary SIP is bound to fuel simmering discontent among the special category states (SCS) as we find later in this column.

Modi Scales up Billion Dreams to Grand Illusion

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Modi Transforms from Dream Merchant to Grand Illusion Innovator

(PMEGP Start-up Unit- Edited Image Courtesy: KVIC)

Public sector Banks-aided start-ups are mushrooming across the country.

From Ms Anung Phom’s (8th class drop-out tribal) Dhaba in Nagaland to Ms Hema Sudha Sakhre’s (farm worker-turned entrepreneur) Bedana/rasin unit in Maharashtra and From Ghulam Mohi-Ud-din Bhat’s (lower middle-class) carpet weaving unit in Jammu & Kashmir to P. M. Murugesan’ s (school drop-out OBC) banana fibre-based products unit in Tamilnadu, all share a common bond. And it is the Prime Minister’s vision for start-ups and jobs

Please don’t mistake these tiny units as an overnight outcome of Narendra Modi’s clarion call from the ramparts of Red Fort. Many such enterprises have come up under Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) that was launched by UPA following Dr. Manmohan Singh speech on 15th August 2008!

And Modi turned a blind eye to this UPA legacy that would elate any rationalist Indian.

In addition to PMEGP units, several lakh micro enterprises, self-help groups (SHGs) and cooperatives have bloomed under different schemes. A notable scheme is National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) for which India signed $ 1bn, 5-yr soft loan agreement with International Development Association (IDA) in 2011.

These and other facts on issues ranging from corruption to labour code have been marshaled in this column to take the fizz out of grand illusion created by Mr. Modi’s Independence Day speech.

Barring a couple of good announcements, PM’s claims were nothing but repackaging of UPA’s schemes and achievements. He passed them off as them as his initiatives to realize Indian dreams.

More disturbing feature of the Speech was that it distorted facts and misled the public. One does not know whether to blame PM or his coterie of advisers for this let-down on a solemn occasion.

Flawed Narrative on Land Acquisitions Obfuscate Growth & Jobs Agenda

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(Annaji Attacking Land Ordnance - Edited Image Courtesy: Congress Party)

Political posturing by different parties as saviours of farmers’ land is hurting growth and jobs prospects.

Posturing has overshadowed the hurdles erected by government entities to delay and discourage developmental projects. The entities do so by flaunting their regulatory turf even as they merrily cede land to Slum Lords and squatters.

The obstructing entities include Ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF), Department of Space, Department of Culture, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, defence forces and the authorities that maintain large swaths of government prime land in urban areas.

If we take the collective impact of all such constraints, then we can virtually write off forever the prospects for optimum harnessing of natural resources. Similar would be the case with ‘Make in India’ Initiative (M3I), which has been launched to reverse the alarming decline in share of manufacturing in the gross domestic product (GDP) during the last two decades.

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