This is to those who are out of India, and are not following everything that is happening over here.
Shri. Sharad Pawar, Agr. Minister, Centre, as per
paper reports asked the States to ensure that action
is taken to curtail price sky rocketing. He forgot his own
responsibility, and duty towards the poor Indians. As
you must already be knowing the price of all articles
connected with our day to day living, either grains, vegetables,
milk etc. are increasing day by day. Though the well to do
always get a forum to complain about, either in print or
visual media, the poor who are the most affected have no voice and
no one bothers about them in these days of free market economy.
I recall the days when Central Govt. used to or show as having
taking steps for containing the racing inflation.
What a price to pay for Free market economy!
The other point of interest or discussion among the elite is the farce
called Copenhagen summit to reach an agreement for bringing
down the carbon footprint, and save the world from future catastrophes. Is it not ironic that the developed countries led by US of A and European nations are trying to put the onus for saving the
world on developing nations and the poor ones which want to better
the standard of living of their citizens. The per capita consumption or usage of all items of day today necessity, like electricity fuel etc are the highest in the developed world. The developed world, (USA) has been smart enough to preserve its oil reserves, and has been exploiting the reserves from the Arab world, knowing well that it will not last long. I had been to US for my first visit 8 months back, and stayed in Pensa Cola, Florida for more than 3 months. Having experienced very convenient public transport for travelling from one city to another, all over India, either in the form of Govt. railways or road transport run by Govt. corporations or private services, I was rather surprised to know no such system exists in US. For travelling from Pensa Cola to Atlanta around 300 odd mails, one has to go either by your own or hired car, or by plane. No bus service, and no trains. The rails which got damaged during Ivan hurricane have not been restored by the Govt. either Federal or State. Imagine the amount of fuel consumed every day. This I believe is the scenario in almost all of US, except for few pockets. Even in the town of Pensa Cola there is no public transport and you have to take out your four wheeler, which are fuel guzzlers, to go to the nearest Mart for getting your daily provisions. There are no neighbourhood pop and mom stores to speak of .
Most of you are aware of what was India around little more than a decade ago. The number of of wheelers even in big cities, and the common mode of transport was two wheelers, mostly scooters, to which people graduated from bi-cycles. The position now is really serious, and the number of four wheelers have increased phenomenally, bringing in its wave accidents on account of
indisciplined drivers, and pedestrians. Less said the better about
road discipline, and pedestrians the better. The driver always abuses the pedestrians. Why can't our people learn these things from the Americans. Even those who return home after a stay of few years or so behave the same way. They forget the discipline
they followed in places outside India where they stayed. The western and Japanese car makers made a straight line drive into India to exploit the market, and now they crying hoarse that India should contain carbon emission. What a laugh.
We will discuss more such matters in days to come.
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