NDIA’S TWO BHARATS
By:Er.H. R.Phonsa,Jammu
India is one of the most nature favoured land. Nature has bestowed India with abundant natural resources. It has world’s high peaks of Himalayan mountains in the North. Himalayan mountains have not only acted as a natural barrier against foreign intruders from the North but it controls weather year over making India as most pleasant place to live. Himalaya peaks remain covered with snow year over. Our mighty rivers the Ganga, the Brahmaputra and the Indus with their tributaries emanate from Himalayas. Indian South Plateau having rivers Subarnarekha, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, etc ( East flowing) and the Narmada, the Tapi or Tapti and the Sabarmati( West flowing). Length of Indian Coastal line is 7,517 km out of which the south west Indian coastline along the Arabian sea has 2908.1Kms and The South Eastern coastline along the Bay of Bengal has 2094 Kms besides this 2094 coast line encircles out 572 ( Andeman Nekowar) and 36 ( Lakshadweep) islands .For centuries the coastal areas besides providing safety from foreign invaders provided easy trade routes supplying in abundance aquatic food. We are lucky to have the vast water resources; hot dry land patches (Max. Recorded Temp 520C) of high temperature ranges, snow covered coldest mountain regions (minimum recorded temp. of minus 480C), world’s wettest place (with recoded per annum 26,000 millimetres (1,000 in) of rainfall in 1985), forest green areas( 23.8 % of land area) making India an all weather Country year around. Hardly any other country on the world map can boast of such natural treasurer. India possesses Coal (4th largest reserves in the world), Iron ore, Manganese ore (7th largest reserve in the world as in 2013), Mica, Bauxite (5th largest reserve in the world as in 2013), Chromites, Natural gas, Diamonds, Limestone and Thorium (world's largest along coast of Kerala shores).
We rightly claim to
be the oldest civilisation of the world. Despite all this the distribution of National
resources India has been unfair with its unfortunate poverty ridden population
from centuries. In the world among human there are colour and economic disparities.
But India has unique character where besides colour and economic disparities,
there are caste hate disparities. There are remedies for other disparities but
not for caste hate among Hindus. Many good hearted reformists have tries to
find solution to caste but have had little or no success. Even those who have left Hinduism, for
reasons of caste hate disparities, to
embrace, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, majority have carried their Hindu castes tags along. India attained freedom after 2200
years from foreign yoke 72 years ago.
Even during this period we have seen India slipping into two Bharats Rich or
elite and poor or deprived Bharat with in India, both having hardly any thing as equality social, economic, caste
unification meeting point.. Even after attaining freedom the condition of
Deprived Bhartiyas have changed but little. India is the second most unequal
country in the world according to Global Wealth Report 2016 compiled by
Credit Suisse Research Institute. A study by a Berlin-based NGO pegs India as ‘Most
Corrupt Country in Asia-Pacific Region. As many as big 207
scams took place in India involving enormous money amounts between 1951-2018. In nine shamefully top
scams (2003-2018) Rs 6,71,420 crores
were pilfer- aged by corrupt
politicians, business persons , their relations and their henchmen. Elite India is for Bullet Train and the other
is for increase in the frequency of trains besides increase in the number of bogies
so that they climb down from train roof tops into bogies.
Elite Indians has created a
world of their own with in India with fencing
so strong that hardly any person from the poverty ridden Bhartiyas can
penetrate in their domain. Elite Bhartiyas move by daily rise or fall of census
where as poor by the daily market price of Dal ( pulses) and Atta (flour). With 26% illiterate the Monthly mobile-wallet payments carry hardly any meaning.
We are
a home of 21% of world’s poor. As of
2014 showing 58% of the total Indian population were living on less than $3.10
per day. Indian government planned in
2005 to bring complete change in
healthcare and family planning through
Accredited social health activists( ASHA) and
their helpers. But their monthly honorarium is September 2018 was respectively Rs 3000/-and
1500/- which is slated to be increased
to Rs 4500/-and Rs 2500/ from October 2018 claing as a land mark by the Prime
Minister Mr. Narinder Modi. How these
poor helpless workers are maintaining their families is any body’s guess. As
per the International Rights Group OXFAM
"It would take around 17.5 days for the best paid executive at a top
Indian garment company to earn what a minimum wage worker in rural India will
earn in their lifetime, presuming 50 years at work." Elite Bharat has added 19 more billionaires to
reach 121 numbers(2018) from 2017
count of 102 billionaires. This makes India to house the third largest group of
ultra-rich in the world. Mukesh Ambani ,
who is way ahead of other Indian billionaires in terms of assets, became richer
by $16.9 billion in 2018 (March 07, 2018 ET Now Digital ) with net worth Net Worth: $ 39.6 Billion. However in 1998 only Indian Billionaire
was his father Dhirubhai Ambani on the Forbes' list of billionaires with net worth of $1.2
billion. During last 20 years late Dhirubhai Ambani’s family worth has increased
by 2205 %. In the poor Bharat from 1998 to 2018 as many as 3,00,000 farmers( Indian Bread producers) committed
suicides( (Wikipedia) for various reasons, out of them bank
loans out standing being one major reason. If the number of farm labourers is
added this figure may shoot up many
times. Maharashtra State having Indian economic capital Mumbai has $410 billion
( Rs 27.88 lakh crores) GDP, over 6 % of National GDP ( 2018-19 estimated). But Maharashtra sadly witnessed suicides of poor Bhartiyas farmers as large as 70,000 (1995-2017).
Mumbai red light areas,bars, brothels
have over 1,00,000 prostitutes, (now called sex workers) out of their country wide estimated
population of 6,57,829 ( Nov.2016 UNAIDS) .Underage
population of prostitutes is estimated as 12 Lakhs . All these unfortunate ladies come from deprived Indians with compulsions of
bread earning. The system of Devdassies or temple dancing ladies with in age group of 6 to 37
years was shame on name of religion and religion manager Prohits, who sexually
exploited helpless ladies coming from deprived Bhartiyas.
The “The Quint,
Jan. 2018” quotes that Indian top one per cent of the population is owning nearly 73% of the total National wealth generated, The survey also showed that their wealth
increased by over Rs 20.9 lakh crores
during 2017 , an amount nearly equivalent
to Union budget 2017-18 pegged at Rs 21.47
Lakh Crores. Unfortunate deprived Bhartiyas with 67 crores population of poorest ,as large
as half of India, saw their wealth rise by just 1 per cent.
Unfortunate among
poor Bharat 454 million or 38. 2% of total population lived below poverty line
( Rangarajan committee report 2014). India houses 1/3 of world’s hungry, here
nearly 20 crores go hungry daily and has 30.7% children (below
5yrs) under weight due to malnutrition. Estimates show that in poverty ridden India 7000 die daily of hunger. In July 2018 three sisters, aged 2,4,8 years
died of hunger in National capita Delhi disproving all claims of government to
care of poor Bhartiyas. A shame to
managers of secular, Democratic government
affairs with constitutional guarantee of equality for all .The
undernourished Indian population is as high as 14.5% who are non other than
deprived Bhartiyas. Due to neglect and
defective planning manned mostly by Elite Bhartiyas 67 million tons of food grains worth Rs92,000
cores go waste annually ( Clean India, May 12,2018) where as 7000 daily die of
hunger. Recently World Bank reported that 60% of food subsidies do not reach
poor ( Deprived Bharat) and are siphoned off by middleman or Elite Bharat. Late
Rajiv Gandhi Indian Prime Ministers said in Kalahandi district Orissa in 1985
that out of Rupee One spent by government only 15 paise reach the intended
welfare of downtrodden beneficiary.
Unfortunate poor Bharat had in 2011 over 32
crores illiterates (26% of population), 60 millions children of 6- 14 years of
age are out of schools, large numbers of
school drop outs,90% of those who attend schools read very little. Despite
this there is a total divide in imparting education for Elite and Deprived
Bhartiyas, a basic need and Fundamental Right of
every Indian child. For Elite Bhartiyas children have ultra modern education
imparting gadgets, air conditioned class rooms and transport vehicles ,proper student teacher ratio. Many
of them enjoy reading in foreign universities. Where as in Deprived Bharat many
schools are run from under the tree
shades with majority human needs infrastructures missing, at places the student
teacher ratio is as poor as 42:1. The
quality of education is so poor that even
some teachers cannot write an essay of a few lines . British Govt. had
promised to have 100% literacy in India by 1984, where as independent India
reached 40.76% by 1981 with women literacy as low as 25.68%. Indian budget
spending on education has hovered around 3% of GDP which has proven inadequate
to the needs. The private and religious education institutions, out of reach of
deprived Bhartiyas due to Exorbitant fees ,caste
factors but these institutions, are getting liberal government financial aid and lands at throw away prices at the cost of
government institutions financial health.
The elite
Bharat lives in palatial buildings with large lawns, ultramodern gadgets
fitted. Where as in deprived unfortunate Bharat living in slums has increased
from 5.20 crores in 2001 to 12.8 crores in
2017. A slum is defined “A residential area where dwellings are unfit for human
habitation being in dilapidation conditions, overcrowding, lack of ventilation,
sanitation and having drinking water facilities in unhygienic conditions”. Four
metropolitans Indian cities, where our majority elites live ,has percentage of slum
population as given in brackets against their names as Delhi (15%), Kolkata (29.6%)
Greater Mumbai (42%) and Chenai(28%). Despite this our first citizen lives in
130 hector Rashterpati Bhawan, a richest Indian has 27 storey house in4532 m2 plot in Mumbai costing over $2billion. Not only this in Delhi over VVIP leaders has occupied even after their deaths as their samadhies having area as 245 hectors ( Smadhi of Atal Behari
Bajpai excluded) land along river Yamuna Bank. Some of them died after
2000, when government decided to stop having separate samadhies . Lakhs of acres of open land is under religious shrines manned by Elite Bhartiyas . Carpet area of a house in
EWS, LIG in Govt scheme house for all is 30m2and 60m2 respectively. An economically weak section (EWS) are those persons whose recently revised annual income is up to Rs3,00,000/-.
This category of people can avail housing loan from banks on subsidised interest’s
rates up to Rs 5.00 Lacs to built their own houses.
Besides many
other tricks of swindling government money by Elite Bhartiyas NPA is one trick (NPA means Non performing
assets, assets) created by business persons by obtaining loans from banks against
over valued/non existing mortgaged
properties/stores, which have defaulted to return loans.
In March 2018 NPA of 26 PSU Banks stood
at 10.25 Lakh Crores or 11.8% of the total advances of 13.41%.The NPA stood at
just 2.36% in 2011.It will not be surprising to note that 12 top defaulter
companies account for 25% of total NPA. Out of total defaulters RBI listed 12 top
defaulters with total out standing NPA of Rs 2,28,668 crores and their net profit (-) Rs 27395
crores for FY 2016. But the union government instead of napping loan defaulters
to recover out standings have pumped into PSU Banks, in 5 years 2011-12 to
2015-16 Rs-15,95,000 crores. Some of high profile defaulters have succeeded
to safely fly to foreign countries making their repatriation difficult and
costly.
As per
CBI’s report disclosed in Indian Parliament Elite but unprincipled Bhartiya illegally hold US$500 billions in Switzerland Banks.
Unaccented money siphoned through scams
and other such means is big shame on
Indians. Panama leaks (Estimated Rs 1140 crores) show names of those who
swindled their unaccounted money to foreign land little concerning for poverty at home. Over 3000-4000 tons of gold is estimated being
held in temples ( RBI as on June,2017 held only 566.23metric tons of gold) with no human heart for diseased ,illiterate, living below
poverty line Indians poor. Accumulated wealth in
temples attempted foreigner invaders’ to invade them, loot the booty, kill the
people enslave men and women in large numbers. Heartless Brahmin poojaries
accumulated precious metals and stones worth rupees trillions at the cost of miseries of common
people who were diseased, naked, illiterates and ill fed .
Due to lack
lust approach of farm loan wavering the suicide of farmers are continuing. In December 2016 there was Rs 12.6 lakh crores
(Equivalent to1.23 times NPA and 0.039 times of black money held in foreign
banks) as total farm loan ( MOS Agri. in
RS) but government gave no assurance to wave it off. There were 90.2 million households
of marginal and small farmers in 2013 (NSS) who could be benefitted by loan
wavering. The marginal and small farmers
are those whose land holding is less than 1-2 hectors (2.5 to 5 acres).
Indians are
poor people with rich gods. The Padmanabhaswamy temple is one of the 108 Lord Vishnu temples having worth of Rs1.2 Lakh
crores and is reported holding 1300 tons of gold.
India is a
house of 31million unemployed ( 7%).The evenues for employments are fully under control of
Elite Bhartiyas. The share of 3.75% of total country employment is in Government sector where a
little share is with poor due to reservation in employment for weaker sections
(SCs,STs,OBCs).But 3.54% employment
opportunities are with private sector,
where poor sections have share in labour and junior ministerial
jobs. Here all managerial jobs are with Elite Bhartiyas.
The chances
of reduction of gap between to influential and deprived Bhartiyas seem little
in the near future. The possibility of change lies faithfully implementing the
constitution provisions of share of deprived Bhartiyas in all the four wings of
democracy viz: political,
administrative, judiciary and media. But the elected representative too comes
from the Elite Bhartiyas their concern for the left over Indian lot has been seen
as lack lust. In the 16th Lok Sabha we have 449 crorepaties MP’s. Out of 541 winners
as many as 186 have criminal cases and 112 have serious criminal cases against
them. The Rajya Sabha is no different
where 90% MP’s(RS) are crorepaties with the richest having assets of Rs 4,078 crores as on 22-3-2018.
The MP’s from the poor strata to fill the reserved post cannot speak either due
to their poor knowledge or due to party whips and fear to loose seat under anti
defection laws. Their selection is on the basis of their party loyalty.
In the Indian judiciary only 250-300 families
contribute Supreme court and Hc’s judges.
In the administration majority of senior administrative posts are held
by another few families mostly from higher castes. The Indian media is held by
big corporate houses with little concern for the poor. Since 1947 many
hundred welfare schemes have been launched,
out of which many schemes
re-names modified/changed with the change of every Prime minister. But these schemes have failed to mitigate the
conditions of deprived Bhartiyas to the desired level.
As per version of
Babu Parmanand ( 1932-2008) former
Governor of Haryana Indian’s poverty
removal lies in faithfully implementing of three problems
1) Education
to all with one syllabus for all irrespective of caste, creed or religion and one rate of
school
fees for both public and private schools.
2) Land and House to the landless as per
their minimum need.
3) Job to all able jobless hands
In India the infamous caste-class-power nexus, which renders most
program implementation vulnerable to hijack through the unholy conspiracy among
the rural /urban elite to the detriment of the rural poor and finally, lax oversight
and soft mechanisms to check and to correct inappropriate program
implementation.
Of late the
Constitution burning incidents are taking place besides open talks by ruling
dispensation members to change the Constitution are no healthy signs for the
country.
It seems
that the only concern of elites for poor’s is to get their votes during elections. It looks as
India is being run as a business house of Elite Bhartiya and not a welfare
state as per the canons of our Constitution. All
pleasures for the elite Bhartiyas at the
cost of all discomforts to the deprived Bhartiyas.
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Dated :-13st Sept.2018 By :-Er.H. R.Phonsa,Jammu
