NDIA’S TWO BHARATS

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 16^th 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 :-13^st Sept.2018                                        By  :-Er.H. R.Phonsa,Jammu

INDIA’S TWO BHARATS

INDIA’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 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 demain.  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. 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).

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 16^th 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.

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Dated :-1^st Sept.2018                                        By  :-Er.H. R.Phonsa,Jammu

 

DALIT PROUD SAHIB SHRI Kansh Ram

An enlarged and updated.

DALIT PROUD SAHIB SHRI Kansh Ram 
(His 84th birthday is falling on 15th March, 2018) 
The struggle for equality of status & opportunity for the Shudra, Ati Shudra, and Untouchables is as old as the history of Hinduism, claimed to be one of the oldest religions of the world. The inter religious, inter country and inter society domination struggle & hate is seen world over. But hate with in a religion for their own religion people is practiced only in Hindus. The Hindus were divided into four segments under the Hindu Religious laws each having no meeting point, despite the facts that they belonged to the same religion. The Hindus laid claims to possess most ancient knowledge books of the world, but show no mercy towards their religious downtrodden brethren. The fourth segment of the Hindus named Shudras( both untouchable S/C’s ,ST’s and touchable OBC’s)were forbidden to mix with other upper segments called Brahmins (Learned), Khatriyas (warriors) and Vaishs ( Business, farming persons). Each set of segregated peoples belonging to Hindus were governed by different set of rules having strict religious sanctions under Hindu Religious code “ Manu Smiriti”, proclaimed to have Divine sanction. In these codes& stories devised from time to time to suit needs of Upper castes, untouchables were degraded to standards even below than that of animals. The dogs, the cats, the snakes, the crows the cows could enter houses of the Upper Caste Hindus but not Untouchables. Birds and animals cold take water from the village tanks and bathe there but not the untouchables untouchable humans. This continued for centuries and all Merciful Hindu Gods & Goddesses equipped with all types of dreaded weapons did not come to the rescue of the helpless and weak Untouchables, although untouchables too worshiped them with full devotion. The Hindus show lip service to all humanity but practically work for the welfare of the dominating upper castes. If anybody raised any alarm against this in- human treatment to their fellow men, he was done away with.
Revered Kanshi Ram belonged to Hindu untouchable caste named Chamar ,who had convered to Sikhism. In India the chamras had nearly 1156 sub castes in 1891AD and were spread all over India. As per the 1911 Indian censes the population of Brahmins stood at number one & Chamars at number two, where as Rajputs stood at number three. Even now chamars are substantial in numbers in all parts of India. Saints like Guru Ravidas, Guru Maluk Das, Guru Ghasidas Chokhamela, Gurdeep Giri, brave martyrs of Sikh History like Bhai Jiwan Singh Rangreta, Amar Shaheed Udham Singh, great politicians like Mangoram Magowalia, Ch.ChandRam Ex.Union Minister, 10 Indian K.R Narayana,  ever first Chief Minister of any Indian State D.Sanjiyya, Bangla War winner and Dy. Prime Minister Babu Jagjivan Lal, four time CM of largest Indian state UP Behan Mayawati , Nanak Chand Rattu the chamar who served free Baba Sahib Dr. B. R. Ambedkar for over 17 years, Living  legends of Baba Sahib Dr. B. R. Ambedkar equality  movement K.C.Sulekh, Sangpriya Goutam and many more belong to Chamars. In J&K State Babu Milkhi Ram, Babu Parmanand, Jagjivan Lal,  Tilak Raj Atri, Retd Chief Secretary Shri B.R. Kundal, Chaman Lal Banal IPS,  First J&K Cardiologist Brig.S.D.Karloopia, many eminent doctors, engineers, social, political & administrative peers are from Chamars . In Indian Parliament & Vidhan Sabha Chamars are present in large number even now. Present day saints from Chamar communities have large followings. Many Chamars have spread all over world countries proving their worth of head& heart. 
Sahib Shri Kanshi Ram was born on 15th March, 1934, to revered Shri Hari Singh father & mother Shrimati Bishan Kour of village Khawaspur ( Pirthipur Banga) in Rupnagar District of Punjab State. He was one of the seven children of his parents. In his family, he was the only graduate with B. Sc degree. He joined service in High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), then became part of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Pune. During his tenure in the DRDO in 1965 he joined the agitation started by SCEWASTAMB (All India Federation of Scheduled Caste/Tribes Backward Class & Minorities Employees Welfare Associations) of Government of India to prevent the abolition of a holiday commemorating B. R. Ambedkar's birthday. It was after he joined the struggle against the abolition of Ambedkar's birthday as a holiday, in 1965, that his career in the fight for the oppressed communities started. Here he came in contact with one Dheema Vana, a suspended class IV Dalit employee of his office and B.D.Khobragade another Dalit luminary who demanded Holiday on the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar. Dheema Vana had a stanch faith & love for Dr. Ambedkar. Taking cues from Dheema Vana and B.D.Khobragade Kanshi Ram studied the entire caste system and the works of Ambedkar closely. It is said he read “Annihilation Of Caste” several times in single night preparing grounds to help the oppressed rise from the ditches they were tossed into.. He then resigned from service to carry forward, the mission of uniting millions of Dalits, bond them through brotherhood bonds reminding them of their centuries old slavery & suffering He shook them to wake from their deep slumber so as to consolidate them into a force to be reckon with. He single handedly awakened in Dalits a sense of empowerment .He declared Dalit Samaj his family, all Dalit women his sisters & all Dalit men his brothers To escape from family life commitments and bonds he vowed to remain bachelor through out his life & not to acquire any property in his name. He bade good bye to his family, family life, family comforts for the sake of cutting slavery chains of his fellow brethren. This he kept as a Buddhist Monk’s word. He got converted to Buddhism to achieve the goal of making Dalit masses a united electoral force to acquire political power, he traveled through out the length & breath of India on his bi- cycle along with his trusted lieutenants a record for any Indian politician.
Kanshi Ram was a great political, social mobilizer, he understood values of self-respect & collective wisdom of Dalit communities to gain political power and to use it to their advantage. During record breaking Bahujan Rally in Brigade ground Kolkata, the Bahujan participants were beaten mercilessly by the West Bengal Police under the command of Jyoti Basu then Chief Minister. Sahib instructed on telephone at 2 in the morning to his workers of different state to stop all trains marching towards Kolkata. Soon trains were reported stopped at different stations in different States by Bahujan volunteers, many trains reached Kolkata late by hours. Mr. Jyoti Basu telephoned Sahib in the evening at Delhi, where Sahib had returned after the rally, begged pardon for the brutal incident, in which several Karyakartas were injured, some seriously. There after Mr. Jyoti Basu arranged special trains for the Bahujan Rally participants for their return journey. Mr. Jyoti Basu worked to see that all Bahujan participants got train tickets and returned safely to their distinations.
He coined value based slogans from time to time to give directions to Dalit masses; one such was “Jiski Jitni Sankhaya Bhari, uski utni Bhagidari”. Once he was asked to explain ,why he devised the slogan of “Tilak ( Mark on fore head used by Brahmins), Traju ( weighing scale used by business community) aur Talwar ( sword, used by Rajputs ,warriors), enko maro jutey char ( Give then shoe beating)|” He explained that elite class which spreads hatred and ignorance for their personnel ends, business persons ,who indulge in undue profiting, adulteration, less weighting and warrior who use force against weak and helpless need be treated with shoe beating not the one who work for the welfare of the society. This slogan devised by him was based on conviction and not hate for any body,profession or trade persons. He explained to his fellow men to be strong and courageous as “Only lambs are made sacrificial animals not lions”.
He was perhaps one leader, who kept his promise, proved true to his words. He lived & died as a leader, with out any immoveable or moveable property, any bank account, house, land plot or flat in his name. To achieve his set goals, he lived as an ordinary Dalit, took meals in small hutments, wayside  tabhas, slept on floor. On the night of 3rd & 4th April 1984, he was found sleeping on the bare broken stone metal at Nagpur, where he had gone to inaugurate the Marathi daily newspaper “Bahujan Times” his dream project. Sh. Kanshi Ram was convinced that to capture the Delhi’s political crown the seat of power, much has to done to strengthen the 85% Bahujan Samaj comprising of SCs, STs, OBCs and converted minorities . To achieve this they should own a strong media of their own, as present vested interest median can only suppress and confuse his downtrodden masses. He used to keep awake for days & nights to equip him with literary knowledge, assimilate it into practical thoughts & to devise ways to use it for the advantage of his peoples, many of whom were ill fed, ill dressed, naked, illiterate, exploited and miss guided.
Those close to him tell how hard he worked to built up his first social & educative organization of employees of all SC’s, ST’s, OBC’s & minorities named BAMSEF on 6th Dec. 1978 & then prepared them to launch their Youth’s Sangarash Simiti “ DS-4” on 6th Dec. 1981. To prepare solid ground to get rightful share in political power, he launched his Bahujan Samaj Party on14th April, 1984.Kashi Ram shook the conscious of those who are under represented in our Parliamentary system and were craving for a change. Thereby he consolidated masses to work for their own political organization BSP, many volunteered to work for BSP as “Mission Ka Kaam”. His message was so inspiring to his peoples, that once a BSP volunteer was always so. Due to Kanshi Ram’s political vision soon BSP became a National Party & attained Nationwide third position of political Parties of India. This left far behind many political parties, who were formed decades earlier. The election winning spree flourished & in UP assembly it won 66 seats out of 162 it contested in 1993. Kanshi Ram’s political manoeuvrability made Behan Mayawati Chief Minister of UP thrice in coalition with other parties, but he did not yield to undue pressure from other coalition partners even at the cost of loosing CM’s. Gadi The graph of winning seats in Lok Sabha elections also rose dramatically from zero in ( 8th ) to 04 ( in 9th); 03 (in 10th ); 11( in 11th ); 05 ( in 12th) 15nos( in 13th & 14th ) and 20 nos(15th). Party continuous efforts in this direction bore fruits of winning clear majority in 2007in UP Assembly elections with 208,in remaining 10 seats, standing Second and out of lost 111 seats 60 seats with a margin of less than 5000 votes. Behan Mayawati, now National President BSP was sworn in as Chief Minister of UP State with clear majority 4^th time , but alas after the sad demise of Sahib. But in 16th Lok Sabha elections the party was again reduced to Zero, when his party deviated from the goals set by Shri Kanshi Ram.
During the period of 25 years since the formation of BSP, the INC Govt programs of multinationalism & New Economic order under late Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, or Rath Yatra Of Sh. LK Advani culminating in demolishing of Babri Masjid on 6th Dec 1992, could not sway away Dalits from Kanshi Ram’s Programme of gaining political power to have share in running the affairs of union of India. Credit goes to Kanshi Ram that Dalits having over 80 % Indian population forming SC’s, ST’s, OBC’s and other minorities, have not challenged the Constitutional arrangements, avoided violence against the state or other ethnic groups. Kanshi Ram’s formula that numbers, not violence work in democratic India is a great Nationalist’s doctrine for which Kanshi Ram shall be long remembered.
His love for the Nation is reflected in his love for the deprived section of the society which constitute over 85% of Indian population. He was not against any caste or class but against “ism” which spreads ill will among persons by their ill conceived techniques. Sahib was simple but unpredictable personality, he could go to any length to safeguard the interests of his Bahujan Samaj.
Like every one else, he had to leave the mortal frame of body, although it is painful for those who were left behind to bear the unbearable shock . Destiny player the same with Sahib Shri Kanshi Ram Ji . He was not keeping good health for quite some time, but the brain stroke he suffered in Hyderabad during a meeting on 15th March, 2003 proved fatal. He was shifted to New Delhi Batra Hospital and remained under expert treatment for over three years. Sahib Shri Kanshi Ram declared Behan Mayawati as his political heir & National President of BSP on 18-09-2003
The unfortunate end of Sahib’s worldly journey came on Monday the 9th October, 2006 at 12. 20  at 11, Hanuman Road New Delhi, the official residence of Behan Mayawati. National Personalities like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Lalu Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan and other paid their homage to the Messiah of Dalits. His funeral was attended by lacs and he was cremated at Nigam Bodh Ghat New Delhi on 9-10-2006. He left behind his wish that his mortal remains be not immersed in any river but kept in BSP Party HQ’s at Delhi & Lukhnow .
He qualified his death as per the hymn of Kabir Sahib “Jab Ham Aye Jagat Main, Jag Hansa Hum Roay, Asi Karni Kar Chaloo, Hum Hansain, Jag Roay” (On child’s birth, child cries but locality celebrates birth with joy, One must work for the good of the society, so that at the time of death the locality mourns but the person dieing feels joyous so sayeth Kabir.). 
Unfortunate for the country  in general and Dalit Samaj in particular  Sahib Kanshi Ram’s dreams to get  equality and fraternity  dreams of Baba Sahib fulfilled  seems a distant dream. In a span of only 12 years from the death of  Sahib his  comrades and masters of his political soul BSP  seem to have forgotten the ideals dear to Sahib Kanshi Ram .His party & comrades are able to keep the Dalit masses united, to realize the dreams of sahib who achieved it with life long labour of sufferings. His comrades  are slipping away  from his ideals for their small personnel gains.  Unity of Dalit masses have struck  between short term personnel gains and long term goals of united Dalit masses. Personnel gains, which was to be warded off Dalit politics has taken roots among the Dalit leaders. Personality clash is the order of the day in Dalit politics.  Eyeing personnel gains and so Politics of Chamchagiri has brought ruins to the Dalit cause, so said Sahib. But alas in a span of 12 years his party is not only fast loosing set principles and so political strength. The BSP‘s relevance has got reduced to UP state only with its less caring for other Indian states. In UP Vidhan Sabha Elections in  its fort BSP the ruling party with 209 seats in 2007 had to satisfy with only 19 seats in 2017. In Parliament 2014 elections this party  obtained big ZERO against its strength of 21 MP’s in 2009 elections. In J&K the party had won 4 seats and now losing relevance without any representations in the state Assembly. The BSP bosses shall have to rethink and rededicate to the cause for which the party was formed in 1984. Sticking to set principles should be more concern of the party functionaries than nearness to political power. One can survive with out power but not without principles.
Sahib Shri Kanshi Ram shall be long remembered for his visionary saying “ NUMBERS, NOT VOILANCE SHOULD BE RULE IN DEMOCRATIC INDIA” Dalits should win race to New Delhi Gadi by democratic means only, leaving no space for violence against any political or ethnic group. Dalits should live with spine up, so were the dreams of Sahib. As per the doctrine proclaimed by Guru Ravidas,Guru Kabir Sahib Shri Kanshi Ram qualified as a practical Darwesh, Sanyasi Gyanashwer, Tyagi, Yogi, Pundit ,a crusader for peaceful political ,social change and above all as a principled human.
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Dated 14-03-2018
Jammu Er. H.R. Phonsa
Retd. Executive Engineer Contact hrphonsa@gmail.com or 09419134060