It’s new and probably a hot
news for a talk, the ‘give it up’ campaign; and ‘they’ say that
“Money we save from giving up LPG subsidy is
the money we will use for the poor, so that they have access to clean energy
too.” 1
I
can't help asking “Oh, really?!”
Why would the government ask us
to help the poor?!
Whereas Mr. Modi is so generous that he will give subsidy even to a private initiation…
Whereas Mr. Modi is so generous that he will give subsidy even to a private initiation…
You must also have heard of
TATA NANO plant… which was planned to establish in west Bengal and later
shifted to Gujarat… and Mr. Modi permitted nearly 30,000 crore INR as subsidy
and 456 crore INR loan at 0.1% interest, when the west Bengal Govt. permitted 5000-6000
crore INR and 200 crore INR loan at 1% interest. Is Gujarat really wealthy to
give 30,000 crore INR as subsidy?
Well, let us look at GDP of
both states. In 2013-14 Gujarat and West Bengal had 765,638 and 707,848 crore INR respectively, in 2012-13
670,016 and 620,160 crore INR. Extrapolating the available data we see both of
the states are almost equal in wealth.
From the Indian Income Pyramid it is evident that, what 684m; 53% of
Indian population2 need is not a Nano car but food and shelter.
If
53% of Indian population doesn’t get the benefit of TATA nano why would the
Govt. take so much risk permitting 30,000 crore INR as subsidy and 456 crore as
loan?
At this point;
Why would the government ask us
to help the poor?!
Why can’t the Govt. increase
the subsidy at least for the poor? Or why can’t the Govt. decrease the price of
LPG???
CAG report says LPG is
overpriced!3,4,5
Govt. could increase subsidy for selective layer or they could
decrease the petroleum price… But Govt. wants us to join Give It Up campaign.
Is there a discrepancy in Govt. policy in 'helping' the poor???
Is there a discrepancy in Govt. policy in 'helping' the poor???
Ref:
1.http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/less-month-three-lakh-consumers-join-modis-give-it-campaign
2. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/india-population/
3. http://petrobazaar.com/diesel-petrol-lpg-are-over-priced-says-cag-11004.html
4.http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140719/business-market/article/diesel-lpg-overpriced-cag
5.http://saiindia.gov.in/english/home/Our_Products/Audit_Report/Government_Wise/union_audit/recent_reports/union_performance/2014/Comm/Report_14/chap_4.pdf
