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Niti Aayog has been the strongest opponent of expanding food security programmes. It has repeatedly sought to pare down and radically overhaul the public food distribution system, which gives subsidised rations. Also: 79% of Indian Households Experienced ‘Food Insecurity’ in 2021, Shows Survey.
The allocation has come down from Rs 1.11 lakh crore in FY’21 to Rs 60,000 crore for FY’24. The govt is destroying MGNREGA, to create a vulnerable population that could become modern forms of bonded labourers or, worse, enslaved people in a neoliberal economy.
It seems that the Narendra Modi government has decided, in an election year, that general elections can be fought and won without efforts to improve the material conditions of the bulk of the people, and even simply ignoring their suffering.
While taxing the rich can help tackle shocking inequalities, what is really needed in India is complete overhaul of economic policies that serve only big corporates.
Taxing India’s 10 richest billionaires at only 5% can fetch the entire money needed to bring children back to school, says the report released at WEF Davos meet.
Several important datasets that help in formulating government policies have not been released for over two years.
Oxfam study shows extreme wealth and extreme poverty are increasing simultaneously, worldwide.
Indra Shekhar Singh hosts a discussion with economist Jean Dreze and former agriculture secretary Siraj Hussain to discuss the consequences of PMGKAY’s discontinuation and providing free food under the National Food Security Act.
Now, concessional grain being given would no longer be available and the poor will be forced to buy 64% of their foodgrain requirement from the market at a high price.
Surely, the Centre doesn’t know; had that not been the case, it wouldn’t be giving multiple sets of data, all of which contradict each other.
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