Recently Indias perfomance in the global market has been pretty impressive! the Tatas buy corus!Reliance on the verge of creating a walmart in india, with the left closlely monitoring every move. FDIs just flooding Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu!Vilasrao Deshmukh "SEZ" it all.The GDP growin at an exponential rate, reaching 4 trillion dollars placing us at the 4th place!
Lately we have also gained the status of a powerful nation which was evident from the fact of Russia n China joining us for discussin economics n trade in New Delhi.Be it Iran or India, Vladimir Putin is all set to help the world with the nuclear plants for energy!With China aiming at rail routes in Nigeria and gaining some oil resources we definitely see an emerging asia.If India, Russia and China form something like the OPEC we could definitely put the US on the backseat and stop the Texas kings from their "crude" penertation into the Middle East!
But I think the light of India shinig has casted a very long shadow.What we fail to realize is that India is primarily an agricultural country with around half the population working on land. The new India shining ideology has impacted the farmers in almost all the states, especially the Vidarbha district towards the northeast of Maharashtra! The US subsidy of cotton has jeopardized the Indian farmers and made their produce worthless.Ironically the CM of Maharashtra is interested in FDIs n converting Mumbai into Shangai.
A record high number of 1200 farmers committed suicides in 2006.The Deputy CM RR Patil says- the illegal money lenders are to be blamed.The stats show that it was the government showin a lack of interest.Imgine the farmers killed themselves to gain compensation tat could be used to clear debts!Undisputedly deplorable!
Community Action for development(CAD) an NGO took the intiative to train the local gond tribes by implementing major watershed programmes. The tribes are now self reliant, open to criticism and self sufficient.After the pressure from the UPA President, Dr.manmohan Singh has released a relief package for the farmers.
Does it mean that it takes 10000 lives for the center to realize an issue? If the SEZ are introduced in Maharashtra the state should be courteous enough to susidize the farmers effort! The WTO agreement could be negotiated and duty on imported cotton can be increased. I hope Mr.Chindambaram allocates atleast 1% of GDP on agricultural research.
No more loan or credit for the farmers.Let them have the 3Is(Income,Insurance n Investment).If we are developing at the cost of farmers life,we would call it negligence!Lets have humanity towards the poeple who contribute 70% of India's income each year.
