Sat, 01 Oct 2011 Invite To Newzfirst Present BPL framework is flawed, will lead to social exclusion: Jean Drèze By Jitendra 10/1/11 Email Print
PATNA - ‘The present BPL frame work is flawed. It doesn’t lead to identify a poor reliably. Universalization of Food Security would be the solution at a sight’ says Jean Drèze, the noted economist. ‘The situation in Bihar improved but it is still meager. Tamil Nadu has successfully implemented universal PDS system, it is also exemplary in the country’, added Jean Drèze, here at public meeting. Jean Drèze has questioned the intention of Govt. He said ‘every person has right to get food, health facility and educations and state is bound to provide. But, Instead of providing, Govt is keeping away from its fundamental duties and responsibilities by mooting the idea of cash transfer’ Cash transfer is not only concentrated to cash money but it has wider meaning. Providing health Insurance to BPL families, admit student to privet school and Govt would pay fee to privet schools, he explained. Economist Jean Drèze was clarifying the air that Food Security doesn’t mean to only improving PDS. It has very wider implications. PDS is a part of Food Security. It constitutes nutritional value to pregnant women, children up to 0-6 yrs and many more. Answering the apprehension over Universalisation of food security led to concentrate the treading of grains to Govt only, helping the richer to get food at subsidized rate, he said ‘Universalisation doesn’t mean uniform. At least in rural areas, Food security could be uniformly universalized and debate how urban poor would covered. Himachal Pradesh has excellent record regarding this. There were two groups, APL and BPL only, where APL gets at twice rate what the BPL gets’In the end he expressed fear over present frame work of BPL leads to exclusion of society. Dr Ritika Khare, an assistant of Jean Drèze, presented the details of a survey conducted among 13oo households across nine states. People expressed their concern about cash transfer in this survey. They feel that cash has different ends through different ways whereas grains, at least, has one end to reach human stomach. Another concern was distance of Banks and Post offices from villages and transportation costs of grains from market to home. She added that two complains are very common among public one is rampant theft in PDS and other point is that many poor family is not having BPL card. She also said there are three groups of States based on performance regarding PDS. They are States having very good record of PDS i.e. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh etc., States having very poor record of PDS i.e. Bihar (45%), Orissa etc. and last, States having improved record of PDS i.e. Jharkhand (70 %), UP etc. Dr Ritika Khera responded over a question on roles of People’s movement in improving PDS in other state, she said ‘Good governance would be a reason of improvement in delivery mechanism like Chhatisgarh. The role of people’s movement in its improvement is not yet visible.’ -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1*< http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
