Make people work hard rather than making them beggars dependent on freebies
Congress President has come with big pre-poll announcement to give rupees 72000 per annum to five crore families covering about 25 crores population in case his party comes in power. Poll-promise is gimmick in itself because Congress President has said that the scheme is planned to be introduced in phased manner without any elaboration of the term phased-manner.
India would have been a developed nation if such allegedly pro-poor gimmick schemes would not have been allowed distributing free items or providing money without or nominal work just on paper like MNERAGA. Useless subsidies have tend to eaten up Indian economy like termites where most such subsidies in name of poor are misused by affording ones like on postal-items including post-cards.
Commoners including poor would have been benefitted much if heavy money spent on such schemes would have been better utilized on development projects and reduction in taxes. However ever-widening gap between rich and poor must be curtailed and visibly seen by fixing maximum salary and post-retirement benefits from public-exchequer including for President and Supreme Court judges to that of highest paid bureaucrat in the country. Others paid from funds generated from public-money like from Board for Control of Cricket in India BCCI should also have likewise upper salary-package equivalent to Union Cabinet Secretary rather than upto rupees seven crores per annum apart from hefty other benefits.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL