tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post1003483694345708873..comments2024-01-20T01:42:55.034+05:30Comments on kufr: how food security feeds on hungerkuffirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12137701734913669203noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-78238119287786440682010-09-16T06:09:40.836+05:302010-09-16T06:09:40.836+05:30Labor living at the expense of tax money of city d...Labor living at the expense of tax money of city dwellers! excellentKarnati Veerannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-83663626804614215202010-09-15T13:41:54.343+05:302010-09-15T13:41:54.343+05:30Sir,
I am not god to decide the just price for lab...Sir,<br />I am not god to decide the just price for labor. I am only highlighting what government intervention does to the market. I would like to see capital formation and productivity increased to such a level that every farm laborer rides to his work on a motorcycle or car.<br />Presently, government interference in the agriculture is so complete that market has become irrelevant.<br />You grow paddy at these labor etc input costs and government decides support price, FCI purchase price, export of paddy is banned, trading across states and even districts is banned. What does the farmer make? Only loss.<br />City dwellers cry hoarse when rice prices increase and so the paddy price is kept low. It is from the tax money of these city dwellers only that NREGA is financed. And if things go on like this, paddy production will come down like it did in Kerala and then you import from other states which will make it more expensive.<br />Why don't you see that NREGA is simply throwing money at the labor, not getting any work done - all for their votes. How long can you afford to throw money like this?<br /><br />I would like Kufr to react, if he/she has time.Venkatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-7015688062775687912010-09-15T05:08:49.589+05:302010-09-15T05:08:49.589+05:30@Venkat, thanks for reminding the just price of la...@Venkat, thanks for reminding the just price of labour. I guess you will never like to be paid with the same scaleKarnati Veerannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-73959792862885778902010-09-13T17:19:44.672+05:302010-09-13T17:19:44.672+05:30After the electoral defeat of CPM in 1999, card ho...After the electoral defeat of CPM in 1999, card holders like Sainath started several 'peoples' movements simultaneously to invent issues to beat the NDA government with.<br />In the process, Sainath got Magsasay and Sonia got UPA government.<br />They created the monster called NREGA and started sinking upto 100,000 crores a year. In its name, they screwed the tax payers with 12% service tax. UPA gets votes, Sainath becomes a hero and people get screwed.<br />The havoc NREGA is creating in farming sector is known only to farmers. MDOs are pressurised to spend the money and they are dragging all agricultural labor to perform silly labor work like removing weeds from tank beds. They go in hordes of 100 to 150 including small children, work for a couple of hours and collect Rs 100 as wages.<br />If the funds are not spent in summer, the program extends even into the monsoon season.<br />When farmers engage the same labor, they are demanding the 100 rupees plus wages for doing 'real' labor.<br />Labor wages have shot up by 100% after NREGA came. All this will add up to costs of food in the years to come.<br />There is tremendous compulsion on farmers to mechanise farming operations but the fractured size of farms makes it uneconomical.<br />Whose baap ka money is it that they are distributing in NREGA?Venkatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-31733711169408796952010-09-13T14:52:39.066+05:302010-09-13T14:52:39.066+05:30kiran,
it was only partly made in jest:)kiran,<br /><br />it was only partly made in jest:)kuffirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12137701734913669203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-72026081085470423462010-09-11T14:40:46.489+05:302010-09-11T14:40:46.489+05:30Though you made the point in jest .. I agree with ...Though you made the point in jest .. I agree with the logic that fewer the hindus better the food security.Kirannoreply@blogger.com