Agrarian crisis aggravating in nation : CPI Natl. Secretary Com. Amarjeet Kaur

Agrarian crisis aggravating in nation : CPI Natl. Secretary Com. Amarjeet Kaur

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 14, 2013: Com. Amarjeet Kaur, National Secretary of Communist Party of India said that that the nation is passing through a serious economic stagnation. The growth is jobless; there is rise in unemployment and fall in employment generation rate,she said.

Speaking at the press meet held at Hotel Woodlands Hall on May 14, Tuesday, she further added  that prices of essential commodities continue to rise. Agrarian crisis is aggravating and gaps between the wages / earnings of working people continues to be deepening between those who work at the grass root level and those who are in high positions in the bureaucracy and the management of big businesses and the corporate houses.

Kaur said that, on the other hand new scams are coming in the open every day frustrating the people that their needs are being ignored whereas people’s money is being floundered with impunity. The UPA-2 has been pushing hard the neoliberal policies of privatization liberalization as well as commercialization of education, health, water and other basic amenities. This is being pursued despite opposition from Trade unions, farmers, movements and other working sections of the society, she said.

The democratic institutions are also being undermined, he said adding parliament sessions are being scuttled while people’s issues are being pushed into the background.

The state governments are more or less carrying forward these policies of the centre with no respite to people. CPI in all its seriousness is determined to go to the masses on the people’s agenda for seeking universal public distribution system  with guarantee of minimum of 35 kg of wheat and rice at the rate of Rs 2 and Rs 3 end to future trading and hoarding of essential commodities, land to the landless, home to homeless pension to all agricultural workers and farmers, artisans and other working masses, end to gender discrimination and violence on women, guarantee of minimum wages and end to labour law violations, end to corruption at all levels.

After the nationwide campaign on these issues in the next few months, CPI would launch satyagraha programme in the month of September.She said that CPI believes that there are enough resources in India to meet the basic needs of our people instead of too much dependence on international financial institutions who impose conditions which basically go against the interest of sustainable development, Indian economy and our people.  Instead the government needs to change its tax policy to garner more revenue from the rich and affluent and the corporate, needs to improve tax recovery system, to move for plugging pilferage of national income, check the generation of black money and its outflow, take steps to recover all the tax arrears, enhance the social sector spending substantially to create necessary means for people for their economic activities and job creation.

Further CPI would disseminate the message to the masses that India can march forward on sovereign path of sustainable development while continuing to work for trade, business, exchange of science and knowhow with other nations based on mutual interest and benefit, she said.