Centre’s economic policies are anti-people: Dr Singh
Bengaluru, May 7: Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh alleged that the economic policies being introduced by Narendra Modi-led central government have been causing inconvenience to the people and thus become anti-people.
Addressing a press conference at the KPCC office here on Monday, Dr Singh said that the country is in a critical condition and farmers were facing severe problem. The youth were not getting suitable job opportunities and the economy has been recording less development compared to its capacity. Instead of facing these challenges efficiently, it has been trying to oppress the voices which disclose such lapses. Economic policies would have greater impact on the life of people and those who are at the helm of affairs should not take decisions without thinking about the pros and cons, he said.
Since India is a complex and diversified country, no person could become the treasure of all knowledge. Whenever the BJP government’s destructive decisions are questioned, they say such decisions have good intensions. But such intensions were incurring heavy loss to the country, he said.
Amidst all global turmoil and recession, the UPA government had registered 7.8 per cent growth. But now, there is a conducive atmosphere and crude oil prices were also come down. In spite of it, the growth rate in the NDA government is limping. Demonitisation and GST introduction were the two big mistakes that could have been avoided by Modi government. As a result, micro, small and medium scale industries were suffering and lakhs of youth lost their jobs, he said.
In the GDP, the share of export has come down to the lowest level in the last 14 years. Though the prices of crude oil have come down in the international market, prices of petrol and diesel are sky rocketing. After BJP came to power, the crude oil price in the international market has come down to over 67per cent. But the prices of petrol and diesel were increased by 110 per cent. As the tax is increased continuously without thinking about the common people, the government could pool in more than Rs 10 lakh crore, he said.
Though the centre has been waiving off the loan balance of corporate companies, it has not shown the same interest in waiving off the farmers loans. In the last three years, the public sector banks have written off Rs 2.41 lakh crore loan. The efforts of many years to create the Indian economy as the third largest economy in the world were being systematically squandered. The aim of the Modi government to double the income of farmers by 2022 is just castle in the air. The MSP growth which was on an average of 19.3 per cent has come down to 3.6 per cent in the NDA tenure. Even the agriculture GDP was also declined considerably. The export quantity which was increased five times during UPA time, has come by 21 per cent. But the import of agriculture produces was increased by 60 per cent, he said.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
