Since India achieved Independence, a common scene has been
persisting to create pressure groups and demand reservations in public service
jobs. Once such a pressure group succeeds, it would die for keeping it to
continue indefinitely. To start with, we saw that our Constitution framers,
with a feeling heart, gave reservation to SC/ST for ten years. Today after 65
years of the promulgation of the Constitution, it has been reviewed several
times but no ruling parties had courage to take it back as the beneficiaries
would be antagonized in vote bank politics. The matter has gone such a far that
no political party has courage or commitment to come forward and announce a
date for its discontinuance. It did not stop there. Service holders of this
category enjoy reservation in promotion as well. Later on, the so-called OBCs
united and launched their struggle for similar reservation and ultimately
succeeded when B.P. Singh became the PM. It was followed by the Jats and now
the Gujjars are on war-path.
Against this parochial decisions, the NDA Govt. in last one
year of its dispensation, has launched nearly half a dozen of concessions,
aimed at the wellbeing of the people at large without any consideration of
caste or religion. Till a year ago, if a poor coolie, farm labour, rickshaw
puller or similar others died of a
disease or in some accident, nobody came forward in his support. Today, if he
invests just one rupee per month, on death, his family will get Rs 2 lakh. If
he accepts another insurance scheme and invests Rs 30/- per month, again on
death, his family will get a good amount. Under the Jan-Dhan Yojna, everyone is
opting to have his bank account. For insurance claims, he will not have to
depend on agents or middle- men. The amount will straight go into his account.
If he joins the Atal Pension Scheme and regularly contributes every month a
small amount, after being of 60, he will start getting pension for life. Thus,
nobody in India will remain uninsured and on death he will not depend on
anybody’s or govt’s mercy. Similarly, today everybody’s subsidy money on LPG
cylinder goes to his bank account.
It is an excellent experiment, obviating malpractices on
petty considerations.
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