Friday, September 23, 2011: CPM said the Planning Commission
assessment of pegging poverty line of an individual at Rs 25 per day in
rural areas and Rs 36 per day in urban areas is non-transparent and
fraudulent method “manipulated to suit interests of UPA government’s new
neo-liberal policies.”
“The Planning Commission’s assessment is a non-transparent and
fraudulent method in which poverty lines were manipulated to suit the
interests of new liberal policies of the UPA government,” CPI-M
Politburo member Brinda Karat told reporters here today.
She alleged that the scientific assessment of the poor by the
Commission was a flaw and that it had been done with a motive to cut
down share of the poor in national resources.
Stating it was a shame on he country to say one who earns Rs 25 per
day would not be eligible for government subsidy, she demanded that the
Commission’s assessment of poverty be delinked from government schemes
for poverty alleviation.
On the proposed Food Security Bill, she said it was disappointing in
the present form. States would have to adhere to the Commission’s
estimates in poverty determination and it would adversely affect the
Public Distribution System functioning well in 10 states, she said.
On Aadhaar, Karat said CPI(M) was disturbed over the process of
Unique Identification Cards being started even before the relevant bill
on the matter was taken up for discussion in Parliament.
“Even before Parliament has had an opportunity to discuss it, the
government seems to have already started the whole process,” she said.
She said issues on bio-metric identification, privacy, and
commercialisation of all process were some of the questions to be
answered with regard to Aadhaar.
On petrol price hike, she demanded that the Centre regulate prices through an administrative price mechanism.
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