I have been going through the newspapers and the TV channels. Some of the main issues focussed are the floods in Assam, the power shortage in Delhi and other cities, the severe drought in Rajasthan and some other states and also the export of wheat when the poor people of the country are starving without food.
The floods in Assam has taken many lives and lakhs of people have lost all their belongings including their homes. Kaziranga sanctuary is flooded and hundreds of animals have died. In Rajasthan the drought has been serious and there is no water even for drinking. These are, of course, natural calamities. But through out centuries,mankind has been able to at least reduce the adverse effect of these calamities to a certain point. Water is made available even in deserts. Immediate action to save the lives of people in case of floods can be done, since these are annual occurences in the Assam region. But unfortunately, no such precaution and prior arrangements are not at all made even though it is well-known that such disasters may happen. And the sufferers are mainly the poor and lower middle class people. The rich and the well to do people can move away during these times and have some cushions to face the disasters. But what about the poor people? The Central and State governments have utterly failed to face the situation. The plea that there are no sufficient funds does not stand scrutiny since lakhs of crores of rupees are snatched away by corrupt politicians and usurped by the super rich, corporates and MNCs.
While the poor people do not get food, wheat is being exported in thousands of tons as fodder to the developed countries. Some times food grains are rotten in the godown of the government. But it will not be supplied to the hungry people. The situation is worse than at the time of the dictators of the past.
The situation has become worse after the implementation of the neo-liberal policy in the country since the 1990s. While crores of people have not even huts and stay in the dirty and muddy areas of the cities, on the other side are the posh areas where the super rich stays in big mansions bigger than the palaces of the kings in the past with all facilities and amenities. 20% rich people owns more than 80% of the assets in the country, while the 80% don’t have even 20% of the total assets. The situation is worsening every day.While Ambanis and Jindals have Rs.50-60 crore salaries, the poor somehow survives with less than Rs.20 per day. The policies being adopted by the government is increasing the discrimination each and every day.
It is high time that the people as a whole has to raise their voices against this discrimination and complete neglect of the poor and downtrodden in the country and fight for a reversal of the anti-people policy of the government. The government should be compelled to change its wrong policies.
VAN Namboodiri's Blog 
Even Supreme court has said about food grains rotten in godown of government nothing changed even today we see same happenings, rather than making responsible officers punished. Nothing changes and things keep on repeating or waiting for disasters to happen. So a systemic change is needed to review to held officers accountable for not acting, and our policy makers just passing their time and merely acitng on their profit , working on policies that will suit to have their profit……
We never find our government doing more than a money package…..which will just go to state govt. only resulting into nothing…….
Where do we have our agencies to control, monitor for department not working properly for what they exist…
Lokpal might help….
No website of Govt. department clearly says what duties do they are for….
very less of these do most of them not..
all department websites must show on website there duties, for what the are and what work they do… to every man so that people can easily approach them, rather than making reserved to contact….
just had to say..