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50,000 toilets in schools will constructed by PSUs

01 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Coal India limited and ONGC together will be constructing about 5,000 toilets in the schools during the next few years. As per the reports, the expenses will be met from their social security funds.

Both UPA and NDA governments took action to disinvest, dismantle and privatise the PSUs. But it is the same PSUs which had helped the government in all crises. Whenever there is any financial difficulty, the government took the cash balance of the PSUs. How many times this process has been repeated? But at the same time, the attack on PSUs continues. All know that it was the PSU banks which helped the government to minimise the damage of the 2008 recession in India. The PSUs are the hens laying the golden eggs. Don’t kill them for immediate benefit.

66 years after Independence, 4.4 crore live in slums, 60% rural people have no toilet facilities.

25 Wednesday Dec 2013

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It is 66 years since India got Independence. But the life of crores of people have not improved. As per the 2012 report (69th round NSSO Report) of the National Sample Survey Organisation, the government body which collects many datas for government, 4.4 crore people are still living in slums, which have no basic necessities and facilities. These are temporary houses, crowded and with complete unhygienic conditions. According to NSSO report, there are such 33,150 slums mainly in Maharashtra, A.P.,W.Bengal, Gujarat etc.
The report also mentions that 60% of the rural households do not have toilet facilities. For the urban area, it is 8.8%. They have to use public spaces for their natural calls. Those who travel by trains can see the people utilising the spaces near the Railway tracks for this purpose.
About 25% in the urban and 55% in the rural areas do not have potable water to drink.
While the Prime Minister and the Planning Commission are all shouting loud about the GDP Growth etc. they do not care about poor, whether rural or urban. There may be only very rare countries in the world, where the benefit of growth has mostly gone to the rich and the poor has become poorer. The ruling class always speak about the poor and oppressed, but ignore them in their welfare.
A change is a must to this sorry situation.