Are you doing enough for those who are banking on you?

(This was written in May'15)

Are we doing enough for those who are banking on you?

I am worried that on the occasion of Modi led Government’s first anniversary, there will be so much of noise that real issues and solutions will take back seat.

Lip service will be at best. BJP will try to prove that tons of schemes are going to bring result in comings times while congress led opposition will try to prove Government’s all-round failure. Media will invite so called experts and they will give mix opinion over Government’s 1 year of work. Media will be busy in TRP race. Amidst of total chaos, citizens will feel dejected and frustrated.

Now lot of us who want to be called intellectuals will blame reckless media, corrupt politicians, insensitive judiciary and crony capitalism for all our problems.

They say “Literature is mirror of society”. Similarly what media is showing is what entertains people. If people give more weightage to Bollywood gossips and cricket discussion over news of people welfare schemes then who should be blamed?

A country which is home of 1/6th of humans on planet, with GDP per capital income of meagre $1808 with 131st rank, needs economic growth at much faster pace than rest of world. For last 4 years, the growth has come down drastically because of lack of economic activity in country. Question is why economic activity is low.  The answer is that in order to curb inflation, RBI tightens the monetary policy i.e increased rate of interest. Higher Interest rate discouraged credit hence domestic investors refrained from new investment. Entire economic cycle slowed down. Now who is responsible for drop in GDP growth? Is it RBI or inflation or investors? The answer is Inflation.

What is primary reason of inflation? The inflation is because of higher demand and low supply. While RBI’s fiscal policy tackles with demand side but who is tackling supply side? Ideally Government is responsible for increasing supply. Have you heard anything about Government’s efforts for increasing supply? Except few cosmetic efforts nothing is visible on the ground. This is really scary situation. We are on mercy of God (“Bhagwan Bharose”). Currently inflation has come down to CPI 4.87% but that’s because of lowering of demand. This is sign of weakness.

My appeal to spokesperson of various political parties, experts, journalists that everything can wait but just think of 280 million fellow countrymen who cannot afford to spend just Rs 20 on their medicine. For them sitting in autorikshaw is luxury. For them rain, summer and cold are much close to national calamity because they don’t have roof to protect them.

Remember we all are visitor to this planet with max life span of 90-100 years. Don’t fall in love with materialistic things.

Read somewhere these beautiful lines “People were created to be loved, things were created to be used; the reason why the world is in chaos right now is because things are being loved, and people are being used.”

Let’s do “something” for the sake of humanity.

Manoj Tripathi