| How to root out poverty? | | | | houses, living under the open sky, are starving, |
| In India even the state is anot adopting right | | | | are ill and cannot get proper treatment because |
| methods of rooting out poverty. We have seen | | | | treatment is too costly, they are obliged to give |
| that the state gives mid-day meal to the poor | | | | bribes and all that. All these evils were present |
| students, free books, free stationery items, | | | | when we were slaves and we were dragged into |
| warm clothes, holding free medical camps, | | | | war for independence on the assurance that we |
| sometime poor people are allowed loans at lower | | | | shall be establishing 'Ram Rajaya' after the |
| rates, sometime poor people are given grains at | | | | independence. But all these assurances had been |
| lower rates, some time poor people are given | | | | left out and nothing towards that direction has |
| work for some days in a year, sometime poor | | | | been done by the people who occupied seats of |
| people are given some pension and all that but all | | | | power from the British. |
| these methods have failed and the people of India | | | | The people coming in power are not really |
| are still counted as poor people. | | | | representatives of the people and that is the |
| It is an old saying that instead of giving a fish in | | | | reasoan they are not working for the people of |
| charity, we should teach the beggar to catch the | | | | India. It is a strange type of democrtacy where |
| fish himself. The state has failed to provide proper | | | | the people in power are really representatives of |
| education, proper training and aproper adjustment | | | | the few and they work for the few and that is |
| at work and that is the reason people are still | | | | the reason the majority of the people are left |
| poor and therefore, they accept the alms given | | | | behind and ignored. If this system goes on, more |
| by the state. We have wasted sixty years giving | | | | and more people shall be turning poor and illiterate |
| false slogans to the people and they are giving us | | | | and we shall never be able to establish India of |
| votes, but till now people are illiterate, untraianed, | | | | dreams of Mahatma Gandhi. |
| unemployed, beggars, wearing rags, living in mud | | | | |