India is going to become the third economy, but Delhi is forced to breathe poisonous air, what is the reason for this?

New Delhi: The results of Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections have come out. For the last few months, everyone’s focus was on the elections in these two states. With interesting elections came interesting results. But meanwhile, something happened in Karnataka which was lost from our sight. The prices of medical services in government hospitals in Karnataka have doubled. It is being said that this has happened due to the huge expenditure on the ‘Five Guarantee’ schemes of the Congress Party. On the other hand, the American court has accused Gautam Adani of bribery and corruption. Amidst these news, the news of Karnataka got lost somewhere.

Congress’s ‘free’ schemes are costing heavily in Karnataka

In Karnataka, Congress made big announcements like free travel for women, pocket money every month, cheap gas cylinders under the ‘Five Guarantee’ schemes. Rahul Gandhi is so confident of these guarantees that he/she even tried to woo people in Maharashtra by promising that if the Congress government is formed in the state, the pocket money given to women will be doubled from Rs 1,500 to Rs 3,000. The Congress government in Himachal Pradesh is already deep in debt. Recently, Himachal Pradesh High Court had ordered the seizure of Himachal Bhawan located in Delhi due to non-payment of a bill by the state government.

PM Modi also changed his/her policy

Well-known columnist Tavleen Singh, in an article written in the Indian Express, said that the socialist economic ideology of the Congress Party has always been based on such welfare schemes that put money in the hands of the poor, but do not have any real impact on bringing them out of poverty. Doesn’t show the way. When Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, he/she made fun of these schemes and at one time it seemed that he/she would stop these schemes completely. But when Rahul Gandhi taunted the Modi government for being a ‘suit-boot government’, Modi had to change his/her policy and he/she too followed the same economic path which kept India poor for decades.

BJP also depends on getting votes by distributing money

Today there is no BJP government which is not dependent on getting votes by distributing money to the poor. In Maharashtra too, as elections were approaching, the government suddenly realized that it should pay money every month to the ‘dear sisters’ of the state. This scheme was created for women earning less than Rs 20,000 or not at all, but reports are already emerging that women earning more than Rs 20,000 are also getting the benefits of this scheme.

These schemes are not able to do anything to end poverty

The truth is that these schemes have never done anything to eliminate poverty. These schemes only provide some relief to those who live below or slightly above the poverty line. They can’t do anything more than that. The only way to truly lift people out of poverty is to provide them with the means to do so through their own efforts. These means are high quality schools where children get not only literacy but also education, hospitals where people can get better health services, and real jobs instead of free ones.

Money being wasted on free things

The problem is that these things require investment and this is not possible as long as all our (taxpayers’) money is wasted on freebies. It goes to Modi’s credit that he/she has reduced the fraud in these welfare schemes by transferring money directly into the accounts of the beneficiaries. But its result has also been the same as what Congress was able to achieve after ruling India for decades. There has been no reduction in poverty and no significant improvement in public services beyond paying salaries of government employees and providing welfare schemes, building roads, providing drinking water facilities or improving the squalid living conditions of most Indians. There isn’t much left to spend.

The squabbles of leaders on Delhi pollution

Recently a scary example has come to light. Recently Delhi was found to have the most poisonous air compared to any other city in the world, but instead of taking it seriously, our political leaders and their spokespersons immediately started blaming each other. BJP spokespersons said that stubble burning by farmers is a problem in Punjab, and Delhi Chief Minister Atishi replied that stubble burning is also done in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, so it is wrong to put all the blame on the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab. Is.

Need to find alternatives to burning stubble

There are alternatives to stubble burning and they should be explored at the national level so that the common people of North India can get that most basic human right, clean air to breathe. There is also an urgent need for solutions for efficient urban waste management in cities and towns. These cost money and if we continue to spend money on the poor by requiring them to live a half-hearted life in humiliating, miserable conditions and abject poverty, then where will the money come from? There was a time when we believed that India would always be a poor country, but now we not only refuse to accept it, but our Prime Minister boasts that we will soon become the third largest economy in the world .

What is the use if the citizens of Delhi are forced to breathe poisonous air? What if our sacred rivers remain like drains? And what if huge mountains of garbage continue to form on the borders of cities simply because we cannot afford modern methods of waste management? To reduce the anti-incumbency wave in Maharashtra, a plan was made to give monthly pocket money to ‘beloved sisters’. But is this really going to help India?