“Post-Liberalisation India & its

effects on Common Man in

India”
The successive governments in India
congratulate themselves saying we did
great things….

Was their policies right?

 The Indian Situation….
Where paradoxes rule

 India slips to 132 in the United Nations

Human Development Index

 India joins the exclusive club of space-

faring nations
 Human Development Index
 Congo, Botswana, and Bolivia(Latin
America’s poorest nation) are ahead of us.
 Sri Lanka, the war ravaged country is 104
 Vietnam, who rose like a phoenix, is
ranked 114
 China, most populous country, is at 94
 Cuba is at an impressive 48
 HDI - 1992 versus 2009
 In 1992 India ranked 121 among 160 nations.
 Today, India is at 132 among 179 nations.

⇒ Jai Ho! What a progress! For corporate, corrupt

parties like BJP and congress, development is
their own personal development and not the
development of the nation or its citizens.
 41stin industrial competitiveness
in an index of 100 leading
economies of the world
 India lags in prosperity despite

gains from liberalization

 India
below sub-Saharan Africa in
Hunger Index
“African countries
manage hunger
better than us”
 Global Hunger Index
 War-ravaged countries of Serbia and
Lithuania are better off than India.
 So are people in cold deserts of Mongolia.
 Tiny nations such as Surinam and
Honduras have got a better handle on it
and so have large diverse countries like
China and Brazil.
 Global Hunger Index
 In South Asia, countries like Myanmar, Sri
Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan have fared better
than India in their drive against hunger.
 Even countries like Laos , Cambodia and
Burkina Faso have been ranked higher than
India.

 India, in comparison, is failing miserably to

tackle hunger.
 POVERTY
 Did you think Ethiopia ? Think
again…..
 India is 94th in the Global Hunger

Index …..even behind Ethiopia

Whom are we feeding ????

 We contribute most to the “newly hungry” in the

planet
 Interestingly, we continue to export grain at
prices lower than those offered for the millions of
poor in the country
 Inadequate public distribution system effected
dumping of tons of rotten food grains in the sea.

And it could get worse….

“Of all the things before us,
agriculture comes first”
- Jawaharlal Nehru

and yet…
 Food prices shoots up manifold
 Shortfall in the availability of food grains
 Country fails to feed its population
 Prices of fertilizers continue to rise
 Prime agricultural land diverted for
industrial use
 Farmer suicides continue in India
 182,936 farmers’ suicide in India till 2007.
 Undernutrition levels in India are among
the highest in the world
 Spiraling health cost
 16% of households in certain Indian states
pushed below the poverty line by heavy medical
costs
 43% resort to loans for meeting medical
expenses
 1.41 lakh women die each year during
pregnancy or childbirth
 46% of children below 3 years of age are under
weight
 For an average working class family
expenditure on health care increased by
1037 %
 Government spending on health care in
India was a mere 0.8 percent of GDP in
2005
 80% of expenditure on health is on
account of private spending
 Tax concessions
 Tax incentives to corporates amounted to
Rs.2.79 lakh crore amounting to half of the taxes
collected by the government in 2007-2008
 Tax concessions given to IPL cost the
government Rs. 10 crore in revenue
 At the same time crop loan waiver package to
farmers was a mere Rs 60,000 crore.
 Nations much worse off do better

 39 per cent of adult population is illiterate

 More than 50 million children are out of
school
 Drop out rate of scheduled tribe students
rose to 16.6%
 77 per cent of the population live on Rs.
20 a day
 The share of wages in the organised
industrial sector is among the lowest in the
world
The flawed poverty parameters
 Poorest possessing
less than 0.01
hectares (ha) of land
do not hold any ration
cards
 The homeless do not
have any ration cards.
 36 % of subsidised food grains are
sold in black
 Only 57 % BPL households have

ration cards
 India Shines ?
 The country is returning back to the pre-
70s society
 36% of the world’s poor live in this country
 77 % of the population live on Rs. 20 a
day
 The employment grew at 2.785 per annum
 But Corporate India Shines!
Forbes Millionaire List
 In 2007 India ranked 4 and had 53
billionairs with $335 billion.
 2009 India ranked 6 and has 24 billionairs
with $107 billion.
Addenta:
 Corrupt politicians – the modern day
Nero’s - at the helm of affairs also shines!
 The neoliberal policies

 Brought in unregulated privatisation

 A minority amassing wealth at the
expense of impoverishment of a vast
majority in the society.
 Rising levels of inequalities
 More corruption of politicians &
bureaucrats by Corporate
 Exploitation & ignorance towards the weak
and marginalized sections of the society
 The question is what are you going to
do about this?
 You have the power,
 To vote,
 To effect change,
 To make a shift in these disastrous policies,
 Only You can change these and make a
better India.
Vote for a Government that places People above Profits & Business.

Vote for a Government which makes a paradigm shift from these disastrous neo-liberal
policies.

Vote for a Government which has credible alternatives to put forward. (BJP’s and the
Congress’ economic policy is one and the same – ditto copy!).

Vote for a Government which continuously fights all the forces which harm the country and its
unity.

Vote for LEFT

LEFT HAS PROVED THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE THROUGH ITS CONTINUOUS TAKING UP OF
STRUGGLES OF THE POOR AND THE WEAK & MARGINALISED SECTIONS OF SOCIETY
ALSO THROUGH ITS ALTERNATE POLICIES AND PRO-PEOPLE GOVERNANCE IN THE 3
LEFT RULED STATES.

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 Vote For Left

Defeat both Congress and BJP.

Strengthen Left and Democratic Forces for:

An Alternative Secular Government committed to pro-people
economic policies,
provision of social equity;
consistent secularism;
genuine federalism;
and an independent foreign policy.
 Left’s Alternative Proposals
 Enhancing state intervention and increasing annual Plan`expenditure
amounting to 10% of India’s GDP (currently it is below 5%).
 Adopting specific relief packages for crisis-affected sectors aimed
mainly at the small and medium enterprises; preventing job and pay
cuts for workers and employees.
 Increasing public investment in agriculture and irrigation; providing
protection against price crashes of crops through price support and
increased import tariffs.
 Expanding the employment guarantee to cover all adults and for as
many days as demanded; extending employment guarantee to the
urban areas.
 Universalising the PDS and supplying 14 essential commodities at
subsidised rates through the PDS.
 Providing income tax relief for salaried employees, pensioners and
senior citizens; increasing taxes on speculators and the wealthy and
crackdown on black money.
 Strongly regulating the financial sector and strictly controlling the
outflow and inflow of speculative finance; maintaining predominant
state control over finance and revive development finance.
References
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
http://www.ifpri.org/
http://www.ifpri.org/media/20081014ghi/ishi08fs.asp

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Know Left, its policies, its stands

1. On Hunger and Price Rise
Hunger.pdf

2. On Workers' Issues and Urban Poor

Workers.pdf
Urban poor.pdf

3. On Agrarian Issues and Rural Development

Bharat Nirman.pdf
Agriculture.pdf
4. On Global Economic Crisis and on India's Foreign Policy
Crisis.pdf
Foreign Policy.pdf

5. On Communalism and Rights of Minorities

Communalism.pdf
Minorities.pdf

6. On Women, Dalits, Tribals and Differently Abled People

Women.pdf
Dalits tribals.pdf
Differentially Abled.pdf

7. On Education and Health

Education.pdf
Health.pdf

Manifesto of CPI(M)
Manifesto.pdf

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