A Short Note on Arvind Kejriwal's Speech at CII
by Shyamal Bhattacharya
I am a bit disappointed to hear the speech Arvind gave at CII. Over all it was ok, but I expected some deeper insight into the Economic Policy he somewhat half spelt out, or in what he thought govt.'s sphere of responsibility is limited to. Let me remind him his own beautiful declaration that it is govt.'s responsibility to supply life-line water, electricity, shelter, education, health, food, dress and public transport in the first place. Capitalism or crony capitalism or socialism, does not matter. Whats in name after all? But when a govt. policy puts all those above mentioned basic services and goods at the mercy of market, controlled by private players, thats not what Arvind actually meant to do, I hope. As for job creation role of the govt, there is huge scope which was overlooked. Now suppose, if government takes care of all those fields particularly for the marginal people, plus infra structure, a huge number of jobs can be created. A county's development is not measured just by the index of growth, rather by Human Development Index. I hope, Arvind and his think tanks take note of an aam admi's suggestions into their consideration. AAP is an event, a real ray of hope that has touched the hearts across the country.... to keep it alive and make it really a people's movement for 2nd liberation of our country.....we are with AAP.... but AAP too has to be with us.
by Shyamal Bhattacharya
I am a bit disappointed to hear the speech Arvind gave at CII. Over all it was ok, but I expected some deeper insight into the Economic Policy he somewhat half spelt out, or in what he thought govt.'s sphere of responsibility is limited to. Let me remind him his own beautiful declaration that it is govt.'s responsibility to supply life-line water, electricity, shelter, education, health, food, dress and public transport in the first place. Capitalism or crony capitalism or socialism, does not matter. Whats in name after all? But when a govt. policy puts all those above mentioned basic services and goods at the mercy of market, controlled by private players, thats not what Arvind actually meant to do, I hope. As for job creation role of the govt, there is huge scope which was overlooked. Now suppose, if government takes care of all those fields particularly for the marginal people, plus infra structure, a huge number of jobs can be created. A county's development is not measured just by the index of growth, rather by Human Development Index. I hope, Arvind and his think tanks take note of an aam admi's suggestions into their consideration. AAP is an event, a real ray of hope that has touched the hearts across the country.... to keep it alive and make it really a people's movement for 2nd liberation of our country.....we are with AAP.... but AAP too has to be with us.
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