Inflation Demon

        Indian Public is grinding under inflation from last year’s September month onwards and concerned ministry (food and Agriculture) either hearing voices’ of people with deaf ears or come up with statements in the media from time to time which resulted in shoot up of prices further of commodities named by F&A minister and it is not that Union Food and Agriculture minister name one item but he spare no commodities of Indian kitchen like sugar, milk. pulses, rice, vegetables and eatable oil, then jumps in the prices’ of these items seen in the span of eight months more then two to three folds minimum because of huge gap between demand and supply which created courtesy of shortage of rainfall during rainy season plus F&A minister statements in the media gives opportunities to the hoarders and black marketers to reap the profits by storing. When F&A saw and realize the anger of public against him and his ministries due to his statements in the media, he made two more statements to boil public further –

• Astrologer can predicts when prices will come down.
• His ministry is not purely responsible of price rise because decision taken by GoM and known to P.M.O. also.

Experts come up with their conclusion on to price rise and give some relief to furious people of this country that prices’ will come down when fresh bumper crop will reach the market and Government is simply buying time from public by issuing statements like inflation will come down very soon; government is taking all the required steps to control the demon of inflation which on ground not visible but such supporting statements issued by Finance Minster and Food and Agriculture Minister of and on to calm down furious common public whose budget goes haywire, but at the same time announcements and decisions of Government make people confuse and pressurise them to think twice what the government saying is correct or what they are doing is right –

• Central Government issue notification to increase Dearness Allowances (D.A.) to it’s employees from 27 percent to 35 percent which will benefit approximately five million central employees and it will be effective from 1st January, 2010, with this announcement there will be additional burden on Government exchequer 6,969.36 Crores, Question here rises if government are doing efforts to control inflation then what’s the logic behind increase the dearness slab? Are Government employee’s lives in different atmosphere /society, then other citizen of this country?
• Punjab Government in the Assembly present bill to increase Legislative members salary and perks, and shocking side of this story is that whenever question comes to increase the salary and perks of Legislator members then every party stand united and bill clear without any obstacles but on other hand when anything comes for development, benefit for society for discussion in Assembly or Loksabha then never ever opposition party stand united with ruling party and lot of undemocratic scene witness either of walkouts or uproar or disrupt of proceeding of house.

All this make common people of the country to think if government whom his vote give power to govern the country or state, government belongs to handful section of society whom they are working or every citizens are as much part of country as much any others but on grounds it not appears that government works for every citizen of this country as government worry for their employees and state legislator or Member of Parliaments worries for their perks but left common people on the mercy of their fates’. Example of this people are angry and vocal against inflation but despite passing of eight to ten months government did nothing ,other then hopes.