Disclaimer: All information regarding the Cessna plane is courtesy the Time of India venture, Pune Mirror.
Farmers of Vidarbha n their welfare is IMO.
Recently, I read that Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh is getting a New Aeroplane for official travel purposes, courtesy the Government of Maharashtra.The Aeroplane is a Cessna with two engines that seats 8-9 people in luxury.The cost of running and maintenance is 2 lakh rupees per inflight hour.
Now, my viewpoint here is that on one hand we have problems like the suicides of the farmers in the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra which has been suffering droughts in succession.The farmers are in neck deep trouble and have no way out but to take a loan from the loansharks and landlords who in turn trap these poor people in a vicious circle of debt and interest which is also known as the "Chakri Byaj " system in rural India.The condition of payment is that the farmer shall pay interest as per the landlords wishes and if he fails to do so he has to compromise his piece of land which he hopes to earn his livelihood from,hoping helplessly for a good harvest.This is one of the main reasons for the suicides in the Vidharbha region.Now, my question to the Chief Minister is.....Sir, was it so important for you to have a personal jet that the suicides of the farmers and the atrocities commited against them are so unimportant in comparison? Dont you think that that Rs. 52,000,000(count the zeros) would have solved most if not all of the problems in the Vidharbha region...?
Secondly, in Maharshtra wherever the electricity is supplied by The Maharashtra State Electricity Board(MSEB), there are problems like load shedding and scarcity of electricity. As of now ,Pune, which is supplied electricity by the MSEB is experiencing a minimum loadshedding of 6-7 hours a day...the reason- no rain.Understandable,but that is onl now.What about the city(Urban Pune, lets not even talk about rural areas) losing electric supply once in a week for about 4 hours? Pune which is known to be the 2nd IT hub of India has bad roads,power supply shortage,no city planning(the roads in the city are the narrowest roads I have seen in a city considered so important).
So what exactly should we be planning about...Our jet plane or the farmers or our electricty problems or our city planning..????
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