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July 2006 - December 2006 IndexNational Common Minimum Programme and the UPA Government
The UPA Government has taken few positive steps
to fulfill it’s commitments like abolition of POTA, adoption of the right to
information act, National Rural Employment guarantee act, 93rd Constitution
amendment to bring private educational institutions with in the scope of
reservations for socially disadvantaged group, Act to prevent domestic violence
and to ensure rights on property to women, introduction of Scheduled Tribes
(recognition of forest rights) Bill in parliament, etc. But the Government is
pursuing the neo-liberal policies with ideological bindings unmindful of their
commitments in NCMP in major areas of governance a few of which are enunciated
below: The UPA government was passively staring at the religious obscurantism
and miserably failed to combat communal riots and terrorism which is fuelled by
Modi government in Gujarat. Allowed to fail the Public Distribution system and
no effective step has taken to strengthen it. Subsequently, the Government has
miserably failed to protect the peasantry from the collapse of market price of
agricultural produce consequent to the bi-lateral free trade agreements and WTO
agreements and the resultant opening up of flood gate to import. The second
green revolution planned is emerging out of the vision of the government for
corporate driven export oriented farming! The government is allowing FDI in
certain vital sectors like retail trade which curb domestic employment and asset
creation in a big way. Every effort is made by the government for privatisation
of profit making public enterprises and strategic industries like Navrathna
Companies, National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), National Aluminium
Company, Neyveli Lignite Corporation, State Electricity Boards, Air ports, etc.
Now full capital account convertibility is being suggested which may lead to
large scale capital flight. The review of Electricity Act -2003 is being carried
out by IIPA where a corpus is created in which majority of them were top
executives in government/ public sector implementing neo-liberal policies
including unbundling and privatisation of Electricity Board. The amendment
already agreed upon by the government to ElectricityAct-2003 has not yet passed
in the parliament. |
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