Our own Kuffir, writing at The Other India, points to the irony of the the farmer whose interests everyone seems to give high priority to, and yet, this “farmer” is in a minority compared to the large number of marginal, sub- marginal farmers and the landless.
Linked by bhupinder. Join Blogbharti facebook group.For instance, the state government plans to spend Rs.823 crores on education, Rs.759 crores on health and Rs.1462 crores on welfare. Compare those figures with the Rs.13000 crores, or 44% of the total plan expenditure, that the state government has allocated to irrigation! Two thirds of the total outlay, as a Dalit activist pointed out, was for ‘those who have everything’.
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