Subroto Royevery, contributing editor for The Statesman, believes that the basic fiction that the Union and State governments have made themselves is that their idea of an industrialisation plan is necessary for economic development.
Linked by bhupinder. Join Blogbharti facebook group.It is not. Real economic problems in West Bengal and elsewhere are financial to do with State budgets.. The communists have been in power thirty years and no one but they are responsible. Making the State’s budget healthy would require tackling the gargantuan bureaucracy, slashing ministerial extravagance (foreign trips, VIP security) etc. It is much easier to hobnob with the rich and powerful while tear-gassing the peasants.
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