For someone who claims to be a Government for the Aam Admi, it is stunning how little attention has been paid by this duo on what exactly the Aam Admi wants. Offstumped revisits the facts on how the Congress has been hoodwinking on Social Justice and backwardness.
The 2002 Census of all Rural Households in Karnataka has data that is very revealing.
If you consider Literacy rates by Social Group there are more illiterate households (forward castes or other religions) than either OBC, SC or ST.? Now to better appreciate this statistic consider this. Of a total of 67 Lakh households surveyed 28.8 lakh were in the General category while 21.1 Lakh in the OBC category.? Of the?21.1 lakh OBC families nearly 90% were either illiterate or educationally backward (dropped out after Class X). In the case of general category the number is 86%.
So here you have the so-called “Other Backward Category” and the so-called “Forward” Category with a nearly identical degree of educational backwardness in terms of illiteracy or drop-out rates across Rural Karnataka.
Consider this as well. If 1.63% of the OBC families were college educated or higher only 1.93% of the forward families were college educated or higher. So again in terms of the extent of “forwardness” there is no real difference across Rural Karnataka.
This statistic alone should be sufficient to blow away any attempt in Karnataka by either the Congress or the JD-S to tom-tom the present 27% reservation for OBCs or the 1995?quota measures passed by?Deve Gowda.
?It can thus be said safely on the basis of the above that Educational Backwardness in rural Karnataka is endemic and is pretty much caste neutral.
It can also be said on the basis of the preference of assistance expressed by different social groups based on their literacy status that “Reservations” are not the answer to their problems. This preference for “Self Employment” is caste neutral with every social group consistently preferring opportunities over entitlements.
Offstumped bottomline: The Census data is screaming aloud across social groups and irrespective of literacy status that a majority of the rural households want “Self Employment”. The aam admi want opportunities not entitlements. Clearly Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, have paid scant attention to what the Aam Admi really wants.
Filed under: betrayal of aam admi
Good analysis..If a fast developing state like k’taka faces such situation,just imagine the condition of neglected and backward states..Reservations do not benefit anyone,its just a political tool to garner votes..It would be better if govt focuses on primary education rather than providing quota’s for particular castes..
Wada in Thane District, which is part of the Bombay Metropolitan Region had cases of HUNGER DEATHS two years ago !!!!!
The Union Agriculture Minister , Sharad Pawar’s party is part of the coalition government here in Maharashtra.
If one has to cite an example of MIS MANAGEMENT, then students must be lead to Maharashtra.
Congress led DF government has doomed the once prosperous state.
Poor forced to pay bribe to get kids into school:Survey
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Poor_forced_to_bribe_to_get_kids_into_school_Survey/rssarticleshow/3234642.cms
On a different but very relevent topic China snubbed, degraded and insulted MMSingh and the office of PM of India (and President which doesn’t matter anyway)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3233667.cms
Getting insulted and ridiculed everyday from our own ministers, MPs and non-MPs (Karat) is one thing, but getting that from a foreign country is entirely different.
Brothers, enjoy this latest NVS article.
http://www.indiareacts.com/archivedebates/nat2.asp?recno=1685
And when brothers battle over businesses, assets and spoils, it becomes war by another name, and sometimes war as Oedipus’s sons fought over Thebes. By the ill fate that is pursuing this government, the Ambani war has commenced attacking its foundation. Economic reforms haven’t followed the Left exit as so many commentators on the Right dreamt, but a curse certainly has visited this government since. If the government won’t or cannot placate the Anil camp, Mulayam, Amar Singh & Co will destroy the present arrangement. Apparently, by seeking a trust vote, the Manmohan Singh government has opened itself to the threat of a no-confidence motion that can be brought anytime even after the present crisis is somehow resolved. And if Amar Singh’s extreme wish list is granted, Mukesh Ambani’s money power won’t be quieted. The CPI general secretary, A.B.Bardhan, is on record that MPs are being bought for Rs 25 crore to save the government. That is peanuts for the Ambanis. In his obsession with the Indo-US nuclear deal, Manmohan Singh has jumped the government from the frying pan into the fire.
English radio lessons a hit in India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7391742.stm
Gujarat fuels English hopes of many
http://www.livemint.com/2007/07/02003411/Gujarat-fuels-English-hopes-of.html
This is a great idea from Bihar of teaching school kids english through radio lessons. Modi has already started force-feeding gujus english. I think the Bihar idea of radio english lessons is very cost effective, and should be emulated along with tele-education all over India. The same should be done with sanskrit and Indian history, the real history, not the “nehru-macaulay-marxist’ version.
Brothers, read on to this superb piece by
Chandan Mitra:
A historic blunder?
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=mitra%2Fmitra316%2Etxt&writer=mitra
However the greatest and most savage attack on AAM AADMI by this Christian beast Govt has been the neglect and deliberate killing of agriculture. India, which in 2004 had so much foodgrain that there was no space to store that, and millions of tonnes were donated for the drought stricken Ethopia and Somalia. The Congress sold the foodgrain for peanuts (Yes Whites and particulary Italians always WILL have the first right), neglected agriculture and deliberately forced farmers to suicide, then imported the same at much higher prices.
The modus operandi of this Christian conspiracy from top Italian was simple (and has worked very effectively in the Christianic YSR ruled AP), THROTTLE agriculture, force farmers to penury, then some MADE up missionary / CIA NGOs would arrive in the dot of time.Promise farmers some cash, “donate some money”, siphoned off by foreigners from our TAX MONEY only, ONLY IF THEY “CHOOSE” some fake “Jesus” as their saviour and off course pledge their allegiance to MURDER INCs POPE/ USA. This has worked very effectively in AP under the Goon YSR.
HOWEEVER IT DOES QUALIFY FOR CRIMES OF GENOCIDE