Welfare Haves And Have-Nots

September 9, 2013

The government seems determined to create a de-industrialized moonscape across India. We have seen a spate of rights-based welfare schemes being started by our omniscient and honorable Sultanate in Delhi. I am sure I am getting the names of our new laws wrong. But, what’s in a name? Right to Poor Quality Education Act, Right to Carbohydrates Act, Right to Village Control over Forests and Mines Act are doubtless welfare-inductive. Those of us who live far away from Delhi may lament that these laws will destroy our society. This may not happen in two or three years. But over 20 or 50 years, clientelist societies get there.

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