Direct
Cash Transfer Scheme in PDS is invitation to Starvation Death of Malnourish Tibals
and Massive Deforestation-VJAS
Direct cash transfer scheme of
subsidy amount to the beneficiaries will adversely effect food starved vidarbha
10 million tribal and down trodden people as cash given to buy food from the
market is likely to diverted and families who getting food under Annapurna and Anotyadaya
are likely to face starvation and will
take away existing food security to majority
tribal and backward families presently covered under BPL category of PDS scheme more over reducing kerosene quota drastically
has already started massive illicit cutting of forest and having seen the
failure of The year-old pilot programme on cash transfers of 25,000 households
In Kotkasim, a block in Rajasthan's Alwar district that borders Haryana, now if
same is implemented in vidarbha will
invite massive deforestation hence we are urging Indian Govt. to suspend the scheme
till it’s all implication are not considered and legal status coupled constitutional
validity of Aadhaar cards being prepared
by the Unique Identification Authority is not approved by law makers in the parliament ,Kishore Tiwari
Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti informed in press release today.
“ We are informed that the
central decision lunch scheme for direct cash transfer of subsidy amount to the
beneficiaries as poor people will not be
able to access their accounts in which the government will transfer the money
as it has been our experience that wages
under MGNREGA and old aged –widows pension of the people does not reaching them,
what is the guarantee that cash will transferred to their accounts on time and
will utilized for the purpose ,this is attempt to end the Public Distribution System which would benefit the corporations.
The plans to extend the cash transfer scheme to food and cooking gas subsidies,
would hurt the poor as poor cannot be left to the mercy of market forces hence
we are protesting the scheme ” Tiwari said
It is reported that the year-old
pilot programme on cash transfers of 25,000 households In Kotkasim, a block in
Rajasthan's Alwar district that borders Haryana has been failed miserably , the
numbers tell a revealing story. Kerosene sales here have plummeted by over 70%
as across the block, most residents said they had either received no money for
one year, or at best just one of four instalments. A ground-level assessment of
this pilot project for cash transfer — whereby beneficiaries would get money in
their account rather than subsidized goods — is instructional in many ways has
failed as residents of Kotkasim's five panchayats say it's persistent delays in
the subsidy money reaching them which has made buying kerosene too expensive
now they use firewood to cook, and candles when the electricity goes, which is
for over half the day and households bank passbooks show they have not received a single rupee in subsidy yet, hence
we want Indian parliament should review the scheme and protect tribal and poor
,Tiwari said .
There is big constitutional question mark over legal validity of the much hyped Aadhaar cards being prepared by the Unique Identification
Authority which is functioning without any status and rules which will be the sole proof for the
government's scheme for direct transfer of cash to a poor person's account
where in Bankers are not ready to use Aadhaar
cards as ID proof as thousands fraudulent Aadhaar cards are being issued with out any due verification
by authorities and few hand people in planning commission are going ahead with
distribution of UID numbers and cards to citizens is, bypassing Parliament as
collection of personal data by the government not only violated the citizen's
fundamental right to privacy but was also an executive act in overreach of
Parliament, where National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010, was
still pending for consideration.It is matter of serious concern that
methodology and procedure adopted to the
grant of UID numbers and Aadhaar cards is much haphazard and
non-transparent even illegal migrants are getting very easily UID
numbers and Aadhaar cards . Indian parliament should make law for Unique Identification
Number Project proposed to give UID numbers not only to citizens and a scheme
framed by the government through an executive order of January 28, 2009 should
be scraped .UID number and it’s procedure is presently overpowered the right to privacy to citizen guaranteed under
Article 21 of the Constitution and Collecting biometric information as a
condition precedent for the issue of Aadhaar card is an invasion of right to
privacy of citizens and thereby this can only be done by a law enacted by Parliament
and beyond the executive power hence this objection ,Tiwari said..
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