Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Inhuman act of Indian Railway Authority


Considering the present economic condition of our nation, one of the basic requirements of people of our country is ‘job’. In fact during the election period “creating maximum number of jobs for the citizen of the nation” remains one of the major agendas for the political parties. But, in reality quite unfortunately this agenda has never been met up, in fact instead of creating jobs the present government is busy cutting down the opportunities of self-employment. One of the fundamental aspects to strengthen the economy of any country is to creating maximum number of jobs. It is indeed painful that despite the presence of people like Dr. Abhijit Banerjee and Amarta Sen, who have been awarded the most prestigious award ‘Nobel Prize’ in the sphere of economy, our country is going backwards in that particular arena.

As per data the percentage of job has remarkable gone down in last one decade in our country, but still we expect that things are going to the right direction. The Nobel laureate Dr. Abhijit Banerjee has clearly defined in his book as well as in interview that in order to maintain an equilibrium in economy, it is a prerequisite factor to ensure that the poor and lower middle class of our society have adequate opportunity to earn more money. But, in reality, things are happening quite contradictory to what Dr. Banerjee said. The present government seemingly chose to head to the opposite direction; making our economy more susceptible by destroying small businesses.  

Railway, which is an integral part of our government and also of our economy, is at the verge of becoming private. The problem is not with the endeavour of making this sector private but the plan and intention which has been adopted to do so is harmful for our economy. In the process of making railway a private company the primary step that railway has taken is to uproot the railway stalls which has been used on rent by small vendors for more than four to five decades. In the main line of eastern railway at Shyamnagar railway station there were two tea stalls which have been forced to shut by railway around two years ago. And those two stalls have been remained locked and unused ever since. I hope one does not have to be highly qualified to contemplate the fact that a property which remain unused can no way generate money for railway, in fact had railway set out a proper rent on those two stalls considering the market of that particular area it might have been a profitable and convenient venture for both the railway and those vendors. But, when there is explicit shortage of genuine and progressive plan nothing good can be expected. Those two tea stalls may not really matter to railway but it had certainly hold intense importance to those small vendors and people working and directly and indirectly associated with those two stalls.

Such, baseless act of railway authorities should be condemned in every means because the senseless and inhuman act of railway authorities endanger the existence many family. Those two stalls were the bread and butter for so many and those who were working in those stalls may have had children and it can be guessed how ruthless   the moment had been to those children and family members when they heard the only earning member of their family lost job. Those children might have been forced to stop going to school and joined some job due to an irrational decision of railway government authority.   

Most importantly had those two stall been used by railway immediately after taking over we could have understood that those places have at least been utilized by railway but it has been around two years those two are locked and might remain in the same condition for several years.

These two stalls were just an epitomize of  how badly our government are being run, while making all plans for progress we must not forget that we are still a progressing country and yet to receive the status of many European and Asian countries where the condition of its citizen are much better than ours. Hence it is highly expected from our government to reform their policy and instead of trying make the country digitalize by putting so many in risk we must progress slowly but firmly. They should not forget they are being given the authority to run this nation by the general public and if they ignore the basic rights of ours they shall be dethroned soon from their position.  

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