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Friday, March 7, 2008

CONNECTING LIFE TO LIVELIHOOD

Finance minister P.Chidambaram recently expressed that he could not understand why people did not mind paying ten or twelve
for a bottle of mineral water but made such a fuss when the price of wheat went up by one or two rupees.He spoke and how the gap is widening each day.
The current growth process in the economy calls for concentrated programme action to link the rural unemployed youth with the job providers.
Many organisations are moving towards the smaller towns ,opening up centres there and also providing employement opportunities to people who hail from there.
But does our government have anything to do when it comes to bringing rural India closer to these burgeoning MNCs and other organisations?
"The Ministry of Rural Development has developed some programs in rural areas through the state governments for poverty reduction,employment generation,rural infrastructure
habbitant development,provision of basic minimum services,etc."expresses S M Khan,additinal Director General-PIB,Chief Spokeperson
(Ministry of rural Development),Minstry of Information and broadcasting,Government of India while talking about the initiatives the Ministry of Rural Development has undertaken.

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