ABOLISH PRIVATE FAIR PRICE SHOPS IN P.D.S AND HAND THEM OVER TO PRIMARY SCHOOLS

ABOLISH PRIVATE FAIR PRICE SHOPS IN P.D.S AND HAND THEM OVER TO PRIMARY SCHOOLS

R o b b y S h a r m a 865, Block-B, Panki Freelance Research Scholar Kanpur------ 208020 Town & Country Planning Problems Uttar Pradesh. INDIA

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To 13-07-2011

The Chairperson of NAC through

The Secretary, National Advisory Council,
Government of India, 2, Motilal Nehru Place,
New Delhi – 110 011. Phone:011-23062580
email: ritasharma.secy@nac.nic.in ; dhiraj.s@nac.nic.in

Subject :- News Items to the effect that NAC has recommended that

Fair Price Shop owners Commission be increased and they

be paid salaries also

Respected Chairperson Ji

1. If the above subject line is true then it would be a very contra productive decision because please understand that the Salaries of Public servants have been increased ten fold during the last ten years but the corruption has gone up hundred fold because the public servants due to their increased wages, get used to a better and in fact elitist lifestyles and start moving in still higher social circles, foreign jaunts etc and thus the hunger for money is ten times more, the Scams which used to be in hundreds of Crores are now in Lakhs of Crores. An I.A.S couple in Madhya Pradesh was found to have three hundred Crores in black money. There are thousands like them who have been not caught. Therefore by paying salaries to the Fair Price Shop owners and increasing their Commission will whet their hunger for easy money even more. Why do you think there is a heavy premium to get Fair Price Shops, is it because the Fair Price Shop owners are so mad as to form a queue for some Loss making project. In U.P a Grain Scam of several Thousand Crores in pilfering of Fair Price Shops Grains to Bangladesh etc is being investigated by C.B.I and the culprits are mostly District Collectors and Fair Price Shop Owners.

2. Therefore the only way that the Public Distribution System can be used for the benefit of the people is by making the Government run Primary / Elementary Schools of Villages as the basic block of development works in Villages /Towns. The teachers in these Schools ( please do not equate them with teachers of higher education in specialized fields, which are even now underpaid) are paid salaries far in excess of the work they do (you can get better and more laborious teachers at one third the salaries it is the mistaken notion of the Government that if they pamper Government servants by paying more money to them then they will work better and will not be corrupt, in fact the opposite is true the more you pay the more corrupt they will be.). They hardly have four hours of work to do and on top of it they enjoy hundreds of days of vacation.
3. That all the Fair Price hops should be handed over to the primary/ Elementary Schools, they will neither lack the manpower nor the time to do this Job which is in fact very simple as the Fair Price Owners merely open their Shops for only a day or two to distribute the Ration. The children studying will be able to inform their Parents about the availability date of the Rations. In fact these Primary /Elementary Schools teachers and Staff can be given many more Jobs which are presently being entrusted to the Lekhpals/Patwaris/Talatis (Revenue Inspectors called by different names in various States and it is one of the very few Government Posts, which have been manned , since even the British Times by the most corrupt persons and is almost hundred % corrupt cadre and was corrupt even in British times the failure of all the Government Welfare Schemes is mainly due to this cadre, which works directly under the District Collectors, who are the Mother Hen of Corruption in India).
4. You can give the Job of Survey of BPL families, Job of keeping track of MANREGA Funds, WIDOW PENSION, Old Age Pension, Handicapped Pension Scheme and even entrust the Election List maintenance etc to these Primary/ Elementary Schools. In short if the Country is to prosper then these Primary /Elementary Government Schools (which are present in millions and almost every where) should be made the basic building Block of development and public service. All they need to do is to work for two hours after School hours and even then they will not have to work for more than eight hours a day.

Please give a careful thought and abolish all the FAIR PRICE SHOPS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND HAND OVER THE PDS SYSTEM TO THE GOVERNMENT RUN PRIMARY/ ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

Thanking You

Yours Sincerely

(Robby Sharma)