There begins another

chapter of election winning, economy sapping rural schemes from the UPA 

Important excerpts below 

 

Creating employment needs patience and our political system has very little of it. In the absence of patient work other “solutions” are tried—politically funded entitlements, affirmative action and plain throwing of money at the poor.

There is no reason for despair, if the intent truly is to improve rural lives. What is required is a heavy dose of investment in education and infrastructure. The problem is that results of such investment cannot be reaped in a single electoral cycle. Hence the short cuts. NRLM is a good example of that thinking.

Congress party and its machinery is adept at creating plans that reap benefits in a single election cycle. See Andhra Pradesh for example or even India for that matter. Again they prove to be awesome!