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Sir, the tainted hand has not raised a single finger in order to put in place social package for the distressed, and the tainted hand can be accused of ignoring the uneven social development of massive displacement of human labor. Sir, so far as I know, so far as the Press report is concerned, there has been not a single Cabinet meeting on this issue. May be on the NREGP, there has been a Cabinet meeting, but there has been no Cabinet meeting held on this issue. There has been no discussion in the Parliament on this issue. But because of your generous intervention, Mr. Speaker, Sir I compliment you profusely as a friend of the working people you have enabled me to raise this issue in the House late in the day.
Sir, there has been no meeting of the Chief Ministers on this issue; there has been no meeting of the Labor Ministers on this issue; and even there has been no meeting of the Labor Secretaries on this issue. Hon. Members in the last row please do not disturb. Too much of is not a place for whispering. Sir, there has been no programme to deal with the situation. It is being taken as an inevitable concomitance of global meltdown. The Government need not have its policy. It is the market which will correct itself. It is due to market melt-down and if the market revives, the job conditions will revive. The Government is having supreme faith in the automatic market mechanism to bring about an aberration. The point is, when tsunami had hit the country yes, I am comparing it with tsunami the Government had set up a damage control mechanism, control room to take care of the human distress. When the economic tsunami has hit the country, there is no whisper and there has been no relief rendering mechanism initiated by the Government till now to the people who have fallen distress.
The point is those who are not responsible for the crisis is being made to pay for the crisis. It is the corporate who have made the crisis. It is the working people who are being made to suffer for the crisis that the corporate have made themselves. Who made the crisis? The classical example is Satyam. Under the sleeping nose of the Government, Rs.7, 000 crore was lost and people are on the verge of being thrown out. The crisis has been generated by the corporate and it is the working people who are paying for it. The Government has reduced the taxes, rightly so. The Government has asked for decrease in the interest rate of the bank loan. I do not grudge. The banks have been asked to advance lavish loan to the corporate, even to the defaulters. What a wrong step! But has the Government put a pre-condition? Please mind this. Has the Government put a pre-condition on those who take advantage of the social benefit? Whose money they are receiving from the banks? Taxes have been reduced at the coast of the people. Therefore, it is the social benefit that is being rendered. No pre-condition has been imposed that if you take advantage of the loan and you get the benefit of the reduced tax, you should not retrench.
The Government is too weak to speak in a strong language to the corporate that you must not retrench the workers because we are giving you soft loan. Because we are giving you the benefit of reduced taxes. The Government is too soft. Therefore, the question is, the Government is absolutely sleeping over the biggest national human deprivation problem in the post war period in India.