Rich in India live on subsidies paid by poor, says Hande

September 8, 2011

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Manipal, September 8: Ramon Magsaysay award winner Dr Harish Hande has expressed regret that in India rich are living on the subsidies paid by poor in the form of taxes.

Delivering the T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Leadership Lecture on 'Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Energy and the Youth' here on Wednesday, he said India claims to have 8 per cent to 9 per cent GDP growth and is the second largest growing economy in the world. “However, there is stark difference in real where the other side of India is at the helm of unprivileged class. India is a paradox of overdeveloped and underdeveloped,” he added.

There is a need for a paradigm shift aiding holistic business approach that benefits the poor mass, Mr. Hande said.

“India needs decentralised business models supporting sustainable development. India can be the centre of innovation for business models that can be replicated by the third world countries like Latin America and Africa,” he observed.

Asserting himself as classic product of subsidy, Hande ridiculed that students are not taught practical picture of real India. Most of the higher educational institutions are the product of subsidies. Educated youth are not in a position to offer solutions to the problems of poor Indians. India should become leader for 4 billion poor people across the globe rather than taxing the classic model of sustainability by focusing more on the markets of classic business models of McDonalds and Walmart.

“Rich in India are hiding behind the poor and we should be blamed for not providing solutions,” he said and added that the frustration is the best part of motivation and urged youths to immerse them in the atmosphere that makes real India, he added.

Rural India is much more complex. Social entrepreneurship starts with how to break the barriers.

The needs and wants are different from each other. He said: “We have not created models on the needs of the poor keeping into mind the variety in cash flows.”

Ridiculing the true meaning of Sustainable Development in India in reference to salt workers of Kutch and coal miners of India, Hande said there are nearly 45 per cent of the population in India that lack electricity facilities. Even after 65 years of independence, more than 60 per cent Indians who live in rural India use the technology that survived the stone age.

Deeper into economic strata of the society, the investment on the cost of electricity gets high. “We need a decentralised approach of energy that paves way to the sensitivity of breaking the barriers between people to people and banks and people including the poor.”

Pro Chancellor of Manipal University H.S.Ballal, Director of the Institute A.S. Vasudeva Rao, Dean (Planning and Development) Chowdari Prasad, Professor at the Institute R.C. Natarajan and Member of Institute Governing Council H. Shantharam, were present.

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Mangaluru, Jun 23: A charter flight carrying as many as 166 people including a child stranded in United Arab Emirates today reached Mangaluru. 

The flight was chartered by M Friends Charitable Trust, Mangaluru and My Community Foundation with the sole intention of helping the repatriation of stranded passengers such as pregnant women, elderly people and those who are in need of emergency medical care. 

The flydubia flight FZ4617 took off from Dubai at 2 p.m. and landed at Mangaluru International Airport at 7:22 p.m.

The passengers who arrived from UAE hail from different parts of coastal Karnataka and passengers themselves had borne the ticket fare for their travel.

M Friends president Haneef Haji Goltamajalu has thanked representatives of My Community Foundation and M Friends Trusty Ashraf Abbas Kunjattur, M Friends NRI leader Haneef Puttur, general secretary Rasheed Vittla for their efforts in chartering the flight.

In the last three weeks, 13 special flights with around 2150 passengers from various Gulf countries had landed at Mangaluru airport. 

Already, throat swab samples of 1814 passengers, who had arrived in Mangaluru, have been tested and 239 people with international travel history have tested positive and the samples of 1,575 passengers have tested negative so far.

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March 10,2020

Belagavi, Mar 10: Around 6,000 chickens were buried alive by some poultry farm owners here as the rate of flesh in the market dropped even below the cost price due to Coronavirus scare.

The poultry farm who buried the chickens on Monday evening belonged to Lolasuru village in Gokak Taluk of the district.

One of the owners, Nazir Makandar, said that there was no demand for chicken because of threat of Coronavirus.

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Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020

we are ready to destroy food but wont allow poor to eat it

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February 29,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 29: The BJP leaders in Karnataka rallied behind Vijayapura MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal amid a controversy over his remarks that centenarian freedom fighter HS Doreswamy was a "Pakistani agent."

The saffron party leaders have extended support to Yatnal, days after he called Doreswamy a "fake freedom fighter" who behaves like a "Pakistani agent".

Yatnal made the comments at a press conference on February 25 while reacting to a query on a public meeting organised by the Congress titled 'Save the Constitution'.

"There are many fake freedom fighters. There is one in Bengaluru. Now we have to say what Doreswamy is. Where is that old man? He behaves like a Pakistan agent," Patil had said.

"Doreswamy is an elderly person and senior to all. He had participated in various agitations. He should also see what to talk and who will be hurt with those statements. We have all seen what he said about Prime Minister Narendra Modi," Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar told reporters in Kodagu on Saturday reacting to Yatnal's outburst against Doreswamy.

Noting that the statements were made in bitter taste, Kumar said, "If you speak unpleasant (things), you will hear unpleasant."

Bellary City MLA G Somashekara Reddy too backed Yatnal saying that the his statement was appropriate. "There is nothing wrong in his statement. It is absolutely correct. I support him. It is not just okay to be a freedom fighter, but he should be a 'Deshbhakt' (patriot) too, who respects the unity and integrity of the nation."

On Friday, another BJP Minister KS Eshwarappa slammed Doreswamy alleging that he had visited Amulya Leona's residence and shared a good relationship with her family.

Leona had raised 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans at an anti-CAA event here on February 21, taking everybody present by shock and dismay.

"We respect Doreswamy but he dances to the tune of Congress and supports whatever their leaders say," Eshwarappa said.

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