Taking strong exception to further reduction in the Central allocation of kerosene to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to enhance the quota to the required level of 65,140 kilo litres per month or at least restore it to the April-May, 2011 level of 52,806 KL.
In her letter to the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister drew his attention to the latest reduction in the allocation, which was 39,429 KL for the quarter of April-June 2012. She argued that this had been done “without any reason or logic.”
Recalling her previous letter and memorandum in June last year in which she referred to the "unfair treatment" in the reduction of the Central allotment of 52,806 KL for April-May 2011 to 44,580 KL for June, Ms Jayalalithaa said: “While I have been all along pointing out to you that the poor people in the rural and urban areas of Tamil Nadu depend on kerosene supplied through the Public Distribution System (PDS), this callous approach on the part of the Government of India in consistently reducing the allocation is tantamount to penalising the poor people of Tamil Nadu simply because they voted for the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Government, which is in power at present.”
Terming the action of the Central government as totally arbitrary, she said the deliberate reduction in the allocation of kerosene by the Government of India to Tamil Nadu even to the extent of 50 per cent of the actual requirement “is absolutely unreasonable, unacceptable, unfair and unjust.”
Keywords: kerosene allocation, Jayalalithaa, Central Government, Manmohan Singh
The root of all problem is the exploding population. How about try controlling population growth, like china does. When you have more mouths to feed, the demand goes up and so the prices of commoditties, creating scarcity of basic items. Late prime minister Indira Gandhi had a vision then, but nobody gave a hoot to her. Now everybody is suffering. When countries like USA can't solve such problem, it would be a marathan task for india.
The Central Govt is USING its influence to penalise the States like Kerala and Tamil Nadu by reducing the Kersosene quota.This affects the poor who do not have any other fuel for cooking and for lighting.The Fishermen are hit the hardest.At the same time Kerosene is available in the Blackmarket.
In Kerala the Congress led Govt.is swalowing the injustice without raising objections. It is insentivity at the worst to take on the people in the lower rung of society
It is unfortunate that people are reluctant to face milk, bus and electricity fare hikes. Government cannot subsidise everything. They need money to run the show. When we expect yearly hikes from our employers, we should not just blindly oppose the hikes that the present Government has made after the previous Government kept the fares unchanged for years and years. It is the DMK Government who created all the trouble. They left TN with big debt, less competitive compare to other States. Thanks to people for giving majority to AIADMK, because of which Jayalalitha is able to implement her decisions strongly and boldly.
However I agree that raising bus fare, price of milk, electricity, etc was unavoidable due to
mismanagement by earlier DMK govt. jaya saved the State from bankruptcy. It is wrong to
say she increased prices multifold as the meaning is wrong. I realize and admit that jaya is
an able administrator.
The one and only hope of Tamilnadu... Request the people of Tamilnadu to support her in all her initiatives...
Jayaji is right in her centention that any reduction in the allocation of Kerosene will drastically affect the poor masses of Tamil Nadu as they totally depend on its use for cooking and lighting purposes. Thus, it would be prudent on the part of centre to restore it to usual level, lest the congress may also lose its base in the state, as people may resort to sideline them in the future elections especially the one for loksabha. Be cautious!
with exports of 350 billion dollars and oil imports of around 150 billion, a trade deficit of 170 billion. our country will not have any money to import if this continues. we are headed for disaster.
It is you (Jayalalitha) started penalizing us (people of Tamilnadu) after getting elected. If you are so concerned about poor people than why you have increased the prices of Milk, Bus fare, electricity & all other essential commodities to multifold? Why you have scrapped newly built secretariat using few thousand cores of poor tax payers money?. After you have become CM for 3rd time Tamilnadu has gone back in all front
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