Date:04/09/2007 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/09/04/stories/2007090450100801.htm

Back Economic inequality

A TV news channel showed an alleged chain snatcher being badly beaten up by the public in Bhagalpur, Bihar.

This famished-looking man was then tied to a policeman’s motorbike and dragged around the streets, and seemed more dead than alive when handed over to the police.

At the same time, newspapers announced that GDP growth was racing at more than 9 per cent.

Of what use is such high rates of growth, if men like one the described above do not know where their next meal is coming from.

More than 30 per cent of the population belong to the BPL (below poverty line) category.

Only a fraction of the population seem to enjoy the fruits of economic growth.

The rest seem to be stagnating in spite of 60 years of Independence.

C. V. K. Moorthy, Kolkata