"MUMBAI
- Should unused food be allowed to go to waste or used to feed the
hungry? An unprecedented "order" by India's Supreme Court to
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to distribute food grain free to the
poor, instead of letting millions of tonnes of it rot, has blown up
into a core issue, raising questions about about the balance of
judiciary and government, and how should a government deal with abject
poverty.
"I respectfully submit that the Supreme Court should not go into the realm of policy formulation," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on September 6, politely telling the court to keep away from what he perceived as exclusive governmental turf. "It is not possible in this country to give free food to all the poor people."
Manmohan, disappointingly, missed the point, or pointedly avoided it, during a 80-minute meeting with senior journalists at his residence in New Delhi on Monday. The Supreme Court order of August 12 had directed the central government to ensure free distribution of only grain that would have otherwise rotted in godowns. The government was not asked to feed for free all the poor across the country, all year. Distribute the grain free as a "short-term measure", the court had said."
More than a year before Obama's present visit to the subcontinent to seal business deals that include massive purchases of arms, Riverside Global Justice and Peace Ministries of Riverside Church in New York sought to petition Prime Minister Singh on the extraordinary issue of
the Indian Leader's spending billions on submarines while two million children die of malnutrition and starvation, and that India builds and buys submarines at the cost of this pathetic death and the stunted development of over 40% of its children who along with their parents suffer hunger.
Prime Manmohan Singh was to have addressed the
UN General Assembly , a petition was circulated by the The Riverside
Church Global Justice and Peace Ministry and the All Souls Unitarian
Church Peace Task Force:
"Petition
India Prime Minister Mammohan Singh
Please!
SAVE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
DYING OF STARVATION
& MALNUTRITION while
$BILLIONS for NUCLEAR SUBMARINES
are being spent
Indian Prime Minister Mammohan Singh launched a 3 billion dollar nuclear submarine. A sub that can carry Russian built missiles equipped to deliver India's Atomic bombs. A submarine made at the cost of taking bread from the mouths and life from the chests of Prime Minister Singh's fellow citizens. Both the cost of building nuclear submarines, and the purchasing of others, are paid for with funds drawn on the treasury of a "democracy' that does not feed its children.
Singh's India is a gigantic torture chamber for the 47% of its children under five who suffer malnutrition. [47% is a World Bank estimate] Malnutrition makes children prone to illness and stunts their physical and intellectual growth for a lifetime, with dire consequences for mobility and mortality. Its also torture for the parents who watch in agony as 2.1 million of their kids die before their fifth birthday from malnutrition and preventable illnesses. [UN estimate from Malnutrition in India, Wikipedia]
As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists by Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 3/12/2009
"NEW DELHI "Small, sick, listless children have long been India's scourge "a national shame," in the words of its prime minister, Manmohan Singh. after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse ..." Seems by the Prime Minister's own admission, his wife breaking the bottle of champagne on the bow of this incredible investment last month becomes a hideous spectacle of death over life.
A kshay Mangla in Delhi complains that the pathetic state of child health and education in India should be seen as no less than a total failure of its democracy, public institutions and civil society.
Malnutrition getting worse in India by Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Madhya Pradesh
"About 60% children in Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished. Lying on a bed is a tiny malnourished child. Her limbs wasted, her stomach bloated, her hair thinning and falling out. She stares, wide-eyed, blankly at the ceiling. Roshni is six months old. She should weigh 4.5kg. But when she is placed on a set of scales they settle at just 2.9kg.
BBC News, 7/26/09 India launches nuclear submarine. "... a second one is due to be constructed shortly. Pravda, Russia, 20.08.2008 "India places two-billion-dollar order for Russian missiles " made for submarines of the Indian Navy. The nearest order is seven submarines." Manasi Kakatkar, ForeignPolicyBlogs.com, --India getting two Akula class nuclear powered attack submarines from Russia, and six Scorpene submarines from France"
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This petition must have fallen on deaf ears. The ears of the same Indian PM Singh who now reaches out to Obama and the U.S. as a further source of weapons of mass destruction while millions of his countrymen die of hunger.
President Obama has made himself a partner in this crime against humanity, adding it to so many accomplished more directly by wanton use of arms against innocent people in the Middle East. In India it is an Obama crime of arranging expenditures for arms that take the bread from the mouths of Indians threatened with a slower manner of dying than those killed by weaponry.
Weapons of mass destruction bring mass murder, used or unused.
"I respectfully submit that the Supreme Court should not go into the realm of policy formulation," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on September 6, politely telling the court to keep away from what he perceived as exclusive governmental turf. "It is not possible in this country to give free food to all the poor people."
Manmohan, disappointingly, missed the point, or pointedly avoided it, during a 80-minute meeting with senior journalists at his residence in New Delhi on Monday. The Supreme Court order of August 12 had directed the central government to ensure free distribution of only grain that would have otherwise rotted in godowns. The government was not asked to feed for free all the poor across the country, all year. Distribute the grain free as a "short-term measure", the court had said."
More than a year before Obama's present visit to the subcontinent to seal business deals that include massive purchases of arms, Riverside Global Justice and Peace Ministries of Riverside Church in New York sought to petition Prime Minister Singh on the extraordinary issue of
the Indian Leader's spending billions on submarines while two million children die of malnutrition and starvation, and that India builds and buys submarines at the cost of this pathetic death and the stunted development of over 40% of its children who along with their parents suffer hunger.
"Petition
India Prime Minister Mammohan Singh
Please!
SAVE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
DYING OF STARVATION
& MALNUTRITION while
$BILLIONS for NUCLEAR SUBMARINES
are being spent
Indian Prime Minister Mammohan Singh launched a 3 billion dollar nuclear submarine. A sub that can carry Russian built missiles equipped to deliver India's Atomic bombs. A submarine made at the cost of taking bread from the mouths and life from the chests of Prime Minister Singh's fellow citizens. Both the cost of building nuclear submarines, and the purchasing of others, are paid for with funds drawn on the treasury of a "democracy' that does not feed its children.
Singh's India is a gigantic torture chamber for the 47% of its children under five who suffer malnutrition. [47% is a World Bank estimate] Malnutrition makes children prone to illness and stunts their physical and intellectual growth for a lifetime, with dire consequences for mobility and mortality. Its also torture for the parents who watch in agony as 2.1 million of their kids die before their fifth birthday from malnutrition and preventable illnesses. [UN estimate from Malnutrition in India, Wikipedia]
As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists by Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 3/12/2009
"NEW DELHI "Small, sick, listless children have long been India's scourge "a national shame," in the words of its prime minister, Manmohan Singh. after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse ..." Seems by the Prime Minister's own admission, his wife breaking the bottle of champagne on the bow of this incredible investment last month becomes a hideous spectacle of death over life.
A kshay Mangla in Delhi complains that the pathetic state of child health and education in India should be seen as no less than a total failure of its democracy, public institutions and civil society.
Malnutrition getting worse in India by Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Madhya Pradesh
"About 60% children in Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished. Lying on a bed is a tiny malnourished child. Her limbs wasted, her stomach bloated, her hair thinning and falling out. She stares, wide-eyed, blankly at the ceiling. Roshni is six months old. She should weigh 4.5kg. But when she is placed on a set of scales they settle at just 2.9kg.
BBC News, 7/26/09 India launches nuclear submarine. "... a second one is due to be constructed shortly. Pravda, Russia, 20.08.2008 "India places two-billion-dollar order for Russian missiles " made for submarines of the Indian Navy. The nearest order is seven submarines." Manasi Kakatkar, ForeignPolicyBlogs.com, --India getting two Akula class nuclear powered attack submarines from Russia, and six Scorpene submarines from France"
___ _________________________________
This petition must have fallen on deaf ears. The ears of the same Indian PM Singh who now reaches out to Obama and the U.S. as a further source of weapons of mass destruction while millions of his countrymen die of hunger.
President Obama has made himself a partner in this crime against humanity, adding it to so many accomplished more directly by wanton use of arms against innocent people in the Middle East. In India it is an Obama crime of arranging expenditures for arms that take the bread from the mouths of Indians threatened with a slower manner of dying than those killed by weaponry.
Weapons of mass destruction bring mass murder, used or unused.
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