Dr.Indiresan has made a beautiful analysis of the causes for the murder of Mr.Sonawane an IAS officer who was holding a post of Additional Collector in Maharashtra. However, none of the three suggestions, viz., higher pay for the politicians, abolishing of family owned parties and the state meeting the expenses of serious electoral candidates are workable and practicable. Greed in the human being can not be satiated by any amount of increase in remuneration, particularly for the politicians. The oil mafia and consequent death of a government servant has not been taking place for the first time. Earlier Mr.Manjunath an officer of the Indian oil corporation was brutally killed in Uttar Pradesh. Successive Governments are responsible for such lop sided policies of creating differential pricing in petroleum products to meet the fuel requirement of the poor. The said policy doesn’t benefit the poor, but only enables rampant adulteration and smuggling of the scarce resource to neighboring countries causing heavy leakages in the system. Although serious and honest introspection is the need of the hour by the policy makers, an ostrich like attitude prevails leading to supply and demand imbalances. Such problems and consequent mafia arise not just in oil alone, but in mining, quarrying of sand for construction purposes, supply of rice and food articles in near throw away prices through PDS and also earlier constraints created in the import of gold ornaments. One may appreciate the fact that liberalization of the import of gold ornaments by the Indian tourists visiting abroad during the early part of this millennium has greatly eased the problem of smuggling of such precious metal.
Therefore, system corrections taking into consideration national interest & population at large are the need of the hour. We wish the ensuing budget takes into consideration such chronic problems afflicting our society.
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