The caption of the news analysis below is pretty much out of step with its actual content. Even the Prime Minister in his much talked of last September 4 speech to the assembled Chief Ministers acknowledged the fact of utter deprivation of the bulk of adivasis for far too long. Maoist violence and insurgency is much too recent in comparison.
While it is quite plausible that in an environment of violence the state-led welfare projects would suffer; the actual fact is that a very favourable ground for violence to take roots was, in the first place, caused by longstanding deliberate deprivations and oppressions. And, even today, such a state of affairs is not exclusively limited to the areas affected by violence. The violence has at least one positive contribution that it so forcefully draws our attention to these stark facts which should have had been visible to us as a matter of routine. It is time for determined interventions to remedy the situation across the board. What about the areas yet unaffected by violence? Even today, the Government of India has identified the "most affected" districts for special "development" drive. Apart from the logistical difficulties given the situations that obtain there, what lessons the other equally deprived areas, yet unaffected by violence, would draw from this projected "preferential" treatment? One just wonders! Sukla P.S.: The e-paper version is decidedly richer. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/in-the-worstaffected-naxal-areas-govt-schemes-are-the-hardest-hit/571071/ http://epaper.indianexpress.com/IE/IEH/2010/01/24/index.shtml -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
