Will ‘Bill’ Fill Every Stomach-Dr Sushma Dixit

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OPINION

Dr. Sushma Dixit

Editor, Clean Media

 Will ‘Bill’ Fill Every Stomach?

The Govt. at the centre has approved the bill which will now fulfill the basic requirement i.e. food, of most of the people. It is expected that the ‘food security bill’ will now feed every hungry stomach. It’s not that for the past so many years every stomach was hungry. Yes! But many, especially people below poverty line, were not able to feed themselves properly. However, how does it matter if the bill was approved in haste? The Govt. advisers thought that the bill, which they have prepared is perfect, so it does not require much deliberations and the result is that before even it could see the doors of Parliament, five states have opposed it in the present form.

After about two and half years the Govt. decided to finally approve a bill that concerns one of the agendas of their election manifesto. Forget about other ‘agendas’ and ‘bills’ and their implementation as the government seems to be in much haste, as some of its strategists have suggested that the bill, if implemented properly, might prove to be an ace card for the 2014 parliamentary elections. 

There are great contradictions in the working of the government, on one hand it has proposed ‘FDI’ in retail and on the other hand it has approved ‘food security bill’. We however know that these bills are only safe-guard plans of the Govt.

My question is Will the bill really feed all? If its so, then why didn’t we pass the bill for these many years. Years back too many stomachs were hungry and the same Govt. was at the centre for number of times.

Our Govt. has always been good at making policies but never has it been good at implementing them. Had it been a better implementer of policies, we would have, of course, not required any more bills. The already passed bills are more than sufficient to do good to the people. We just need to implement them properly. The implementation of bills will have to pass through the tough bureaucratic system. It requires fulfilling the demands of officials at every level. By the time the bills implementation reaches to the actual needy, nothing remains or it is too insufficient to meet the needs of the real needy.  If I am not wrong the same might be the case of this bill.

The past experience shows that one more bill means one more way of engaging into corruption. Making and passing the bills is not the solution! The true remedy lies in ceasing with different forms of corruption and putting an end to every scam. The Govt. must know that good number of stomachs have been hungry, are still hungry and will remain hungry if the bill is just passed and it is not executed sincerely with the humane approach and honesty.