Unlike Mr. Jaswant Singh, our top-brass hides its ignorance by spreading canards in unintelligible gobbledegook.  The article clearly argues that agriculture and the multi-layered retail market activity can offer a community-centric solution to Indian economy.  We may borrow technology from US, but it is foolish to ape the West even in planning our economy. An economic model that does not care for our kirana shops, owner-run-general stores, paan-beedi shops, convenience stores, and hand-cart and pavement vending is of no use to us—even if that model worked wonders in a different country. Provisional shops opened by Reliance, More… on the lines of Walmart are neither cost-effective, convenient, nor reliable—and do not mean much to common people.  Every rupee that we place in our economy has to enrich our land, benefit our people, and cut down our subsidized policies. That is how we weed out parasites and help self-made people to climb up the ladder of their lives and enrich our economy!

from:  Suryaprakash Rao Mothiki

Posted on: Jul 29, 2012 at 14:10 IST
 

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Money does grow on trees, Prime Minister