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* 'Right to work, food cannot be ignored' *

By Our Staff Correspondent



* The All-India Democratic Women's Association general secretary, Brinda
Karat (third from right), and other delegates at the inaugural session of
the national convention on `Right to Food and Work' in Bhopal on Friday. —
Photo: A. M. Faruqui *

 BHOPAL, JUNE 11. The large turnout of participants from across the country
at a three-day convention on "Freedom from Hunger and Right to Work'' that
started here today gave an impression that the campaign in support of the
people's right to food and work has turned into a nation-wide movement.

Speakers who addressed the inaugural session at the Gandhi Bhawan this
morning said that those in authority — whether at the Centre or in the
States — could no longer afford to ignore the people's right to work and
food.

Eminent lawyer and civil rights activist Colin Gonsalves said that several
States, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were lagging
behind in implementing the "mid-day meal'' scheme. The attention of the
Supreme Court would be on Madhya Pradesh and its performance vis-a-vis the
implementation of the mid-day meal scheme, would be closely watched. Even
the State Chief Secretary should be prepared to answer queries at the apex
court level, he said.

Mr. Gonsalves said the scheme would go a long way in serving a social cause
as it would bring children from all strata of society together. The Supreme
Court directive for giving priority to the Dalits when it came to appointing
cooks and other helping staff to carry forward the scheme would act as a
great social leveller.

Mr. Gonsalves expressed concern over the manner in which the employment
guarantee scheme was being implemented across the country. For months
together, the labourers were not being paid. Even contractors were being
assigned jobs and tractors were being illegally used instead of guaranteeing
at least 100 days of work for poor families in the rural areas. He
questioned the rationale behind the previous National Democratic Alliance
Government's decision to export foodgrains when people were dying of hunger
and starvation. Multinational companies were eying the Indian market to
offload, on their terms, stocks of genetically modified grains lacking
nutritive content.

It was unfortunate that the support price for agricultural produce had been
reduced, Mr. Gonsalves said adding that the farmer should get the correct
price and the poor should get food for work. There had been an attempt to
bring down the number of those living below the poverty line in this country
only to project that globalisation had been the right policy. On the
contrary, we find more and more people dying of hunger in the West Bengal
tea gardens and even in States such as Karnataka and Maharashtra.

The Convener of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), Paul,
Diwakar said there were so many different layers within our society and by
not reaching them one had failed to touch those sections that were dying.

"We need to link with these voices," Mr. Diwakar said adding that starvation
deaths was just the other side of the right to work.

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