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03.08.2010
Now, I come to the godown facilities. We are seeing in the newspapers that
whatever food materials they are stocking in the FCI godowns, they are not in
good condition. Wastage is there. Therefore, it is high time to modernize stocking
of all these goods. In that way, they can save goods worth lakh of rupees.
Even our noted Economist and also Advisor to the hon. Prime Minister, Shri
Rangarajan said the RBI must play a vital role because the RBI is the monitoring
authority which can control the monetary aspects. There is a lot of money in
circulation. The liquidity of the money can be reduced by way of a good monetary
policy of the RBI. In this way, the inflation can be controlled.
There is one more important point which I would like to highlight here. A lot
of counterfeit money is getting circulated in the country. Three days back also we
have seen in the newspapers that in some parts of our country, particularly in
Tamil Nadu, they have circulated Rs. 500 notes which are all counterfeit notes. A
lot of counterfeit money is getting circulated in the country and they are coming
from Pakistan, Nepal and China. So, these are the places from where the money is
coming and getting circulated in the country. What the real estate people are
doing is that they are getting this money and they are purchasing the land. As they
cannot keep this money, they are reinvesting a lot of money. The price of one acre
may be one lakh of rupees, but these people who are having the counterfeit money
are ready to pay even one crore of rupees to farmers to purchase one acre of land.
In this way, the poor agriculturists and farmers are becoming unemployed. At the
same time, this kind of circulation of counterfeit money, affects our policy and
our economy.
I would like to make one suggestion as has been mentioned by my colleague,
Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay. If we want to really help the poor people, then we
have to strengthen the PDS system. We have not only to give rice and wheat, but
we have also to give other items like dal, oil, kerosene and even gas also. That can
be given through the Public Distribution System. That is the only way to help our
people.
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