My house in my village about 40 years ago was an environment friendly one. Like every one I too thought that 'growth' means cement and steel only. Little did I know that steel would steal the happiness of everyone. Today like my village, the entire world has become or fast becoming a concrete jungle. Man uses Google maps to search for a house and without GPS aps mobile phones nothing is possible. In villages and small towns just a name is enough to identify houses in the yesteryear periods. Today the apartments man lives are so tall whereas he has become so small. Nations compete to beat others in the so called 'growth' race. His search for happiness is never ending. He digs the earth so deep that the rigs may puncture the next planet. While all talk of peace ...weapons of chemicals of different combinations do get birth in their arms factories. The weapons he possesses are so lethal and fast and they can travel in any space including the space. Even his peace time vehicles- bikes and cars and buses- have caused this much damage to the environment, what would happen if he uses all his weapons he has stored in his depots!
But if we think of not spoiling the earth more, we have to give the required technology and provide an assured income for the produce that come from the villages. If we all neglect our villages .... days are not far off where we have to see the images of food/food grains through internet only. Computers can calculate and articulate but they can never cultivate our paddy fields.
A typical village house of the 1980's...
Flooring- clay and laced with cow dung everyday
Pillars, doors, windows, supporting structure for the roof- wood
Roof- Jungle grass/palm or coconut leaf
Even today we do have such houses in millions... the need of the hour is proper distribution of wealth generated. If all the money goes to the educated and employed alone the villagers have no other option but to migrate to cities. Let us distribute the wealth properly. Education and a privileged job or position in public or private do not be a way to swindle wealth. The big or small the earth is for all. Let there be plans for the equitable distribution of wealth.
How much difference is there between the highest paid and the lowest paid:
Naveen Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director of (JSPL): Rs. 73,42,00,000.00
(U.S Dollar 1,17,13,426.80 ) per year.
Poor Indian's salary for a day if he gets work: Rs.174.00 ( US Dollar 2.78) per day and 278 dollars guaranteed in a year. Between 278 and 11713426 dollars I think a small difference is there. The world has to narrow this gap.
Read with greed.
The CEOs of America's 500 biggest companies got a collective pay raise of 16% last year earning total compensation of $5.2 billion. That's an average $10.5 million apiece. Exercised stock options and vested stock awards account for 60% of total pay for this group of 500 firms. Those components of compensation is the reason these CEOs are on list of highest-paid.
India
According to industry insiders, actors like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn get an approximate of Rs.30-40 crore per film, plus a considerable share in the profits. Having said that, it all depends from film to film.
Naveen Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL), has topped the executive pay charts in India.
Naveen Jindal (Rank 1)Salary FY 2010-11: Rs 67.21 crore (Rs 672.1 million)
Salary FY 2011-12: Rs 73.42 crore (Rs 734.2 million)
Note: The figures of CEO salary includes salary, commissions, incentives and other benefits as recorded by CapitaLine.
(For more details of richest 10 Indian CEO'S go to Business Standard web site.)
For the villagers...
According to the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007–12), the number of Indians living on less than $1 a day, called Below Poverty Line (BPL), was 300 million that barely declined over the last three decades ranging from 1973 to 2004, although their proportion in the total population decreased from 36 per cent (1993–94) to 28 percent (2004–05),and the rural working class dependent on agriculture was unemployed for nearly 3 months per year which was rising due to a downward trend of the agricultural productivity and in turn also aggravating poverty.In large states likeBihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, the number of poor even increased. The plan targeted poverty through MGNREGA which promised employment as an entitlement.
- Since its inception in 2006, around
1,10,000 crore (about USD$25 billion) has gone directly as wage payment to rural households and 1200 crore (12 billion) person-days of employment has been generated. On an average, 5 crore (50 million) households have been provided employment every year since 2008.
PICTURE : THE HINDU
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