amitabh.kant@nic.in
Dear
Amitabh ,
You
may like my today's blog
Regards
,
hemen
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One Rank , N-One
Pension ( ORNP )
Yesterday
, Bombay Municipal Corporation workers pulled down a thatched roof over the
cart of a roadside hawker Ramji , selling tea / biscuits / vada-pav , on
a footpath outside my house
Background
:
>
Footpath is for pedestrians to walk on ; not for Ramji to sell tea !
>
Ramji did not have a " Hawking License "
>
As of today , some 30,000 + hawkers are
" licensed " to hawk
>
Under pressure from High Courts , BMC is in the process of taking a
" Census " of all hawkers in Mumbai , in order to legalize another
90,000 hawkers , to be
accommodated in specified hawking zones
>
It is my belief that Mumbai has over 300,000
hawkers now and that
this figure is growing by 10,000 every year
>
Citizens of most residential localities do not want " Hawking Zones "
in their localities !
>
But almost all citizens continue to patronize nearby hawkers , whether
licensed or not and whether in prescribed " Hawking Zones " or
not !
>
Hawkers need to ply their trade where people live - and therefore need
to live where people live - not 20 Km away !
>
Illegal / Un-licensed hawkers are the main source of " Hafta " for
the
local policemen
>
So that demolished shed , will come up once again tomorrow morning !
>
Most hawkers in any given locality are under the " protection " of
local
Corporators , who give " advance notice " of impending
demolition !
>
If India as a whole , needs to create 12
million jobs every year , then
most likely , Mumbai , with its population of 16 million people , needs to
create at least 300,000 jobs per year !
>
But " Manufacturing Establishments "
are leaving Mumbai , since it has
become a " High Wage Island "
, rendering products manufactured here
un-competitive . Hence no blue collar jobs in Mumbai anymore !
>
As far as " Service Sector "
is concerned , it is fast giving up its " Across
the Counter " service nature and morphing into internet / mobile app
based " New E-Com Economy " , needing
few new hires !
>
Apparently , the only " Economic Sector " that is creating new jobs
and is
" Self Renewing " is that of
the " Self Employed " hawkers
in Mumbai !
I suppose it is the same story , in all metros
It is also the economic sector which needs no more than a few thousands
of Rupees to create one job , as against a requirement of Rs 5 lakhs in
MSME sector and Rs 5 Crores in large
organized sector
!
>
And , retired hawkers do not ask for any pension , despite having one
rank , for their entire working lives !
I
foresee a not too distant day , when all footpaths everywhere , are taken over
by the hawkers ( where these are not already taken over , that is ! )
For
providing livelihood to a section of society (
viz: hawkers ) , another section of the society ( viz: pedestrians ) will need
to put up with some inconvenience !
Unless
some people ( who have jobs / incomes ) want their convenience to take precedence over the livelihood
of Ramji and don't care that his 2 children starve to death !
In any case , in India , every single day , some 4,383
children ( under age of 5 ) die of starvation .
Another
2 , won't change the " Statistics " much !
But
, if the already employed have a better solution , let them propose it !
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hemen
parekh
10
July 2015
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