Like Gorbachev, who saw the utter failure of the USSR's totalitarian communist system and tried to save it by pussyfoting around with 'new' policies, so too the Indian communists are pussyfooting around with PSUs just to prolong their costly, miserable lives, all in vain - they will die a slow lingering death, all the while eating up scarce funds which would have been better spent on urgently needed education, housing, healthcare etc. Populist politics of free lunches will be the death of this stinking fetid land of filth and squalor - maybe it's all for the best.