Appreciate your two postings. You have taken the trouble to be clear in your inputs, thereby enriching the info. I cannot say that for most of the others, who seem to shoot before they think.
We have many problems to take care of, top most being health & education. Basically, the efforts have to come from within the self, family etc, while the govt can be a facilitator with clear transparent functioning. They should provide the basic services so that nobody is denied them. Unfortunately for us, the individual and party come first and the common agenda is hanging on to power. We should get a certain inalienable agendas to be pursued whoever is in power, so that our lives are not threatened by diseases, terrorism etc.
I salute the private intiatives who even try to accomodate the poor who cannot afford, like the recent baby Lakshmi's case. Many of us want to help, but the system should enable us to channel our resources directly to benefit the poor.
