First of all, all modern countries around the world have some form of social security, while India does not. People are dying and committing suicide - thanks to globalisation. They urgently need food - and it is theirs by right. Nobody is giving to them in charity. It is the money they deserve for being citizens. This country is built on their broken backs. Secondly, If corruption is the reason that you are concerned about, consider how implausible Shenoy's scheme for education is: the government has not built a single NEW public school or hospital all my life. How many of us have seen the government actually building new schools or hospitals? Shenoy's attacking of this scheme is purely based on the sense that poor people are getting a free lunch. They are not - they are getting this money so the prosperity that the rich have built up due to globalisation can be shared. This money is their birth right. So before calling EGS a fraud scheme, try to press for its correct implementation. I have a question for Mr.Shenoy: Why should money for one development scheme always come from another? Why don't we stop spending on missiles and sending Indians to the moon?
