Inclusive growth: delivering benefits to all

Inclusive growth: delivering benefits to all

by Niranjan Mudholkar on Oct 6, 2009

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Mumbai's water supply system passing through a slum area

When the Congress led UPA Government received a winning mandate in this year's Palrliamentary election, Dr Manmohan Singh was quick to remark that 'the election result was a verdict for inclusive growth'. "It is a verdict for equitable development," he had added. The term inclusive growth has suddenly acquired
great importance for our country in the last 10 years or so.
In fact, the Government has been using it like some kind of magic mantra. Almost all of Dr Singh's ministers have been emphasising on it. When I spoke to Mr Kamal Nath about highway development, even he couldn't resist refereing to it. Yesterday, while delivering the World Habitat Day Address, the Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation & Tourism Minister Kumari Selja has said 'only an Inclusive city can be a sustainable city'. "We have to work towards an urban India where we would have addressed the developmental disparities in a comprehensive and holistic manner," she added.

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I DO NOT WISH TO ENBARRAS GOVT BUT MOST RESPECTFULLY, I ASK PMO, GROUP OF MINISTERS CONCERNING DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF

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The Commerce minister too acknowledged this while speaking at the National Seminar on Industrial Productivity for 'Inclusive Growth'. He said that the Government has followed an inclusive model of economic growth to ensure that the benefits of growth percolate down to the poorest of the poor.
One appreciates that there is a clear shift of focus from mere growth figures to betterment in the lives of the masses. In the context of infrastructure development, this assumes a significant dimension because infrastructure by definition implies a social structure that includes all sections of the society. A road, for example, does not belong to any particular class of the society; all can use it. (Paying a tax or toll is the democratic price of keeping it in running condition.) Inclusive Growth in terms of infrastructure development for Construction Week India (and me personally) means positive augmentation in employment opportunities and creation of a structure that is not just physical in its output but is also economically feasible, socially relavant and one that truly delivers benefits to each and every section of the society.
While it may sound Utopian to most, it is important to shed our cynicism and strive for inclusive growth.

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Ashok (Apr 6, 2011)
New Delhi, India

WHAT WOULD GOVT REPLY ON MY COMMENT, I WONDER!
I DO NOT WISH TO ENBARRAS GOVT BUT MOST RESPECTFULLY, I ASK PMO, GROUP OF MINISTERS CONCERNING DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS AND CIVIL SOCIETY AS TO HOW WOULD THEY ALL JUSTIFY SUCH INCLUSIVE GROWTH CLAIMS TO ME WHO IS URGED TO OFFER OBJECTIVE HONEST COMMENTS : I AM NEARLY A SENIOR CITIZEN LIVED IN DELHI EVER SINCE MY KINDERGARDEN DAYS MARRIED RAISED A SMALL FAMILY STUDIED IN DELHI UNIV PASSED IN 1972 AND WITH POST GRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS AND I DO NOT HAVE MY MODEST SHELTER OVER HEAD NOR DO ANY MEANS TO SURVIVE MY DAY TO DAY MODEST LIVING IN SAFE SECURE AND IN HONORABLE MANNER ? DO WE MEAN INCLUSIVE GROWTH HERE ! WOULD APPRECIATE A CANDID REPLY FROM CONCERNED MINISTRY AND OR THE GOVT. I FEEL MYSELF CAPABLE OF MANAGING A LARGE CIVIL COMMUNITY, INSTITUTION OR EVEN RUN THE NATION ON PRINCIPLES OR MORALS, HIGH VALUES AND ETHICS FOR PROGRESSIVE GROWTH AND HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR CIVIL SOCIETY ! WILL THE GOVT REPLY PLEASE IF THIS IS CALLED INCLUSIVE GROWTH ? ASHOK SHARMA DEV ADVISOR

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