The existing limit of Rs 2.5 lakhs per annum works to Rs 20833.33 per month. If it were increased to Rs 4.50 lakhs per annum, the monthly earnings would be Rs 37500.00.
I give below the earnings of different types of employees in India
The data below is taken from
http://www.wakeupcall.org/administration_in_india/poverty_line.php
| No. | Earnings of different types of employees in India | Converted into Rs./month |
| 1. | Average cost of employee* in Air-India | Rs.53,000 |
| 2. | Average cost of employee* in MARUTI UDYOG | Rs.24,000 |
| 3. | Average cost of employee* in the MUMBAI MUNICIPALCORP. | Rs. 16,000 |
| 4. | Minimum starting salary in the FIRE Dept. in Mumbai | Rs. 7,000 |
| 5. | Average earning of an Indian - US$ 440 per year or about (This is based on a GDP of US$ 440 billion and 1 billion people) | Rs. 1,727 |
| 6. | Minimum earning required, as per WORLD BANK, to live at above poverty line, for underdeveloped countries like India, China etc, | about US$ 1.0 per day or US$ 30 per monthRs. 1,410 |
| 7. | MINIMUM WAGES, as per Government of India, for all the States, | about Rs. 40 to 60 per day per person, average about Rs. 50 per day. For 25 days per monthRs. 1,250 |
| 8. | POVERTY LINE definition, as per Government of India, | see below for explanation, at Rs. 10 per day, per person, approx.Rs. 300 |
| 9. | Number of people, in India, who are below poverty line | About 300 million (30 Cr.) |
| 10. | Number of people, in India, who work in the organized Public Sector, i.e. with the Central and State Governmen | About 19 million (1.9 Cr.) |
| 11. | Number of people, in India, who work in the organized Private Sector | About 8 million (0.8 Cr.) |
| 12. | Number of people, in India, who work in the unorganized Sector | About 320 million (32Cr. |
| 13. | Number of people, in India, who are unemployed approximately | About 300 million (30Cr |
| 14. | Number of people BORN every year in India (China is only 10 million per year) | About 27 million/yr. (2.7 Cr.) |
The above table shows that at the present cut off point the person eligible to reservation earns as much as an employee of Maruti Udyog. By asking that the limit be raised to Rs 4.50 lakhs, what they are asking is that only people working in companies such as Air India be excluded.
The Indian population is presently around 1200 millions out of which 300 million (25%) are below poverty level and earning less than Rs 300/- per day.
What the OBC are asking is for reservation until they rise to the top. The rest of India may go to hell.
Actually if justice is to be done, only those earning less than the average monthly income of Indians, i.e. Rs 1727. 00 per month or Rs 20724.00 should be eligible for reservation.
Another point to be marked is that India produces 27 million babies every year while China with a higher population produces only 10 million per year.
So the OBC’s continue to produce more and more babies and demand greater and greater share of the quota pie.
The government instead of trying to control our population goes on pampering the people who are creating the population explosion.
The solution to the reservation in educational institution lies in asking all persons seeking admission to submit family earning certificates.An honest authority should be appointed to check these certificates for states like Bihar and UP will otherwise misue it and issue certificates to persons earning even above Rs 10.00 lakhs per annum and the CPM in Bengal will issue it to party members.
The unfilled quota should be filled by the general category persons whose family earnings is less than Rs 2.5 lakhs per annum. These may be of any religion or caste. Everybody should be eligible who fulfils the criterion of the OBCs.
Further, it highlights the lack of feeling of the general politician and especifically the OBC politician for the common man when you seen the hunger index published in “The Telegraph” on 15th Oct. These are given below
| INDIA INDEX |
| The lower the score, the lower the hunger |
| Punjab | 13.6 |
| Kerala | 17.7 |
| Haryana | 19.5 |
| Assam | 19.8 |
| Andhra | 20.0 |
| UP | 21.9 |
| TN | 21.0 |
| Rajasthan | 21.0 |
| Bengal | 22.2 |
| Karnataka | 23.8 |
| Orissa | 23.7 |
| Maharashtra | 23.8 |
| Gujarat | 24.7 |
| Chhattisgarh | 26.6 |
| Bihar | 27.3 |
| Jharkhand | 28.7 |
| MP | 30.0 |
On the global hunger index, India is ranked 66 among 88 developing countries, higher than Bangladesh but lower than all other South Asian countries and several sub-Saharan African nations.
Researchers calculated the hunger levels by assessing three parameters – infant mortality rate, the proportion of population consuming food below a specified calorie intake and the proportion of children below five years who are underweight.
They classified a score of 10 – 19 as severe’, 20 to 29 as “alarming” and 30 and above as “extremely alarming”
What is surprising is that Maharashtra and Gujarat, the so-called advanced states are having higher Hunger index than our own Bengal. Is it because the higher earnings has increased the cost of living and the disparity between the rich and poor has increased, resulting in the hunger level increasing? This is a point for the sociologists and the state chief ministers to consider.
One point worth noting is that the average hunger levels have decreased from 32.5 in 1990 to 23.7 in 2008, but hunger is still very much prevalent.
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