The real enemy are capitalists eyeing strategic sectors and their lapdog medias who manufacture consent.
Politicians including VD are just incompetent puppets queuing to collect their paycheques.
They want to squeeze the last bit of profit from the very little money people have.
For one thing I am thankful for VD.
Atleast he publicly admitted his aim is to cater to neo liberalism.
Every other topic of religion caste and communalism is just a tug of war for best margin from the deals.
Atleast we dont have to bother dealing with dumb congis and mooris.
Projects KIIFB funded under LDF:
NH, Coastal/Hill highways
Bridges, flyovers
Power highway
KFON
Hi tech schools
health infra
Industrial parks
Water and Sanitation
Tourism projects
And it's there to see, it's real.
Yet your sorry brains discredit it as "pensions". Sure.
@ARUNTHEMIND Spot on in ur queries.. the VDS government also , though claiming as “real left”, just follows the neo liberal narratives of economics wherein private sector is celebrated as panacea and public sector is cursed entirely.. it’s very much walking in reverse direction..
Reforms should be to improve the life of the ordinary people, not improve the private profit. The government should show the willingness to fight the center for our fair share, rather than selling the state entirely for private players.
Private power and bug industrial growth may sound modern. But who pays the real cost? Higher bills? Land Pressure? environmental damage? Kerala needs energy, yes. But enert planning should be pro public and nature.+
When a fiscal report talks about private investment, land-law changes and labour - law changes, ordinary people should be alert. Will this create more and better jobs? Or will it weaken workers, make land easier to take, and make Kerala cheper for private profit?+
Public transport, water, electricity, food and supply may show losses because they serve people at affordable rates. That is not always failure, rather public duty. Me must seperate inefficiency from the cost of protecting ordinary lives.+
If PSUs are making losses, reform them. Stop waste, improve accounts, fix management. But selling public assets is not reform by default. These assets are built by people's money. The first question should be : Who benefits if they are sold?+
If KIFFB has problems, audit it. Check debt, projects, districts, costs and political influence. But don't use KIFFB's problems to say public investment itself is bad. Kerala still needs public roads, schools, hospitals and infra.+
The report puts salaries, pensions and interest payments together as "commited expenditure". But wages to workers and interest to lenders are not the same. One runs public services and other is towards debt. We should not mix them as one burden.+
Whose salaries are we calling "burden"? Teachers, nurses, clerks, drivers, health workers and public staff runs Kerala's services. Cutting public workers means weakening the services ordinary people depend's on+
The report claims spending for SC/ST/OBC minority has fallen badly. Then why is protecting that money not treated as an emergency? That means it wasn't a priority at the first place. +