Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's demonetisation hit the poor but they forgave
him because they believed he was on their side and the move was aimed
against "filthy rich people", says former member of the
erstwhile Planning Commission Arun Maira says. According to Maira, it
was, however, yet to be known whether the rich got hurt. "People
in our society are evidently upset with the rich having so much. Mr
Modi and also other people like Mr Anna Hazare were listening to the
people who were upset with the establishment -- the rich people and
the government, that is, the crony capitalism. And that is what the
Anna Hazare’s movement was against. It was not only against the
government but against the corrupt as well. "So Mr Modi took
that movement and made that (corruption) the message; this
(demonetisation) is to hurt those people (the rich), therefore the
other people suffering took it like 'wow!'. That's why I think the
rich people like us better listen. Demonetisation should have woken
us up that there is a big unrest in the country about us. "Here
is one person, Mr Modi, saying I will do this big 'jhatka' for you
(the poor). Whether the rich got hurt or not, we do not know as yet.
Certainly the poor got hurt but they forgave him because they thought
'you are on the side of the poor people against these filthy rich
people'," Maira told PTI in an interview. The former member of
the Planning Commission, which was dissolved by the Modi government
and replaced with the Niti Aayog, also stressed that an economy
should focus more on the welfare of the citizens instead of the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) numbers. "Why do we want more jobs in the
economy? Because the economy is supposed to be for the people;
politicians are elected not just to raise the GDP but to produce
results that matter to them (the people)," the former India
chairman of the Boston Consulting Group said. "So you have to
construct an economy which is going to create jobs for people. In
other words, the enterprises in an economy better engage with
people," he said, adding there was a need for the enterprises
and the government to “listen” to the people and to each other.
Asked if he was suggesting that GDP numbers, or numbers for that
matter, do not generally reflect the wellbeing of the people, the
74-year-old management consultant asserted, “They do not." "We
put into the GDP only what we can measure. So far we haven't spent
hardly any time in measuring people's feeling of trust, people's
feeling of well-being. We don't measure these things (but) we do
measure the amount of factory produces," he lamented. In his
recently released book "Listening For Well Being - Conversations
with People Not Like Us", published by Rupa, Maira draws from
his extensive experience as a leading strategist to emphasise that by
listening deeply, especially to people who are "not like us",
a more inclusive, just, harmonious and sustainable world can be
created for everyone.
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