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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Price rise: Poor man’s curse-L Venkat Ram Reddy

Price rise: Poor man’s curse-L Venkat Ram Reddy

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published Published on Oct 28, 2013   modified Modified on Oct 28, 2013
-Deccan Chronicle


Hyderabad: The rising prices are driving people from the lower income groups in the city into extreme poverty.

These groups earn about Rs 5,000 per month and most of it goes towards house rent and food, leaving nothing for their children's education and health needs.

The rising prices of rice, cereals, vegetables are fo-rcing the urban poor to cut back on the quantity and quality of their food resulting in food insecurity and malnutrition.

Children are being forced to discontinue their studies at the school-level itself as parents want them to start earning at the earliest to support the family. They are also the most visible victims of malnutrition as they suffer months of illness each year.

Many families are struggling for daily essentials and hardly make both ends meet due to rising inflation. Even families earning up to Rs 10,000 per month are finding it difficult to make ends meet.

Maheshwari, an ayah working with a private school in Golnaka gets Rs 3,000 per month while her husband who works at a cinema theatre in Amberpet earns Rs 6,000. They have two sons and a daughter.

Despite earing Rs 9,000 per month, the family could not bear the school fees of their daughter and discontinued her studies. The reason, their entire earning was going towards house rent of Rs 2,000 per month for a single room and the rest for daily needs, leaving nothing for education.

Her daughter used to study in a private school which charged Rs 300 per month, while her son's fees were Rs 400 per month. Maheshwari removed her daughter from school after Class VII and plans to take her sons out as the family wants both of them to work to save money for the daughter's marriage.

"We get only 16 kg of rice per month in the ration shop at Rs 1 per kg. But this is not sufficient. We are forced to purchase another 15 kg in black for Rs 20 per kg. Even the four litres of kerosene being supplied through ration shops is not sufficient and we purchase 10 more litres at Rs 35 per litre in black. Our entire earnings are exhausted in purchasing rice, kerosene, vegetables and on house rent.

"While the prices have more than doubled in the last three years, our salaries ha-ve remained the same, forcing us to seek loans from private financiers at high interest rates. To improve our earnings, we have decided to send our daughter and son to work," she says.

For many such households, pickles replaced curries and consuming vegetables and dal became once in a week. They never dare to purchase non-vegetarian items as they are too expensive and take eggs once in a while that too on a one-by-two basis. A family of four consumes two eggs in a week at the most.

"Low income groups lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often fall sick. This ma-kes them less able to work, which makes them poorer and hungrier," said sociol-ogy professor P. Ashok.


Deccan Chronicle, 28 October, 2013, http://www.deccanchronicle.com/131028/news-current-affairs/article/price-rise-poor-man%E2%80%99s-curse


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