THE SOARING INFLATION…
Aam Admi says “Deva Pao” from skyrocketing prices
Common man hit badly as daily wages, monthly salaries remain unchanged while the prices of essentials skyrocket
Common man upset as govt servants get DA, but how would a layman survive?
Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI:
Satish Naik, a 35-year-old worker in the private sector, it has become a question of survival. He has started taking public transport to his office, which takes him to double the commute time.
He says with teh hike in petrol prices he cannot afford to travel on the bike every day.
“I get a salary of Rs 15000. But with this salary, it is unmanageable right now. If I commute by bike, it takes around 3000 to 4000 only for petrol. Besides this, the price of the cylinder has reached the moon. How can we survival
After talking to him, we felt “it is not SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, but SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST”.
The domestic LPG gas prices have reached Rs 915 while every day people have to spend Rs 100 per litre on petrol on travelling and with the daily increase in prices of life essential commodities the common man or the Aam Admi complain of feeling suffocated.
Common man complains that their salary and wages are stable and difficult to meet to ends meet. Even the daily breakfast pao has now reached Rs 5.
“The people hit with inflation, says Deva Pao, and save them from this inflation,” said one says Satish.
Aam Admi complains that his monthly budget is collapsed due to limited income that doesn’t match rising inflation and skyrocketing commodities prices.
“The daily wages and monthly salaries remain unchanged while the inflation and prices of commodities skyrocketing day by day, and the government should provide them relief by striking a balance either controlling prices or increasing salaries and wages to meet the cost of inflation and cost of living,” people say. There is a vast disparity between salary and inflation, they say.
The inflation increases at a high rate while salaries of many remain the same or unchanged for a long time, and Covid 19 pandemic further worsen the situation.
According to one Sanket Parsekar, “We can only say Deva Pao and save us from inflation” Aam Admi is hit with rising gas, edible oil, diesel, petrol and life-essential commodities, which are almost doubled, but his income is not doubled. Currently, government employees with huge salaries also get DA and other benefits besides pay commissions.”
He further asked that besides them some private companies also get very good salaries and they would have no impact of inflation and can lead a luxurious life but what about common man, salesman, daily wage earner, private employees working in industries whose daily wage or monthly salary fells short to meet even cost of living?
According to a social worker, Viraj Sapre, the government should see that they will get some relief by reducing prices of life essential commodities until their income is increased.
“Common man doesn’t mind if prices are increasing, but then the government should see it to that the income of daily wage earner, the private worker is increased proportionately to hike in inflation. There is almost no match between income and inflation. At the end of the month, all of our salaries exhaust in meeting the cost of living,” he says.
Sandesh Naik said he had no money left for saving. He works in industries where Rs 320 to Rs 350 is the minimum wage, and the government should at least hike per day to minimum wages to Rs 500 so that employees could at least feed families forget about saving.
“The daily wages, monthly salaries of many of them has remained unchanged while the inflation and prices of commodities skyrocketed and now with Covid pandemic when everyone’s business, jobs and income is affected. It has become difficult for employees working in the private sector, daily wages to meet the cost of livelihood as their salaries and wages are unchanged,” he said.
Umesh Naik working in a garment and cloth shop, said he did not get an increase in salaries in the past three years, and during the Covid pandemic, he was unemployed as shops were closed due to rising cases. He earns Rs 7000 and struggles to meet the cost of living and the cost of education of his two sons who are in SSC and the first year, and that he can’t even afford to buy mobile for online education.