AERIAL VIEW
Mr CM, this unprecedented inflation is destroying households, decimating budgets, discouraging investment, and making a living hell for the medium class, especially the common man and the medium sector. Simply saying Bhivpachi garaz na will not help, if you believe the common man and Goan Janta has given you a second chance, please help them out now.
As it is, the people of Goa are yet to recover from two years of COVId19 terror. Businesses are slowly limping back, and tourism is just beginning to show an upward trend, but this inflation is breaking the commoners’ back.
Editor, Goemkarponn
Soon after the election results for the five States were declared, hell broke loose on the common man, who could not cope with the rising prices of essential commodities, fuel, milk, etc.
As if the daily rise in fuel prices was not enough, the government has also approved the rise in milk prices for Goa Dairy by Rs 4.
Everything has become expensive from rice, dal, vegetables, fish, and meat. It is not just expensive but out of reach of the common man. But the CM, who gets all luxuries on exchequer’s money, tells the common man, “Bhivpachi Garaz na”.
Mr CM, this unprecedented inflation is destroying households, decimating budgets, discouraging investment, and making a living hell for the medium class, especially the common man and the medium sector. Simply saying Bhivpachi garaz na will not help, if you believe the common man and Goan Janta has given you a second chance, please help them out now.
As it is, the people of Goa are yet to recover from two years of COVId19 terror. Businesses are slowly limping back, and tourism is just beginning to show an upward trend, but this inflation is breaking the commoners’ back.
Mr Sawant the skyrocketing prices have hit the consumer’s daily needs basket. The consumer now has to shell out considerably more to buy food as well as personal care products.
The price hike is forcing people to shrink diets and reduce the use of daily essentials at a time when robust nutrition should be the priority to boost immunity in the light of the current pandemic.
Today, the time is when people are looking at you to provide monetary help, some kind of relief and not the big bridges and wider roads.
If people stop using vehicles or die due to hunger following the rising fuel and commodities prices, what will be these bridges or roads used for.
Of Course, the government employees get the dearness allowances, but what about the families who do not have a single government servant. Don’t you have any responsibility for those families?
How will people survive? If people are having to increasingly pay more for your groceries what would you save for children’s education etc?
Ideally, if salaries increased at the same rate as inflation, there would be no hardships. Unfortunately, inflation is not an across-the-board price increase. Prices of different commodities increase at different rates at different times, affecting different sections of the population.
Today, in Goa, the purchasing power of the rupee has fallen — a ₹ 50 note, which you could use to buy a kilogram of rice, will now fetch only half a kilogram.
Fixed income groups from the private sector are hit the hardest because their salaries will not be revised to include the cost of living even as prices of items soar.
As a result, the household, as well as national savings, drop because there is less money to save now as people use a greater part of their disposable income to pay for daily-use commodities.
