PAY THE ONES WHO SERVE YOU AND STOP EXPLOITING THEM IN THE NAME OF RELIGION OR THE STOCKMARKET

PAY THE ONES WHO SERVE YOU AND STOP EXPLOITING THEM IN THE NAME OF RELIGION OR THE STOCKMARKET 

The payment of workers is rather poor in India relative to the developed countries of the world. This must change if we wish to emerge as a developed nation. Mere sloganeering will not do as the recent Parliamentary electoon mandate has amply indicated.

Religious institutions are very exploitative in their payment of those providing them service. This is hardly religious and must change. If we wish to make the nation strong, we must pay our people well for labour lent and service rendered. Exploitation of people in the name of high morality that expects free service from people or service provided at an abysmally low remuneration must be deemed most unspiritual. Unfortunately, such economic exploitation is rampant in our society. 

Business houses that mint billions are however most careful in dispensing with the proverbial dollar and are shamelessly stingy in the way they pay their labourers and service personnel. All these must go and wages and salaries paid to make decent living possible. Right now human beings in large numbers live lives of abject poverty that in any developed country would have triggered unrest. Let us no more pretend spirituality but let us activate in in real terms in every phase of national life.

Written by Sugata Bose