The CPI-M Polit Buro member Brinda Karat on Saturday demanded the center to invest in the rural pockets of the country to hike the consumption expenditure. She said, “Decline of consumption expenditure by 8.8 percent in rural areas of this country has to lead to job crisis to deprive the poor.”
Karat was addressing the gathering of opposition CPI- M’s Ganamukti Parishad supporters here at Agartala Town Hall today during the 22nd central conference of the GMP.
She said, “The central government’s report itself says the "most worrying" trend is that food consumption in rural India has declined by almost 10 percent. The decline probes a fall in food spending, especially in villages.”
“To meet the decline the government has to invest in villages and arrange work for the poor there,” adding to this Karat said, “Government should immediately resume work under MGNREGA Scheme which perhaps is the key point towards hiking the consumption expenditure.”
GMP President also the former MP Jitendra Choudhury along with the former Tripura minister of the then Left Front government and others remained present in the programme.
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