Surrogate Crime

Surrogate Crime, who is accountable?
Mass media was clamoring over the POLICE ENCOUNTER of 1 person named Sohrabuddin Sheikh. An environment of ambiguity is hovering around the case, some are saying that the encounter were fake and some are saying it was real, and our investigation agency CBI is looking into it and several people are being questioned for it. This is one form of crime where one person has been killed directly using weapons.
Now let’s come to another form of crime which is brewing up in our country and yet going unnoticed. In this crime weapons are not being used, but people are crying and dying, due to non affordability of food grains, despite its abundance. This crime can be termed as “Surrogate Crime”.
The farming community is working harder and harder to produce food grains, which can feed the billions of Indians. But the post harvest infrastructural facility is not being provided and it is simply rotting in open. Is there anyone who is accountable for this, or is it everyone’s job and thus no one’s job!!
It seems funny when the general mass is being fooled by magical words like “Inflation in food items will come down by December 2010”.
How will it come down?
What are the measures that have been taken?
The magic behind this assurance is very simple and based on two fundamental principles
1st Principle: Human Behaviour of adaptability: - After a long exposure to high price rise the people will adapt to it, and something which is bothering now will become obvious by then.
2nd Principle: Price drop in Agri-Commodities at the time of harvest: - The soothing “THANDA-THANDA COOL-COOL” effect of low food price will come on the arrival of Kharif harvest, which happens to be just one month ahead of the time predicted by soothsayer.
But unfortunately, this effect will last for the next 6 months i.e. July 2011 and then a fresh cycle of price rise will start; as nothing is being done on ground to improve the supply side, nor any infrastructural support is being created to store large quantum of surplus available just after harvest. Thus, the number of people affected by this Surrogate crime will keep rising year after year, and there will hardly be any investigation agency looking after it.