Articles by Mathew Kalathil

by the Delhi administration. It accepted petitions related to 2,427 deaths, 2,403 injuries and 3,537 cases of damage to houses. But the Delhi High Court recently uphold the claims of 1,200 people whose cases were earlier rejected by the Administration. Meanwhile the government, in December 1987, accepted "in principle" the recommendation of the Misra Commission to enhance the compensation. The Srivatsav Committee on police mechanism recommended increasing 3 more police districts, 12 more police sub-divisions and 25 more police stations. (One such police station "to prevent future riots", on the recommendations of the committee, is set up at Delhi University campus.) This is the only committee whose recommendations were readily accepted by the government, Rs 310 million was allocated for the implementation of these recommendations in the current financial year. The amount spent for compensation, on Dhillon Committee recommendations, was Rs 75 million.

Illegal detention of tribals by the police is common in the tribal areas of Gujarat Such detention has little to do with the investigation of crimes, but are only a means of extorting money from the illiterate tribal people and intimidating them.

Menace of Moneylenders in Sagbara Mathew Kalathil THE Antyodaya Programme and the Integrated Rural Development Programme have attempted to bring a certain number of poor families above the poverty line within a given period of time. The protagonists of such programmes at times give the impression that rural impoverisation is about to be effectively brought under check. While imaginative programmes for eradication of poverty are needed, it is also necessary to look at the process of rural pauperisation. What condemns people to live below the poverty line? How many people are affected by the process of pauperisation? How does the process operate? Who are responsible for its operation? what can bring the process under control? A look at some cases from Sagbara taluka of Bharuch district suggests that usurious moneylending is a major factor explaining the rapid pauperisation in the area. It is more than likely that such cases abound in other areas also.

solve the payments problem. The further ticklish question is how the "contradictions" between foreign trade policies and foreign policy are perceived by the Prime Minister and how exactly they are proposed to be resolved. These questions have to be squarely faced and answered without equivocation and in all honesty.

an integrated energy pricing structure in the beginning of the plan period." But neither the coal nor oil price hike stemmed from the idea of evolving an "integrated energy pricing structure". As a point of fact there is little understanding, much less researched evidence, of the impact of raising energy prices on energy policy in particular and the economy in general.