The Unorganised sector Workers Bill is a historic legislation providing social security to 92 per cent of the people in the working sector. The National Rural Health Programme is again an important measure in terms of providing social justice. The loan waiver scheme, the education scheme, all these things are designed to improve social justice. What I wish to reiterate is that the Government has not been preoccupied only with the question of economic growth. It has also done equally well in the sphere of improving social justice. That is one of the important achievements of this UPA Government, which no one can deny. Many people here, many gloomy prophets, forecasted that the Indian economy is having a skyrocketing of inflation; that inflation is not going to be controlled that there will be two-digit and three-digit inflation and all that. But what has happened? After it reached peak of 13.2 per cent, this Government, through its judicious monetary and fiscal policies, was able to bring inflation down to 5.2 per cent. This will even be reduced in due course of time and price stability is going to be the hallmark. It is likely to be in the range of three to four per cent. Therefore, all the gloomy forecast of these people have been nullified and falsified. There was a talk about the public sector today. I feel that the public sector of India today is the pride of the nation and a large number of public sector undertakings which were making losses have now become profit-making enterprises today, thanks to the policies taken by the Government. Therefore, there are many things to be said about the Interim Budget but at the same time, I would like to tell the Government that the job losses caused by the recession in the IT industry is an important area were we have to do a lot because many or our boys and girls who have gone to the USA and other countries are coming back to India and they would find it difficult to find a job here.
