He could have given the indications because the crisis is unfolding itself. He had admitted that. We are yet to know what is going to happen. How deep the effect and impact is going to be on the livelihood of our aam aadmi. But we are disappointed. We are disappointed because of what he could have done even in such a situation, what is being done and what has been done in the past. It is said that the whole world is searching for alternatives. The Latin Amercian countries, to some extent, to a large extent rather, have been able to save themselves from this global financial meltdown and its impact. That has been possible because of their alternative measures. We have been insisting that tying up with a wrong model for a country like India with more than one billion people, with 78 per cent of our people having a daily income of less than Rs. 20 as per a Government appointed Committee report would not be correct. According to an estimate, about half the population is living below poverty line. There is malnutrition initiated by the Government suicides are taking place not only by the farmers but even by the workers not only in the unorganised sector but even in the organise sector, in the export-oriented units. We were discussing the other day that about more than 71 workers engaged in the diamond industry have committed suicide. This is only tip of the iceberge. We do not know what is happening to the industrial workers, organised sector, unorganised sector. I am constrained to comment that the Government seems to be very insensitive. It is because, only a few hours back, we had been asking the Labour Minister what concrete steps he proposes to take. You are thinking of bailing out, Stimulus Package I, Stimulus Package II, liqudity cruch, monetary measures, lending rate cuts, and all these things. It is because the employers are never passing the benefits they are having from the Government to the workers. This is the reality. Even the Minister admitted that what has come out in the sample study does not reflect enormity of the situation.
