“India Food Security Bill Could Be Stalled” – by Prasanta Sahu and
Romit Guha
Paper’s Bias: I’ve
gathered information from this article from the online Wall Street Journal.
This organization aims to provide their readers with the on goings of the
economy. With this, the paper’s bias remains towards the side of the government
stating that the government doesn’t have enough money to start the food
security bill until the next fiscal year (starting in April 2013) because of
the present deficit.
Author’s Bias: Though
these two authors, Sahu and Guha, are part of this corporation, there is a
statement from another source, which states “[The government] use it [the
introduction of the bill] as it’s carrot before the 2014 elections.” By
mentioning this, it shows that the authors are more towards the side of the
people who are food insecure as they agree with the statement about the
government trying to use the food security bill to capture the votes of those
belonging to the poor sectors of society.
Purpose: The
purpose of this article is clearly an informative piece of news as the authors don’t
try to persuade their readers to go against the government’s plan, only they
merely state the reasons, directly, as to why the government has taken the
decision to stall the food security bill until the next fiscal year.
Argument: The
argument found in this article is though the government has decided to take on
the responsibility of subsidizing “grains to more than 60% of India’s 1.2
billion people, with special provisions for pregnant women, destitute children,
and others” it needs to make sure it has enough money to be able to do this
without causing harm to the whole country. The government believes that it will
need “745.52 billion rupees” to subsidize food for the poor during this fiscal
year, and it does not have enough money, and for this reason it is pushing back
the introduction of the bill until next year.
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