Question

Explain the notion of "growth with justice".

Answer 1

Unemployment in India in PerspectiveVol. 5, Issue No. 29-30-31, 01 Jul, 1970Growth with JusticePravin VisariaUNEMPLOYMENT The question naturally arises as to what is the number of unemployed persons in the country. Until recently, the Planning Commission used to provide estimates of this number. The term "backlog of unemployment", coined by the Commission initially to reckon the number of additional jobs required to be created during the Second Plan to eradicate unemployment within ten years (the optimistic goal announced in the Parliament during ' 1954-55), has become the focal point of many studies; and a large number of estimates for States (and even districts) are tossed about rather loosely. The Planning Commission's exercises on the subject were, however, restricted to making national estimates. According to the various Plan documents, the number of resources, it could arrange for transfers of incoimr through a system of unemployment insurance and other measures of social welfare. Such transfers of income do occur informally on a limited scale when the better-off persons in the villages and towns try to assist their needy neighbours or relatives. However, the traditional mechanism has gradually become clogged up and one would prefer an impersonal, institutional system which would obviate the personal obligations and the scope for 'exploita. tion' inherent in even humanitarian actions in small communities.Read moreabout Unemployment in India in PerspectiveStudent Discontent and Educated UnemploymentVol. 5, Issue No. 29-30-31, 01 Jul, 1970Growth with JusticeTrilok N Dhar, Warren F IchmanCOMMONPLACES are frequently worth repeating. A commonplace, social scientists should occasionally be remind- ed of, is that their explanations of events determine the kinds of policy considered relevant to bring about changes in similar future events. By rejecting one level of explanation, such as behaviour based on fairly immediate self-interest- ed motivations, and replacing it by another, such as the determinative influence of child-rearing practices in later adult behaviour, the social scientist implies, if not insists, that policies to alter behaviour in some desired way can be effective only if they treat that level Indeed, the comparative inattention by relevant policymakers to the findings of social scientists, who work primarily within an area studies frame- "That much of the Indian unrest is due to lack of remunerative employment for the educated middle classes and to the pressure an the land of the uneducated masses is a truth so widely recognised that a mere reference to it, without supporting arguments, suffices,. ." Arthur Mayhew, "The Education of India''Read moreabout Student Discontent and Educated UnemploymentGreen Revolution and Agricultural LabourersVol. 5, Issue No. 29-30-31, 01 Jul, 1970Growth with JusticePranab BardhanThe New Orthodoxy IT lias become part of the new orthodoxy in official circles in India that the only feasible as well as the surest way of improving the economic conditions of the weaker sections of the rural population (like agricultural labourers) is to encourage faster agricultural growth through subsidisation of the chemical- biological breakthrough in production and through the promotion of agrarian capitalism in the countryside. Let the enterprising capitalist fanners fatten themselves and then the agricultural labourers can thrive on , the bigger crumbs off their table: this, in effect, is the New Agricultural Strategy that has dominated the Government agricultural policy in the 1960s. Confidence in the essential soundness of this policy has been nurtured by the glowing accounts by visiting foreign friends about the all-round prosperity they have seen while driving through their favourite Punjab villages, and by occasional Government or semi-Government reports about the high cash wage rates that the agricultural labourers supposedly demand and get nowadays. The only major concern seems to be that the Green Revolution is not spreading at a fast enough rate to paddy agriculture; but there too it is only a matter of time before some Rice Research Institute somewhere, working overtime on Rockefeller Foundation patronage, hits on exactly the right strains of high-yielding rice suited to the soil-climate complex of the paddy regions in India.Read moreabout Green Revolution and Agricultural LabourersEconomic Growth, Social Justice and Political StabilityVol. 5, Issue No. 29-30-31, 01 Jul, 1970Growth with JusticeSatish K Arora

Answer 2

The notion of " growth with justice" implies that along with rapid economic growth, a just society should be created. There should no discrimination, people should be provided social justice, poverty should be eliminated and there should be better distribution of national wealth produced in the country.

Along with economic growth, equal wages, equal opportunities and equality in all affairs should be provided to the social. So there would be growth with justice.