With reference to Debashis Basu's column, "Next, a surgical strike on poverty?" (October 3), no doubt India needs to tackle poverty on a war footing. This fight is against internal forces, unlike a real war.
The causes of poverty are several; to remove them, policy directions are needed from various ministers - in the finance, commerce, transport, agriculture and human resource development ministries, etc. They need to be headed by, as the article says, "highly-skilled and motivated" leaders.
Entrepreneurs, corporate professionals and self-employed people can use the resources provided by the government and add their own efforts to push economic growth, which in turn would lead to more jobs and wealth creation.
Employees can translate plans into reality. Here, trade unions and employee reluctance to change have to be won over by the management through the development of HR systems and trust-building measures. Trade unions have to change their perception of treating the management always as an enemy of the poor.
Y G Chouksey, Pune
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