India’s Inflation Crisis: The Poor Are Paying the Price for Policies They Never Made — TruthWave India
In every market, every tea stall, every kirana shop, one question rises louder than any political slogan:
“Why is everything becoming so expensive?”
For crores of Indians, inflation is not an economic term.
It is daily struggle, daily sacrifice, and daily fear.
📊 The Reality of Rising Prices (Verified Data)
- Food inflation above 10% for several months
- Milk prices up 22% in two years
- Vegetable prices up 35%–60% in many states
- Cooking gas 3× higher than 2018
- Fuel price fluctuations increasing transport cost
- Urban families need ₹8,000–₹15,000 more per month (CMIE) to maintain basic living
- Rural families earning ₹300–₹400/day face severe food insecurity
Inflation hits the poorest first, hardest, and longest.
📌 Constitutional Angle: When Inflation Becomes a Rights Issue
🔹 Article 21 — Right to Life
A family that cannot afford food, medicine, or essentials
is not living — it is surviving.
🔹 Article 47 — Duty of the State
The State must ensure nutritional food and economic welfare.
Rising prices push millions into hunger, debt, and poverty.
Inflation is not just economics.
It is a constitutional failure for the poor.
🟥 Who Suffers the Most?
- Daily wage labourers
- Construction workers
- Migrant families
- Single mothers
- Elderly living on pension
- Students living away from home
These are not “numbers.”
These are India’s backbone.
📌 Real Story: The Human Cost of Inflation
Ramesh, 38, a construction worker in Pune, earns ₹450 a day.
His monthly expenses for food alone increased from ₹4,000 to ₹7,500 in two years.
“My income is the same. But everything else goes up. How do we survive?”
His words represent millions.
📣 Expert Opinions
Dr. Pronab Sen, former Chief Statistician of India:
“High inflation with low income growth is the worst economic combination for the poor.”
Azim Premji University Hunger Report:
“65% of Indian households have reduced food quantity or quality due to rising prices.”
NSSO Consumption Report:
“Urban poor spend 55%–70% of income on food alone.”
Inflation is silently eating into India’s future.
🟥 Why Prices Keep Rising
- Supply chain disruptions
- High fuel costs
- Weak income growth
- Dependence on imports
- Hoarding & market manipulation
- Low government intervention
- Poor storage for vegetables & grains
- High GST burden on daily essentials
When income stays the same but everything else increases,
poverty grows even without a recession.
🟦 What India MUST Do (Constitutional Solutions)
- Strengthen price monitoring systems
- Build cold storage & reduce food wastage
- Regulate essential commodity prices
- Reduce GST burden on basic needs
- Increase wages for labourers
- Expand PDS coverage
- Control fuel-driven transport costs
- Support farmers with direct benefit systems
- Increase supply to curb artificial price hikes
Affordable living is not charity — it is a constitutional duty.
🌠 Good Night Motivation
“You carry the weight of life every day. Yet you stand. That makes you unstoppable.”
TruthWave stands with every family fighting inflation with courage.
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