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been created here in which the administration steps ahead to
care about them. I don’t think this has happened due to the
poor welfare fairs. I have been thinking about this since the day
you assigned me this post.

Recently, while handing over a cart to a peanut-gram-seller,
I asked, “What did you do until now?” He said, “Sir, I was a
daily wage-earner and thought that I would one day start selling
peanut-gram when I had money.” I said, “Now you have the
cart, how do you plan to work?” He said that he would borrow
peanut and gram from a wholesale trader and pay him up in
the evening. Now I am about to tell my officers to ensure that
this man gets peanut-gram from the trader. Is he pushed around
when he stands outside a school? Does he sell good quality
peanut and gram? I have to go after the common man in order
to make him self-dependent. You visit a doctor for medicine,
and he asks if you have benefited by the medicine he gave you,
doesn’t he? He will ask if you take medicine on time and in
required quantity. I too think this way. I ask the people who
have been benefited by these poor welfare fairs if they are being
benefited. Are they able to run their life well? Do they need
anything more? An individual who wishes to progress by his
hard work, I will cooperate with him in every way, so that he
does not stagnate there. If we have given a buffalo to an
individual, I confirm it from the dairy-owners he supplies the
milk or not. We have to help them, have a good quality buffalo,
and I am doing my bit to do all these things. I have to reach the
good outcomes.

You must have noticed that the people keep visiting the
houses of leaders and officers for the BPL card; they need it.
Even those people need it who are financially strong. The BPL
card is okay when one is economically weak, as if the BPL card
is not a card, but a Padma Bhushan, and to get it, people make
all possible efforts, proper or improper, just or unjust. Today I
am grateful. The purpose of the poor welfare fair has been
realized. It so happened that I was at Pardi, a tribal belt in Valsad
district. It is an area inhabited by fishermen. They are middle
class people of ordinary standard. If you visit there, you will