Who violate (or often discriminate) in the society? - The State

In 2004 August I visited Kendriya Vidyalayas School at Manpur near Indore in Madhya Pradesh I thought exactly the same point what Ashok is doing.

“Well-known education activist and lawyer Ashok Agarwal says the Bill should have insisted that all government-run schools should be of the level of the Kendriya Vidyalayas. “The government is spending public money on running exclusive schools meant for people of a higher socio-economic status whereas children of the poor and the marginalised sections of society are forced to make do with less than a tenth of the expenditure. “This is in utter violation of Articles 14, 21 and 21A of the constitution,” says the lawyer who has filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court against the discriminatory system and sought a direction that all state and state-supported schools should adhere to a standard framework with a clearly defined per capita expenditure and also follow a common framework for admission. The PIL was filed in June 2008 and notices have been issued to the 36 respondents. In April this year, a committee was set up by the Central Government to look into these issues.”

It is also equally important to ponder how these “higher socio-economic status” people gets information for their individual development vis-à-vis the poor people in other side of this country.

That is what F A Hayek has discovered in his life time that it is not that resources alone scare but information or knowledge is scare among people especially the poor.

In a great piece on Hayek ideas Jesse Larner writes “A complex economy is something no person or institution can understand. But it can generate a sustainable order, with a rational allocation of resources, as individuals respond to their own circumstances and make choices as consumers and entrepreneurs, signaling the subjective value that they place on goods and capital stock through the price mechanism: One of Hayek’s most original contributions to economic theory is the insight that economic systems are based primarily on information rather than resources.”