The Secretary General of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of India Theodore Mascarenhas said that the announcement of demonetisation made by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, causing immense hardship to poor people.
This move especially causing problems to people of rural area.
Mascarenhas said, “About demonetisation, you should ask the government what it thinks about it, but as we see for the moment, it is creating a lot of problems for the poor people, especially in villages.”
The Secretary General said, “I have visited Jharkhand villages where money is not reaching to the people. What will be the long term effects, what will be the short term effects we don't know, but it is causing hardships.”
The secretary genral is in Goa to participate in the feast of St. Francis Xavier, the state’s patron saint. Nearly 26 percent of the state’s population are christians.
He further said, that Chrisitians would defend their constitutional rights as far as freedom for education for the minority community is concerned.
He also said, “Now as I said, the Christian community is not communal and the gospel will not allow us to be communal. We belong to everybody because God belongs to everybody.”
He added. “We have certain rights in the constitution and those constitutional rights are to be protected. We will not allow anyone to touch those rights. And that is a right to education, we are free to educate in any language we want. We are free to teach what we want as long as it is not against the nation.”
After the announcement of demonetisation of old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, the common man is facing hardship for their household needs.
Due to the shortage of the new currency notes implementation and its circulation people are facing problems.
--with agency inputs
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