Finance matters: Business Lin
The Hindu Business Line, November 27, 2013:
Letters
Finance matters
The article “Take money matters to
school” (Business Line, November 25) throws light on the reasons for the
tardy progress being made in bringing about financial inclusion, despite the
RBI’s awareness drive in the last couple of years.
The real financial position is kept
concealed by all financial managers, right from the US Treasury managers to the
head of a below-the-poverty-line (BPL) family in India. If tax-payers in the US
and the school-going child of the BPL family were aware of the $16 trillion
debt and how the monthly fees were being paid, respectively, the expenditure
patterns of the country and the family would undergo a transformation.
To effect any change, the best option
would be to include finance as a compulsory subject in the education module
right from class 7. If this is done, the approach to savings, borrowing and
spending will change for the better.
M. G. Warrier
Mumbai
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