Roadmap to Modern Developed Glorified India

People of India do not deserve to suffer. People of India need not suffer. We have everything that is required to make a great country. And remember it is not the money which makes a great country. It is not necessary that richest country is greatest or its people are happiest. Huge buildings and lavish lifestyle neither makes a great country nor happy citizens. It is time to recreate the real great India characterized by:

-          Wisdom

-          Knowledge and Skills

-          Science and Technology

-          Nationalism and Harmony

-          Humanity

-          Culture

-          Good Health

-          Good Environment

-          Prosperity and Resourcefulness

-          Development and Management

Also See
Swaraj - The Model for Modern Glorified India

Let us create:

A Country with Human Dignity and Human Centric Growth

And here is the Roadmap to Modern Developed Glorified India

1.     Living Standards. It should have a minimum base and a higher goal.

-          Minimum Standard of Living

This should be the minimum acceptable living standard of dignified life for the citizens of India. All these can be achieved through better management, better population control, corruption control and innovative schemes of government public participation. Every citizen must be assured of:

      · Right to food. Two complete balanced meals every day.

      · Right to health. Complete medical and surgical treatment.

      · Right to shelter. Shelter for night and extremes of weather.

      · Right to education. Compulsory value based education till higher secondary school.

      · Right to work – Skill training and work for twenty days a month.

      · Right to service - Single application work. No need to run from pillar to post and no queue.

      · Right to security -  Safety from accidents, crimes and disasters

      · Right to justice - Simple and single complaint justice.

      · Right to live - Freedom and dignity.

Higher Development and Growth

Focus on

-          Three determinants – Human beings,  System and Infrastructure

-          Human worth – Worth and excellence of every human being, stimulus for best out of every individual. Sincere efforts towards population control.

-          Higher education – High quality higher education with emphasis on skill. Support through loans and scholarships. Flexi education and exam free education for raising the standards of learning.

-          Research – Target oriented research for present and future.

-          Industrialization. Also develop cottage and cooperative industrialization and business.

-          Technology – Use of science and technology for higher efficiency of life.

-          System – Human centric system with constant evolution.

-          Infrastructure – Human and nature friendly, efficient and futuristic infrastructure

System
-  Democracy and Federal Republic System must be followed in word and spirit.
-  Proactive Participatory Governance based on swaraj model.
-  Leadership  - Humble, humane, wise with vision and mission and ability to unite, motivate and guide.
-  Policies - Well defined national policies which remain consistent and work efficiently even with changing governments. 
-  Laws and legal system must be reformed to be in tune with need, time and world development.
-  Accountability and Transparency must be the root of system and governance. All communications and documents must be permanently stored as soft copies at minimum three places apart from offices and ministries.
-  Every government must spell out goals and ways of governance at the beginning and every year along with declaration of yearly results.

Spirit
Nation building is a collective mission. Spirit of nationalism and national pride must be promoted. National integration, harmony, peace, social equality and freedom must be the topmost priority. National character based on humanity, discipline, hard work and wisdom promoting all round quality must be the mantra.

Pillars of Democracy
-  Legislature – It must be ensured that no tainted person reaches in any form of legislature. All new comers must undergo orientation sessions on constitution, functions of legislature and governance.

-  Executive -  This must be under independent commission. Minimum 2 years of posting.

-  Judiciary – Independent commission to ensure fair and speedy justice, clearance of backlog and simplification of process.

-   Media – Independent media but with full transparency and accountability. They must annually declare source and beneficiary of funding, associates and policy of functioning.
- Four must ensure time bound result oriented eradication of problems and holistic harmonious development.


World Index
Four pillars of democracy must set national goals based on world indexes and improve ranking in time bound result oriented manner. Internationally reputed bodies must assess and provide authentic independent statewise information of various index like poverty, corruption, crimes, development etc.

Institutions
Institutions like bureaucracy, intelligence, vigilance, lokpal, judiciary, police etc must be made more effective and efficient by constituting independent commission. They must be independent of government control.
 
External Relations and Security

-          Based on Peace, Cooperation and Reciprocation

-          Threat anticipation through better Intelligence and vigilance

-          Threat management through Dialogue and Graded Response

-          Modernization and all time preparedness of Defense Services
-          Self dependence in arms and ammunition
-          Be prepared for biological and chemical warfare
-          Be prepared for cyber and economic warfare and spying
-          Strategic partnerships and networking

Internal Security and Justice

-          Every citizen must have a Social Security Number with online verification to check his or her past criminal and anti social record.

-          Only people with clean record in places of responsibility and handling public.

-          Severe punishment for misuse of power and position.

-          Better intelligence, vigilance and reforms to prevent crimes.

-          SIT and Fast track courts to check trend setting crimes, casteism, communalism, terrorism and naxalism with zero tolerance.

-          Speedy investigation and justice.

-          Helpline SOS, volunteers and legal assistance to victims

-          Justice on simple and single complaint. Graded inquiry and investigation.

-          Police Commission and better police training for efficient policing.

-          Freedom of expression and life choices. No moral policing.  

-          Social courts for social conflicts.

Sensitive areas and sensitive time 
Well defined protocol for emergency management like riots. Special attention to sensitive areas to effectively control problems.  Time bound action program to avoid any possibility of long term damage.

Health

-          Health For All

-          All age groups to be covered by either public or private sector insurance.

-          Mandatory annual checkup. Promote preventive healthcare.

-          Insurance  - Type 1 emergency and major sickness and Type 2 all conditions.

-          Promote and regulate holistic and alternative system of medicine.
-          Short healthcare courses to create health volunteers especially for small cities and rural areas.

-          Rural healthcare through local people.

-          Prevent and fight addictions as national health problem.

-          Severe punishment for fake or adulterated medicines and other healthcare products
-          Check on advertisement and sale or service of non authentic health products.

-          Doctors and healthcare professionals to be more accountable. Better CME and refresher courses.

Food

-          Food For All

-          Minimum two complete and balanced meal every day.

-          Work and earn food through social work or civic work.

-          Promote quality nutrition based on RDA

-          Severe punishment for adulterated food items.

Education

-          Education for all. Age no bar.

-          Minimum mandatory higher secondary education.

-          Promote flexi education, part time, online and distance.

-          Value and identity education, life skill training. Comprehensive personality development.

-          Promote vocational skill training

-          Learning based education. Exam free education for higher standards of learning.

-          High quality higher education with emphasis on skill. Support through loans and scholarships.

-          Creativity and research based education.

-          Rural education through local people.

Mind Power Resource
Mind power resource must be recognized as foundation of future growth and must be given due attention. Skill training, higher learning, creativity, logical thinking, scientific mindset must be given importance and developed.

Science and Technology
This is single most important key to solving nation’s problems and higher development. Must be given topmost priority for maximum development. Research and meaningful use are two important areas to be developed.

Jobs

-          Research for creation of new jobs

-          Technology and Industrialization for better jobs.

-          Cottage, small scale and cooperative industrialization and business.

-          Skill training to control unemployment 
-          Better conditions for self employment and new business

-          Volunteers and human resource pool

-          Sustainability, Job transition, flexi jobs and alternate job development.

Economic growth

-          Target loan free India

-          Zero deficit trade. Cut imports and luxury.

-          Only diesel subsidized for agriculture and heavy transport. No subsidy on petrol. Private vehicle only on petrol. Promote alternate energy source.

-          Catalyzed economy. Raise productivity and finished product exports.

-          Promote quality to raise exports.

-          Research to develop new products
           Make natural resources as national assets which must be managed carefully with full accountability and transparency. 

-          Promote investment in infrastructure
-          Promote BPO, KPO, Tourism
-          Careful use of FDI
-          Right balance of privatization, semiautonomous, cooperative and public private participation in various sectors.

-          Cut wastage and losses

-          Cut taxes & regulations. Abolish income tax to boost economy

-          Control inflation by creating buffer supply

Taxation
-  Reform and simplify taxation.

-  Abolish direct taxes and all other taxes except following. With this more money will come to bank and will become part of white money circulation.
-  Product tax as part of product cost to be deducted at source. Automatically those buying more will pay more. Products of essential nature and every day use to have less tax and tax can be increased slab wise on less essential and luxury goods. Natural products must remain tax free.
-  Service tax for service industry that includes all non product business or transactions like airways, stock, advertising, stamp duty, etc.. Smaller business and professionals can have annual fixed amount and larger business in slabs.
-  Wealth tax. This should apply to all movable and immovable assets. Family occupied house should be exempted.
- Custom tax
- Single annual Corporate tax for large scale business ( average of 2% of turnover and 10% of profit can be one such formula)
- Government must issue credit and debit card in association with some public sector bank. These credit and debit card should charge fixed one percent that should go to government as service tax. These being cheaper will replace all other credit and debit cards and will raise revenue for government.


Development

-        Time and result bound development.

-        Develop models of village, small city and metro city development and replicate nationwide. Successful schemes from within India or abroad for housing, roads, drainage, water including water harvesting, electricity, waste disposal, sanitation etc must be used universally.

-       Maximize use of technology for better life

-       Computer literacy for everyone

-       24 Hour water and electricity

-       Well laid roads with immediate repair guarantee

Human Resource Development
- Human Welfare must be given high and serious importance
- Population must be controlled in proportionate manner
- Even distribution of population
- Human quality must be improved


Development, Villages

-          Better agriculture with collective farming with more use of technology

-          Multipurpose Utility Centre

-          Security with weaker section representation

-          Periodic random check

-          Helpline SOS to prevent suppression and suffering

-          Local education, health and business

-          Village tourism

Development, Cities

-          Reorganize colonies and slums into high rise

-          More greenery, play grounds and open spaces

-          Better centers for sports, art, culture and recreation

-          Better public transport and parking spaces

-          Wider elevated or two layer roads

-          New futuristic twin cities industrial and residential

-          Efficient drainage and sanitation

Service

-          People friendly single window service centre in neighborhood, markets, offices with instant service. Also online service. Time bound management of grievances. Target zero grievance.

-          Public utility services through self distribution by local cooperative bodies to avoid profiteering like electricity, water, gas and oil, PDS etc.

Energy

-      Give due importance to power and energy.

-      Develop alternative source of energy 
-      Create national energy pool.

-      Save and Recycle energy

Environment

-          Natural resources to be made national assets, must be managed through public sector organizations.

-          Nature friendly infrastructure.

-          Wildlife protection

-          More plantation and strict control on cutting trees and deforestation.

-          Strict laws for environment clearance

-          Pollution control to be national priority

-          Make rivers clean. Rivers must be connected and protected from extinction.

-          Water management through water harvesting.

-          Efficient disaster management

Beautification

-          Efficient drainage – No water logging. Promote water harvesting.

-          Better sanitation. Clean and easily accessible toilets and wastebins.

-          Dust free environment. No uncovered space.

-          More greenery, gardens, trees

-          Display of art

-          Environment friendly waste disposal. Zero garbage. 
-          Civic training in schools

-          Aesthetic and sensible construction

Sports

-          Sport policy towards making a sporting nation

-          Promote flexibility, strength and stamina from childhood

-          Identify and nurture talent

-          Sport infrastructure in schools, neighborhood and sports complex.

-          Develop sport as profession and industry

Culture and Recreation

-          Acknowledge culture and recreation as human necessity and strength

-          Culture the mindset, grace and dignity

-          Protect and promote culture

-          Develop language, art, dances, dressing, monuments, festivals

-          Promote healthy and active recreation

-          Develop entertainment as profession and industry

Reforms

-          Social – Reward individual and collective morality and honesty. Social service and other options in place of punishment to bring about change. Make social harmony a national priority.

-          Economic – To be in tune with social system and national needs.

-          Legal –  Simplify, reorganize and create new keeping in mind the different sections of society and changing times. Develop alternate justice towards reforms.

-          Political and electoral – Systemic evolution for better governance with changing times. Better protocol for elections to minimize misuse of money and media.

-          Administrative – To be focused on human satisfaction.

Children

-          National children policy

-          Children are the future of India

-          Catch them young, protect their health, nurture talent and skills

-          Growth by stimulus

-          Reforms early through motivation

-          Life skill coaching and wholesome personality development

-          Better options of playing grounds

-          Zero tolerance of crimes against children

Women

-          National women policy

-          Assurance of dignity and respect

-          Security, physical and mental

-          Nationwide SOS service

-          Empowerment

-          Higher education and economic independence

-          Social and legal rights

-          Zero tolerance of crimes against women

Elderly

-          National senior citizen policy

-          Assurance of dignity and security

-          Better age related healthcare

-          Manage loneliness and boredom

-          Enhance usefulness through utilization of experience
-          Create experience pool

-          Zero tolerance of crimes against elderly

Physically or Mentally Challenged

-          National policy for physically and mentally challenged

-          Assurance of dignity

-          Rehabilitation in work and life

-          User Friendly infrastructure

-          Promote all growth options

Weaker Section, Economic

For people below poverty line (or least privileged)

-          Free food, health, education, shelter, justice

-          Free electricity and water (upto 100 units a month)

-          Work to earn. Create local organized work like cottage industry, BPO etc

-          Develop skills to create working abilities

Weaker Section, Socially

-          Assurance of justice, equality and dignity

-          Integration in society

-          Upliftment by focused development schemes

-          Empowerment

-          Goal of casteless society

-          Zero tolerance of crimes against socially weaker sections

Work Culture
    Develop and promote higher work culture as nation's pride

-          Efficiency

-          Accountability

-          Fairness

-          Quality

-          Discipline

-          Hardwork

-          Opportunities

Social Culture

-          Freedom of expression

-          Dignity of speech and behavior

-          Freedom of living

-          Harmony

-          Cooperation

-          Choice of life. Zero tolerance against moral policing.

-          Social courts for social conflicts

Religion

-          Respect for all and equality of all

-          Religious heads must work towards communal harmony

-          Religious organizations to be involved in welfare – Social, economic, moral.

-          All spiritual and religious places to be run by trust and their earning to be kept in banks.

-          No religion on road. Religion to be only at home, religious places or permitted spots.

-          Strict laws against communalism and superstition.

Challenges

-          Social inequality, Casteism & Untouchability – Goal of casteless society. Make people aware and sensitize towards equality. Eliminate mention of caste. Stop caste based reservation. Uplift socially weak people through special education support and skill training.

-          Communalism – Remove insecurity by adopting zero tolerance against communalism.  Promote fair intelligence, investigation and justice. SIT and fast track courts to punish guilty. Religious heads must own responsibility of harmony, meet periodically and address public in a joint press conference.

-          Corruption and black money – Target zero black money. Create online databank of all real estate properties, lockers, shares, credit card, bank account etc to eliminate benami or black transactions. Every single property, locker, credit card, bank account and share must have PAN No associated, let people claim them through self disclosure. All unclaimed properties, lockers, shares, credit card, bank account must be frozen and finally confiscated and go to government.  Any private business owner or professional or service provider with fake or no receipt must be penalized. Declare black money kept abroad as national asset, bring it back in time bound manner and impose heavy action on people / organization / banks helping in such activity. Such acts of corruption where nations assets are looted must be declared as crime against nation. There must be a federation against corruption by activist. Whenever any activist like RTI activist fighting against corruption is harassed, this federation must take up the issue further. This will also save such fighters life.

-          Fake currency - Reduce need of cash, promote plastic money, stop high currency notes and impose strict action on those indulging in such activity.

-          Crime especially against children, women and elderly  - Research and reforms should be the main weapon to fight crimes. Reform early in life. Develop healthy personality. Life skill training.

-          Disasters -  Anticipate, prevent and manage. Strict policy on environment protection. Public awareness and training.

-          Illiteracy  - Time bound complete literacy mission.

-          Malnutrition – Right to food and health to eliminate malnutrition.

-          Drug addiction  - Should be declared national problem. Manage through education, awareness, counseling, early detection and support. Social acceptance of those affected and rehabilitation.

-          Poverty – Skill training, cottage and cooperative industries and Right to job to eliminate poverty.

-          Regionalism – Sensitize people about benefits of nationalism. Solve issues in mutual benefit manner.

-          Terrorism and Naxalism – Vigilance, intelligence, investigation and justice to reach zero tolerance against terrorism and naxalism. Prevent and educate people to end misguided support. Justice to people and development to eliminate root cause.

Be alert to save culture of India

Riots, Rapes and Honor Killings are definitely not our culture.

Enough is Enough

What is happening to culture of India??? Are we bothered???

 

The rich culture of India has given our country a unique identity. We all are proud of it. But are we watchful and alert to save it and grow it. Will we only refer to past when talking about Indian culture. What about today and tomorrow? Are coming generations going to be proud of what we are doing today? Remember more than art, music, festivals, dressing, monuments etc it is the mindset which is the essence of every culture.

So what is happening to mindset today? Just look around across all dimensions of society.

·     Anarchy – When people say and do things as they wish. There is complete shamelessness and fearlessness in doing wrong. They fail to understand that they are part of a big family and have the responsibility to behave in a manner that reflects and enhances the richness of our culture and harmony in society. We have the collective responsibility of upholding the rich culture of India. Solution – Take pride in being appropriate. Never forget you are representing INDIA.

·     Crime – The rising number of crimes reflects the mindset of society. It tells that people are losing inner harmony and they are losing the inner will to be on right and positive side. There is loss of sense of right and wrong. Worse is, the wrongs are justified. It should be alarming for our society.  Solution – Take pride in staying on right and positive side. Elders must be accountable and role models for children.

·     Abuse of power – The wrong use of power and manipulation to achieve selfish interest or harm others indicates how much people are losing the art of self discipline.  This is a grave indicator of growing cowardice.  Solution – Take pride in being self disciplined and fair. The real power is not in using or suppressing others but in protecting and serving others.

·     Corruption - The richness of Indian culture is in its value system. But unfortunately people today adopt corrupt means to accumulate wealth. Corruption reflects greed and inability of people to earn respect and dignity. Solution - Take pride in being honest. It is intelligent and brave to be honest.

·     Superstition – There are many religions in India which give strength and dimensions to culture of India. But unfortunately people today are not able to understand the real meaning of religion and spirituality. There is too much noise but no substance. For some it has become business and others a mindless blind routine.  Solution- Take pride in being sensible and rational. Develop and promote faith not superstition or meaningless rituals.

·     Conflicts - The very basis of culture is togetherness. We share, coordinate and cooperate. We help each other mutually and nurture each other. But the rising pattern of conflict and obstinacy to resolve issues is detrimental. It ranges from road rage to communal tension. Solution - Take pride in being socially skillful. Live and let live is the way of Indian culture and is based on not hurting others right to live.

·     Depleted Wisdom – One of the strongest point of Indian culture is wisdom. Alas! It is almost extinct. Impulsiveness and whimsical life has replaced it. Gratification of senses is seen as happiness. Solution - Take pride in being wise. Do not forget, India has shown way to the world. Human beings must live like human beings.

·     Work culture – Fairness, accountability and efficiency are necessary for good work culture. We are yet to incorporate these deep in our work culture. Solution - Take pride in being efficient. Let ethics and industriousness be the symbol of Indian work culture.

·     Family culture – Another very strong element of culture of India is family culture as building blocks of society. It gives completeness to human life. Sadly there is an alarming rise in family conflicts and breakups. It is a reflection of loss of ability to love and care. Solution - Take pride in being loving. Love is no business. The pleasure is all in giving.

It is time to be alarmed. Save it before it gets too late.

  Love India, be proud of India and take pride in carrying the spirit of India.