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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Vision for future

India is at crucial juncture. This is not the time to maintain status quo and it can not be.

The kind of conflict and frustration nation is witnessing on issues of modern vs conservative, corruption and black money, crime against women, poverty and lack of jobs, lack of development and basic amenities and above all lack of protocols and system.

India needs vision for future. A vision for Modern Glorified India.

People of India voted for new government in 2014 with big hope. Hope to build a modern, developed, successful and dynamic India. If this government works and delivers, it will be good for nation and people. But if it does not, it will be big disaster and a huge setback to nation and people's mindset.

Nation can not maintain status quo. Either it will move ahead or will face major problems. Reasons are both external and internal. Today world is moving ahead with fast speed. There is already huge gap in development between modern world and India. Within India too there is increasing discrepancy between people. It is bad for a nation to have such big social. educational and financial discrepancies. This can cause high levels of frustration and unrest.

We must plan well to create India of 22nd century, a true world leader of humanity.

There is need of :

- Modern India. We must promote modern and scientific mindset, English language, equality of gender, freedom of speech and expression and freedom to live. No one should be doing moral policing and there should not be any hyper reaction like kiss day.

- Organized India. we must promote and implement protocols and system for everything. Do's and don'ts for everything and everyone from government to common man must be well established. It should not be left to individuals choice. A chaotic nation can never rise high.

- System driven India. No nation can develop without strong system. And institutions are core of system. We must strengthen institutions like Judiciary, Bureaucracy, Media, Investigative agencies like CBI and Lokpal, Police, Financial institutions, Social institutions and so on.

- Fair and Corruption Free India. Nothing will change till we eliminate corruption. Nation must promote fair conditions. Those honest and working hard must get due recognition and there should be strict system against black money and corruption. This should cover both out of nation black money accounts and corruption within nation. Read corruption can be eliminated.

- Developed India. The development must be uniform. Basic amenities must be affordable and available to everyone. Before thinking about smart cities we must make our existing cities, towns and villages livable. 

- Clean India. The voice for clean India is welcome. But it must be well directed and implemented. Read clean India a big deal?

- People's Voice - People's Federations must be developed to streamline people's voice and its coordination with government for better governance and administration.  


Time is precious. We must not lose any time further. We must get united and decide a clear cut path for modern glorified India. We have a choice, we wish to be progressive or regressive?

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Work sincerely to eliminate poverty

Recent report says world's one third of extreme poor are in India. This is those who are under 1.25 $ per day. And if one adds those who are under 2$ then that covers about 68% of population of India.

This is shameful and big concern.

Unfortunate and sad that this has been made such a huge task. Why it is so difficult to uplift India out of poverty.

What is nation doing about this? What is lacking? Will  Skill or Intention. May be all three. Otherwise why after decades people continue to remain poor and suffer.

Can we eliminate poverty?

Yes if we plan well, make sound policies and implement them effectively then we can eliminate poverty in five years. How?

1. Education - Poverty can not be eliminated as long as illiteracy plagues nation. There must be immediate nationwide literacy program to make nation 100% literate.

2. Health - How can nation eliminate poverty if its people are malnourished and in poor health. To work hard it is crucial to have reasonable level of physical and mental strength. 

3. Skill training - Vocational training and special skills keeping in mind practical utility and developing world.

4. Jobs - Service industry must be expanded and must range from locality based to wider utility.

5. Production - Local industry, cottage industry and small scale industry must be promoted to help people become self reliant. Big industries are necessary but not for every product.

6. Tax reforms - These must support such small scale service and production based work.

7. Insurance - Easy and cheap insurance to protect people from sudden heavy expenses like from accidents, sickness, natural calamity etc.

8. Saving and Expenditure - Individual, family and community based saving and expenditure must be promoted for effective money management.

9. Investment - People can make small investments of not only money but also of time, knowledge, labor or other resources.

10. Reduce Reuse Recycle - This environment principle can be well utilized in promoting effective money management.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Think before celebrating Nobel

Congratulations on winning Nobel Prize. It is good to see someone fighting so hard for the cause and making society a better place.

But wait before celebrating.......

What is the issue? Child labor ! and add children kidnapped, molested and die in large number.

Is it a matter of pride or shame? Why do we allow such cruel conditions in our country? Why it is required to raise huge struggle to achieve this?

We are a free nation indeed. Where is our system, why can't we have proper system to stop such negative conditions like child labor? Can we not have effective laws and regulation with effective implementation to avoid such things in first place?

We should be winning Nobel in Physics Chemistry Medicine and Literature. If we keep winning Nobel in Peace - it is a matter of great concern. It shows we are not doing enough for society. We are land of great civilization, of great religions, of Mahatma Gandhi. Peace, equality, freedom and human rights should be norm for us. We are supposed to teach the world.

When will we 'rediscover' our self ?