This is a new chapter and all the best India.
This new chapter will open new opportunities. At the same time India is facing a grave challenge. This is fake news and propaganda.
Today no one knows what is right and what is wrong. This is true for both what is happening now and what happened in past. Media and Social Media is full of fake news and propaganda. TV News Channels too are showing to be biased and very subjective. Even governments are rewriting history books at will. This is both sad and dangerous. Loss of trust is going to be detrimental to nation building. We need to be very cautious about it.
We must ensure certain steps:
1. Nation is as strong as its constitution and constitution is as strong as institutions. We must ensure freedom, transparency and accountability of all institutions. For this we must make following institutions free from government control in all aspects be it financing, nomination, posting etc. These institutions must be fully independent and have separate examination for entry. There must be a system of progress. Top most post should not be held by one person, it should be a body of top 100 as lower body and top 11 as higher body. Decisions must be by majority. The institutions are:
- Income Tax Department
- CBI
- ED
- Lokpal
- CVC
- CAG
- CIC
- EC ( should be fully autonomous with no appointment by government)
- Bureaucracy
- Judiciary
- Police (freedom from state government)
These institutions should be bound only by constitution, no one interfering in their work. But they should be fully transparent and accountable to what they are doing. The independence of institutions will be able to balance each other. In addition JPC with representatives of both houses and all political parties irrespective of their strength.
2. Authentic Information Commission - This should an additional institution apart from CIC. This institution should gather and confirm all information both past and present. They should authenticate all information. Any fake information must be removed and those spreading it must be first warned then penalized and punished.
3. TV News Channels - This is most serious. News Channels are behaving as noise box. Any one can come and shout. This is uncivilized. Second problem is biased nature of news channels. News Channels are owned by corporate houses who have political affiliation. It should be mandatory for New Channels to broadcast their ownership details and how much they donated to which political party. Another associated problem is their subjectivity. Duty of this pillar of democracy is to report with objectivity. Unfortunately they become subjective and report in colored manner giving their version what is right what is wrong. This is undemocratic and anti national as this harms nation. Lokpal of India must have representative in all channels and watching their working.
4. Social Media - This is total chaos. On one hand freedom of expression is must but nation must ensure that social media is free from fake news, abuses and harassment. There should a Report button which should directly go to Authentic Information Commission to ban it if it is fake and to police if it causes abuse and harassment.
Nation does not become great by big buildings and lots of money. It becomes great by ensuring for all - dignity, freedom, equality, justice and opportunity.
It remains to be seen when are we going to have this real revolution and achieve real independence.
This new chapter will open new opportunities. At the same time India is facing a grave challenge. This is fake news and propaganda.
Today no one knows what is right and what is wrong. This is true for both what is happening now and what happened in past. Media and Social Media is full of fake news and propaganda. TV News Channels too are showing to be biased and very subjective. Even governments are rewriting history books at will. This is both sad and dangerous. Loss of trust is going to be detrimental to nation building. We need to be very cautious about it.
We must ensure certain steps:
1. Nation is as strong as its constitution and constitution is as strong as institutions. We must ensure freedom, transparency and accountability of all institutions. For this we must make following institutions free from government control in all aspects be it financing, nomination, posting etc. These institutions must be fully independent and have separate examination for entry. There must be a system of progress. Top most post should not be held by one person, it should be a body of top 100 as lower body and top 11 as higher body. Decisions must be by majority. The institutions are:
- Income Tax Department
- CBI
- ED
- Lokpal
- CVC
- CAG
- CIC
- EC ( should be fully autonomous with no appointment by government)
- Bureaucracy
- Judiciary
- Police (freedom from state government)
These institutions should be bound only by constitution, no one interfering in their work. But they should be fully transparent and accountable to what they are doing. The independence of institutions will be able to balance each other. In addition JPC with representatives of both houses and all political parties irrespective of their strength.
2. Authentic Information Commission - This should an additional institution apart from CIC. This institution should gather and confirm all information both past and present. They should authenticate all information. Any fake information must be removed and those spreading it must be first warned then penalized and punished.
3. TV News Channels - This is most serious. News Channels are behaving as noise box. Any one can come and shout. This is uncivilized. Second problem is biased nature of news channels. News Channels are owned by corporate houses who have political affiliation. It should be mandatory for New Channels to broadcast their ownership details and how much they donated to which political party. Another associated problem is their subjectivity. Duty of this pillar of democracy is to report with objectivity. Unfortunately they become subjective and report in colored manner giving their version what is right what is wrong. This is undemocratic and anti national as this harms nation. Lokpal of India must have representative in all channels and watching their working.
4. Social Media - This is total chaos. On one hand freedom of expression is must but nation must ensure that social media is free from fake news, abuses and harassment. There should a Report button which should directly go to Authentic Information Commission to ban it if it is fake and to police if it causes abuse and harassment.
Nation does not become great by big buildings and lots of money. It becomes great by ensuring for all - dignity, freedom, equality, justice and opportunity.
It remains to be seen when are we going to have this real revolution and achieve real independence.
