Vikas तो डुबे

“Vikas” - is dead in its true sense in the country called India – Who was “Vikas”? Vikas was the one who walked back home 1000 kms in lockdown because there was no food, no money, no job and no shelter at his work place “Vikas” was also the one who hanged himself because he could not able to repay the loan what he took against his farm land in Maharashtra or in many parts of India. He was also a “Vikas” who casted his vote in the name of “everyone’s companionship and progress” he died too. Those were also “Vikas”, who slept forever on railroad on their way back home at the time of lockdown. “Vikas” died of hunger at his village waiting for 5kgs of grains.

The story of “Vikas” has not ended as yet, now a new “Vikas” will be born or maybe he is a toddler somewhere by now. “Vikas to Hoga” – Who is “Vikas” now? Probably, that will be decided by the national political party or regional political party of our country soon. We as an individual have a tendency to forgetting things faster and this is a drawback for India as country but an advantage for a political setup in the country. “Vikas” will be a model of projecting India becoming self-reliant. And we as a citizen of this country will again come in the delusion of some political party. 

Every time we do the same mistake and we did not want to learn from our mistakes as well, because we are so occupied in our day to day life that we hardly wants to think beyond our kitchen these days and when things will be little better our thinking will take a plunge in few other materialistic pleasures of life which we can afford at that point of time which will be post Corona time. This Corona has put a break on our thinking and economy, because of which our purchasing power has weaken otherwise we would have enjoying the party at this time as well.    

When you think about people rich people like Tata’s, Mahindra’s or Reliance nationally and internationally P&G’s, Hindustan Liver etc. you will come to know, they all have long term goals to achieve from a business project in which they invest. They spend lot of money on studying the human behavior, preferences and choices for a particular product. I give you an example of sanitary pad from P&G – the company goes to an extend to change the color of the packing according to the target audience’s age. Purposes like these i.e. R&D of human behavior they sponsor researchers to do their Ph. d on human psychology in big universities of the world. That means the money is been spent on earning more money. It’s mental; imagine how deep they want to penetrate it’s a different ball game all together and because of this advance planning they are successful. And also don’t have any competitor in their respective markets.  

Now our political parties especially who thinks they are in a business (although every political party is in a business these days) have started working on these line as well. And the time will come when they’ll be having no opposition/competition whatsoever. And everything will be done in the democratic system of the country without any objections.  Mark my words we have started moving towards a system in our country where what so ever has been told to us by the ruling party we’ll accept it as it is, and also appreciate their decisions later on. How much time and money is being spent to achieve their respective goals one can’t even imagine.

Solutions: - raise your question even if you like it. Do ask why? You have to make them accountable. How? It depends on case to case basis. Executives and Legislature are going hand in hands these days – this will only change when we’ll ask question. Out of three pillars of democracy – two have become very weak they are Judiciary and the Executives. Although, directly we can’t do anything but those who are in there have to act swiftly, otherwise it will be too late for the country.

2 – We have seen the two types of government in last 30 years – a coalition government and an absolute majority government. Although for the countries benefit it is always recommended the absolute majority Party should rule the country but it has to be a party who should rule but not an individual in the party it is very harmful for the country. My understanding with present system says - we should fly against the wind in democracy. According to the time and need we should also change and put the country first in our priority. I always say if the country stays we will stay. At present it seems coalition could have been a better option because it will be having many power centers and with that at least democracy would have flourished.  

“Vikas” should have taken place in the country but it has got stuck in made up chaotic system of political parties in our country. That is it about “Vikas” and I myself is looking for “Vikas”. Welcome to the 21^st Century India.    

 

Desperate Economy

Criticizing the government is one of the easiest jobs to perform in our country. But the question is why the people of our country criticizing the government? Everyone whosoever criticizes the government has his/her logic behind it. Those logic's at times are interesting and based on facts as well. Another point is why the person who is criticizing the policies or the decision of the government with documented proof but still could not able to get the publicity what is been needed to spread the words amongst the subjects? Reasons could be umpteen - but one of the important measure is the control over process which leads to the spreading of information, which is there in the hands of the government and they critically analyses every information whether it is benefiting them or will criticize their decisions.

Although, in India we have democracy because of which we still have an access to many sources through which we get what we want(mostly). Of course in a democratic system things are little different then communism but if you see both the system practically still lot of similarities are there. You can ask how? See, one of the basic differences in our country and a communist country’s set up is - here we can always raise our voice, if we see some wrong doing by the government openly. But, we still can’t stop them from doing what they want to do. Let say if we question one of the latest decisions of the government of India of partially privatizing the Indian railways. I am saying partially because they have chosen few routes and no of trains to be run on those routes by private players. Why do you want to introduce private player in the PSUs? When it is generating profit for you. And also an important and popular mode of mass travel in India.

Many factors are responsible for this decision of the government. In the last budget of the government of India our Finance minister has introduced the idea of 5 Trillion Rupees economy and the target to achieve this objective by 2024. Now at present the emphasis is on developed economy of India which s a good idea. World has changed rapidly in last 30 years and every country should gain benefit out of this economic development because of open market policy, but on the other hand in last 73 years of our independence, we could not able to efface the poverty from the face of India.  Still our Prime minister has to come on TV and has to make an announcement of providing 5kg of food grains to 800 million poor people of this country till November 2020 because the pandemic has taken its toll out of common people. Of course economy of India is in a bad shape right now. Although, the world economy is in a bad shape Yes, “desperate time needs desperate measures” but at present selling PSUs can’t be the desperate measure. Why aren’t we taking the help of our Noble laureate who are providing their valuable services to the western world when we know the study of theirs on which they have won the awards mostly has been done on poor India and measures to eradicate it.

When you read a government decision on something in a documented form – you will get stuck in the language - it will take multiple reading to understand what it really meant. It was always like this because in a democratic system we all have the right to challenge any decision (except national security) by the government. Any government wants to play safe and also don’t want any hurdles in their decisions to be challenged by anyone.

Solution :- we have many - what we have to do firstly work upon implementation of the decision made by the government at the grass roots level by having an independent body which will be working on the lines of RTI there job is to make sure the implementation is taking place honestly or they should take corrective measures if the things are not right. What would be the benefit of it – it will help eradicate poverty step by step from the society and also remove corruption from the system.

2 - The government should take the help of people who are real expert in the field. It depends on case to case basis. The bureaucratic system is the requirement of smooth functioning of the government in any country, but the civil servants cannot be an expert so their opinion does matter on policies. But it should never be the last opinion.  En numbers of examples are there in which some beautiful policies have failed because of the bureaucratic complication in implementation.  The federal system of our country is as such that has provided everyone to flourish equally the only difference is “right people at right place at the right time” makes more of a difference but it doesn’t mean that power has to avoid the experts.  

3 - Politician has to become the rider not the rides in the hands of Civil servants. Politicians have to understand that - they have got the verdict of the people to rule on them and they are answerable to the public of this country only. Selflessness is the key for development of any country and our past has hundreds of examples like that. If we have to learn from the past for the betterment of the society we should never hesitate.