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.