I always dreamt of a beautiful India, an advanced India like a developed world. Beauty in attitude and the people.
And I always dreamt, dreamt and dreamt only to loose sleep over years that even now I cannot sleep.
What does this country need?
All of us are proud of this country and its culture. But, how much?
What is our culture anyway?
Is it, we kill our girls or we still cannot use toilets?
Maybe the corruption is not a shame at all. Or everybody other than us is inferior in caste or religion.
Spitting in public, public nuisance, indiscipline, noisy on and off the road, inconsiderate to others, lack of traffic sense, lack of civic sense and lack every sense we can think of.
We hold ourselves as very high sitting down here in India, when world considers us as a third world country, dirty and uncivilized.
Whatever the reasons for being like this, we can go on that we have a history of 5000 odd years. But who cares.
Do we care for ourselves in the first place? I don’t think so.
We are corrupt. Many think they are a minority; I think they are a majority.
Everybody blames the corrupt but no body wants to be uncorrupt.
Culture is not, what it was couple of thousand years back. Culture is always in the making. Culture is what you do today, is the one which is going to be tomorrow.
Just because we did some nonsense, without any agreeable reason, cannot be a culture tomorrow, it is the other way. It is what we do today with sense and reason which is useful for the mankind or the community which is the culture of tomorrow. What your great grandfather and grandfather did, you follow but your kids may not. So we have to let go of lot culture for that matter in a way, which do not come in reasonable sense.
We are living in a world which is fast changing. Can you believe earth has been there for millions of years? There has been history of humans living in societies at least for more than 5000 years, which is a long time.
The advancements are less than 300 years old. Just twenty years back you never dreamt something like internet, cell phone will be there. Just imagine how the humans are advancing. But our thinking is stuck in middle ages. This age is faster than our forefathers could ever dream of.
We need to take decisions, fast and very fast or else we will end up fighting like what we did couple of thousand years back by the invaders. But this time it will not be from invaders, but from within ourselves. The issues we need to be addressing are more and they are ever increasing.
So I thought I put forward some of my weird ideas. Like, if I was a Prime minister.
First thing I will do is to acquire an acre of land in all the villages. The size of the land is minimum one acre; it can go up depending on the size of the village and population.
I will put in same percentage of money spent on defence. And I will build a small theme park, an apartment, utility apartment which will house a post office, a clinic, store and IT room.
Then one covered, open air auditorium.
All this are built according to the size of the village and the population. There will be criteria to select villages as the tiny villages with too little population have to be catered in a different way.
This is like a township. The apartments will be furnished and will have cable or dish TV and wireless (or wired) broadband internet connectivity, which are connected to district headquarters and capitals. These will have telemedicine and videoconferencing facility.
These will be given to a Doctor, a teacher and a post master.
Head of the township will be either one of them depending on the situation. All these people can use the apartments free but have to bear the maintenance and utility bills themselves.
The clinic will be setup to the extent the village needs.
Doctor will also be the in charge of the village from the administrative side. He will take care of audiovisuals, where he will project small movies, documentaries, health tips and educating the villagers about everything he has been taught and knows.
Post master will be in charge of the tele network. He will be in charge of collecting the data of the village with newborns to deaths. He will take pictures and finger prints on to the computer and store them and transmit them to the main server at the district and capital headquarters. He will also issue temporary ID cards till the central agency gives.
Teacher will be in charge of the school, which may not in the same campus or it can house if it is a tiny village.
He will be in charge of the dispensing area or store where all the government supplies like public distribution service is housed. They can have assistants, who have to be minimally qualified with 10 class or grade.
Theme park will have place for kids to play and adults to watch their kids play and auditorium along with it.
Before all these people occupy these places, all of them are taken for training for a week or so with accommodation and food in the district headquarters, by the trainers who have been trained themselves from corporate or the learned.They will be trained in using toilets (Indian and western), civic sense, traffic sense and every basic thing an Indian lacks in this country. Then they are posted to the villages.
I would like to call this INDS or Indian national development school. This will be basic model for a village; rest of the things can be implemented in to this system.
Along with this, next big thing will be to build roads. Every village has to have a road. All the roads should be tarred. And there will be a ban on road digging and putting fire on the roads.
This whole idea has to nationalize and state only will come in to picture in providing land within a specified time and taking over this when all are in place.
This is my first dream for the country. This may not work out in an economic sense. But it is possible if you can dream. There is lot of money in this country, you just have to use enough brains to get it out of places where it can be taken out.
PS: All the pictures are copied from Google search for illustration purposes only.
And I always dreamt, dreamt and dreamt only to loose sleep over years that even now I cannot sleep.
What does this country need?
All of us are proud of this country and its culture. But, how much?
What is our culture anyway?
Is it, we kill our girls or we still cannot use toilets?
Maybe the corruption is not a shame at all. Or everybody other than us is inferior in caste or religion.
Spitting in public, public nuisance, indiscipline, noisy on and off the road, inconsiderate to others, lack of traffic sense, lack of civic sense and lack every sense we can think of.
We hold ourselves as very high sitting down here in India, when world considers us as a third world country, dirty and uncivilized.
Do we care for ourselves in the first place? I don’t think so.
We are corrupt. Many think they are a minority; I think they are a majority.
Everybody blames the corrupt but no body wants to be uncorrupt.
Culture is not, what it was couple of thousand years back. Culture is always in the making. Culture is what you do today, is the one which is going to be tomorrow.
Just because we did some nonsense, without any agreeable reason, cannot be a culture tomorrow, it is the other way. It is what we do today with sense and reason which is useful for the mankind or the community which is the culture of tomorrow. What your great grandfather and grandfather did, you follow but your kids may not. So we have to let go of lot culture for that matter in a way, which do not come in reasonable sense.
We are living in a world which is fast changing. Can you believe earth has been there for millions of years? There has been history of humans living in societies at least for more than 5000 years, which is a long time.
The advancements are less than 300 years old. Just twenty years back you never dreamt something like internet, cell phone will be there. Just imagine how the humans are advancing. But our thinking is stuck in middle ages. This age is faster than our forefathers could ever dream of.
We need to take decisions, fast and very fast or else we will end up fighting like what we did couple of thousand years back by the invaders. But this time it will not be from invaders, but from within ourselves. The issues we need to be addressing are more and they are ever increasing.
So I thought I put forward some of my weird ideas. Like, if I was a Prime minister.
First thing I will do is to acquire an acre of land in all the villages. The size of the land is minimum one acre; it can go up depending on the size of the village and population.
I will put in same percentage of money spent on defence. And I will build a small theme park, an apartment, utility apartment which will house a post office, a clinic, store and IT room.
Then one covered, open air auditorium.
All this are built according to the size of the village and the population. There will be criteria to select villages as the tiny villages with too little population have to be catered in a different way.
This is like a township. The apartments will be furnished and will have cable or dish TV and wireless (or wired) broadband internet connectivity, which are connected to district headquarters and capitals. These will have telemedicine and videoconferencing facility.
These will be given to a Doctor, a teacher and a post master.
Head of the township will be either one of them depending on the situation. All these people can use the apartments free but have to bear the maintenance and utility bills themselves.
The clinic will be setup to the extent the village needs.
Doctor will also be the in charge of the village from the administrative side. He will take care of audiovisuals, where he will project small movies, documentaries, health tips and educating the villagers about everything he has been taught and knows.
Post master will be in charge of the tele network. He will be in charge of collecting the data of the village with newborns to deaths. He will take pictures and finger prints on to the computer and store them and transmit them to the main server at the district and capital headquarters. He will also issue temporary ID cards till the central agency gives.
Teacher will be in charge of the school, which may not in the same campus or it can house if it is a tiny village.
He will be in charge of the dispensing area or store where all the government supplies like public distribution service is housed. They can have assistants, who have to be minimally qualified with 10 class or grade.
Theme park will have place for kids to play and adults to watch their kids play and auditorium along with it.
Before all these people occupy these places, all of them are taken for training for a week or so with accommodation and food in the district headquarters, by the trainers who have been trained themselves from corporate or the learned.They will be trained in using toilets (Indian and western), civic sense, traffic sense and every basic thing an Indian lacks in this country. Then they are posted to the villages.
I would like to call this INDS or Indian national development school. This will be basic model for a village; rest of the things can be implemented in to this system.
Along with this, next big thing will be to build roads. Every village has to have a road. All the roads should be tarred. And there will be a ban on road digging and putting fire on the roads.
This whole idea has to nationalize and state only will come in to picture in providing land within a specified time and taking over this when all are in place.
This is my first dream for the country. This may not work out in an economic sense. But it is possible if you can dream. There is lot of money in this country, you just have to use enough brains to get it out of places where it can be taken out.
PS: All the pictures are copied from Google search for illustration purposes only.
wow what a dream
ReplyDeleteAwesome dream. But not a practical one in a democratic country.
ReplyDeleteI think bigger problem in India is corruption. If you are a prime minister you should do some thing to stop corruption. Every country is corrupt, but in india we see corruption at every level and on a day to day basis.
Teach people civic sense, enforce stricter rule. Slap huge fines, like 10,000 Rs.
My dream for a better and bigger India.
P2, I know it is difficult to get to this dream. Corruption is the biggest problem our country faces. But there is no way we can wish away this problem by any rule or policing.
ReplyDeleteThat is why we need to start from scratch.
We need to build a mass ( a group of people with idealogy of non corrupt way of life) It is very difficult to do that from urban population, cause the educated parents who are corrupt by themselves will be teaching the kids, to be corrupt from their young age.
you cannot get rid of corruption from the grown up and arrogant urban populace. We can only achieve by making our roots stronger at the village level. And at the same time giving them a better life for their hardwork and not getting cheated by the urban middlemen.
These are my initial views. please do see the future blogs.
I think the basic idea is great and actually might work. Why don't you talk to a few politicians
ReplyDeleteIf you are not part of the solution,you are part of the problem
ReplyDeleteYou first fight corruption by not offering bribes and incentives(bribes)
Mo
Nice posting. But you have not mentioned anything to improve agriculture in villages. Villagers are moving away from this these days. They want to go to cities and do something else.
ReplyDeletedeepa,
ReplyDeleteagriculture has to be addressed in a different perspective. I am of the opinion, that the above factors in fact cut down the urban migration. What do people want anyway in rural and urban areas are the same. When we give them all the basic necessities and approach to medical, educational and easy approchability of urban centres(good roads and transportation), I believe the people who want migrate to urban centres will be minimum. With thier education they may, infact do better farming. I agree many educated still leave villages. That is because rural areas are neglected and underdeveloped. This is what we are trying to address before we can think of agriculture and urban migration.
This is the basic requirement at present we need to start.
Many people are of the opinion that the main problem is corruption. Ofcourse we are extremely corrupt. We did not become corrupt, just after independance. We have had corruption from time immemorial, right from medieval times. Only now we are getting to a ridiculous levels.
For that matter all the societies have been corrupt. The societies who have worked with a value based and inclusive attitude are the ones who have brought their corruption to a negligeble levels.
About corruption you may see my future blog(not reserched just my views).
good work shiva. iam there.
ReplyDeletethanks shahab. please read other blogs and share.
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