Sunday, January 29, 2012

FAILING HEALTH OF BHARAT

As of now, once ‘’SONE KI CHIRIYA AND TREASURE OF KNOWLEDGE’’ the BHARAT is now suffering from failing health in many ways. Some symptoms of its present health are detailed hereto after;-
Explosion of population, resulting in making hell of each and every one and the systems/Too high level of CORRUPTION in all walks of life/RISING COST of each and every item available in the markets meant for purchase/consumption or for long-term needs/MANY ITEMS, even those meant for physical consumption including eatables as well as medicines are reported either adulterated, or made substandard. Still some may be measuring or weighing less than prescribed/LACK OF COMMITMENTS at all levels, down to the lowest position holder from the highest position in bureaucracy as well as the political class, including self- employed professionals and business community. /EDUCATION given a total neglect, instead literacy only is being treated as EDUCATION, thus giving a very bad definition to such a high important aspect of human and national upliftment. / LITERACY AND MEDICAL CARE made very costly and almost unaffordable for the lesser earning families. Besides for those who still wish to get their wards admitted for these facilities so as to exist in the society are made to pay large sums under the table in the names of DONATIONS and/or for many other reasons, a very bad culture./ Election process made very expensive and impossible for the honest and really committed and concerned citizens to take courage to venture for/ POLITICAL PARTIES INCREASING IN LARGE NUMBERS ,SO MUCH SO THAT MANY OF THOSE REGISTERED under the act may not be contributing any thing by thoughts or actions for the well being of the society or the nation. Even many such outfits are reported being run only as business concerns in order to avail certain concessions/benefits as available after registration under the act. As of now many political outfits, even those working on ALL INDIA BASIS are openly propagating DIVISIONS IN THE SOCIETY ON THE BASIS OF CASTE, COMMUNITY, LANGUAGE, SEX, REGION and so on, thus further harming the cohesion of what so ever is left in the country as of now. There were times when well intentioned, committed ,dedicated and selfless persons would enter politics. Unfortunately these qualifications in general are found missing at present./ NO MINIMUM LITERACY LEVELS for voters and/or contestants are prescribed, nor retirement age has been fixed for holders of posts in politics and governments. As of now many persons well beyond the retirement age fixed for GOVERNMENT employees including holders of JUDICIAL positions, continue to hold very important positions in political set up as ministers and peoples’ representatives. As per the law of nature such persons may not in many cases be able to do justice to themselves as well as to their positions. There seems no democratic functioning in the political parties, some remain under the spell of some individuals or their family members, just from their formations to the end. /The country as a whole including the states do not have ONE COMMON OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ( MAXIMUM TWO IF INEVITABLE) so that none feels inconvenienced while moving from one region to an other or taking a job or moving about or shifting to the other areas, states./ The way SUBSIDIES, DOLES are being given badly affect monetary health of the nation, simultaneously developing beggar tendencies in the receivers of such concessions also making such class developing the tendencies of laziness which in the long run may badly affect NATIONAL HEALTH on all parameters including the receivers of doles/Lot of DIVISIONS ON CASTE, COMMUNITY, SEX, AREA, LANGUAGE BASIS etc have been made and providing services, facilities and care are DISCRIMINATED in favor or against members of the same society and country. Should all this not be treated as against NATURAL LAW OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY?/ States, districts are being further bifurcated just to get political mileage over the other political outfits in the field without keeping in view the expenses involved, agricultural and other lands being taken over to facilitate such new formations. The names of places, the districts and even states, the railway stations and many other places are changed indiscriminately for similar political reasons in view, forgetting in the process the expenses involved at all levels to effect the changes in all the national records as well as the inconvenience caused to the general public, many may not be able to know the changes that have been made by the system./ There are many a times SHORTAGES OF SPECIALISTS, EXPERTS, HEADS OF THE GOVT DIVISIONS LIKE DOCTERS IN HOSPITALS, TEACHERS IN LEARNING INSTITUTES, judges in courts down to the lower ones to the high courts and even supreme court etc,resulting in inconvenience to the public at all levels. / SECURITY AND SAFETY seems meant for some sections of the society only,i.e THE ELECTED ONES AND THOSE HOLDING POSITIONS at the level of bureaucracy, resulting in the general public remaining at the mercy of the remaining only a few security personnel left, who may normally not be able to do justice to the given task even if they wish to perform to the best of caliber and capacity. /The country is IMPORTING MANY ITEMS OF COMMON USE AND EVEN FOR LUXURIES from other countries, whereby Indian industry is sure to suffer and the Indian youth ‘s energy not being fully made use of . Many engineering students even after passing out either do not get jobs as production engineers or they themselves do not wish to work in the production units, rather wish to go for white collar jobs. THIS CAN be treated as BAD planning and bad literacy. Similar may be the position in respect of other specialized learning. This aspect of literacy need be taken care of so that in spite of huge population we remain deficient on many specialized and other posts, where as in the administrative offices and for clerical jobs there are mostly over staffing.
Whatsoever has been detailed herein before is only a tip of the ice Berge. The real thing is “EK DO JAKHAM NAHIN HAIN SARA BADAN HAI JAKHAMI, AB DARD PARESHAN HAI UTHOON KAHAN SE MAIN”. So surgery seems to be the real remedy.
To cure all these ailments and in order to improve upon the health of BHARAT and to bring back its lost glory some suggestions are given hereto after;
To control SPREAD OF POPULATION and rather to bring it to negative growth rate, laws have to be made and enforced with immediate effect so that none from now onward is to have more than one child for the next 10 years and there after it can be relaxed to permit it unto 2 only. For this purpose policy of incentives and disincentives need be followed and law for the purpose has to be made equally applicable to all citizens without any distinction of caste or community. Country’s needs can be given preference to the so called real or unreal beliefs of some ones. Till we are able to bring down population with in controllable limits, services of each eligible citizen can be utilized to increase production of all items of use with in the country itself so that we do not have to import many items from outside the country and our excess population does not become a thorn in the eyes.-----To CHECK CORRUPTION at all levels, nation must be made to observe AUSTARITY at all levels. Assembly of more than say 25/30 persons in any function including at the government levels can be totally banned so as to control wastages----To check RISING PRICES some reasons may be, supply v/s demand ,then the cast of production and procurements have to made lower by putting a check on increased spending at Governmental levels, higher wages and unneeded facilities given to workers and staff, higher rates of taxes as well as very large spending on advertisements where in PLAYERS AND FILM ACTORS specially are paid too heavily which add to the cost of items. ADULTRATIONS AND SHORT SUPPLIES too are the result of all such policies. The PRICES OF LAND AND BUILDINGS too contribute a lot in becoming most items more and more costly. So THIS ASPECT OF FINANCIAL PLANNING NEED BE TAKEN CARE AT ONCE, as with the increase in prices of land and buildings and due to heavy taxation, prices are sure to shoot up. -----FIXING OF ACCOUNTABILITY at all levels down from the lowest worker to the highest bureaucracy and political class may help increase commitments .COMPULSIONS OF VOTE BANK POLITICS are generally not permitting the system to help CALIBRE AND COMMITMENTS take precedent over all other considerations, Just giving recognition to the right actions can be of great help----Emphasis need be placed on REAL EDUCATION instead of literacy only where each and every citizen from school going children to those going for the highest degree courses including for PHDs need be made self sufficient, good at physical and mental health to be able to take up the jobs for livelihood with earnest and also becomes an asset to the nation and society. Some 2/3 years of compulsory military type of physical training too can help a lot. If at all, Governments wish to support the citizens by freebees or doles, these, by doing for education and health care, may serve the nation in real terms. ----Most problems as of now seem to be due to our political system, where many amendments are immediately needed such as permitting only two political parties for the whole nation, elections to be held for parties instead of the individuals, then on the basis of number or percentage of votes poled for each of them, nominations can be made by them keeping in view the literacy levels, education, commitments to the nation etc .Election expenses too can be borne from the public exchequer. By doing so there will be no spoilers left in politics, and when expenses for contesting elections are not to be borne by the candidate, then they may not be allured to make good the expenses later by indulging in unfair and corrupt practices, on getting elected.
These are the few thoughts only on some points for many other ailments that the nation just now be suffering from, request is made to those who can go through these lines to please add their own views where ever thought fit so as to make the systems move in the right direction, GOOD FOR THE PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS keeping in mind that efforts made by our great leaders like SARDAR VALLABH BHAI PATEL who with his statesmanship and wisdom knit the entire country into one great nation do not go waist. Also we must remember the many other great leaders like SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE whose slogan ‘TUM MUJHE KHOON DO MAIN TUMHAIN AAZADI DDONGA’ meaning that no one is to enjoy fruits without ones own contribution. This should be a guide to those who make many promises for doles and freebees.
Just now there have been discussions in both houses of parliament over LOK PAL BILL where many MPs expressed their anguish when some voices outside the house were raised in the country blaming majority of political class for corruption. No doubt many may not be directly involved in corruption cases, but the nation has elected them only to work for good governance and if that is not forthcoming then naturally only they deserve to be blamed for the mess. More over most elected ones after getting elected start leading lives ‘KING SIZE’ So the JANTA who sees it all naturally have to GRUDGE. More over majority under this class after getting elected are found becoming rich with a speed and still many of the elected ones are found to be of negative and criminal tendencies under such conditions, GENERAL PUBLIC cannot be stopped from making their own conclusions, to avoid these observations from the general public. It may be in the best interest of all that only persons with total clean image and satvik tendencies find place in the elected houses.
During the last some months some committed members of the society under the leadership of Shri ANNA HAZARE have been fighting for installation of INSTITUTION OF LOK PAL. The parliament despite promising to pass the strong required legislation did not do it. So angered by this deceit, team ANNA now announces to canvass in the forth coming elections against only one political party i.e. the majority stake holder in the coalition government at the centre. Here it may be more prudent on part of TEAM ANNA as well as others not to hold only one political party at fault, when the entire political system seem responsible for this act of not enacting and passing a strong desired legislation only for each party worrying for their political gains, it may be more helpful to now fight for cleansing the POLITICAL SYSTEM as a whole. Also ensure public pressure for eradication of corruption from the system so that they feel compelled for good governance. More over going by natural instincts of desires not being controlled due to LACK OF PROPER EDUCATION then desires being further fuelled by continuously increasing needs and the society giving RECOGNATION TO POSITIONS AND POSSESSIONS difficulties come in the way of such controls as such these areas too need be explored for further attacks, if any, are to be made.
HOPE THE SENTIMENTS HERE TO FORE SHALL REACH THEIR DESTINAIONS AND THE NATIONLISTS SHALL TAKE CARE.
RD Agarwal, A/86, Indira Nagar, Lko. Blog: www.rdagarwal.blogspot.com
Twitter: rdagarwal Date:03.01.2012

AWAKE, ARISE AND BE POSITIVE

India is known as the world’s biggest democracy. Biggest it surely is going by the hugeness of population and the number of elected persons and elected bodies down from the Gram sabhas to the state assemblies and the central parliament. To be big in itself can not be treated as a matter of pride and virtue, though to be great is so. To ensure that this big country attains to greatness and that too the real one, some thoughts are expressed here to after;-
First attack has to be on our political system and election process where number of political parties for the country as a whole i.e. from lowest levels of gram sabhas to the highest level of central parliament, need be pegged to TWO ONLY. This will help bar unneeded spoilers in politics as well as will help controlling divides and hatred on community, language area basis etc. It would also reduce the cost of conducting elections to a great extent. Change need be made in election process, where elections can be held for the two proposed political outfits only instead of the individual candidates as is being done at present. Then on the basis of percentage of votes secured by each of these outfits [political parties] persons can be nominated in one go down from the lowest levels to the central parliament. To ensure that only one single outfit does not capture the entire elected bodies, at the time of voting distinctions can be made on state or even at the lowest levels. This process will obviate the necessity of holding elections every now and then also need for midterm poles shall not be there. The entry of individuals in the election fray will also be automatically stopped. If the individuals do not have to go for contesting election ,then naturally no individual shall need to spend individually, and after getting elected will not indulge in, by open and hidden means, to make good the money spent for election. This will also help cleans the system to a large extent.
Minimum literacy levels must be fixed for the persons to be nominated at different levels. Good it should be to nominate persons of integrity, knowledge, and of selfless and satvik tendencies. , educated in real terms and committed to the cause of society and nation.
None above the age of 70 years be permitted to be nominated for the elected houses. So should be the age limit for ministerial positions with the provision that on completion of this prescribed upper age limit ,the nominated ones must be made to vacate and that vacancy may be filled by the other eligible person from the same political party whose member the retired one was.
Strength must be given to the party bosses. Their commands must be binding for their members so as to maintain discipline in the party. Still there must be complete democracy in side the party forums, where all must be permitted to express their minds and thinking freely. Maximum age limit for the party bosses can be fixed at 75 years. In case some above this age are considered as inseparable for the political outfits they can be taken as advisers or permanent invitees with the purpose of getting elderly advice, but without right to vote.
Party set ups must be consisting of about 20/25 persons of eminence whose wisdom and statesman ship must be above board and all vital decisions must be taken collectively. Elections to these top posts in political set ups must be held after say 2/3 years with provisions that none has to hold the same position for more than two continuous terms.
Despite maintaining complete discipline and decorum in the party system, still the members must be permitted to be free to express their independent views even in the law making bodies, especially where matters of national interest are involved.
All the persons nominated by the parties must be given specific jobs and areas for development and over all supervision. These persons need not be pampered by giving undue facilities, instead should be made accountable for the work allotted to each one of them. Facilities to be provided to these persons should be that much only which do not in any case develop in them the tendency to treat themselves as much above the general public. Such persons must simultaneously move in the public as ordinary citizens so that they can observe the conditions with their own ears and eyes vide open.
While the bodies are in session at least 70%attendance for each and everyone must be ensured. Participation by each member in the houses and every one’s individual contribution by thoughts and action should be properly monitored so as to assess their usefulness or otherwise for continuation as nominated one.
Discussions in the lawmaking bodies must be without hindrances and disturbances, rather it must be made sure that when one member is expressing the others should not poke their nose, instead can make their noting so as to be able to put up their own view points on their turn . During discussions on law bills points to be raised and suggestions to be made must be to the point as well as logical.
As of now most political outfits remain busy in promising or giving doles or freebies without going by the capacity of the system to bear such unneeded burdens. On this aspect very serious and immediate thinking and actions are needed, so that our countrymen do not become mentally and physically sick and the country’s economy does not go into doldrums. Just now a very bad culture of waiver of loans taken from the banking system has developed, which not only spoils the lending industry but also creating very bad tendencies in the borrowers. This may in the long run spoil the entire economy of the country.Unluckilily all these bad economics are being followed when our country’s top political heads are economists only. Do we not now think of bringing forward the administrators like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, to head the governments at all levels, so that the created mess is cleared.
During electioneering or discussions in the lawmaking bodies lot of time and energy is wasted in blame games and proving own self as lesser dirty than all the others especially those to whom they wish to oppose and in the process the real issues get side tracked. On this tendency of the political outfits as they exist now serious thinking and decision making is needed immediately, so that the nation does not spoil its image further in the estimation of others.
With the acceptance of the suggestions as mentioned here to fore, where in special emphasis is laid on restricting the political parties in the country to two only and with proper code of conduct for these outfits and their persons may now be able to coolly ponder over the issues at hand ,such as CONTROLLING EXPLOSIVE INCREASE IN POPULATION, DEPLETING NATURAL RESOURCES, CORRUPTIONS AT ALL LEVELS, SHORT SUPPLIES AND ADULTRATIONS IN MOST ITEMS OF DAILY USE including eatables and medicines, disputes among the states over many matters including water sharing boundaries or on language basis etc. Knitting the country into one nation again by having only two same official languages which should be used in all the states as well as central government offices, real development at all levels i.e. from village to the metros controlling pollutions of all nature, rush at all places including markets, hospitals, schools, railways and railway stations, roads, streets, etc. Making optimum use of the humans and all such matters of importance. But for all these interest of the society and country men as a whole need be treated as supreme over all other considerations. Just now elections for 5 state assemblies are going to be held and all political outfits[Their numbers cannot be counted as all the ten HAND fingers provided by the nature shall fall short to count them] are busy in appeasing the electorates. In the process of electioneering almost total emphasis is laid on blaming the other outfits in the fray and also in making promises for doles and concessions to the voters. These politicians forget that what so ever are being promised by them are not in any case their personal belongings; rather these, if at all shall be given to them are for care as custody. In the process not a single word is spoken to exhort the populace for sacrifices as well as to contribute their might to take the states forward on the roads to real and all round developments, nor the political outfits themselves promise to show the right path to the public, nor as to how they themselves will put in their efforts to take the states forward on the road of progress.
Very important for the enlightened and committed DESHBHAKTAS as well as those fighting against CORRUPTION, specially TEAM ANNA to please take note of the promises being made by the political class and take up these issues on priority basis so that a stop is put at once to this bad culture of bribing or trying to bribe the voters . During the process of canvassing for votes, promises are also made to provide special concessions to particular group or community . This only helps in creating divides in the society and the nation. All these aspects too can be classified as corrupt practices only and need be fought out as cancer of vote bank and corruption. Many old and already heeled wounds are being raked by the present political outfits by instigating particular community for gains in their favor. All these actions of the political outfits only help creating further hatred and divide in the society must be treated as purely for selfish gains and must be treated as anti human and antinational, as well as must be classified as CORRUPTION OF HIGHEST LEVEL.
To sum up what has been mentioned hereto fore are a few lines expressed by some thinking person reading as[BULBULO GAR TUMHARA CHAMAN LUT GAYA CHEHCHAHANE BATAO KAHAN JAO GE, PHOOL PHAL HI LAGE NA AGAR BAGH MEIN ASHIYANA BANANE KAHAN JAO GE]To sum up, house holders [janta], the chowkidars [concerned and committed citizens] are needed to be always VIGILENT AND ALERT to safe guard their garden [nation] as all those deployed at all the entry gates as gate keepers, are perhaps not doing their duties honestly and are permitting the entry to spoilers and wrong doers into this garden of INDIAN NATION.
R.D.AGARWAL A-86 Indra nagar lucknow-226016 Blog-www.rdagarwal.blogspot.com twitter-rdagarwal
Dated;-24th January 2012