India -A functioning anarchy
The birth of a socialistic pattern of society and mixed economy in the
first decade of independence without any priority to defence production and for
sound economy provided initially to
confounded speculation about India’s
starvation . There was settling down to take in its stride by the super
nations, but their apprehension was belied by emergence of Shri Lal Bahadur
Shastri as Prime minister . His favourite virtue of simplicity , outstanding
characteristics of singleness of purpose and basic idea of rectification of wicked evils of exploiting the resources
has converted the country revolution and simultaneously boosting the moral of
our Army gave the success in 1965
Pakistan’s aggression and thereby
capturing a vast territory of enemies land has provided the moral damage to the
aggressors ambitions . Indira Gandhi vanquishing the predatory neighbour Pakistan for
ever as the hesitant dictator , but her wrong diplomacy survived the terrorist
decade of a fighter . Thus the first face of India’s socialism was replaced by
populism replacing ideology and also absorptive nationalism and by embracing
popularity oriented party policy . It began with profit oriented private and a
quality unconscious public sector with narrow vision to make India a global
economic power , but this utopian empire has been completed vanished in view of different conflicting ideological
political differentiation due to parliamentarian system in the post independent
era of our country .
Our potential of unlimited reservoir of skilled labour and abundance
trader’s skill for investment of capital have been submerged with
diversification of vested political ambitions . This has provided an obstacle
to our inherited great skilled splendered
intelligence and our super entrepreneurial spirit to naught. The unified
political entity under British rule is
now ahead to further split due to regional based political conception . The
constitution of India
designed to equip with substance to meet the challenges of the future in
its spirit is now playing a role
like a compulsive gambler bent upon
ascending our invaluable legacy providing to
be caricature of noble democracy
. The spirit of social justice has been given up with no chance of its revival
through shells of socialism making this preposition as fraud with people . This
has provided the provided the transfer of material resources from honest to dishonest
opportunists instead of poor people.
There are 240 public sectors enterprises by union Govt. and nearly 700
by the state Govt , which are the black holes ; the money guzzles and they have
been extracting an exorbitant price for Indian doctrinal socialism .
The most persisting tendency in India has been to have to much Govt. and
too little administration , too many laws , too little justice , too many
public servants and too little public service, too many controls and too little
welfare.
The great mistake initially was to start with Adult Franchise . This should have been started
with restricted system franchise and to make citizens graduated to Adult
franchise and they may be worthy of discharging their duties through some value
based education . The result is that our half
of the population is literally illiterate . This is a state of mobocracy in the strife of moral decay with the facts
of in-discipline , corruption and castism , divisiveness with communal hatred ,
linguistic fanatism regional fency and caste loyalty are growing at the vitals
of the unity And integrity of country. Interfaith and harmony and consciousness
and essential unity may stop growing army of terrorists and professional
terrorists , professional hooligans in
order to save fellow citizens . The profound shells of culturally a kin ,
ethically identical , linguistically knit and historically related may remain
intact , if we acquire a inner sense of national identity . We can only gain
the wisdom of charish its priceless heritage and create a cohesive society, if
we adopt the ideas for implementation in correct prospective instead of talking
more about them.
The
power entrusted under the rule of law with the authority dealing with Govt.
business is required to be discharge
truly , objectively ,expeditiously with personal responsibility and it should
not be leisurely taken due to obvious considerations , otherwise there may be
the imposition of the costs for committing public injustice and to give the
manipulators an opportunity to compound the camouflage and it may become
counter productive with for reaching affect on public Administration exchequer
deflecting the course of justice . Now Bureaucracy is only accountable to the political executives and hierarchical
responsibility is inbulit discipline .Thus there must be judicial
accountability and review over the quasi judicial decision taken by the
executive with proper accountability by
imposition of the punishment and personal costs against the erring officers
responsible for such injustice . The other factor requiring attention is for
having a single window system in every
public office with a senior officer found responsible in case of undue harassment to the public .It is
high time to dealt with criminal activities with a presumption of guilt against
the accused person as the plea of innocence is in contradiction of making arrest
of individual involved in the crime .The fake entry in the revenue record ,
illicit means of registration , unauthorised possession land grabbing with the
connivance of police officer are discontent strife for the commission of crime
. The annihilation of the department record vested with property right is
another source of providing resentment to the actual owner Vs ostensible
possesors raisins construction. Thus
these atrocities committed by the public authorities should be dealt with a exemplary punishment like that of the
crime of financial irregularities and embezzlements. Our political master
subverted the freedom of bureaucracy and
moral values gradually disappeared . The greater the power vested in
politicians, there is danger of becoming intolerant and authoritarian .There is
gradual deterioration of extra-ordinary sagacity and wisdom with the custodian
of public trust .There are dark cloud over our independence of judiciary . The
Solomon’s throne representing to the judicial system is now supported by two
lions representing the legislature and executives on both the sides . Although
lion is still under the throne as it may
not oppose the point of sovereignty vested in the rule of law , but still the
Solomon’s conscience may be priced by sitting on chair of handicapped
sub-silent instead of its own and thus the separation of power is the utmost
consideration for the democratic values , for which the superior courts may
play an active role to eradicate the evil of corruption . The solution lies
in gradual transformation of power from
the authoritarian type to the benevolent use of power by our politician . There
must be an assurance for the right to work to every citizen .There should be
the transparency in the funtioning of ther department dealing with the people in exercise of their
duties in the welfare state. The barriers providing the restriction in dealing
with the distribution of essential commodities which are perpetuating
corruption should be dealt with
appropriately as it may repose the confidence of the people in the present system and there by avoid them
from suffering unnecessary harassment . This can be done by fixing the
accountability in every system and
against such individual who is vested with the power to dealt with the public
otherwise the country may collapse by its own pressure . The system of caste ,
money power and criminalisation of politics
has further provided the electoral system to a naught and it has been
ridden with corruption without fulfilling the aspiration of the electorate and
as such there is desirability for changing the present parliamentarian
representative form of government to a responsible government which may have is
wise for uplifting the cause of downtrodden in the society but may seldom
exploit them to use for its own benefit .Thus the country may be saved from its
own peril.
India- A Nation of impoverished, downtrodden,
land less labours and agriculturists is now characterised by internal
instability, political uncertainty, foreign invasion and a serious set back to the creative genius of citizen.
Parliamentarian system has been primarily concerned with the governance of the
Country through a policy of laissez faire in different with its growth for the
fate of the helpless millions, over whom they rule with village oriented
industrialisation, as admired by Mahatma Gandhi, has completely been vanished
through transitional period followed by diversification of economic structure.
This has resulted in an increasing pressure of population in metropolitan
cities and declination of productivity per person engaged in agriculture. What
has happened to our Country’s would oldest civilisation with recorded history
of 2500 years of matchless affluence and creative. Which sprung great wealth,
great ideas, great skills and the glimpse of our traditional cultural heritage?
According to the estimated date during British Raj,
between the year of 1800 to 1900 more than thirty two millions Indian died of
starvation. There were thirty famines in 90 years from 2857 to 1947 and the
last being the one in Bengal in 1943, which
took toll of three millions lives. Now a vast majority of Indian lived below
the subsistence level. Many of them could hardly afford even two square meals a
day. There consumption of cotton cloth is not more than 15 yards per head per
year of they live on the discarded garments of the civilian population. Clean
drinking water is luxury and public health facilities are rare and that too
beyond the capacity of majority of the people. Even if they are available to
them.
By the population growth for 30 crores in 1890 to
nearly 35 crores sin 1947, it is now more than 90 crores, which saw the steep
fall in the value of money and monstrous inflation. This has further resulted
into sub- division of strips of poor peasants. They fell victim more easily
into debt and plugged their land recklessly and thereby encouraging the growth
of un-production class of money lenders. Indian entrepreneurs are pitted
against serious odds. They have e shown little enterprise of their trading
pursuits. The creation of infra structure particularly in the area of Rail
transportation and education has certainly broken the provincial isolation to
certain extent and help in creation of unified internal cohesion and integrity
of the Nation. The spread of English education and creation of westernised
Indian elite is due to our wrong policies of education. There has not been the
translation of English literature relating to medical, technical and legal
subjects even after 50 years of independence. According to Maculae’s famous Book
written in 1835 namely :Minute of Education”, the real aim of British ruler was
to from a class, who may be interpreters between English people and millions
governed by them, a class of the opinions in morals and in intellect to
envisaged a class submissive political lackeys clerks and interpreters
faithfully carrying out the order of their British master. The spread of
English education ultimately facilitated the incursion of technology and
liberal political ideas into intellectual ferment of intense nationalists, who
re-discovered their own culture and history and started struggles for
independence. The effect of new education was inconsequential, but enough to
provide pressure for greater Indian participation in administration and
politics. The Education remain more scarce and exclusive to 15% of population
at the time of independence. It has provided fresh stratification in the
society, which was already split by caste and religion. The hearts of sensitive
Indians by presence of all pervading poverty and misery with profound anger and
irritations at being in bondage of system in now led by a sense of frustration
at not being able to do any thing to mitigate, curb and cure the hard ship of
fellow citizens. Our traditional value of freedom struggles and aspirations to
attend the eradication from the bondage combined with natural desire of the
people to live with freedom in every set of life has resulted into resentment
at the cost of humiliation. We are still in the bondage and as such there are
certain question marks relating to the present scenario of political set up and
as such it requires revival and reassessment of the prevailing maladies by
cultivation of positive opinions.
In such an environment, there could be little desire
for change, little incentive for progress as a result, the condition in the
country side, where more than 80% of Indian people lives has now deteriorated
sharply. The new pressure generated by growing un-employment, increasing taxes
heart mainly to the small citizens and reduces them to the state of perpetual
indebtedness and ultimately robbing many of the farmers of their land. The rate
of agricultural production has been reduced to the lowest in the world. This
has ultimately led to an almost permanent scarcity of food stuff.
The challenge posed after independence to put an end
to poverty, ignorance and inequalities as to built up a social order by the
formidable task of “thrust with destiny” as professed by Mr. Nehru through
socialism was contrary in its implications to the concept of social justice.
The service of India
means service of millions, who suffers, it means the ending of poverty,
ignorance, disease and inequalities of opportunities by boosting their
capabilities at larger level and not to create a social structure, where the
dishonest opportunists may get undue protection in getting the preferential
treatment with the honest meritorious individual. You can not make every
individual having poverty and ignorance to be a dishonest opportunists. Thus it
was required to make them competent to fight in the open competition and
provide the endeavour for a classless society. The ambition to wipe every tear
from every eye may be beyond imagination, but as long as there are tears and
suffering of the individual citizen, so long our work will not be over. This
ambition has now been completely vanished from the horizon of our Indian infra-
structure.
The transfer of power from British’s gave rise to
communal violence and mitigation of the millions of displaced person posing a
threat of serious repercussions. This communal disturbance caused indescribable
mental anguish to Mahatma Gandhi, who placed to end communal madness and
disturbances. The power intoxication to contemporary leaders before
independence had ultimately led to the partition of Indian subcontinent. There
was out burst against leaders of having betrayed the Hindus on Pakistan side. The official
statement put the killing at half a million citizens and uprooting the people
at 20 millions. The British’s diplomacy for this tragedy was to blame for
advance date of politician from, 6, 1948 to August 15, 1947. People did not give enough time
to plan their migration.
The beginning of hostility between Pakistan & India after
partition of subcontinent was gradually evading by passage of time. Pakistan Chief
Martial Law Administrator General Mohd. Ayub proposed on 29 April, 1959, just three and half
years before the attack by China,
to have a joined defence against external aggression. Mr. Nehru refused by
saying- “Defence against whom”? This was the beginning of lasting friendship
which ended with hostility. Few month later to Chinese aggression, China becoming Pakistan’s ally
and India’s
main rival due to the resift attitude of our prime minister.
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