Jai Hind!
Jai Bharat!
"Swatantra Diwas"
India's 62nd Independence Day - 15th August 2008
Celebrating our Nation's Independence Day we are high on patriotism and nationalist fervour. We enjoy hoisting of the tri-color flag and pay respect to it. Salute it. Reaffirm our faith in the nation's army and also remember with respect our fore-fathers who fought for India's Independence.
Yesterday the Government of India announced that the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission were approved and it came as a big relief for all the Army personnels (as it seems on the surface) amongst the others who will be affected by the rise in their pay scales from 2006 onwards. A good sign for lakhs of Indians with the toughest and most prestigious career in the armed forces.
But has the common Indian across the country really forgotten about how the rot has set in, in managing the country every one is so proud of?
How the people who are supposed to be serving the Nation have instead started filling their coffers; instead of the millions of Indians still living under poverty. A few lakhs (am sure) do not get the two square meals a day in today's India where the godowns are filled with millions of tonnes of food surplus. Its a shame that on the superficial level - i.e. on International platforms India says its the "Next Big n Best Thing" as a huge market for business. But in the same country people still die of hunger? Isn't that a sad state of affairs? Millions of tonnes of food grains are rotting either in the trains which shuttle across the country transporting food items, or in the now defunct Food Corporation of India's thousands of godowns.
Has anyone ever taken action against the outrageous mismanagement of food? In my knowledge barring a few at local office levels in districts never has any top level secretary of chairperson has been taken to task for this utter misgivings of inefficiencies of this particular wing of the Government administration.
Corruption has severely damaged the government agencies who are responsible for reaching out and delivering the hundreds of welfare schemes for the man in the urban and rural India. The arteries of the government's heart which pumps in billions of rupees for the welfare schemes is choked by corruption, mismanagement, passive people, lack of knowledge of governance by the officials at lower levels, humungus work less workforce, political influence, less respect for law or it's obedience and centralization of decision making which takes ages amongst others.
Isn't 61 years of "freedom" enough for now to change the way we are governed?
Time to ponder.
Think.
And above all ACT for all of us Indians.
We need a New India - A corruption free country with a healthy population which respectably lives well, earns well, eats well, thinks well for just one big cause that of making a better world!
Educational, Healthcare, Infrastructural and Agricultural development amongst other important aspects of the country should be given top priority for the coming decades.
Long Live INDIA!
Jai Hind!
Yesterday the Government of India announced that the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission were approved and it came as a big relief for all the Army personnels (as it seems on the surface) amongst the others who will be affected by the rise in their pay scales from 2006 onwards. A good sign for lakhs of Indians with the toughest and most prestigious career in the armed forces.
But has the common Indian across the country really forgotten about how the rot has set in, in managing the country every one is so proud of?
How the people who are supposed to be serving the Nation have instead started filling their coffers; instead of the millions of Indians still living under poverty. A few lakhs (am sure) do not get the two square meals a day in today's India where the godowns are filled with millions of tonnes of food surplus. Its a shame that on the superficial level - i.e. on International platforms India says its the "Next Big n Best Thing" as a huge market for business. But in the same country people still die of hunger? Isn't that a sad state of affairs? Millions of tonnes of food grains are rotting either in the trains which shuttle across the country transporting food items, or in the now defunct Food Corporation of India's thousands of godowns.
Has anyone ever taken action against the outrageous mismanagement of food? In my knowledge barring a few at local office levels in districts never has any top level secretary of chairperson has been taken to task for this utter misgivings of inefficiencies of this particular wing of the Government administration.
Corruption has severely damaged the government agencies who are responsible for reaching out and delivering the hundreds of welfare schemes for the man in the urban and rural India. The arteries of the government's heart which pumps in billions of rupees for the welfare schemes is choked by corruption, mismanagement, passive people, lack of knowledge of governance by the officials at lower levels, humungus work less workforce, political influence, less respect for law or it's obedience and centralization of decision making which takes ages amongst others.
Isn't 61 years of "freedom" enough for now to change the way we are governed?
Time to ponder.
Think.
And above all ACT for all of us Indians.
We need a New India - A corruption free country with a healthy population which respectably lives well, earns well, eats well, thinks well for just one big cause that of making a better world!
Educational, Healthcare, Infrastructural and Agricultural development amongst other important aspects of the country should be given top priority for the coming decades.
Long Live INDIA!
Jai Hind!
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Freedom = Responsibility .......We should always remember that!
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