Author- Manoj Kumar Abhimanyu
As per
unicef.org data, quoted by Harpic India today in Times of India, over 620
Million Indians start their day by defecating in the open. It's a real shame
for us that even after 68 years of Independence we are not able to provide
toilets to more than half of our population. I remember Kalam Sahab's quote in
his books and speeches that India would be a developed nation by 2020. When I
was a student of MCA, our beloved Head of department, Computer Science in L.N.
Mishra Institute at Patna, Er. Neeraj Sinha often brought with him some
books of Sri Kalam in his both hands during his classes and used to give
untiring lectures to us for hours on his dreams and that time it all
seemed so realistic from his mouth. Well we are just 6 years away now from 2020
and now where do we stand?
Today
morning I saw a photograph on FB in which there was a lady labour who was
having her few days' or a few month's old baby tied in her Sari at her back and
she was in the process of putting stack of bricks over her head to take that
from one place to other. I
don't know whether we should feel proud to see
such a great mother. We are often seen in the habit of clapping or
praising such things if raised in public or shown on television. However
it's really painful to see that a lady with a little baby on her back is doing
such hard labour that puts her along with her child on a life threatening risk,
any time any accident may happen.
Yes my friends, there is nothing new in
this. In fact this is also one of many bitter truths of India. A country post
British era after 7 decades of freedom did not bring its people out of sheer
poverty. It's ironical that this is the same country where in the name of
democracy and casting votes every five years, billions of Rupees are
spent. As an estimate around 35500 Crore
of Rupees will be spent on 2014 Lok Sabha elections in India. This amount
so spent for election purpose is second only to the world's richest nation,
United States of America which in its last presidential elections spent around
40000 Crores of Rupees. Our nation is
also ranked 5th with regard to largest number of Billionaires in a country.
I leave
it on you to judge, how far we have moved ahead after we won freedom. Where is
the 'Bharat Nirman' that is shown on Television every now and then on almost
all News Channels? Would our Bhagya Vidhata sitting in Delhi and elsewhere ever
speak honestly for their continuous failure to provide even the primary
necessities of a dignified human life, or they would keep on beating their own
hollow drums without any substance whenever the elections come near to them?
How many more years we would be fooled by them? And how long would we
just remain mute spectator of all our miseries?
Friends we have got a TRP system for the Television Programs in which these are
rated on the basis of their popularity among the audiences. We also have some
kind of rating of our Corporate entities and their financial instruments.
Can't we have some kind of rating for the politicians too, whether he or
she is an existing MLA or MP? The ratings would be on the basis of - What
actual development works they have done in their assemblies or constituencies? Whatever promises did they make before elections,
did they fulfill after being elected? How much of their allotted funds did they
honestly spend for the development of the people in their constituency/assembly? Make a scale of -10 to 10, and give
them rating so that they start fearing of poor rating for their reluctance to
work. Yes, I suggest negative rating also for such people as Indian politics
has gone down to unthinkable levels. Let
this debate start among the people, hope my post is read by many and become a
matter of discussion among public in general and reach the ear of
those politicians and policy makers too.
And yes it’s very relevant today as the Lok Sabha election is just a few
weeks away from now.
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मित्रों यदि मेरा यह पोस्ट आपके दिल को जरा भी छू कर गुजरा हो तो मुझे विश्वास है कि आप मेरे इस प्रयास को लाइक दे कर मुझे और भी अच्छा लिखने की प्रेरणा, स्नेह और आशीर्वाद देंगे। आप अगर मुझे मेरे फेसबुक प्रोफाइल पर फॉलो करते हैं तो आपको मेरे शेयर किये सारे पोस्ट्स आपके नोटिफिकेशन्स में मिलते रहेंगे।
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