LONG LIVE INDIA

LONG LIVE INDIA

It is our country and we have to make it a better place to live in.

The problems are plenty and time is too short. But we have to do it, come on!

We have to start from what we have, no use lamenting.

Goals:
1) Alleviation of poverty.
2) Nourishment for everybody.
3) Education for all.
4) Other things.

Present situation:

We are in an alarming situation now. This country has been made a notorious place where everybody is trying to make material gain out of every action.
We have more than one billion people and our growth rate in population will see us numerically surpassing China in 25 years. The poor, alas, will procreate more as they have lesser avenues of pleasure. I still remember the story of the coolie who was scratching his balls in leisure time with pleasure on the station platform when a passer-by admonished him. He politely said,” Babu kya koru, garib admi”.
More than thirty percent of our population is below the poverty line that is made to suffer by all of us who are above the barrier. This situation helps all of us exploiting them. The elitist educated Indian has done precious little to alleviate the pain and seen to it that we live in this quagmire, for he can always put the blame on the politicians who are rogues born out of us.

We could not provide proper nourishment to a vast section of our population. If we seek answer we are fed with statistics where it is shown how we could improve upon our per capita income all these years while the actual fact is that we club together income of the very rich with the very poor, in a country where the rich have become richer and the poor poorer all these years. The public distribution system or the PDS has become a nexus between the authorities and the agents, while in parliament nobody candidly admits its failure and asks for its overhauling.

We have also been playing with education. The vast mass has been not exposed to proper basic education, while the policy makers are busy changing the curriculum every year. Gone are the days when a poor student could manage with an old book managed from a senior because the syllabus is ever changing. Looking at the vote bank politics and nothing more, the recruitment of teachers at the primary level is determined by political allegiance and not by the ability to teach. On being asked about what would be the decimal version of 1 ½, a mathematics teacher coolly said that it would be 1.12 !

The health system is in an abyss, there is corruption at every level. You have to believe in God to discuss why the majority of us do not die of an epidemic.

Add to all these the discrimination that exists in our country regarding caste, creed, religion and sex in spite of our averment against this as spelt out in our constitution and the problem is gigantic.

Our great leaders understand each of the problems, and its enormity. Having no solution
at and, they have decided to take the role of Nepo, the famous character in one Bengali
idiom, take the curd and discard the watery part.

Long Live India!