I had decided that I am not going to write anything over the government issues and will restrict my blog only to youth issues. But certain incidents and intense arguments made me to write this blog.
We live in world largest democracy. We have world largest population. Our country is the greatest country in the world. Now, we have largest poors population. Our country has largest sum of black money. Our country is on the way to become the most corrupted country. Our country has largest number of hungry people. Whatever it is, we are the greatest.
I, recently, was reading an article on democracy. In that article, Alexis de Tocqueville, the great nineteenth century writer on democracy, made a point that the age of democracy would, in his view, be an unheroic age. Because democracy principles do not encourages heroes. So true! Everyone has equal rights to serve country but with a little difference. Here one thing becomes very common. Everyone wants to do something greater than previous one. And here in India, emerging economic superpower has established super thieves who blithely rob their own country. we have examples of corruption began from Rs 35000 crores, then Aadarsh society scam, then 2 G spectrum, 1, 73,000 crores. Good shows by our ministers. Oh! I am sorry. Because of our country, India is the greatest country in the world. We should proud of our country. And I am so sure that this type of statement will surely come from the person sitting on couch, in an air conditioned room, eating either pizza or burger.
The BBC quoted this report in a story on May 18 in which one of its correspondents, Jill McGivering, said: “Attempts by the Indian government to combat poverty are not working, according to the World Bank. The governing coalition spends billions of dollars – more than 2 per cent of its gross domestic product [GDP] – on helping the poor. But a new World Bank report says aid programmes are beset by corruption, bad administration and underpayments. As an example, the report cites the issue of grain distribution: only 40 per cent of grain meant for the poor reaches them. India's coalition government is spending massively on programmes to reduce poverty. This was the first time India's major schemes had been evaluated. The World Bank says the public distribution system, which takes almost half the money, has brought limited benefits. It gives subsidized food and other goods to the poor. The report says one landmark scheme, launched more than five years ago, aims to guarantee government work for the rural unemployed. But the World Bank found that it was failing to have an impact in the poorest states because of underpayments and bad administration.”
The above paragraph is from Frontline, issue 12: June 04-17 2011.
In India, if you have power and money, then you are everything. On June 4th, whatever happened in the Ramlila maidan, Delhi, is an absolute blot on the Indian democracy. It was a replica of Jallainwala Bagh Massacre. Beating sleeping people is clearly showing that government has lost its sense. The government has police force for this demonic act, but they do not have force to protect the lives of policemen or common people in Chhattisgarh. I can surely say this type of government action would never happened on crowd consisted of elite people. But when the common man came out, everything turned against him. Shame! Shame! Shame!
Talking to judiciary system, we have already spent Rs 26 crores in protection of Kasab and the case has not been solved yet. But if it would be same common man, either he will be killed or hanged. The talented people are able to decide whether someone is guilty or not. I think it’s an open insult of their talent.
Recently, IIT JEE results were out. Indeed, it was the moment of anxiety for those who appeared this year but hard work always pays. The one thing that surprised me was the statement from the top rank holder. He said that he wants to do UPSC as to become an IAS officer is his ultimate goal after IIT. I just want to ask, If your ultimate goal is UPSC, then why IIT? Please leave your seat for someone else who really wants to become an engineer through IIT.
I don’t know where our greatness is. When there is no greatness, then why should we keep shouting that we are the greatest? I think time has come for to accept the fact, rather than making false excuses, and keep ourselves in illusion.
