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WHY INDIA ISN’T RISING: Role of youngsters to hoist India’s stature

7/9/2013

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Politics is perhaps the backbone of this country, however with mention of the word POLITICS, certainly most of the civilized citizens turn their faces apart, stating politics similar to a garbage bin, that's always stinking. "I hate politics", "Politics is not my cup of tea", "Not interested" etc. are some of the common phrases used by the youngsters, specially engrossed in the social media. But, among these complaining ones perhaps none is ready to clean this filthy place.

It's a harsh reality that India is a first class country with a third class governance and the saddest part is that, the reason behind this condition is we the common people. If we wouldn't have allowed the political class synonymously goons to gut the nation, they would have never dared to do that.

The preamble starts with 'we the people', and the country forms with the same, so the change should also start with us, i.e. the people itself. We often come across a bunch of people making demoralizing comments like, "Nothing can happen to this country and this country will never change", however the truth is that such people are one of the reason why nothing has happened to this country. Changes happen, when we want them to happen, so changes will happen when rather than simply complaining and longing for change, we will make the change and be a part of the change.

We often come across the utterance that, youngsters are the future of this country and thus, the future of India too lies in the hands of the young generation. Sidelining the days of the old politicians seek to work for the country, with barely any days to live. Therefore, the young guns of India will have to shoulder the responsibility towards India’s healthy future. This doesn’t necessarily mean that young people should avocate studies or education and become entrants of politics, but one can always work towards upliftment of country’s political stature in a non-political manner. In the present era a stereotyped, midset has developed that; whoever steps in the political arena, is someone in hunger for power and wealth. According to most people perhaps, politics is for the filthy people, so the good ones should stay away from it. But, we have forgotten that Lal Bahadur Shastri, B.R. Ambedkar, Sardar Patel and the likes of all were politicians and fought elections, but the only difference is, at that time entering politics was termed as patriotism, but today joining politics is longing to gain might. Certainly, time has arrived to change this thought. The young blood can always use their education for a purpose. Political reformation through proper education without being into active politics is of utmost importance and the educated youth perhaps can serve this purpose.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. Things must have to be changed and if not we than who? India's political scenario and the nation will change when the people of the nation will move to the first category and become a change maker, rather than change seeker.



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A FLAWED SECURITY BILL: How the Food Security Bill is barely a solution for the indigent population, causing the economy to tremble further.

5/9/2013

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It’s a stereotyped mindset that speaking about poverty, malnutrition and hunger, the effigy of the African countries and people residing over there comes at the first place. Speaking about India, even though we claim ourselves being on the path of development and it’s a pretension by our politicians from varied parties that poverty is on the verge of extinction and very soon it’s likely to be eradicated. However, despite calling ourselves as a self sufficient and a country devoid of hunger, studies suggests that the condition of India is far worse that the African countries interms of poverty. According to the World Bank, the rate of underweight children in India is highest among all other countries and is double than that of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Keeping this scenario in mind the UPA-II’s Food Security Bill, finally got a green signal in the Parliament, first by the Lok Sabha on August 26th and then after a 10 hour long debate on 2nd September by the Rajya Sabha. Certainly, any concerned and responsible citizen who really wants the problems of starving Indians to be extirpated would never argue against it, however an abyss study of the bill would perhaps intrigue one to think that the bill is certainly a sole political interest by the UPA government and it would barely solve any problems of the countries indigent population. However, implementing it would in a way increase the country’s economic woes, further causing it to tremble.

Firstly, all are well aware that 2014 is knocking at the door i.e. time for the Lok Sabha Polls is nearing. This perhaps gives a reason to think, why only at this point of time the government became voracious for the bill and implementing it. When the government first, laid the bill in the Lok Sabha, the opposition disagreed to certain provisions and wanted its amendment. The government at once made up its mind for the amendments and agreed to all the demands of the opposition, without and discontentment that was hale enough. This is a clear indicative towards the government’s hastiness to secure its vote and states that the bill is not any measure for securing the country’s future. So, perhaps calling it a vote security bill won’t make any difference.

A thorough study of the Food Security Bill, shew that in the entire draft of 16 pages, only the initial 1-2 pages speaks about the provisions of the bill, whereas the entire bill is flooded with strategies about on how it will function. A point in the bill says there will be reformation of the PDS and a grievance redressal system would be formed and under it there will be provision for registering complains via internet, call centers, help lines and in the form of letters to the district and state forums. Now, the fact is the food security bill is intrigued towards the poverty stricken ones, so how can a person living in the state of hunger and leading a inhuman life can use the internet or the telephonic medium to complain about his/her pang. It’s the person’s affliction that matters to him and the knee wrenching process of complains doesn’t bother him in any way. As result his poverty and starvation will continue, the food security bill thus failing to make any sort of impact. This clearly suggests that, the grievance redressal system is an absolute flawed one. And one can’t certainly argue that, there won’t be any sort of irregularities while implementing the promises in the bill, as under the tenure of UPA and congress, corruption is a regular course of action, somewhat similar to a staple food!!

Speaking on the context of the country’s economy, even the Prime Minister this time was bound to open his mouth, agreeing to the fact that India’s economic scenario is facing a tough time. Though the government says that, the bill will add up only 25,000 crore to the existing amount spent on country’s food security, however as per the calculations of some economists implementation of the bill would add up to Rs. 2,00,000 crore towards the country’s existing amount spent for food security, and not 25,000 crore. This will further add up to the country’s economic woes. How, just after passing of the bill the rupee has gone further down, is a clearly indication of how the bill might trigger the economy to tremble further in the days to come.

Lastly, studies suggest that, the country lacks in an ample storage facility, and which might cause the stored food purchased under the Food Security Bill, to decay, that ought to create an artificial food scarcity in the country.

The introspected facts, in a crystal clear manner discloses the government’s motives as taking shield of the bill and the poverty stricken Indians, the UPA is simply playing vote politics and securing its future for the 2014 polls.
              
                  
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