In the
utopian society, we might live in a society boasting of equality and equitable
distribution of resources but in the actuality, things are far from being ideal
and as per the world of our dreams. If we talk about the true state of the
world with utmost veracity, a harsh and appalling truth awaits us all.
To
understand the real structure of the world as a whole economically, first we
need to be very much clear about the basic underlying principles of economics regarding
the same. In our geographical world, two different imaginary world exists, one
consisting of the first world countries comprising of developed nations like
the United States of America, the Great Britain and most of the western Europe
and on the contrasting side stands the third world countries, the developing
ones consisting mostly of Asian countries with much less amenities and growth
as compared to the first world countries. The developing countries are indeed
the under-developed ones who have been given this name as a sort of inspiration
that they too can sprang upon and soar high in development but still the bitter
truth is that such countries are pretty much far away from gaining the tag of a
developed nation and calling an underdeveloped nation a developing ones does no
sort of help rather than just playing with the names…..
Our nation India
is a developing country too (the best part of it being that it has far outshone
the status of being an underdeveloped ones and is now working hand in hand with
the biggest economies of the world). We have been independent for around 69
years now and the progress that we have marked up till now is surely
extraordinarily great. After being left with almost nothing after the
Britishers went away, the type of advancements that we have achieved are truly exceptional
and we have come far away from being an underdeveloped nation but the crux of
the situation is that we need to go a long way from now to reach the status of
a developed economy. In my this article, I would like to point out some grounds
on which we have not been able to progress heavily but my sole intent is just
to focus on such issues for the best of the nation. I am not criticizing any
government and also my intent is not to compare our nation with the US or the
UK because I know it pretty well that we have been independent for only 69
years while on the other hand the US has been independent for around 240 years
and the UK is nation where the sun never used to set down. I am going to
primarily focus on the key issues where we lag just to encourage the people of
the nation to come ahead and rather than playing a blame game on government,
authorities or any other institution; change the destiny of the nation themselves.
India, after
independence embarked on the five year plans policy but unfortunately the
growth rates in the five years plans have been somewhat dismal. This is because
out of all the eleven five year plans (currently we are in the twelfth
(2012-2017)) only first, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth have achieved the
targeted growth while the rest have failed to get the desired results. Now,
some more harsh truths come in the form of the actual progress that we have
done. Today life expectancy in India stands at 64 years for males and 67 years
for females while dismally in our neighbouring states like People’s Republic of
China the figures amount to a life expectance of 72 years, more than ten years
than that of ours. This was a short dekko at the health sector now moving on to
the economic growth, according to Tendulkar committee report, 37% of our
population is living below poverty line with around 302 million people bearing
the brunt of poverty, the GDP too is not that much satisfactory. Today US enjoy
a GDP(Gross Domestic Product) of 16.77 trillion, China stands firmly at 9.24
trillion while we are just 1.877 trillion GDP economy which stands roughly at
one ninth of China. Other aspects like the GDP per capita, the quality of life,
ease of business doing, and the education statistics, vociferously show that we
have a long way to go ahead and our progress till now is not, by any standard,
satisfactory for years to come.
Now rather
than focusing on problems and giving redundant statistics which you might
already know, it is more crucial to focus on the real remedy. The first and
foremost thing to be done is to modernize our industrial sector. Though a lot
of our companies have made remarkable progress globally but still the ease of
doing business in our nation is poor. According to World Bank statistics on
efficiency of doing business we ranked 142 among a total of 189 countries. The
statistics clearly elucidate our current status. Though the Modi government has
made a humongous progress by reducing the red tapes and also commencing great
programs like “Make in India” in order to convert India into a global
manufacturing hub but still a tremendous amount of work must be done. It is immensely
pleasurable that the new government has made a lot of advances in the field,
with Mr. Modi bringing so many investments to our nation from foreign
heavyweight companies but still a great deal of work is prerequisite for us to
stand up and rise as a global destination.
Talking
about the poverty, in this respect a lot still need to be done in order to
accomplish a considerable progress in the field. Our nation had more than half
of the population below poverty line at the time of independence and today 37%
population is below the infamous line, so this progress is truly exemplary but
still a lot can be done. The money shelled out by the top leadership in order
to revamp the conditions of poor is lost before reaching the hands of the paupers.
Various other schemes are never executed because of the corruption ranging from
alpha to omega of the bureaucracy, thus disabling so many honest attempts by
the government and hence today we have a need to make our procedures transparent.
More transparency would bear a more honest state and consequently corruption
would start ending up. The new technology can be used up for the same. For example,
earlier the tenders distributed by the government bore huge corruption in the
selection of companies, but now as the whole process is being made computerized
and the draws and selections are being made online, are leaving no space for
even a speck of corruption, thereby producing paradigm results, such processes
can be inculcated in the system so as to engender a better and more transparent
nation where the impoverished are given the fair attention that they deserve.
Moving on to
the health sector, we need to strike at the bottom. First of all, we need to
have more and better quality colleges and institutions to foster the growing India’s
demand of a better healthcare sector. Medical schools need to be developed and
corruption here must also be checked. It’s a well known fact that seats for
medical colleges are sold out for lakhs of rupees and the candidates who
actually deserve the seats are made devoid of them, this things produces unworthy
healthcare experts thus devastating everything that ensues further. If we stop
such practices, more and more worthy candidates could come and thus give us
better health amenities. Moreover, the numbers of hospitals, medical colleges
need to be increased to a great extent. India current has around 2.7 hospital
beds for 1000 people. This ratio is much lower than the ration recommended by
the World Health Organization (WHO). Our flagship hospitals AIIMS are very much
limited and hence not able to render services for the world’s second largest
population and hence today is high time we take necessary steps in order to
induce reforms.
Our
education system too needs to be refurbished. Lack of awareness among people
still leads to low enrollment ratio thus giving boosting malpractices like
child labor etc. Such things need to be dealt with seriously. Today we need to
harness the growing working population in the right manner. We have so much
people in the working population category that other nations must be envious of
us but our success would only depend on the way we manipulate them all to get
the best benefits in order to take the society forward. Programs like “Skill India”
are of great importance but still for extraordinary results and splendid
performance we need to erect a good executionary structure which would execute
the plan in the paragon manner.
Our industry
as a whole needs to be revamped. It’s surely not a single day work but could go
on for decades but still the best part is we are working on it, we are trying
for the same. But to make these efforts as much efficacious as we want, every Indian
denizen must come ahead and give full support then only this great nation would
survive to the fullest.
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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