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When the independent institutions stains political colour and fall victim to lobby

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When the independent institutions stains political colour and fall victim to lobby

The autonomous institutions in India such as CBI, RBI, Judiciary etc., should not become tools in the hands of politics of dynasty just to oppose the Government and that would progressively erode the very existence of the institutions is the loud truth today the judiciary may be experiencing.

Way back in January 12, 2018, the present chief justice of supreme court of India along with other three judges made a press meet in public asking for transparency and accountability from the then Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India Mr. Dipak Mishra who was the master roster. It was well applauded and appreciated by the party of the dynast and several neo-liberals, left wing agitators and self-appointed guardians of democracy and secularism in India.

When the issue of removal of CBI chief for his disgraceful conduct bringing disrepute to CBI was concerned, the select panel nominee from Supreme Court of India justice AK Sikri nominated by the Chief justice of India was questioned by the dynast because he stood high ground to maintain the integrity and reputation of CBI. Such impartial stand by AK Skiri did not favour the politics of the dynast and hence the dynast attributed motives to the stand taken by the judge.

Today the same lobby are hunting the present Supreme Court Judge as well with the same old dirty politics. The lobby has even gone to the extent of describing the Chief Justice of India as “master of roster has also become the master of collegium”.

According to them the former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has only acted as ‘master roster’ but the present Chief Justice who protested against Dipak Misra in public has gone one step further to become master collegium as well. It means he is taking entire authority on himself and not consulting with anyone in taking decisions.

It looks like the hunter is now being hunted. The beauty is that the same lobby that had applauded and appreciated the rebellion and tarnishing the image of India is now criticizing and denigrating those when they did not fit to their agenda, today. Today, when the Chief Justice is not doing what the lobby really wants, they have taken the same old weapon to attack him.

The real problem is not with the lobby or left wing agitators or self-appointed guardians of democracy and secularism but, the those who are supposed to be responsible for the reputation of the institutions for having fallen prey to these lobbies in the past, may be for political reasons were the one caused the real problem.

What they had initiated in the past is only continuing today as an extension and nothing new and nothing strange.

If the judges had not rebelled in public, if the former RBI Governor had not displayed his political colour in public and if the chief of CBI had not fought with his college like Kilkenny cat, the reputation of all these institutions would not have been dragged so badly like what is happening today.

The independent institutions must learn to resolve its differences within the confine of four walls and should not bring to the street. Further the independent institutions also should not appear to side some political parties to rebel against the government because the Government of the day is very tough, incorrupt and demand accountability.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi always focus on development of India, sab ka vikas and not politics or power. But on the contrary, the dynast is always thinking about the Chair of Prime Minister of India, his birth entitlement for PM post, how to develop his dynasty, how to expand his coterie of sycophants, how to keep India underdeveloped, how the Indians can be fragmented based on caste and religion etc.

Therefore however independent and autonomous several institutions may be, the government of the day has the right to demand result and accountability from all such institutions because government is only responsible to people and not those institutions.

Lessons to be learned from the present anecdote is that do not fall prey to the dirty politics of dynastic forces that may support you today but if you take moral high standard, the same dynastic force may ridicule and denigrate you.

By the time most of those institutions would have learned their lessons. The people of India must teach all those Tukde Tukde gangs a fitting lesson and must ensure the politics of dynasty never comeback to power.

Let the agenda of development and sab ka vikas initiated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi lead India to success in 2019 and beyond.

Remove portions of allopathic medicine from the curriculum of AYUSH to end cross pathy

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Remove portions of allopathic medicine from the curriculum of AYUSH to end cross pathy

The article by Dr Amritpal Sing under the title “Is Ayurveda loosing way to Modern Medicine” dated January 16, 2019 was quite painful to read. Our traditional healing practice is rapidly losing its relevance mostly due to the vaidyas who have studied the subject and settled in private practice.

The article clearly opens the viscera of AYUSH to explain the anatomy of the modern day vaidya and their behaviour. It is an open truth that, cross pathy by several AYUSH vaidyas in private practice has only destroyed the credibility of AYUSH and has earned the title to AYUSH called pseudoscience. The article of Dr Amritpal Singh has revealed another important dimension of AYUSH education. The BAMS students in most institutions show least interest to attend the classes of Ayurveda curriculum but on the contrary, show great interest to attend the classes in modern medicine. Most of them wants to end up as modern medicine practitioners instead of own subject. Cross pathy only attracts them and not AYUSH in real sense, the article reveals.

If we see the situation of Siddha system of healing practice in Tamil Nadu, cross pathy by several Siddha vaidyas in private practice openly and or secretly has destroyed the credibility of the system. The most disgusting fact is that some Siddha vaidya even justify cross pathy and have used every trick in the book to support quackery. However the state government has initiated proper steps to crackdown quackery and as a result cross pathy has significantly reduced in the state. However the nexus between chemists and some vaidya may still continue secretly in some remote villages as a new form of cross pathy.

The options to revive AYUSH does not lies just in allocating more funds for promoting AYUSH as initiated by Ministry of AYUSH, but the curriculum of AYUSH must be changed totally.

Basic science must be included in AYUSH curriculum and not modern medicine. The inclusion of modern medicine only unnecessarily tempts the vaidyas to move towards cross pathy and quackery. As a result of the above situation, both AYUSH as well as our health care delivery system suffers adversely. Most of the vaidyas who are engaged in cross pathy tends to display their knowledge in modern medicine predominantly hired from some peripheral learning from CIMS etc.

Modern medicine; the methods of diagnosis, details of drugs, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology etc., must be removed from the curriculum of AYUSH and the philosophical aspects of ancient traditional healing must be enriched. How the quality of the herbs must be evaluated, what are the modern technologies that can be used for preparing AYUSH recipes, what are the new ways of presenting the AYUSH products etc., must be included in the curriculum of AYUSH.

The importance of human faith, spirituality, human values, vaidya-patient relationship, knowing the human constitution through philosophy based Tridosha principle, how the taste and other obvious feelings of the patient can be integrated into the healing process etc., must be included and emphasised in the curriculum of AYUSH.

The AYUSH vaidyas must be oriented more with the philosophy, bio-moral science and human values so that the role of AYUSH for paramedical and mind healing can be fully achieved. The humanity of today need mind healing and eternal paramedical recipes which AYUSH alone can offer.

AYUSH vaidyas must be designated more as healers and experts of mind, wellness and paramedical services than as doctor. Once the philosophical contents are enriched and the details of allopathic medicines are removed and basic science is included, AYUSH will get due merit and recognition. Cross pathy by AYUSH vaidyas in private practice must be ended immediately.

Siddha system can be revived only if the cross pathy by several Siddha vaidyas in private practice is curbed. Hope our traditional, faith based healing practice will get due recognition and respect and the Ministry of AYUSH will separate AYUSH completely from allopathic system.

आखिर क्या कारण है कि ‘लेफ़्ट’ इतना बलवान और ‘राइट’ इतना कमज़ोर?

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आखिर क्या कारण है कि ‘लेफ़्ट’ इतना बलवान और ‘राइट’ इतना कमज़ोर?

एक राइट विंग मीडिया में काम करते समय मैं नियमित रूप से ‘ऑप इंडिया’ की पाठक हुआ करती थी और आज भी हूँ। “राइट” के संपर्क में आने के बाद मुझे धीरे-धीरे लेफ़्ट और राइट विंग मीडिया के बीच अंतर का आभास भी हुआ। पत्रकारिता में डिग्री पाते समय हमें इतना ज्ञान नहीं था कि देश की पत्रकारिता इस हद तक गिर चुकी होगी। हमें लगता था कि पत्रकारिता से हम समाज को बदल सकते हैं। हमारे कलम में तलवार से भी ज्यादा ताकत है और हम बिना रक्त बहाए बदलाव लाएँगे।

संविधान के चार अंगों में से एक अंग है पत्रकारिता। हम इस अंग पर आँख मूंद कर विश्वास किया करते थे। हमें यह पता ही नहीं चला कि जिस तरह वामपंथियों ने देश की शिक्षा व्यवस्था की जड़ों को ही खोखला कर दिया है, उसी प्रकार पत्रकारिता को भी खोखला कर दिया होगा। पत्रकारिता अपनी विश्वसनीयता खोती जा रही थी। समझ नहीं आ रहा था कि ऐसा क्यों? क्यों मीडिया में सत्य से परे एक तरफ़ा समाचार दिखाया जा रहा था? क्यों देश विरोधी अजेंडा चलाया जा रहा था?

पिछले एक वर्ष में मुझे मेरे सारे सवालों का जवाब मिल गया है। केवल भारत में ही नहीं अपितु समूचे विश्व में लेफ़्ट और राइट के बीच में संघर्ष चल रहा है। अपने झूठ के जंजाल और उसके माध्यम से वामपंथी विचारधारा लोगों के मस्तिष्क में घर कर चुकी है। चार साल पहले भारत में राइट विंग का अस्तित्व ना के बराबर था। आज ऐसा नहीं है। राइट विंग मीडिया देश में अपना अस्तित्व कायम कर चुका है। पत्रकारिता को बेचने वाले वामपंथियों के झूठ से त्रस्त होकर लोग अब राइट की ओर रुख कर रहे हैं। यह और बात है कि सत्य के साथ खड़े होने के कारण राइट विंग को बड़ी कठिनाइयों का सामना भी करना पड़ रहा है। लेकिन बिना संघर्ष के सफलता प्राप्त भी कहाँ होती!

पिछले एक साल में राइट विंग के लिए काम करते समय एक बात मैंने जाना कि लेफ़्ट बहुत बलवान है और राइट बहुत कमज़ोर। लेफ़्ट इसलिए बलवान नहीं है कि उसके पास पैसा है। लेफ़्ट इसलिए भी बलवान नहीं है कि उसके पीछे विदेशी ताकते हैं। बल्कि लेफ़्ट इसलिए बलवान है क्योंकि उनमें एकता है। जैसे मुहल्ले के सारे कुत्ते एक साथ, एक सुर में भौंक कर अपने विरोधी को भगाते हैं, उसी प्रकार ये सारे वामपंथी विचारधारा वाले एक साथ, एक ही सुर में गाते हैं। आपसी मतभेद को वो जगज़ाहिर नहीं करते। बल्कि एक साथ वे अपने विरोधियों पर टूट पड़ते हैं और विरोधियों को कमज़ोर करते हैं।

हम हज़ारों वर्ष पूर्व जैसे थे, आज भी वैसे ही हैं। राइट वाले आपस में ही लड़ते हैं। हमें यह आभास ही नहीं है कि जब मुट्ठी बंद होती है, तभी शत्रु के मुँह पर मुक्का मारा जा सकता है। राइट विंग मीडिया भी कुछ ऐसे ही बिखरा हुआ है। लेफ़्ट की तरह ‘कोरस’ में गाना हमें नहीं आता, इसलिए हमारी आवाज़ लोगों के कानों के परदे फाड़ने में असमर्थ रहती है। जब तक राइट विंग मीडिया एक ‘सुर में गाने’ का अभ्यास नहीं करेगी, तब तक राइट की आवाज़ लोगों तक नहीं पहुँचेगी। हम सभी जानते हैं कि ‘एकता में बल है’… पर अफ़सोस, कभी एकता दिखाते नहीं हैं! अब शायद वक़्त आ गया है!

List of achievements of Narendra Modi led BJP Govt. in 4 years versus 10 years of UPA

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List of achievements of Narendra Modi led BJP Govt. in 4 years versus 10 years of UPA

If people of India compare the performance record of Narendra Modi led government’s 4 years vis-à-vis the long 10 years of UPA under the influence of the dynastic party, people may shock and surprise why several main stream media are observing a calculated silence in not reporting all the glorious achievements of the BJP to people of India.

Narendra Modi is the first Prime Minister of India in the recent times to govern India free of corruption, scam and nepotism. He is the first Prime Minister of India to devote his full time in office for the welfare of India and not for playing party politics. He is the first Prime Minister of India who made every institution accountable to people of this country.

Here is the list of some of the achievements of Narendra Modi regime in the last 4 years in comparison with 10 long years of UPA.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgfreoq6E4A

In 2014, Narendra Modi inherited the legacy from UPA 2 which was filled with allegations of various scams, policy paralysis, nepotism, and revenge and witch-hunt politics against Modi. Besides that, the reputation of India was all time low during UPA.

In 2014 there were 21, 572 villages were yet to be electrified and as a result of lack of power supply, those villages were lagging far behind. Narendra Modi after taking the office of Prime Minister of India ensured all those villages to be electrified. Today no single village is there in India without of power supply.  What UPA could not achieve in 10 years, Narendra Modi has achieved in 4 years.

UPA in its 10 years of scam filled regime could provide only 5.3 crore LPG connections to poor villagers whereas BJP in the last 4 years ensured 10 crore LPG connections to uplift millions of poor families from various health hazard, saved their cooking time, labour in collecting fire woods and lifted them from the status of poor and marginal.  Several lakhs of connections provided by Narendra Modi led BJP were free of cost.

UPA in its 10 long years achieved only 2,630 megawatt generation of solar power which Narendra Modi scaled up to 22,000 megawatt in just 4 years.

Entire 10 years of UPA regime, only 80,000 KM of road was made whereas Narendra Modi’s government focused intensely on infrastructure and achieved 4 lakh 9000 KM road built in 4 years.

Narendra Modi being born in a poor family in a village unlike the dynast, who is born with silver spoon in his mouth, recognized the importance of swaach bharat and proper sanitation to poor people.

Narendra Modi’s government built 9.7 crore toilets in 4 years as against 5.4 crore toilets that were built during the entire 10 years of UPA.

Entire 10 years of UPA saw the construction of houses for poor people to be 30 lakh whereas Narendra Modi in the last 4 years achieved 90 lakh houses being built for poor people.

As a personal commitment of providing cost effective supply of medicines to poor people under Jan Aushadhi program, Narendra Modi opened 1957 shops in the last 4 years whereas the record of UPA in 10 years was only 199 shops and out of which 99 shops did not function at all.

Before Narendra Modi took the office of Prime Minister of India, as per the employment registry, 4 crore 82 lakhs people were registered to have no employment but the number of people registered in employment registry as on 2018 is 4 crore 26 lakh with the reduction of 56 lakh. This clearly indicates the unemployment rate has come down during Narendra Modi’s government which was quite high in UPA period.

Narendra Modi has brought a structured reform in agricultural sector too.  To ensure the biotic rhizosphere ecosystem in the agricultural field, the urea supplied is desired to be coated with Neem as suggested by several scientific studies.  During the entire 10 years period of UPA, only 25% of the urea supplied to the farmers were Neem treated whereas PM Modi has ensured 100% supply of urea to the farmers are treated with Neem to ensure better crop and protection of the filed.

PM Modi has visited several countries to build ties with India. Manmohan Singh visited selectively USA and UK for 30 and 27 times respectively with the total expenditure of 27 crores whereas PM Modi’s foreign visit costs only 22 crore.

The list of achievements presented in the article is only a few and not the complete list of achievements. All the above achievements were made by the Modi government without any scam or kickbacks or special directives of a family as in the case of UPA.

India needs development, sab ka vikas and not politics of negativism, hatred or dynastic parties which are hungry to grab power to loot our nation. Hope people of India will recognize the tremendous achievements of PM Modi and hope they would re-elect him again in 2019 with massive mandate to develop India further.

Tamil Nadu also must be developed further to fulfill the dreams of MGR and Amma. People must recognise the hate politics of Dravidian dynastic party and surprisingly the DMK wants a Brahmin as Prime Minister of India.

The holy entry of PM Modi in TN is must for the betterment of the state and if the rule of the dynasty returns back, TN may get further pushed back to the period of hate politics, anti- Hindu, anti-God and anti-Brahmin rhetoric and not development or progress of the state.

Tamil Nadu needs the ethos propagated by MGR and Amma along with the vision and good governance of Narendra Modi.

Why not Hindi?

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Why not Hindi?

Very recently I have come across a post forwarded on Facebook by one of my friends with a bold title saying Stop Imposing Hindi. Mind you this friend of mine hails from Tamil Nadu, where Hindi is not a compulsory language in school. He was very adamant about the movement, which has been started since way back to not make Hindi compulsory for schools and colleges and he was not backing down now.

To quickly understand what my friend was saying, I found the right articles with respect to that particular subject and found that what my friend was saying was indeed true. There has been stiff resistance to include Hindi as a compulsory language in school and college curriculum citing amongst other things the inability of the child to decide what he wants to learn, that regional languages should be given importance and other far fetched thoughts!

There was also a lot cry raised over the HRD’s directive to schools and colleges to make Hindi compulsory which was later found to be a fake news.

For all these arguments one needs to understand the need for a common National language to unite rather than blame the Central government for what it is supposed to do. India is one of the most vibrant cultures with varied linguistic diaspora. Yes there is internet and yes there is now the social media which connects people but the ideas get lost if the medium of communication is patchy.

I hail from Telangana and luckily for me Hindi was my second language in school. I can tell you how easy it was for me to travel across India and use a medium of language well understood by most and make my travel that much more happier. And there is another aspect that also needs to be taken into consideration, is there a harm to the child by learning another language?

Believe me the child will thank you for making him fluent in a language other than his own mother tongue. And if the so called propaganda machinery of these narratives can answer the one question I asked with a Yes, then please go ahead and protest the inclusion of Hindi in the curriculum.

There are lots of stereotypes played in Politics and media which might paint it as us vs them. North Indians vs South Indians. Telangana vs AP. Tamilnadu vs Karnataka. And lots of other even hurtful stereotypes portrayed about North Indians in South India and South Indians in North India. If at all there is one thing that we should learn from our history it is that this was the same technique used, in subjugating and ruling us, by the British.

Do we once again fall into this trap and get divided or do we say enough and believe that we all are Indians and the division is only in the eyes of those liberals who try to influence us?

उदारवादियों को क्यों खटकती है स्टेचू ऑफ़ यूनिटी?

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उदारवादियों को क्यों खटकती है स्टेचू ऑफ़ यूनिटी?

विश्व की सबसे ऊँची आदरणीय सरदार पटेल की प्रतिमा, बहुत दिनों से उदारवादियों को खटक रही हैं। जब नरेंद्र मोदी गुजरात के मुख्यमंत्री थे, तभी उन्होंने विश्व की सबसे ऊँची प्रतिमा बनाने की घोषणा कर दी थी। सरदार पटेल की प्रतिमा का विरोध तभी से शुरू हो गया था। इसके लिए उदारवादियों के पास तरह तरह के तर्क थे। कभी यह हवाला दिया जाता था, कि देश में बहुत गरीबी हैं, उस पर ध्यान दिया जाए। कभी बताया जाता था, की ३०,००० करोड़ में कितने स्कूल, कॉलेज और अस्पताल खोले जा सकते हैं। कभी यह भी कहा गया कि स्टेचू ऑफ़ यूनिटी एक चाइनीज कंपनी बना रही हैं। जब स्टेचू ऑफ़ यूनिटी का अनावरण कर दिया गया, तो एक जाने माने भूतपूर्व संपादक और फिल्म मेकर ने तो यह कह कर कि सरदार पटेल की शकल सूरत चाइनीज लगते हैं, हिट जॉब भी करने का प्रयास किया। और उनकी हिमाकत देखिये, जब उनको अकाट्य प्रमाण दिए गए, कि ऐसा नहीं हैं, तब भी उन्होंने ट्विटर से अपना कमेंट हटाया नहीं।

लेकिन लाख टके का सवाल यह हैं, कि आखिर उदारवादियों को सरदार पटेल की प्रतिमा से क्या परेशानी हैं? क्यों कुतर्क दे कर उनकी प्रतिमा का विरोध किया जाता हैं? जहाँ तक स्कूल, अस्पताल और कॉलेज बनवाने की बात हैं, सभी इसका समर्थन करते हैं। इसके लिए बजट में अलग से प्रावधान किया जाता हैं। गरीब से गरीब देश भी कुछ पैसे अपने देश के महापुरुषों और प्रतीक चिन्हों के लिए अलग से रखता हैं। आप को दुनियाँ में कोई भी ऐसा देश नहीं मिलेगा, जहाँ कोई स्मारक न हो, प्रतिमा न हो, संग्रहालय न हो, म्यूजियम न हो। और उदारवादी तो पता नहीं कब से विदेशी दौरे कर रहें हैं, कभी कॉन्फ्रेंस के नाम पर, कभी सेमिनार के नाम पर। और वह इस चीज़ से भली भांति परिचित हैं। फिर उनके विरोध का कारण क्या हैं?

सबसे पहली बात जो बाहर निकल कर आती हैं, वह है, नेहरू गाँधी खानदान की महानता की जो गाथाए जो बड़ी मेहनत से बनायीं गयी हैं, और जनता के सामने एक छवि प्रस्तुत की गयी हैं, उस पर घनघोर खतरा हो उत्पन्न हो गया हैं। आज दुनिया में कही पर भी बैठा व्यक्ति टेक्नोलॉजी का भरपूर इस्तेमाल करता है। अगर कोई भी “दुनिया की सबसे ऊँची प्रतिमा” इंटरनेट पर खोजेगा, तो उसको, स्टेचू ऑफ़ यूनिटी और सरदार पटेल दोनों के नाम मिलेंगे। जिज्ञासा मनुष्य का सहज स्वाभाव है, और वह आदतन ही सरदार पटेल के बारे में कुछ और भी जानकारी हासिल करने की कोशिश करेगा। और उसको सरदार पटेल की महानता के बारे में कोई शक नहीं रहेगा। जैसे जर्मनी में बिस्मार्क एकीकरण के लिए याद किया जाता हैं, दुनियांसरदार पटेल को भी वैसे ही जानने और समझने लगेगी। और नरेंद्र मोदी ने यह सब ६०-७० साल से पाले पोसे गये एक इको-सिस्टम को धता बता कर किया हैं। उदारवादियों के बीच इसका दर्द बहुत गहरा हैं और छुपाये नहीं छुपता। कितनी लगन और चाटुकारिता से एक परिवार की छवि चमकायी गयी हैं। और एक झटके में उस पर कोई पानी फेर रहा हैं।

दूसरी खटकने वाली बात है, पता नहीं क्यों, नरेंद्र मोदी को विश्व की सबसे ऊँची प्रतिमा बनवानी थी। अगर कोई छोटी मोती साधारण सी कोई प्रतिमा बनवाने की बात होती, तो किसी को भी जेड कष्ट नहीं होता। एक टोकन विरोध करके उसको भुला दिया गया होता। आप स्टेचू ऑफ़ यूनिटी देखने जाइये, तो आप को नीचे संग्रहालय मिलेगा। आप कहेंगे, इसमें क्या बड़ी बात है। हमारे देश में कई संग्रहालय हैं। सरदार पटेल का भी एक हैं तो क्या हुआ? हुआ हुज़ूर, हुआ। आप जा कर देखिये तो सही। संग्रहालय और प्रतिमा, दोनों विश्व मानकों के अनुसार बने हैं। अन्यथा सक्षम जिनको डिफरेंटली एबल्ड भी कहते हैं, व्हीलचेयर धारको और बुजुर्गो के लिए एस्कलेटर, वाकलेटर, लिफ्ट सब हैं। नरेंद्र मोदी ने रैंप बनाने के लिए एक स्टीफन हॉकिंग का इंतज़ार नहीं किया। याद रहे ताजमहल पर व्हीलचेयर धरक के लिए रैंप तभी बना जब विश्व प्रसिद्ध ब्रितानी भौतिक वैज्ञानिक स्टीफन हॉकिंग भारत यात्रा पर आये। इससे पहले शायद कोई विकलांग ताज महल की सुंदरता से कोई वास्ता नहीं रखना चाहता था। साथ ही कुछ मिनट का ऑडियो-विसुअल प्रस्तुतिकरण भी दिया जाता हैं। वह भी वैश्विक मनको के अनुसार। इसमें समझौता नहीं किया गया हैं।

अब उदारवादियों को इससे क्या दिक्कत हो सकती हैं ? दिक्कत हैं, बहुत दिक्कत है। स्टेचू ऑफ़ यूनिटी देखने गुजरात के सरकारी विद्यालयों से छोटे छोटे बच्चे भी आते हैं। उनके साथ माध्यम वर्ग के अध्यापक आते हैं। उनका आना बंद कर दिया जाए जाये तो उदारवादियों को कोई दिक्कत नहीं होगी। उनके हिसाब से दबे, कुचले, पिछड़े, शोषित, वंचित और गरीब जब अपने घर के आँगन में ही कुछ वर्ल्ड क्लास देखेगा, तो उसकी आशाएं, आकांक्षाएं खुद से भी और सरकार से भी, दोनों से बढ़ जाएँगी। फिर आधी रोटी खाएंगे, फलाना पार्टी को लाएंगे या पूरी रोटी खाएंगे, फलाना पार्टी को लाएंगे का झुनझुना राजनितिज्ञों के लिए बजाना आसान नहीं होगा। ऐसा वर्ग जब मतदाता बनेगा, तो समझोतावादी दृश्टिकोड कैसे अपनाएगा? वह तो वही चमचमाती विश्व स्तर की सुविधाएं और स्मारक मांगेगा। उसकी आकांक्षाओं को ये मोदी हवा क्यों देता हैं? जैसा चला आ रहा हैं, वैसा ही करने में क्या हर्ज़ हैं?

यथा स्थिति बानी रहे, यह इको-सिस्टम, प्रसाशनिक वर्ग और राजनीतिज्ञों सभी के लिए फलदायी हैं। सामान्य जनता के अभिलाषाओं और आकांक्षओं के सोते शेर को सोता रहने देने में ही भलाई हैं। उसको जगा कर मुसीबत क्यों मोल लेना?

Roads: From the horse dung on Britain streets, to Progressive India

Rakesh K
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Roads: From the horse dung on Britain streets, to Progressive India

London under 9 feet of manure

In the 1800’s the cities around the world were growing at a rapid pace and the transportation system was fully depended on roads for the movement of goods and people. The only efficient means to make the transportation mobile were the mighty horses.

By late 1890’s, on any given day; there would be about 50,000 – 55,000 horses on the streets of London, while in bigger cities like New York it would be 100,000 horses. This created a huge problem in the cities with 0.8 to 1 million KG of dung per day and potholes full of urine.

Soon the panic might have been triggered and as in the mid 1890’s the Times Newspaper heading read,

“In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under 9 feet of manure.”

With the arrival of commercial motorised vehicles, all the problems disappeared by early 1910’s.

Zero-Corruption to Corruption:

After India’s Independence, there was no major investment in the core Infrastructure development like roads. The newly formed government by Mr. Nehru, failed to recognise the need of good road network and relied on the colonial era roads leading only to major Sea Ports and Business Centres; which was focused to transport goods and loots outside India and not for reach in the remote villages.

Nehru had poor insight of the economic planning. This was evident from the fact that when JRD Tata supported a nationalist party as an opposition to replace the communist party for a free economy and healthy development – Nehru questioned JRD’s decision. Nehru even went on to say; “Never talk to me about the word profit, it is a dirty word”.

When Naval Hormusji Tata wanted to develop South Mumbai and attempted to contest elections in 1971 made Indra Gandhi very furious.

When JRD started doing business, there was hardly any black money and corruption, but it slowly started to enter the system due to lack of governance and no government control on the economy.

The short-lived Shining India:

During 1999 – 2004, the Infrastructure investment got a big boost, with project like “Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojna”, “National Highways Development Project” & “Golden Quadrilateral” – thanks to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee & his team.

Sadly, due to the coalition gov & re-election in the mid-term, most of the projects were stalled or delayed until the Shree Atal Vajpayee government fell in 2004, after which most of the infrastructure projects failed to materialise, while few running at snail pace, when the average road built per day reached the worst i.e. 6 – 9 KM / day between 2009 – 2014.

Towards Corruption Free Development:

As per the Global Competitiveness Report by WEF, India struggled to climb in the Quality of Road ranking but post 2014 the ranking steeply rose to 51-55 range & the rating broke the 4.0 level.

Though the ranking in 2006-2007 was good due the earlier investment; the rating was very poor, indicating that the quality of roads being built was not as per standard & it degraded until 2014.

Development of quality roads in India, clearly depicting a rise after BJP took over the government

When NDA lead by Shree Narendra Modi, formed the government at the centre in majority – under the leadership of Nitin Gadkari, an immediate approval was granted to the much-needed strategic road project – that was ignored since independence i.e. construction of 1800-km of highway along the China border in Arunachal; at an estimated cost of over ₹40,000 crore.

In 2015, the central government launched Bharatmala Pariyojana, to build 83,677 km of new roads at an estimated cost of ₹5.35 lakh crore (US$74 billion).

Until March 2018, 10,000 km of highways was already completed. The road construction had reached 27 km/day (3 times higher than pre-2014). By Dec 2019, 34,000 km of new road is expected to be completed.

Bogibeel Bridge in Assam over the Brahmaputra river is a perfect example to explain the cycle from start to completion. The Bridge was sanctioned in 1997-98 but the construction was inaugurated only in 2002 by Late Prime Minister Vajpayee to be completed by 2008.

The actual work started in 2011 i.e. 4 years after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh granted it a national project status. By 2014 the cost escalated to ₹4,996 crore (US$700 million) from the original ₹1,767 crore (US$250 million).

To avoid further delay, Nitin Gadkari approved additional ₹964 crore. The project was completed on a fast track on 2nd Dec 2018 & inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on 25th Dec 2018 on the birth anniversary of Shree Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The Bridge not only shortens the time to travel by Rail (lower deck) & Road (upper deck) but also strong enough for the movement of army tanks & even landing a fighter jets on the upper deck. This gives a big boost to the India’s security at the border with China.

Slowly, we will bid goodbye to ordinary road projects – Anil Manibhai Naik, group chairman, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) – DNA 14 Jan 2019

Sources: Historic UK, The Tata Group: From Torchbearers To Trailblazers by Shashank Shah.

Header Image: Bharatmala Pariyojana Project presentation from National Informatics Centre (NIC)

एक पत्र प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के नाम

alka30
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एक पत्र प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के नाम

आदरणीय प्रधान मंत्री जी,

आप हमारे देश के प्रधानमंत्री है, और देश की सेवा में लगे हुए हैं। आप बहुत मेहनत कर रहे हैं, और अपनी तरफ से देश को आगे ले जाने में कोई कसर नहीं छोड़ रहे हैं। लेकिन अभी कुछ समय पहले बीजेपी तीन राज्यों में सरकार नहीं बना सकी और उसको हार का सामना करना पड़ा. बहुत से लोग तरह-तरह से विष्लेषण कर रहे थे. पता नहीं क्या सही होगा क्या गलत, लेकिन, एक बात की तरफ अगर आप ध्यान दे सके तो बहुत अच्छा होगा. मुझे पता हैं, आप का समय बहुत कीमती हैं, इसलिए मै अपनी बात को थोड़े में कहने का प्रयास करूंगी।

बात अभी की नहीं हैं, हम भारतवंशियों की बात हज़ारों साल पहले से शुरू होती है। बहुत से आक्रांता हमारी भूमि पर आये, और हमको अपमानित और पद दलित किए हमारे उस समय के जो शासक थे, उनमें के कुछ ने विरोध का झंडा बुलंद किया, कुछ आक्रांताओं की गोद में ही जा कर बैठ गए, और सत्ता मोह में इतने चूर हो गए, कि अपनी बेटियां तक उन आक्रांताओं से व्याह दी। देश का, खुद का मान ,अपमान, बेटी बहु… सत्ता बनाये रखने के लिए, सब कुर्बान कर दिए। आतताइयों के साथ मिल गए, लेकिन सत्ता सुख का त्याग नहीं किया। परन्तु सभी ऐसे नहीं थे. कुछ ने अपने देश, और उसके मान सम्मान के लिए अपना सर्वस्व न्योछावर कर दिया। दर दर की ठोकरें खाना मंज़ूर था, लेकिन अपमानित हो कर जीने से मर जाना अच्छा था।

लेकिन, प्रधान मंत्री महोदय, ऐसे में सामान्य जन ने क्या किया? सामान्य जन को सत्ता पक्ष अपने साथ जोड़ नहीं पाया। किसी न किसी वजह से यह लड़ाई सत्ता पक्षों के बीच ही होती रही, हज़ारों साल पहले भी यह लड़ाई हम सब की लड़ाई नहीं बनी। ऐसे में सामान्य जन, भक्ति रस और सूफी रस में थोड़ा सुकून तलाशने लगा, और उसने खुद को मै, मेरा बेटा, मेरी बेटी, मेरी माँ, मेरा पिता, मेरी बहन, मेरा भाई, और उसके बाद समय बचा तो मेरा गॉव तक सिमटा लिया। उसके पास ज्यादे कुछ बचा नहीं। महोदय अब हमको सब कुछ इसी चश्मे से देखने की आदत हो गयी हैं। हज़ार साल से , कोई हमारे लिए कुछ सोचने आया ही नहीं। जो आये भी वह व्यक्तिगत रूप से महान बन कर चले गए। हमको अपने साथ जोड़ा नहीं। सत्ता की लड़ाई मध्ययुगीन भारत में जान आंदोलन का रूप धारण नहीं कर सकी।

हज़ारो सालों बाद आप ने हमको किसी लायक समझा, और कहा, “अगर आप गैस सिलिंडर से सब्सिडी छोड़ सकते हैं, तो छोड़ दे. आप जानते हैं फिर कितने लोग “गिव इट अप’ से जुड़े। नहीं तो एक राजनितिक दल, कभी आधी रोटी खाएंगे, कभी पूरी रोटी खाएंगे का झुनझुना ही बजाता रहा। कभी गरीबी हटाने का वादा किया, कभी मकान देने का. हमको भिखमंगा, और खुद को खुदा समझ लिया. आप से पहले शिवा जी, गुरु गोविन्द सिंह जी, गाँधी जी ने भी हमसे बहुत कुछ माँगा था, हमने निराश नहीं किया. सुभाष चंद्र बोस जी ने भी माँगा था, उनको भी हमने निराश नहीं किया. जय प्रकाश नारायण जी ने माँगा था हमने निराश नहीं किया. लेकिन ऐसे लोग अपवाद स्वरुप हैं, नियम नहीं हैं, हमारे लिए. इसलिए ऐसे लोग कभी भी हमारे जिंदगी का हिस्सा नहीं बने। हमारे लिए फिर वही बचा, अपना परिवार। फिर हम उसी में सिमट गए।

और हज़ार साल बाद जब अपनी सरकार बनी, तो भी हमको आज़ादी का एहसास नहीं हुआ। बहुत जल्दी ही दलाली, घूसखोरी, भाई भतीजावाद और भ्रस्टाचार का बोलबाला हो गया। नोबेल पुरस्कार पाने वाले डॉ हरगोविंद खुराना हमारे देश में नौकरी करने लायक नहीं समझे गए। और इस पर कोई हल्ला नहीं मचा। भाखरा नांगल बांध बना तो कितने लोगों ने उसी में से सीमेंट ,सरिया और ईटें ले कर अपने घर बनवा लिए। घर में फ़ोन लगवाने के लिए कई कई साल इंतज़ार करना पड़ा। और हम अपने ही देश में इतने निरीह, दबे कुचले थे, कि इतने साल बाद फ़ोन लगने पर मिठाई बांटते थे, हमको गुस्सा नहीं आता था। बस इस देश के निवासी होने के नाते हमारा इतना की कर्तव्य था कि किसी तरह बेटे की नौकरी लग जाये, बेटी की शादी हो जाये, और रहने के लिए एक घर हो जाये. यही एक सफल मनुष्य की निशानी हज़ार साल पहले, थी, आज भी है और शायद आगे भी रहेगी।

हम और हमारा परिवार में सिमट जाना, हमसे दूर दृष्टि छीन लेता हैं। हम, हज़ार सालों से किसी तरह जी रहे हैं और हज़ार सालों से हमारा यही प्रयास रहा है क़ि किसी तरह अपने परिवार की रक्षा कर लें, और इसी चक्कर में कई बार तो हम अपने बच्चों के बच्चों से आगे नहीं देख पाते। एक राजनितिक दल हमारी इस कमजोरी को बखूबी जनता हैं, तभी वह हमारे सामने कभी क़र्ज़ माफ़ी का झुनझुना बजाता है, कभी मकान देने का, कभी नौकरी देने का। यह चीज़ हमको तुरंत समझ में आती हैं। दूरगामी नीतियां हमको थोड़ा कम समझ में आती हैं। नरेंद्र मोदी जी, पेट्रोल के दाम बढ़ना, सब्ज़ी, दाल के दाम ज़रा सा भी बढ़ जाना, चीनी थोड़ी भी महंगी हो जाना हमको बहुत कचोटता हैं। आर्थिक रूप से शायद नहीं, लेकिन मानसिक रूप से बहुत कष्ट देता हैं। हमको तुरंत लगता हैं कि हम और हमारा परिवार खतरे में हैं. हज़ार साल से सिर्फ और सिर्फ हम यही बचा पाए हैं। घूस दे कर, चाटुकारिता करके, अपमान सह कर, दलाल को खुश कर के भी हम इसको बचते हैं। कही से दो कम्बल मिल जाएँ, क़र्ज़ माफ़ हो जाये, बिजली का बिल काम देना पड़े, चुनाव से पहले जिससे खुश छोटा मोटा मिल जाये, हम उसी के साथ हो लेते हैं। बाकी मान, सम्मान, मर्यादा, भाषा, संस्कृति जो कि एक मनुष्य को मनुष्य बनती हैं, हमसे छीन लिया गया हैं और हर दिन छीना जा रहा हैं। लेकिन इसका हमको एहसास भी नहीं होता।

आपकी और हमारी लड़ाई बहुत लम्बी है, अभी तो हमको यह भी समझ में नहीं आता। एक सामान्य भारतीय अपने परिवार पर खतरा देख कर उस कालिदास की तरह व्यवहार करता है, जो जिस डाल पर बैठे थे, उसी को काट रहे थे। इसलिए आदरणीय प्रधान मंत्री जी, आप और आप की पार्टी जब भी चुनाव लड़े और अपना मैनिफेस्टो जारी करे तो हम सामान्य जन की इस बात को ध्यान में रखियेगा.

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Is DMK spoilsport or delicious dish for congress?

S Ranganathan
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Is DMK spoilsport or delicious dish for congress?

The statement of DMK chief proposing the name of Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister Face of united opposition parties was a blunder or a calculated move is difficult answer in one line. Considering the political maturity of late Karunanidhi, Stalin is no way near to the shadow of Karunanidhi with reference to leadership quality or understanding of politics and therefore the proposal made by Stalin cannot be called as a calculated move. It is possible that a dynast is bound to support another dynast and that is how people perceive the gesture of DMK chief. As a result of the immature utterance of DMK chief, the congress party has been left as an orphan by BSP and SP in UP.

Considering the largest number of parliamentary constituencies in UP, the exclusion of congress from BSP-SP alliance in UP is a huge set back to congress to bargain for more seats with various other regional parties especially DMK. In a way DMK has clipped the wings of congress before even the wings grow. Interestingly DMK has positioned itself well on both sides of the bread. If congress fairs decently, DMK can take the credit for proposing the name of the dynast for PM face and if the opposition fairs well, once again the DMK can take the credit that through unnecessary and untimely hype to Raghul Gandhi, DMK only has mutilated congress therefore DMK deserve special appreciation.

It looks like the DMK chief has played the game of Dridarastra to Bhima. After Mahabharat war, the Pandavas came to Hastinapur to pay their respect to King Dridarastra and the five brothers one after the other went to the king to pay their obeisance. But Dridarastra was so revengeful towards Bhima for killing his favourite son Duryodhana and therefore Dridarastra wants to hug Bhima to crush him to death. Knowing this intent of Dridarastra, Lord Krishna presented an iron statue of Bhima first to calm the anger of Dridarastra and only then Bhima went and took his blessings.

The over enthusiasm of DMK chief in projecting Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister face of united opposition parties in fact has crushed the ambition and desire of Rahul Gandhi. This in fact has clipped the wings of Raghul Gandhi at nestling stage itself which might have been the intention of DMK chief, who knows.

Otherwise, the DMK chief must offer all parliamentary seats in Tamil Nadu to congress and thereby DMK can prove to the nation and other regional parties that DMK always walks the talk.

Another interesting point also we must decode from such gesture of Stalin. Rahul Gandhi is extensively travelling in various parts of North India to prove his Brahmin DNA, Hindu origin and Shiva Bhakti. Will Raghul Gandhi prove his Brahmin DNA to the people of Tamil Nadu also? How would the chief of DMK, a born Anti Brahmin, Anti- Hindu justify his support to Raghul Gandhi who is aggressively tracing his Brahmin identity, for the post of Prime Minister of India? Hope people of Tamil Nadu will awake to the new reality and vote out Dravidian politics and support the agenda of development and sab ka vikas initiated by the PM Modi.

Hey dynast, don’t damage the reputation of judiciary

S Ranganathan
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Hey dynast, don’t damage the reputation of judiciary

Decision of the select panel to remove CBI Chief was in fact welcomed by everyone in India but it was politicized by the party of the dynast. The disrespect and bad reputation the CBI chief has earned for the CBI deserves his removal and not forgiveness and advice.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the most upright, decisive and honest Prime Minister of India took a firm decision and in right spirit and understanding, the justice who represented the panel supported. But the politician of the dynast opposed it because the dynast wants to make some politics.

Interestingly the justice AK Sikri was nominated by the Chief Justice of India who along with other two judges rebelled against the then Chief Justice alleging that the then Chief Justice appears to have compromised the independence of judiciary with the government.

When the judges rebelled and brought national shame to judiciary, the political party of the dynast applauded the gesture of the judges without bothering about the respect and dignity of India or the judiciary because the dynast somehow want power even if he can conquer power by destroying or fragmenting India, it is fine for the dynast.

Today the same ‘super-reformer’ dynast is indirectly questing the integrity of AK Sikri as well the Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi who nominated AK Sikri. It is so unfortunate that India has to live and witness such third rate politics being played by an age old political party. Hope this incident will open the inner eyes of all the independent institutions in India and will recognise the dangerous effects of dynastic politics to India. The most disgusting allegation is that AK Sikri supported the removal of CBI chief because he was nominated by the central government for London based Common Wealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (CSAT) which justice Sikri has turned down long ago.

It is quite natural that wherever any suitable opportunities are available, the government is supposed to nominate someone from the department which the nominee can turn down.  Because of such nomination, the person concerned would breach his integrity and side the government is a wild guess. It means the party of the dynast is reducing every official in the government department to be selfish, are after money and position and can sell their dignity and integrity if any position is offered.

Wise Indians should understand how dangerous politics, the party of the dynasty is playing. For the dynast, the entire India is his family property. In his party it may be true that all the sycophants are sticking there only due power and money and nothing else.  But India is not like that. Indians should not allow the dynastic politics to reduce every independent institution to be a playground for the dynast to play some dirty, third rate politics.

In all matured and statesmanship sense, the justice who was a member of select panel is expected to support the Prime Minister of India and not the politician of the opposition party, as the party doesn’t even enjoy the status of opposition party in parliament.

It is not Narendra Modi, but the Prime Minister of India is in the helm of affairs and therefore the highest office of Prime Minster of India must be respected and supported.

What the congress party reflects in public is its own culture and tradition that it was using every independent institution to dance to its tune starting from the days of the first dynast of the party – Indira Gandhi.

For the right or wrong reason, BSP and SP have realized the danger of congress and that is why they have not given any toe hold space for congress in their alliance. Hope Indians also would vote out the congress and other dynastic political parties that are desperate to capture power to loot our nation.

Indians must support the agenda of development, sab ka vikas and unification of our nation with the great culture of Hinduism and not the dynast to develop own dynasty and club of sycophancy.

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