Yesterday, I read the following: "The National Electricity Policy Apart from privatisation and competition, the electricity policy includes a number of ambitious plans. It promises electricity to every household in India by 2012; this includes both rural and urban households......" Check the details here:http://www.infochangeindia.org/analysis80.jsp I could not stop giggling thinking about having electricity in every house hold. I thought there was a catch line somewhere in the policy.... it might be-> * Conditions apply: Every Household will get electricity only for one hour and each should ensure to make judicious use of it. There are regions facing load-shedding, so that YOU can get electricity. Be a responsible citizen.
Sitting here in a city, people are still facing problems of load shedding. I cant imagine what could be state of people living in remote areas of Orissa or for that matter the North Eastern States.
We are a TO-BE superpower, but can we be that without POWER? We are yet to solve our basic needs such as ROTEE-KAPDAA-MAKAAN-BIJLEE-PANEE. We dare to become a super power. ??.
Now some of you will say, but we are leaders in Software Industry. Correct me if I am wrong. Which n where are biggest Software product Corporations? Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Yahoo, SAP, Oracle ... These companies rule every type of computer running on this planet. We provide services to maintain the products made by them. Now, next question. What’s wrong in that? Good one. As Shakespeare said: Nothing is good or bad... Only thinking makes it so. But in this case, you are dependent on the product for which you provide service. Basically you are playing safe. You don’t want the risks of a product based software company. No risk-No gain is a simple rule that applies. So we settle down as software service providers. We maintain. That’s it. We don’t innovate. We settle on the rupee-dollar conversion ratios to earn our bread. When rupee falls and dollar rises we start rejoicing. Let this go on man... i m making great bucks! hah!
So where were we? Yes. ROTEE-KAPDAA-MAKAAN-BIJLEE-PAANEE. I missed out one important one. EDUCATION. How can u leave this? We are still not literate. How are we gonna become a super power? With a mass population which cant read? So what do u think is a good solution? We have 23 official languages, but close to 800 different spoken languages and close to 2000 dialects. Any pointers on how we are going to achieve 100% literacy? Please let me know too.
What about clean clear drinking water? (forget about food for a moment) I had been to trekking in the sahyadris. Just 3 hours from Pune, near Lonavala. Small kids, ladies carrying water utensils on their head. This was in midst of the rainy season. Hey, what about the summers? I should visit once then.
I forgot two others: INFRASTRUCTURE & COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE! Do we have any? Every time it rains, the roads in Pune become small tar-dunes.
I have become a skilled dirt-bike expert this monsoon. Only ~2% of the population in the country pays taxes, and they get highly maintainable roads. Good enough !
Hey we creating employment opportunities each monsoon. What more could you ask for? You get fresh new roads every year. Why do you worry about the money?
What about drainage lines, water supply, telephone cables etc...? Recently i heard that Pune is going Wi-Fi. PMC and Cantonment Board had joined hands with Intel to make this possible. Suddenly I thought, can Wireless-Electricity be possible? BOOM! The transformer behind my society blew off, cutting the elec-supply till night. It seems it did not want competition. Not much different than most of us, aint it?
COMMUNICATIONS: Ever thought of how much money NOKIA has made out of selling cell phones only in India. They could have easily got 4 countries revenue here. Again product based companies. Where are we? Don’t tell me TATA-Birla-Reliance-Bajaj-Bharat Forge-Kirloskar. Give me some new names.
We dream too much.... it’s good. But it lacks foundation! We are building palaces in AIR. They are bound to collapse. Every indian does not have a coherent dream to work for. The americans had it... The AMERICAN Dream... that what they call it. What do we have?
Can i talk about it to anyone I meet in a local train or bus?
Coherent dreams ! And of course .. Action plans . They will take us where we want to go.
Who is going to take us there? Can we do it without a leader? Do we need another Swami Vivekananda to show us the right path? Keep asking... Coz Only those who seek, shall find !
4 comments:
Hey good work man. I am also a fellow blogger like you,even I get very carried away by all thats happening in India. Not for criticising but I really want to get an answer to this question i had from long. I also used to compare INDIA with US, or other countries regarding the infrasturcture, the establishment etc. But sometimes I wonder doesn't size matter? Look at the ratio of India's population to America's, isn't it easier to manage 4 people compared to 50 of them with the same capacity?
I know it would have been better if there was better planning, or organising but who is to blame now? Can anything be done about it?
As you said who should you discuss the "Indian Dream" ,like an American Dream.., who disscusses American Dream in America, a fellow passenger int he bus? or your collegue, they have no clue. India also has young blood ppl who want to bring change and make it a better place to live, you just need to find them. I am one of them, waiting for someone who is sincerely concerned about his/her motherland to come forward talk out and see what can be done.
But you might be thinking that all this is criticising your blog, no, I really liked your blog,especially the statistics you presented were impressive.
Keep up the good work!
Hi Nilesh,
Very good blog...great analysis.
Perfect blog froma perfectionist.
But as i knwo u r the person always with solutions to the problem.
In your next blog i would like to read ur solutions...just try it out buddy...
Waiting eagerly for the next edition.
All the Best
Kapil Gupta
Good one, Nilesh!!!
But, like Kapil, I would also like to see the solutions. :-)
Good one !!
But hold when Dollar rises and rupee falls , is definitely a time to rejoice cos its correcting the rupee unlike the yuan , which is manipulated b the chinese govt .
Its better to know where we stand truthfully instead of livign in bliss and one fine day the cost of potatoes becomes 100 rs for 1 kg :).
Nonetheless we should be trying to strenghthen it but there is always a cause on our history !!!
IT TAKES TIME , but patience is a virtue too.
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