A divided India is what suits the most of the world.
On top a corrupt bureaucracy & officials helps the motive.
The planners like Kaushik Basu & Montek Singh, including the loathsome & mummified Prime Minister are offshoot of western value education having no mooring to the Indian ground realities, except in theories.
It is too late for them to grip with it. They are just theoreticians and lack sensibilities to govern in an impoverished environment where almost 40% of the workforce is on subsistence level (statistics are big lies in India) where at least 70% of people do not have access to safe potable water and almost similar people having no access to sanitation of a safe toilet.
The educational standards are so disparate that India produce largest number of professionals & yet more than 70% of them face employability issues & therefore not a single university has ever been able to produce a single noble laureate from it.
The infrastructures are frayed to the point of crumbling & yet new roads, dams, power generation units etc are being sanctioned recklessly without having the back-ends in place, e.g. power plants without a secure coal or gas supply, highways half done due to no land acquisition and compensation policies.
I can go on endlessly & incumbent dispensation will not be pleased.
So wherein lies the solution?
The woes of India actually doesn't lie in its micro or macro economic problem, but in serious political reforms & that must begin by new constitution, change in governance structures, autonomy to states & investment in quality education and R&D.
But Indians also needs to have a serious change of attitude quickly. The attitude today is fatalistic and submissive due to its socio political history of oppression for last 2,000 years & that got worse post independence with equal voting right thereby cleverly eliminating the educated class to have its say, especially when more than 60% of the India is illiterate, especially in northern heartland & that suits the number democracy.
Corruption, which is rampant, is simply out of social desperation and disparity, again stemming out of the loopholes and fatality of the people, both the givers & the takers.
The economic jargons of inflation, stagflation, slow down, devaluation, consumption, growth, subsidy etc. is not going to help India. But a genuine intent to do fundamental change in governance structures & educational qualities would bring about the entire necessary social changes that would be eventually the engine of sustained growth.
In the meantime people like, Basu & Singh’s would continue like a sucker who think that Indian can live well for 50 US cents today in urban India & yet they can have the audacity to bill the government a sum of almost 4,000 US$ per day for travel expenses!!!
All this is possible in a shabby democracy riding on the back of poor Indians who is just struggling for his next meal & is fatality comes to the fore then either by hook or by crook, which manifests to the western world as corruption.
Time would tell & so would The People.
On top a corrupt bureaucracy & officials helps the motive.
The planners like Kaushik Basu & Montek Singh, including the loathsome & mummified Prime Minister are offshoot of western value education having no mooring to the Indian ground realities, except in theories.
It is too late for them to grip with it. They are just theoreticians and lack sensibilities to govern in an impoverished environment where almost 40% of the workforce is on subsistence level (statistics are big lies in India) where at least 70% of people do not have access to safe potable water and almost similar people having no access to sanitation of a safe toilet.
The educational standards are so disparate that India produce largest number of professionals & yet more than 70% of them face employability issues & therefore not a single university has ever been able to produce a single noble laureate from it.
The infrastructures are frayed to the point of crumbling & yet new roads, dams, power generation units etc are being sanctioned recklessly without having the back-ends in place, e.g. power plants without a secure coal or gas supply, highways half done due to no land acquisition and compensation policies.
I can go on endlessly & incumbent dispensation will not be pleased.
So wherein lies the solution?
The woes of India actually doesn't lie in its micro or macro economic problem, but in serious political reforms & that must begin by new constitution, change in governance structures, autonomy to states & investment in quality education and R&D.
But Indians also needs to have a serious change of attitude quickly. The attitude today is fatalistic and submissive due to its socio political history of oppression for last 2,000 years & that got worse post independence with equal voting right thereby cleverly eliminating the educated class to have its say, especially when more than 60% of the India is illiterate, especially in northern heartland & that suits the number democracy.
Corruption, which is rampant, is simply out of social desperation and disparity, again stemming out of the loopholes and fatality of the people, both the givers & the takers.
The economic jargons of inflation, stagflation, slow down, devaluation, consumption, growth, subsidy etc. is not going to help India. But a genuine intent to do fundamental change in governance structures & educational qualities would bring about the entire necessary social changes that would be eventually the engine of sustained growth.
In the meantime people like, Basu & Singh’s would continue like a sucker who think that Indian can live well for 50 US cents today in urban India & yet they can have the audacity to bill the government a sum of almost 4,000 US$ per day for travel expenses!!!
All this is possible in a shabby democracy riding on the back of poor Indians who is just struggling for his next meal & is fatality comes to the fore then either by hook or by crook, which manifests to the western world as corruption.
Time would tell & so would The People.