ONLY 5% OF THE WORLD LIVES IN BLUE AREA & ALSO 5% LIVES IN THE TINY SLIVER OF RED
India recorded an average of 87 rape cases daily in 2019 and overall 4,05,861 cases of crime against women during the year, a rise of over 7% from 2018, the latest government data released on September 29, 2020.
The country recorded 3,78,236 cases of crimes against women in 2018, the data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau showed.
UP has decidedly won the crown for decades. Earlier in eighties, it was bride burning in western UP zones, then incessant cases of atrocities against women and probably, tops the world in such cases & of course beats India hands down.
There are 47 countries with a population of less than 250,000 & UP has more crime against women than the population of such country.
What a deterioration we have seen in social transition & decadence in less than 50 years of a state that has given four Prime Minister of India, including the current one.
U.P. need a series of policy interventions and political commitments.
One, governance in Uttar Pradesh must improve. This is necessary to establish credibility of state’s institutions to deliver results on their promises. A consensus is that its machinery is not capable of delivering, which is fact as long as it is fighting the social caste dominances between Thakurs, Brahmins, Yadavs & Dalits combined.
In UP, corruption must be minimised through policy interventions and simplified procedures. Chief ministers must have a personal image of uprightness, which should be reflected in public office holders who are selected by them. Today the CM is more of a Hindu poster boy of anarchy and fundamentalism.
It is easy to change a dress and dress up the rivers and the monuments, but to change character of a state that is now monikered as the Rape State of the world, would take much more than gag & "Thai Thai" culture of shooting & killing the 'Goons'.
I personally do not see any redemptions , unless social animosity and casteist bitterness is minimised. Today it is pipe dream.
Let us see how stretched this today is. Or if there is a tomorrow? Clearly there is, provided we honestly delve to minimise it by state restructuring & reengineering-
Size of the state, which is not conducive to good governance so that needs structural adjustments.
It has four clear regions: western UP, central UP, eastern UP and Bundelkhand. While the east and west regions have 28-30 districts each, the central region has mere a ten districts and Bundelkhand seven.
Governing from a central point of the state capital requires a thorough knowledge and problems of each part and knowing the officers well. This is impossible for any chief minister or any minister or any Administrative Office.
Finally, politicians are not fully acquainted even with the political grassroots leaders of different areas. Policies are often not suited to many regions, which have widely different problems needing local solution.
So to redeem U.P. it needs surgery at pathological level and ruthlessness. Soone it is done, better it is for the state, else the state would languish and people would suffer.
It is a short commentary from me on a State that I usually never do. But U.P. has been an introspection point in Indian polity , having the largest population, amongst the poorest demographic dividends of states, politically volatile, culturaly diverse and divisive.
If that doesn't need care& attention from India , then who would?
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