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The job of any government should be that of a 'facilitator' for all economic and social activities of the citizens who elect it. For this it needs to provide security, safety, basic health and education, good governance, efficient judiciary, prompt and full implementation of plans and policies adopted by the legislature. Unfortunately, we do not yet have sufficient of any of the above. Two generations is obviously not enough, we need to wait for one more?
For some reason, for the past one hundred years, the citizens of this land have come to expect the govt. to provide: 'permanent jobs', permanent housing, modern hospitals, modern colleges with open admission to train students who want to go abroad, manufactured products, excellent services, and what not. This has not been done anywhere in the world for such a large nation. So why expect it here. Why is the government to be 'maai baap'?
The 'inferiority complex' generated due to long 'foreign misrule' will take a long time in going, since memories of such things are long and life expectancy is getting longer. A great physicist once said, physics will progress only if physicists die. The old ideas must die for new thoughts to take birth.
Can we not teach our children to think 'out of the box' and stand on their own feet? Can we not insist on only basic governance and basic facilities from the elected government? Can we not insist on elected representatives and selected administrators to be 'servants of the citizens'. Must we keep calling them 'sir, sir' and 'salaam' them? Can we not remind them daily, to justify their salaries and allowances? After all it is our 'tax rupee' that sustains them, and every one pays some tax or the other.
The extreme hard work and dedication shown by our citizens is only to be seen to be believed. They are almost cent percent successful outside this country, that is outside the control of the 'elected representatives' and 'selected administrators'. So it is obvious where the problem is. Yet we do not teach our children the 'real lessons' of life. We are keen only in the 'rat race'. Obviously, they want to 'run away' to better locations. The problem citizens are a small percentage of our society, same as in other large nations. They get power to operate only through apathy of the larger majority.
Now coming to providing housing for the 'poor' in Mumbai, lets understand what their status was, where they came from; what they expected to be; what can their 'well wishers' provide from their 'own income'. It is very easy to be generous and donate other person's wealth (tax rupee). Have any of the 'sobbing' NGOs and politicos honestly contributed any money from their 'own earned resources', or are they keen to spend tax payers money, that is someone else's money? Have they honestly worked at building systems or are they only playing to the gallery? Are their actions sending the right messages to the growing number of hard working and tax paying citizens who are intending to make the nation grow? If 'D-category' is getting 'free housing', 'free education', 'assured jobs' and 'free power', soon the 'C-category' will want the same. Eventually, the 'B-category' and 'A-category' will run away elsewhere. This is why communism failed all over the world, though on paper its the best form of government. Humans need to evolve much more to make such communism work.
Affirmative action is not 'giving away free' of anything please. There are no free lunches, and encroachers must not get the benefit of breach of law, or the government will have failed in it's basic duties.
For some reason, for the past one hundred years, the citizens of this land have come to expect the govt. to provide: 'permanent jobs', permanent housing, modern hospitals, modern colleges with open admission to train students who want to go abroad, manufactured products, excellent services, and what not. This has not been done anywhere in the world for such a large nation. So why expect it here. Why is the government to be 'maai baap'?
The 'inferiority complex' generated due to long 'foreign misrule' will take a long time in going, since memories of such things are long and life expectancy is getting longer. A great physicist once said, physics will progress only if physicists die. The old ideas must die for new thoughts to take birth.
Can we not teach our children to think 'out of the box' and stand on their own feet? Can we not insist on only basic governance and basic facilities from the elected government? Can we not insist on elected representatives and selected administrators to be 'servants of the citizens'. Must we keep calling them 'sir, sir' and 'salaam' them? Can we not remind them daily, to justify their salaries and allowances? After all it is our 'tax rupee' that sustains them, and every one pays some tax or the other.
The extreme hard work and dedication shown by our citizens is only to be seen to be believed. They are almost cent percent successful outside this country, that is outside the control of the 'elected representatives' and 'selected administrators'. So it is obvious where the problem is. Yet we do not teach our children the 'real lessons' of life. We are keen only in the 'rat race'. Obviously, they want to 'run away' to better locations. The problem citizens are a small percentage of our society, same as in other large nations. They get power to operate only through apathy of the larger majority.
Now coming to providing housing for the 'poor' in Mumbai, lets understand what their status was, where they came from; what they expected to be; what can their 'well wishers' provide from their 'own income'. It is very easy to be generous and donate other person's wealth (tax rupee). Have any of the 'sobbing' NGOs and politicos honestly contributed any money from their 'own earned resources', or are they keen to spend tax payers money, that is someone else's money? Have they honestly worked at building systems or are they only playing to the gallery? Are their actions sending the right messages to the growing number of hard working and tax paying citizens who are intending to make the nation grow? If 'D-category' is getting 'free housing', 'free education', 'assured jobs' and 'free power', soon the 'C-category' will want the same. Eventually, the 'B-category' and 'A-category' will run away elsewhere. This is why communism failed all over the world, though on paper its the best form of government. Humans need to evolve much more to make such communism work.
Affirmative action is not 'giving away free' of anything please. There are no free lunches, and encroachers must not get the benefit of breach of law, or the government will have failed in it's basic duties.
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