Anent to a message floating on “Orkut” pertaining to the preeminence of the qualifications of our esteemed Prime Minister, I would like to clarify my stand on the topic.
As prefatory remark I would like to say, “I do not buy the sentiment of Manmohan Singh’s qualifications being any way commensurate towards a better India.”
Two years back when the UPA government came out victorious to form the polity in the world’s largest democracy, every one was ecstatic that finally India had the most highly learned people chairing both the highest orders in the Indian State. And so was I.
Not crossing the line to the presidential camp; I will keep the views restricted to the Center Government of India.
Every week a sum close to Rs. 200 turns to vehicular fumes from my pocket owing to the unprecedented hike in petrol prices. It’s a blatant truth that the oil prices in the have risen in the international market. But what has the government done to negate such escalation of prices. We still mope under the heavy taxes levied on the prices.
I have to make it clear that I will not retrospect to any former government in the Indian System. A new government comes into power to make changes where the previous one was left wanting.
But the major question is still left answered. What has the Prime Minister done to improve the helm of affairs amongst the masses owing to his so called scholarly qualifications? A few months ago, while the heat was mounting in the Indian subcontinent, the Manmohan Singh government was busy promulgating a precipitous rise in the “Caste-Based Reservations” in the high profile institutes. The ghost of Mandal again lurked in the campuses of higher learning, making the whole milieu a spectral matter. The whole issue was revitalized because of the election manifesto which the UPA government aired during the general elections. So now let me ask the PM, “Where his scholarly instincts that he is ready to jeopardize the careers of millions of students due to reservations? A selection into an IIM demands a percentile >98% (which includes 200 sleepless nights and 365 days of mental stress) in the general category. And the same goes for IITs, IIMs, NITs (more than 365 days of turmiol, hardwork and trauma). So now if the reservations are in place one can well imagine the hardship the students will have to face. The competition is not cut throat; rather it’s “smash the head.” PM himself being such a learned man with such great academic accomplishments should know what it means to be a student. There are better ways to improve the plight of the down trodden. During one my NSS camp in the second year of my under-graduate course, we visited a nearby village for a 10 day camp. The work involved taking care of the sanitary and drainage system in the village, beautification of the village school, teaching lessons to the school kids and other myriad volunteer works. The status of the school education was pathetic. Low attendance, dust laden sheets on which the students were sitting and that too under the tree, the precarious school building or should I say a two room structure was what we saw in the name of primary education. This is just a paradigm of the straits of the whole education system in India. I think before imposing reservations on one group and appeasing and indulging the other group for tendentious gains, the government establishment should ameliorate the education system throughout the country. And I bet they won’t need any reservation to help the downcasts.
One of my friends remarks in this way to my stand of taking Wisdom over Qualification.
“If you don’t know ur History than I will like you to go back to the
year 1991 during P. V. Narasimha Rao rule as PM and understand the changes
laid down by him as Finance Minister. Because of the reforms and
provision laid down AT THAT TIME you are able to drive a HYUNDAI car and see
Foreign Companies coming to India and other countless things RIGHT NOW.
Compare the current India with the India before 1991.”
Well now I will start by flurry of blows at this excerpt from that mail. The guy himself makes the fallacies shine.
First and foremost question, how many Indians manage to drive Hyundai cars? A good percentage of the Indian population is still on bullock carts. Millions still sleep without food. Children still struggle for a morsel. And what’s the use of a Hyundai car if the fuel strangulates the home budget. Foreign companies entering India is a step forward and is a mark of development. Status quo at that time needed such reforms.
He gave you a Hyundai car is just what is expected of a statesman sitting at the top most chair of the country. A hungry stomach needs no luxuries. Food for the starving masses is the real savor. Besides people were happy with Maruti 800 aswell.
With great powers come great responsibilities (courtesy Spiderman I).
And I am sorry to say that his ways have not convinced me…Again a government with no respite to the country’s needs.
There are other expects which need to be looked rather than molding the constitution in their own interests whether in the form of changes in the RTI or Office of Profit. Why don’t they look towards the east where the neglected states cry for assistance? And when people turn against the government for the inactivity, they are termed as terrorists. You give food and development to every Kasbah and see what happens, “Agar sukh aur shanty India mein nahin ayi to naam badal dena mera”
And the same goes for J&K.
“Qualifications are no substitute to Wisdom”
It can make you elligible but cannot vow sapience
With all due respects to the PM
May GOD help him in his ventures and a hand to help the masses.
P.S.- Any reference to the PM in the above text is a collective term used for the Government. I am not targeting any single personality
5 comments:
Ankush the point is not about the Hyundai Car. The point is the coming of new Facility to India after 1991.
You say no body have Cars than i will say you have 2 cars urself. just pick up ur bike and go for a garri and count the cars u see in the road.
u say mouth not having enought to eat than i will say ask their parents that why the hell are they having 9-10 kids
remember one thing its the people who form the government. if you are so conserned, go and become the PM of India and try to Improve the nation. i want to see now how good u perform
as i said before - the problem is not the PM, the problem is the people of India himself. the people need to rise up
buddy First and foremost thing..you better keep this in mind that whenever you litter my blog...kindly doo it under a name..
"Anonymous is not cool"
Second, I would love to be the Prime Minister any day and any time. just though the buck and i am GAME. You say why i am tooo concerned, I say coz i think i am a responsible citizen of India and it's my duty and right to shout my points and show resentment at the apathy shown by government. It's such a preposterous thing to say "why am I concerned about it?"..huh!!
Pitty you...i think people like you should rise and awake..rather than asking me.
The new facilities are coming to India....they had to come..the govenrment earns with these new new companies entering India. This serves the Govt., the country, the company and the people. but this is not related to the core of the issue.
And i think you did not peruse the post before giving your comments.
I never said that nobody owns a car. I said a good percentage is still on archaic modes of transport.
If i do go on a gerri which i certainly do not prefer and it might be your cup of tea.
I will see the cars and the roadside slums aswell.
i guess you put some kinda goggles which only show swanky cars.
I am a memeber of AIDS awareness society of Chandigarh and i know how grave the danger it is. It's a time bomb already profusing to explode.
The government never takes any concrete steps to curb this pandemic. They never try to preach family planning(Simply airing the message on TV and radio does not serve the purpose)
you have cycle tracks in Chandigarh. Tell me how many use it. there more more scooters on it rather than cycles. So there is no proper implimentation of the schemes. Simply giving money to a young child does not make him choose what is best. You need to teach him how to spend aswell.
And my dear friend, i never said the PM is a problem.
When a PM is refered to in any text, It's a collectie word used for the government.
A government is known by the PM.
as in "The Manmohan Singh Govt."
So you took it all wrong.
i guess. better do some homework before getting into a debate.
Bai i am Ramandeep and the message was written by me and when did i told you to rise up, its for the people that i say. i tried to log in but for some reason it was not accepting my password
reading ur message what i can't understand why are you always looking at the dark side of life.
there are bad people and there are good poeple both in our regular life and in the govnernment. just because if those bad guyes we can't flame on the whole government.
Ankush as far as people going in bullock carts is conserned than tell me how can the govn improve the living standerd of more than some 1 Billion. 1/6 the population of the whole world. i am not saying what tell them be the way they are but what i am saying is how is it possible.
and ankush i agree with you on that u said about China and that is what i said - that India is just not capable for supporting this huge population. as i said before its the population what is killing India. you mentioned about oil prices than offcourse where u have soo many people than there will be over consumption of everything. its like a web of a spider linked to everthing we see. its not about oil but fool, clothing and home to live in. In chd we have ground floor, 1st floor, 2nd floor, flats, big appartment building, multistory building on other part of the cities but still when we out we see people sleeping on road. WHY
as i said before - the people including me and everyone else need to rise up and help India for its cause. we just can't put all the blame on the govn. read the paragraph u wrote about AIDS and u will notice u put all the blame on the govn.
i think we had enought with this topic. by reading ur message it fells like i hurted you some where. sorry and now hard felling and i won't be debating on this topic any more and i expect the same from ur side. TC
I hope it won't effect our relationship. sorry and NO hard fellings
bro koi desh perfect nahi hota.. use perfect banana padhta hai... but easier said then done.. let's get a gud score in GRE & get d hell out of here... If reservation policy is the Indian Govt. policy I bet India is going 2 b d nation of second-handers...
proverbial words but give it a thought... otherwise Manmohan Singh is just a pawn in d game... The real politics is played in hinterland of India & NOT Delhi.. Sonia Gandhi has a long-term strategy of enforcing Dynastic rule through Rahul Gandhi... He had d ballz 2 say dat if wanted HE could be PM anyday... Bush might b an ASS but probably when 60 million children kids r malnourished in our country u know whom to blame..
also we would send helluva amount of dollars back home & contribute in some way in INDIAN success story... D terrorist's should have blown up parliament street rather then common people in subways.. amen...
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