When I see the apathy of the police in Noida where the serial killing of little children took place it sickens me. In the USA when Samantha Runion a little girl was kidnapped it was treated like a national emergency till the culprits were caught. Samantha was the child of a very ordinary American. Not someone wealthy. Here the cuprits were only caught by accident after they had kidnapped and killed over 30 kids over 30 months.
Some of the smartest people in world are Indians. Yet we one of the poorest countries in the world. A recent poll showed that over two thirds of qualified youngsters wish to emigrate to another country. Isint this tragic? But why is this happening?
Look at our history and the efficiency (or rather inefficiency) of our government institutions. The judiciary is so slow and lethargic and hence inefficient ( evident in the Jessica Lal case) . Why cant we simply have a time limit of one year for cases to be resolved?
Next let us examine the role of the Police (another Govt institution). It has been proved useless so many times. Corruption is rampant. Politicians demand bribes for plum posts from the police. And then ignore their lapses. Of course theres is a quid pro quo since the police do not follow up cases of criminal politicians. Both are happy. To hell with citizens who pay both salaries.
It seems simple. First make the police independent. And accountable. Like the election commission. Also the municipal corporations. Politicians cannot have a hand in the hiring of any of these insitutions. Police FIRs should be privatised. They never take FIRs so they can show a reducing crime rate. Thats why the 30 kids were not even registered cases! Private FIRs should follow a reward /penalty system. Frivolous FIRs will attract penalties. Convictions result in rewards for both police and FIR operators. This way there is no overstaffing. In every department jobs should be outsourced as far as possible. Problems can be fixed with time
Next let us examine the public limited companies (less than 2% earn a profit), roads, water supply, sewerage, electricity supply- the list goes on and on. Inefficiency corruption and lethargy stare us in the face everytime.
The losses of the public sector enterprises since independence is over 100,000 crores which is enough to have built the best roads in the world. Instead we have the worst roads in the world with a bunch of useless public sector behemoths that still lose money provided by the taxpayer
Now let us examine the IT sector. This is the one industry that has been left to run by itself with hardly any interference. Can you beleive that is only in 1991 that this sector originated? It provides India with half its total exports! Wealth and job creation, decency (Narayanmurthy, Azim Premji are examples to our politicians) are the hallmarks of this sector.
Imagine if the whole of India had been privatised rather than nationalised by Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Where would this country have been? We would have been selling aircraft to America! Ships to Korea and even computers to Taiwan. Umemployment would have been a rarity. Poverty would have been a problem other countries faced. We would have felt sad for them for not having privatised. Like the way Europe and America feel sad for us
The worst part of all this is when I see communist governments like in West Bengal being elected. They are people who propose more government rather than less. Are they seriously trying to tell us that if we had the Ambanis and the Infosys of the country competing to provide us with water, electricity, roads and airports that we would not have been better off? Simply look what happened to the internet as soon as it was released from the hands of the government and it becomes clear. This country has been destroyed by the Politicians and the government.
Please let us privatise at least now with urgency. Let the next generation enjoy a rich and prosperous country.
Let us see the day when youngsters emmigrate to India rather than from India. Let us not see another starvation death or police apathy. Let us have a culture of efficiency and a Government that only supervises independent institutions like the Police and Defence. Then we may see our politicians do a decent job. We may see honest people becoming politicians simply out of gratitude to a country that has given them so much. Since there will not be unemployed and frustrated youth who have no other choice but to go into politics. And the Government bureaucracy will not have the control they have at present to take bribes to become rich
Let the atrociousness of Noida help us change our system
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