DIED WITH MUCH DIFFICULTY
In real life greatness is realized after death, when people
feel a vacuum. Values and worthiness of a Person/nel is felt after they
relinquish the offices.
In Politics, has anyone felt about such a vacuum after
a Prime Minister or the President demits their offices? When people elect and
continue to reelect, is it absolutely based on the value and worthiness of the
goods and services delivered?
No autobiography of those who are considered as
“Great” talks about their death with a ‘Great Difficulty’. From rags
to riches is the portrayal of the trajectory, great leaders read under the
street lights, walked miles to borrow a book, did labor, worked on daily wages
to earn a living and to study, and as street vendor…
The fame and rising to power is the death of
people, who have hopes for a better living through them. The desires and
urges of the elite peers and those at the grassroots are the same. The first tier
is across the table where the last of the peers are mere spectators and
listeners. As long as the first and the last remain so, the leader has
got his value and worthiness.
The effectiveness of the leadership is the dynamics of
holding both the ends at the place. Those who sit across the table are those
who have a share in the control over the factors determining
the subsistence of power. Those who have the financial strength to
have the strength of their voice to keep the eyes and ears of
the leadership open and the distance gradually narrows down. From
shaking hands to breakfast and working dinner meetings. The
equation in this case is devoid of consistency or equilibrium of any
kind. Most or all of these have the largest workforce in the country. The
failure of corporate power in diverting the workforce into a consolidated
vote bank in the electoral process is the main reason for their assertiveness
in political power on the economic ground.
Nearly 20 largest employers in the private sector with
over 18 lac employees. Average family strength of India if taken as 6,
Total electoral strength of these establishments would 1.08 crore direct
voters. Indirect employment in such a case may average not less than
800 persons, including street vendors, Taxi- auto drivers,
workshops, general sales and store keepers and a labor force in the peripheral
fringes, adding the strength of the electorate to 16000, enough to be a
decision maker in the constituency. The industrial establishments itself can
have as many as 15 Lok Sabha Constituencies. If Industrial and
Institutional establishments scattered at different states
create electoral constituencies and send well versed managerial persons
with sound knowledge in planning and coordinated development, it would be
a new beginning in the country.
An industry employing ten thousand persons would
be adequate to create an economic centre and regime within itself. Demand
for housing, food, essentials, tobacco, alcohol, health services,
hospitals and transport and other public utilities. The labor requirement
extends to Home services like home maids, gardeners, and small farming
communities.
Where did our industry and administration fail?
The administration gives clearance for design, pollution
Control, Industrial waste disposal and safety standards. Chemicals or raw
materials which are transported into and out of the factory premises would
require a separate environment along with the transit of persons. Further, the
visitors, trading groups all will contribute towards the swinging
population. Entertainment, recreation and open places for people to rest,
children to play, Educational facilities, workshops, skilled, semiskilled and
unskilled human resources all gradually will grow in strength. The
concept of spacing is positioning of people within an administrative structure.
This forms the basis of Administrative management. Energy requirement and the
trajectory of growth in energy requirement for the growth in production and
productivity should have its own positioning in a planning process. The
crunch of natural resources and the sourcing out and such futuristic costs will
bring burden on the administration. Sewage, potable water, water
requirements for cleaning and irrigating public parks, household gardens , automobiles,
washing and other utilities of domestic and commercial processes would also
grow proportionately over the period of time. If the production escalates
beyond a calculated time period, the pressure factor on the administrative
system also will collapse.
Such a collapse of administrative plan failures becomes
evident in every city and township in India. The best examples are
Bangalore and Pune. The Peenya industrial estate began in the 1970s as a
trendsetter in India. By mid 1970s the high precision technologies that took
entry in India was the beginning of futuristic nuclear, space and avionic
technology development. Hassan the nearby district grew
phenomenally in the next decade; the district has as many as over 3200
manufacturing units, beginning with the Space for ISRO. The total number of
educational and Professional institutions in the district altogether may
not be found in some states of India.
Nearby Coimbatore in Tamilnadu state is
another indicator in the steady Industrial growth, beginning in the latter
part of 19th century. Tirupur, before truncating from
Coimbatore District became the centre of Textile Industry, Coimbatore grew
as a major industrial centre manufacturing heavy machineries, Diesel
Engines, printing press and several electrical and electronic components.
Coimbatore – Tirupur- Nagapatnam became another major hub for
industrial Production and Information Communication Technology.
Indore, Devas, Gwalior, Bhopal, Jabalpur and Sagar
developed at a pace that could bring Madhya Pradesh to the green belt
of Industrial Production and employment. Every major industry has their foot
print in Madhya Pradesh. Mandideep becomes a unique experiment
in Industrial growth in the deep interior of India.
How does the administration cope with the fast pace of
Industrial growth?
Detailed Project report of any Industrial unit should
have led into the existing societal structure, amenities and
facilities available in the Project Area. All DPRs talk loud about
the land, resources, climate, and factors favourable for
the unit, scope of employment followed by technical details,
feasibility, viability, market, marketing strategies and the budgeting.
Wherever displacement of inhabitants is required it would address
the rehabilitation and financial incentives to establish in the relocated
areas.
All the Industrial centres had a humble beginning, bringing
in workers and expertise drawn from other places of the state and
from the state. A new cultural zone and alien food and living
habits take its roots. Slowly, other industries are attracted. From
the 1980s, Industrial Centres, Industrial Growth centres, Industrial estates,
Industrial parks and economic zones have become a part of the Urban
Development and Industrial planning of almost every state.
Few square kilometer areas of Agricultural lands are
acquired and divided into Industrial areas, Institutional Areas,
Residential and Business Areas. Lanes and by lanes and roads within
these demarcated zones do not hold the traffic requirement once the area
becomes 60% or little more fully developed. Main connecting roads become
congested and the expansion of National and State Highways do not
correspond to the load of traffic at peak hours.
Indian society does not rely on public transport. Most of
the public transport systems have a minimum comfort level
and prolonged waiting time. In the past 20 years the
ownership of automobiles. The growth of Production and sales of passenger
vehicles in India was not proportional to surface area growth and traffic
holding capacity of the roads, India had no projection of a long term planning
in the infrastructure and administrative planning. By the time facilities are
upgraded, the requirement would be far ahead and the imbalance widens.
The expenditure of the government in infrastructure development leads
to loans and borrowings, interest and repayment pressures. The
wrong and defective planning of decade would lead to a negative
growth and fiscal constraints in every plan period,
India never had a long term budgetary projection for 50
years with a decadal and four year term of Governments and annual plans
accordingly.
India needs an effective local Planning, Administration and
Resource Management system that are functional and self-sustaining. The
process should have come into force from 1952, the time when the financial
system began to collapse. The political system relied on intellectual
faculties who were excellent theoreticians with adequate practical experience
to defeat the five year plans they had conceived. The rolling plan period was
the right time for India to wake up from the sleep, yet failed.
India does not fall under a generalized economic theory.
India was never a poor country or the people would not have faced hunger
and poverty. We have a political leadership that does not have any basic idea
of Policy making and has an executive that lives in a world of illusions.
What they think is the best, and then comes a scholastic class of academicians
who can address any issue, and are good in quoting and interpretation. India
missed Original ideas, initiatives and innovations.
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