Tasks to accomplish ???

Time has no companion. It rests for none, nor does it beacon the imbecile. It remains indifferent to each and everyone. But then, winners never shoulder the rest and seldom look at the lifeless machine which continues its voyage uninterrupted.

More than sixty years have passed since we started our journey as an independent nation. During these years we transformed from a fledgling democracy to a reckoning super power. We have conquered the moon but perhaps lost the ground.

Today, there are many challenges mocking at the doorstep of this largest democracy.

The first one being the attainment of an inclusive development – a development model taking into account the need and demands of each and every constituent. Monsoon is not just about rains it is also about season; winter and summer. Similarly, development is not just about achieving high growth rate. An increasing growth rate cannot justify the diminishing space for the survival of rural population which constitutes the majority.

There is a huge exodus moving in to penetrate the special ‘economic’ zone, created in and around the metro cities, in the hope to attain a better living and to earn a better livelihood. People thong to the cities in numbers but they are not just numbers. Satisfying their need is a tantamount task before the Indian State.

The huge influx of these people is due to the narrowing opportunities in the rural sector. The gap between the rich and the ‘rest’ is multiplying (not increasing) with each passing day. Though, division is also a widely accepted phenomenon in this part of the world. A State can’t take the risk of concocting a perennial dream if its constituents are ensnared into a quagmire of poverty.

The dichotomy of this nation lies somewhere in-between the degrading state of politics and increasing rational of corruption. It awaits another genius to decipher the science of developmental politics.

Oppression breeds resistance. The second big challenge is to contain the Naxal menace. This threat may be accredited as the extension of the first. Due to lost opportunities, absence of optimum exploitation of available resources and injustice meted out by parochial leaders are fuelling a anti-State agenda among the deprived section.

The spread of Maoism, in India, is a result of apathetic approach of the successive Governments towards developing infrastructure in the rural sector. The rich are getting richer and the poor are declining to deeper strata. The connectivity is so mean that even educational reforms and information technology take a back seat. Government schools which were supposed to enlighten the life of poor children are housing the armed battalion of the anti-naxal force.

Maoists have uncovered the true picture depicting their frustration about the Government’s apathy. But the armed struggle and killing cannot be justified as a mean to seek justice. There should be a proper channel to communicate. A specially designed architecture of developmental scheme is the need of the hour whose focal point should be to provide the benefits to the lower-unprivileged class, without any interference from the intermediaries.

Unwanted interference from various segments is another cause of concern. Corruption is proving to be a blood sucking parasite. Not just it lowers the share of beneficiary but also doubles the cost bear by the Government. The welfare schemes meant for the unprivileged itself hangs on the mercy of the privileged participant entitled with the task to disseminate them equally. However, Maoists and Maoism, in India, is an alien and an imported word. Holding the law of the land to ransom, pulling trigger and killing can’t be defended by any mean howsoever be critical. Every life is precious and should be protected so that they can contribute to the ultimate goal of nation-building, when and where the precision arises.