Make the change
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Brij Sachdeva
Governments have always been changing, will keep changing and we will always keep blaming governments for all the problems. This is good. This way we enhance the efficiency of governments in a democracy.
Ruling parties change but as far as fundamental problems like poverty, unemployment and economic growth are concerned, they remain all the same. Nothing is going to change unless we change ourselves because the fate of a country depends on the culture, nature and inclinations of its people. I am doing my bit to 'make the change' by writing this blog post.
Just another day I heard that farmers are throwing potatoes on the roads in many parts of India. Now, it would not have happened if we had focused on growth. This would not have happened if we had understood that industrial and agricultural reforms should go hand in hand. When growth comes, everyone is bound to get his share. Youth would get the employment. Some poor people may benefit as the value of their property rises. Some businesses would flourish as the customer's purchasing capacity increases. When the wind blows it enters even into the burrows of the rats and that of the snakes as well.
In the seventies and eighties, we said no to the first industrial revolution. We said no to the second industrial revolution. China grabbed these opportunities. We could not, because we are close-minded. We are closed to anything new. It is like, we stop making roads just because of the reason that if there are roads, there will be accidents.
We were against railway trains, we were against dams, we were against computers. We thought that computers would make us slaves, computers would make us lazy, and they would make us unemployed. We believe that computers are going to ruin us.
But despite all this antagonistic attitude information technology revolution by its very nature was bent upon happening to India. The contribution of the information technology sector to India's GDP increased from 1.2% in 1998 to 7.5% in 2012. It happened not because of us, but it happened despite us. IT industry by its very nature is such that we can sell our services to developed countries without actually going there.
Developed countries have immensely surplus wealth and we have immensely surplus cheap manpower. These two facts synchronized in the IT sector and the miracle just happened. It is to be understood that most of the economic growth we have seen in India in several preceding years, growing at nine per cent GDP for so many years, has been possible due to India's earnings in the IT sector.
When a ruling party changes, the developmental projects started by the previous ruling party are suspended by the new ruling party because of the simple reason that credit of the project may not go to the previous ruling party. Thousands of projects are delayed due to this credit war. In a city, a developmental project was started by one ruling party. The project was destined to be completed in at most one year. This party was in power for five years. The opposition raised some objections, so the project could not be completed in their five-year term. The party who had raised objections came to power for the next five years. Even they could not complete the project in five years. So, this party inaugurated the incomplete project, just one month before the completion of their term. Now the third party came to power. This party could not make it functional because it was incomplete but inaugurated by the previous party in power. A project originally scheduled for completion within one year experienced a delay of nearly fifteen years.
We were against railway trains, we were against dams, we were against computers. We thought that computers would make us slaves, computers would make us lazy, and they would make us unemployed. We believe that computers are going to ruin us.
But despite all this antagonistic attitude information technology revolution by its very nature was bent upon happening to India. The contribution of the information technology sector to India's GDP increased from 1.2% in 1998 to 7.5% in 2012. It happened not because of us, but it happened despite us. IT industry by its very nature is such that we can sell our services to developed countries without actually going there.
Developed countries have immensely surplus wealth and we have immensely surplus cheap manpower. These two facts synchronized in the IT sector and the miracle just happened. It is to be understood that most of the economic growth we have seen in India in several preceding years, growing at nine per cent GDP for so many years, has been possible due to India's earnings in the IT sector.
When a ruling party changes, the developmental projects started by the previous ruling party are suspended by the new ruling party because of the simple reason that credit of the project may not go to the previous ruling party. Thousands of projects are delayed due to this credit war. In a city, a developmental project was started by one ruling party. The project was destined to be completed in at most one year. This party was in power for five years. The opposition raised some objections, so the project could not be completed in their five-year term. The party who had raised objections came to power for the next five years. Even they could not complete the project in five years. So, this party inaugurated the incomplete project, just one month before the completion of their term. Now the third party came to power. This party could not make it functional because it was incomplete but inaugurated by the previous party in power. A project originally scheduled for completion within one year experienced a delay of nearly fifteen years.
My opinion is that if people start giving priority to growth and development, the political parties will be forced to adopt this priority.
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