MY COUNTRY INDIA

And

FEELINGS

of

A COMMON MAN

By

Dr. Vinay Kumar Chadha

All rights are reserved

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Preface

This book has been written on basis of my personal feelings about inner

conflicts of the existing social set up and prevailing living conditions of

people of my country and also on the basis of personal interaction, over a

period of many years, with people of different sections of the society of my

country ranging from poor human beings to high Government officials &

businessmen with social tags of scheduled cast (SC), scheduled tribe (ST),

other backward class (OBC) and general category (GC).

I hope this book will be helpful for all members of “Sarvochaya Serva Manav

Samaaj”, the highest Creation of the God, of my country in enhancing feelings

of oneness, brotherhood and social harmony among different sections of the

society irrespective of their identification caste, creed, religion and region.

I would also like to mention that the character “Ram Niwas” in this book is

totally imaginary and does not relate to anyone living or dead.

The views expressed in this book do not intend to hurt the feelings of any

individual and in case the feelings of anyone are hurt, then I extremely regret

that.

The author of this small book is a medical graduate from Institute of Medical

Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and has taken voluntary

retirement for a social cause after putting in 35 plus years of glorious central

government medical service.

Author

Dr.Vinay Kumar Chadha

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CHAPTER ONE

A COMMON MAN versus GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION

This is my country India with a population of about 121 crore people. Here I

always feel that I have my own people. My country is known by many names

as India, Hindustan, Bharatvarsh or Bharat and its people are known as

Indians, Bhartiya or Hindustani world-wide who speak different kinds of

languages and have diverse culture.

I am known in my country as a common man “aam aadmi”, the term that

includes crores of poor and middle class people of my country, you can say

whom nobody knows or recognizes as a prominent citizen. I can be a Hindu,

Muslim, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Parsi or anybody who remains as an unknown

identity for other crores of people of my country except for one’s near and

dear ones.

I generally live only on hopeless hopes and dreams that one day, time will

come when my circumstances, my life, my family’s life, my living conditions

will also change for better in my country. When I will have sufficient potable

water to drink, sufficient food to eat for myself and my family, will have good

school for my children, will have minimum basic civic amenities in my area,

improved sanitation conditions, a house away from choked and stinking

drains, when there will not be any water, mosquito, housefly and food borne

diseases like gastroenteritis, worms infestation, typhoid fever, jaundice,

malaria, dengue, filariasis. When there will not be any mixing of potable water

with sewer water. When health authorities will do their job sincerely and

regularly to supply safe drinking water to the helpless people of my country.

When the kitchen, attached with hotels, restaurants, eating joints and catering

service providers, where food is prepared will be regularly checked for

maintaining hygienic conditions in preparation of food. When food handling

staff and venders in the market will be regularly and sincerely checked

medically by the health authorities to exclude any contagious or

communicable diseases in them. It is pitiable to see some small restaurants,

food venders in cities, towns and villages selling snacks and sweets in totally

unhygienic conditions just near open and choked drains with plenty of

houseflies around and with moving traffic on side of restaurants and food

venders releasing lot of contaminated dust getting settled down over the

snacks and sweets and the poor people unknowingly buying that contaminated

food stuff without realizing the consequences adversely affecting their health.

I fail to understand why sale of such contaminated food stuff is allowed by the

health authorities.

I do not know when the health and education delivery system for the people of

my country will be considered a top priority by my government

administration. When the people of my country will have continuous supply

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of electricity in agriculture sector, industries, commercial establishments and

residential areas and when all roads of my country will be well maintained and

adequately lit.

When agriculture produce in my country will not get rotten and wasted in

open for want of adequate cold storage capacity where millions of poor people

are facing problem of hunger.

I also do not know when no one will dare to manufacture and sell adulterated

milk, milk products and other eatables. When no one will dare to manufacture

and sell spurious medicines in the market. When no one will dare to play with

the health and life of the people of my country. When no one manufacture and

sell fake and duplicate spare automobile parts. When law enforcing agencies

will do their job sincerely and my country will be free from crimes and

criminals. when I will feel safe and secured for myself and my family in my

house, in my village, in my city and anywhere in my country.

But unfortunately I have yet to see the implementation of required minimum

basic needs of a common man of my country being fulfilled for one’s decent

living and these living conditions make me sad and frustrated.

As if above factors are not enough for my sufferings, I am also being

frequently exploited by different political parties and their leaders for political

sponsored “bandhs”, “dharnas”, agitations, strikes and very importantly my

vote at the time of periodical elections of corporations, state assemblies and

parliament. It is me who is tortured mentally in all walks of my life in one

way or the other by the attitude and policies of the same political leaders and

their representatives who are voted to power generally by this very poor

common man.

These days a common man is a very popular term and is being used by the

leaders and their political parties alike in election manifestoes and election

speeches. Since it is me in this poor common man who gets easily lured by the

hopes and dreams shown by the leaders of different political parties, hopes

which are never meant to be fulfilled. Many of these political leaders are

always eager to exploit the caste, religious and regional sentiments of a

common man through media and other existing propaganda methods with the

basic aim to divide these classes of common man for the purpose of

polarization of different sections of the society on the basis of caste, creed,

religion and region for the sake of so called vote bank politics. Apart from

this, a common man is also being targeted fearlessly by the notorious elements

in the society involved in cheating business by floating fake companies, by

doing cloning of credit cards and by doing different types of frauds.

In the name of poor common man or for the sake of common man, our leaders

of various political parties are promising one thing or the other to alleviate

their sufferings which are in fact the creation of their own political deeds and

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policies. In a way they first mentally hit a common man and put him under

stress and then pretend trying to find out remedies. A very good example of

this was recently seen in very important northern state of my country where

first authorities allowed very large number of unauthorized colonies, with

population of about 50 lakh, to flourish for many year without any provision

of basic civic amenities, without any system of sewage and garbage disposal

forcing the people of the unauthorized colonies to live in totally unhygienic

conditions in constant company of foul stink, plenty of mosquitoes &

houseflies for years together. This was done without any concern for the

residents about creation of unhygienic living conditions for them and then for

political gains the leaders of the ruling party sympathized with the residents of

those unauthorized colonies and announced regularization of the unauthorized

colonies near the times of elections by doing wide publicity. I fail to

understand why at all these unauthorized colonies were allowed to flourish

without providing the area with basic civic amenities. Have the authorities

taken any punitive action against the responsible officers and staff who

allowed the residents to build unauthorized colonies without provision of

basic civic amenities thus forcing the residents to live in a deplorable

unhygienic conditions resulting in many of the preventable water borne,

mosquito borne and food borne diseases in those particular colonies with

spread of these diseases to other parts of the state. Such a situation seems to be

totally appalling & disgusting.

Innocent children living in deplorable conditions in my country

I fail to understand why people do not understand that only by keeping their

houses clean, without any concern for surrounding areas and other colonies

with deplorable sanitary conditions, will not prevent the breeding of

mosquitoes and houseflies and the occurrence of diseases like dengue,

malaria, typhoid fever and jaundice. All cities, towns, villages in my country

are dirty with filthy and unhygienic conditions prevailing all around and are

required to be kept clean with laying of proper sewerage system with a system

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of proper disposal of garbage and supply of safe drinking water along with

other measures to prevent all preventable diseases.

I fail to understand why sincere efforts were not made by the concerned

authorities to prevent all commonly occurring preventable diseases. I feel

application of knowledge of preventive medicine has not been sincerely put to

use in my country.

Always it is me in a common man who suffers during rainy season on broken

roads sometimes even putting my life in danger of drowning by walking on

water logged streets with invisible deep drains without manhole covers. It is

me who suffers from many preventable diseases like dengue, malaria, typhoid

fever, gastroenteritis, jaundice etc, It is me who has to constantly bear the foul

stink from the open and choked drains near my residential colony. It is me

who has to live in company of plenty of mosquitoes and houseflies in my

house and in my locality. It is me who always suffer regarding issues relating

to insufficient basic civic amenities like water, electricity, schools, roads and

poor sanitation. It is me who suffers for want of safety, security of self and

family members. It is me who suffers from poor education and health delivery

system, poor housing, rampant corruption and from fear of being cheated

anywhere in money matters or in purchase of adulterated consumables like

milk, milk products, oil, cereals or even spurious medicines required for the

sick members of one’s family.

Sanitation has so far been totally neglected by the authorities for the last 65

years and no sincere efforts have been made to reduce the human sufferings in

my country from the preventable diseases being spread through contaminated

water, mosquitoes, houseflies and food. The authorities are not making any

sincere efforts to eliminate breeding of mosquitoes & houseflies, supply

clean potable water to the people of my country and do not have any effective

concern for food safety. No one in my city, town or village knows who will be

the next target of dreaded gastroenteritis, dengue fever, malaria, typhoid or

jaundice. I feel that the priorities of the government administration for

required areas of development are totally misplaced.

Life in Slums in my country

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I feel, in fact, our leaders don’t want that the sufferings of a common man

should ever be mitigated. That is why that most of the time their policies are

without looking into the common problems of this common man of the

country, who constitutes majority of population of our country as a whole.

The policies of our existing leaders have a clear motive of dividing the

different sections of society of a common man of this country on the basis of

caste, creed, religion or region for achieving their personal goals in politics. I

feel our leaders always work to increase their vote bank through dubious ways

of polarizing the society on the basis of caste, creed, religion region and by

excessive use of money power for on the spot purchase of vote of poor people

of the society by distributing small amount of money in cash, alcoholic drinks

and other intoxicants making the poor people addicted to the intoxicants for

each vote rather than by working positively for common man of the country to

alleviate one’s sufferings.

Why our leaders do not make sincere efforts to make our country worth living

place where no one is scared to drink water anywhere, where there will not be

any need of mineral water, where everyone feels safe and secured for self and

one’s family, where sanitary conditions are of highest order in villages, towns

and cities, where all preventable diseases as mentioned above are totally

prevented by effective preventive measures by concerned authorities to reduce

unnecessary human sufferings, where each and every citizen of my country is

respected and treated with love, care and sympathy and not with neglect and

apathy irrespective of one’s identification caste, creed, religion and region.

But it is not happening as expected by a common man of my country and

being a common man is a sort of mental torture in my country which varies

from individual to individual depending upon the economic condition of one’s

family. Poorer the economic condition, more and more numbers of mental and

physical tortures one has to face in my country and this is for sure that no one

is there to listen to one’s grievances.

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CHAPTER TWO

A COMMON MAN VERSUS SOCIETY

I live with my family as an unknown entity since many years in a village on

the periphery of one of small city of my country. You can say I am part a

larger group of people whom only very few in society recognize. Almost

similar is the story of every one in of my area.

I belong to a very poor family. My father was an illiterate and worked as a

laborer in fields of a landlord of my village with a meager earning of about

Rs. 100 per day. To meet the two ends meet, my mother used to work in

landlords house as a maid doing all household petty works with all attached

humiliation. The total income of the family varied from 3000-5000 per month.

I have two brothers and two sisters. I am the youngest child in my family. My

age is about 34 years and my name is Ram Niwas. May be my parents kept

my name as Ram Niwas as they might have thought that what can be more

beautiful and powerful than the name of God Ram and what can be more

beautiful than the house of God. But they must not have ever imagined that

the whole life of their beloved son is going to be passed in state of poverty in

a one small room house in 24 hours company of mosquitoes and houseflies

near constantly stench emanating blocked open sewer drain full of filth and

dirty water. Sanitation around my house and in a village is very poor with

open drains and pools of dirty stagnant water all around with constant stink

emanating from them. Only few houses have their own septic tanks and toilets

but others probably do not have money to have their own septic tanks and

toilet facility in houses and therefore going to the fields for natures call. There

are terrible living conditions prevailing in my area. The basic civic amenities

are totally lacking in my locality. There is no tap water, no street light, no

system of disposal of garbage, no sewerage system and no roads but many

poor people are also using cell phones may be the communication with cell

phones has become much better. There is one hand pump for fetching water

for the people in my locality, the water of which has never been tested for its

quality by the health authorities. There is no school in the vicinity and

children have to go to a school far away from their houses for studies. Every

time some big promises are made by the politicians during the election period

by the leaders of various political parties but once election is over nobody

bothers to address the grievances of the poor people residing over there.

Sometimes some people are tortured by the winning or losing political party

for their known political inclinations that is why everyone is scared of

speaking about their political inclination. I have seen over the period of time

that whether you vote or do not vote, whether one’s chosen political party

wins or loses but there seems to be no improvement at all in living conditions

of poor common people.

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Living conditions of members of ‘Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj’ in my

country

Despite extreme difficulties and poor economic condition of my family I

could study and pass class 12th at the age of 19. I tried my level best to fulfill

my dreams. I started doing hard work to achieve my goals without any

guidance or coaching because of poor economic conditions of my family.

Anyhow despite poor economic condition of my family I could do graduation

in BA from a private college. Following which I started applying for the

competitive examinations. I took competitive exams for group ‘C’ jobs in

Nationalized Banks, Railways, state subordinate services continuously for 3-4

times with a hope to get selected but I could not make it. But as the destiny

would have it even after a lot of hard work and even with social tag of OBC

belonging to a very poor family I failed to get selected anywhere in the

desired Government job and ultimately started doing a petty job of a caretaker

in a factory at the age of 27. I failed to understand the advantage of this social

tag of OBC for poor people with meager income, whom many leaders and

people even call as belonging to “pichchri jaati,”.

I still remember that like many other children of my school I was not aware

of my social tag till class 9th in school when my class teacher asked each and

every child to stand up and tell about his or her social category while filling

up forms for 10th class Board examination. Though I could not answer same

day but next day I confirmed from my father that we belonged to Other

Backward Class (OBC) also called as “pichchri jaati” by many people and

political leaders alike and told my category to my class teacher the next day.

Later on I came to know that the social category of OBC of people are further

divided into Creamy and non-Creamy layer and it is non-Creamy layer of

OBC who are eligible for some reserved seats in education and Government

jobs. But what was the relation of my knowledge and examination with my

social status? At that point of time I really felt degraded and humiliated when

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class teacher asked about my social category but could not say anything.

Similar was the story of other students belonging to Scheduled caste (unsuchit

jaati), Scheduled tribe (unsuchit-janjaati) and General category when they

were also asked to stand up in class to tell their category. At that point of time

I failed to make out why these people talk about the category of human beings

but certainly now I understand that these categories are associated with certain

discriminatory benefits for the socially tagged people in the fields of

education, government service and reserved constituencies in elections to

various constitutional bodies but at the cost of self-respect of human beings.

The leaders of my country have classified the members of “Sarvochaya Serva

Manav Samaaj” of my country into four categories of SC, ST, OBC and GC

for certain negligible discriminatory benefits to them thus humiliating and

degrading the human beings and the humanity in the society before any kind

of help is rendered to those socially tagged members of the society.

I came to know through government advertisements for the various

government jobs and for admission in higher education that 15% vacancies are

reserved for SC and 7.5% of vacancies are reserved for ST category of human

beings without any ceiling on income for the beneficiaries indicating if the

person is earning even more than two lakh per month still one’s children are

entitled to the benefits of the reservation, on the other hand 27% vacancies are

reserved for non-Creamy OBC category of human beings with ceiling of

annual income up to 6lacs/year (50,000/month).

But I always feel is the government really interested in helping poor people or

already well off people? I feel that because of wide disparity of financial

status among different sections of socially tagged SC, ST and OBC category

of people, this reservation policy is just a mirage “MIRIG TRISHNA” for the

majority of eligible poor class of socially tagged people and I feel it has

become a recurrent cycle of advantage for the children of economically and

educationally well off socially tagged SC,ST and OBC category of people.

On the face of it, it seems to be a good percentage of reservation for the

socially tagged people but looking into about 85crore of 121 crore people of

my country being socially tagged how does it make a difference for those

majority of socially tagged poor people who still live in a miserable conditions

without even minimum basic civic amenities in comparison to those negligible

percentage of already economically and educationally well off socially tagged

people with all facilities and privileges at their door step resulting in

absolutely negligible advantage for majority of socially tagged poor people.

No doubt there are various welfare schemes run by central and state

governments for socially tagged people of SC,ST,OBC category and

minorities but I totally fail to understand why there seems to be no positive

effect of these beneficial welfare schemes on the poor socially tagged people

of this country who still are forced to lead a miserable life without even

minimum basic civic amenities. These poor people are still living in an

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absolutely unhygienic conditions without potable water, electricity, toilets,

sewerage system in constant company of mosquitoes and houseflies adjacent

to blocked open drains and pool of stagnant dirty filthy water.

But certainly many people fail to understand that I like others, belong to the

highest and the best creation of the God, the “sarvochya rachna” constituting

“Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj” of which I am also a member like any

other human being all over the world. I don’t understand why has this best

creation of the God the “Sarvochaya Rachna” has been labeled and

categorized by the leaders of my country.

Now since quite some time “common man” has become a very popular term

and is being commonly used and almost always exploited on the issues

concerning common man like inflation, fuel prices in my country for the sake

of political gains by organizing politically sponsored agitations, bandhs,

dharnas, strikes by various political parties for their political gains. The

majority of crowd of people taking part in the agitations, “dharnas”, “bandhs”,

strikes is always formed by the common man and is also at the receiving end

of police “lathi” charge, police firing and arrests. But unfortunately it is this

common man, in whose name these political agitations are organized, suffers

much more during such large scale agitations at local or national level than

without them. During these “bandhs” and strikes at national level all transport

system comes to standstill with undue stoppages of trains mid way between

stations putting traveling people of all age groups to suffer a lot for hours

together who eagerly and desperately wait to reach their destinations without

water, eatables in scorching heat without any fault of theirs. Government

transport buses are unnecessarily damaged and burnt which are meant for

these very common people who burn them. During such agitations daily wage

earners like “rehrri walas”, “rickshaw walas” and daily wagers like them are

hit hard without any earning whose families survive on little earnings on daily

basis. Sometimes serious patients cannot be taken to hospitals as roads leading

to hospitals are blocked. Many office goers cannot reach their offices. Normal

life gets virtually paralyzed with the resultant huge financial loss and the

height is when sponsoring leaders from political parties term the strikes and

“bandhs” as successful with broad smile on their face without even a little

concern for the poor daily wage earners and their families who survive on the

daily earnings and whose bread they have snatched for a day, serious patients

who could not be taken to hospitals, children who could not reach schools and

colleges and those who got seriously injured or killed during police action

with huge economic loss to the nation. This is all very unfortunate for my

poor developing nation where all round poverty with high hunger index is

very much visible without any concern of those leaders.

But unfortunately there are no strikes, agitations, “bandhs” and “dharnas”

organized by any of the political parties for real concerns of the common

man regarding insufficient basic civic amenities, unavailability of potable

water, insufficient electricity, lack of sanitary conditions with poor sewerage

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system, absent surface drainage system, very poor roads, frequent stagnation

of water here and there, mosquitoes, houseflies and food borne diseases like

dengue, malaria, filaria, typhoid fever, jaundice, diarrhea etc, frequent thefts

and frequent occurrence of heinous crimes like rapes, murders, dacoities, road

hold-ups etc. There are no protests by the political parties for very important

concern of common man regarding one’s safety and security in day to day life.

I fail to understand why these political parties do not protest regarding main

basic issues concerning common man? May be they do not have solutions for

those basic issues or there is no deliberate attempt to solve these basic issues

of much concern to poor common man. The issues of poor basic civic

amenities and poor sanitation related diseases, poor health and education

delivery system are giving much more problems to a common man.

But the political parties are always eager to misuse the common man for the

purpose of mass agitations, “dharnas”, “bandhs” and valuable votes. Common

man is always seen as a vote bank by the politicians of various political parties

alike as it has been observed over a period of time that it is mainly the poor

common man who votes in majority in each election and constitutes majority

of vote share. More over it is me in this poor common man who easily gets

lured by some money and alcohol as on the spot bribe apart from mostly false

promises of getting jobs, water, electricity, roads and overall development of

the area by the politicians of different political parties during times of election.

The political parties are always eager to exploit the caste, religious and

regional sentiments of a common man through media and other existing

propaganda methods with the basic aim to divide these classes of common

man belonging to same “Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj”. It seems to be

very unfortunate for my country. It is totally surprising and troublesome for

me as a common man as to why my politicians and leaders don’t function in

the larger interest of all round prosperity and progress of people of my

country.

I certainly appreciate some good development in field of science &

technology in my country but either the development is just not sufficient for

a very high population of my country or your development filter is so

microscopic that the effects and the benefits of development have failed to

percolate down to the masses or the priorities for the required areas of

development are wrongly placed that the common man “aam aadmi”, is still

facing lot of problems in one’s day to day life. Everything seems to be done in

the name of this poor common man by our national & state leaders but

nothing seems to be working for him who unfortunately continues to survive

only on hopeless hopes and dreams and is still very much suffering from the

ill effects of poor governance.

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CHAPTER THREE

EDUCATION –THE FUTURE OF MY COUNTRY

Right from the time of independence of our country or even before that there

was no bar of any kind on taking education by going to the schools and

colleges. But the access to the education was available to the very few

percentage of our population because of the good economic condition of their

families. Education to majority of the children was in a way intentionally

denied by their parents for the probable reasons of Poverty, lack of schools,

gender based education with preference to educate male children, lack of

safety and security to a girl child or the far distanced schools.

At present also almost same factors are responsible for contributing to lack of

education and illiteracy. These factors are lack of 100% quality and

meritorious teachers, lack of good teaching in schools with stress on private

tuition and coaching by school teachers, poor infrastructure of schools without

separate toilets for girls & boys, play ground, higher cost of education and

lack of job oriented education in the schools resulting in knowledge without

its practical and economical utility.

Other factors are lack of uniform syllabus in the country excluding regional

languages, categorization of the different social groups of human beings

resulting in social discrimination of children in schools, gender based

discrimination with preference of son’s education,

I feel the “Right To Education Act” with education only up to 14 years of age

and with inclusion of existing policy of reservation will not make any

difference till above mentioned probable factors are solved in the larger

interest of children and future of the country by following ways:

1. Imparting vocational training in different skills: There is an availability of

only about 20% skilled work force in my country and remaining about 80%

work force is unskilled. This is because of lack of job oriented education in my

country resulting in low employment capabilities and poor economic conditions

of the people of the country. It is pertinent to impart job oriented skills to the

school going children in vocational courses at school level by introducing at

least two vocational courses in schools which will function in collaboration with

existing industries, Industrial Training Institutes, Vocational Training Centers or

the best artisans of the area. At least 90-120 minutes of total school timings need

to be utilized for training in vocational courses from 8th class onwards twice or

thrice a week and during vacations. The children are likely to learn at least

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50-60% trade in various vocational skills by the time they pass out 10th or 12

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standard. This training at school level to the children will be very useful in

certain professional jobs with increase in rate of employment. The children are

likely to get jobs in the same industry or with same artisan where they have

learnt skills during 5 years of vocational training from 8th-12 class of their

schooling and industries and artisan will get the skilled workforce from among

the same group of children trained by them. It will be a win-win situation for

both industries and children. This way in a long run about 80% of our unskilled

workforce can turn into a skilled workforce resulting in almost 100% skilled

workforce in our nation.

This will certainly help to uplift the poor members and youth of my country in

getting economically self dependent in the society, training industries will get

more skilled workforce, employment rate will increase, crime rate will be

remarkably reduced with employment of more and more skilled workforce,

hunger index will go down, human development index will go up, gross

happiness index and social harmony at national level will increase thus making

the nation much stronger and more peaceful.

2. Capitation fee: It is a curse in my country where unmeritorious children

with sound economic condition of their families can also acquire degrees in

different professional fields by paying hefty amount in lakhs resulting in

flourishing business of opening private colleges in various fields of education.

This business has spread all over the country with output of likely

substandard professionals in fields of even medicine and engineering hence I

feel this kind of education with capitation fee is required to be curbed in the

larger interest of the nation.

3. More schools with Good infrastructure: there is need to improve the

infrastructure of the existing schools with separate toilets for girls and boys,

supply of sufficient water, play ground and opening of more and more schools

where children don’t have to move a long distance from their residences.

Budgetary allocation for education sector needs to be increased to impart good

comprehensive education to the children in an effort to make strong nation.

4. Appointment of quality teachers: the importance of teacher in making

fruitful future of the children thus resulting in strong future of the country

must not be undermined and only quality and meritorious teachers are

required to be appointed at all levels of education. The teaching profession is

required to be given higher respect, status and emoluments at all levels to

attract good quality professional teachers. There is need to start State

Teaching Service and Central Teaching Service for appointing meritorious

teachers at school level for building a strong foundation for the growing

children.

5. Safety and security of girl child. Safety and security of girl child needs to

be ensured through tougher laws to allay fear in the minds of parents sending

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their daughters to the schools and punishment of the culprits by fast track

courts need to be ensured.

6. Affordable fee as per economic status:

Slab system of fee structure for children as per the economic status of their

parents needs to be put in place instead of uniform fee system in order to make

education affordable for the majority of common poor children of my country.

7. Uniform syllabus: Uniform syllabus except for optional subjects in

regional languages in different states needs to be put in place all over the

country far imparting uniform job oriented education in era of competitive

examinations at state and national levels to make self dependent citizens.

8. Apart from teaching moral values, efforts to control crime at school

level by imparting the basic knowledge of different kinds of punishment, their

associated stigma and consequences against committing a crime of any kind

needs to be inculcated in the minds of children to induce a sort of fear

psychosis in an effort to make them law abiding and disciplined citizens from

the very beginning.

9. Education to all children till 10th class, as against education only up to the

age of 14 years as per Right To Education Act, needs to be ensured by the law

and made a low cost affair to enable the willing children to have good

education as long as they want to study with limited financial resources of

majority of people.

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CHAPTER FOUR

YOUTH POPULATION VERSUS

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

With about 60-65 Cr youth population (about 50% of total population) of my

country, public & private sector has failed to provide enough jobs and

employment opportunities to the youth population resulting in unavoidable and

vital problem of an unemployment of mostly unskilled but educated and

uneducated youth population of my country, who could contribute remarkably

in economic growth of my country, needs to be tackled on a priority. As this

vital segment of my country has been constantly ignored by the successive

governments, the signs of perceptible increasing levels of frustration, irritation

and intolerance in the youth of the country is leading them to committing

heinous crimes like attempt to murder, murders on just slightest provocation in

day to day life and other criminal activities of road hold ups, looting of banks,

kidnapping, rapes & more importantly they are getting entrapped by the anti

national forces into more dangerous field of terrorism for certain monetary

gains.

I always used to feel about how to solve this unavoidable and immediate

problem of an unemployment in such a high percentage of youth population of

my country which in turn is linked to various acts of different criminal activities

in the society, thus disturbing peace in the country, so that the youth of my

country is absorbed in meaningful productive employment.

I feel that the jobs in the public sector are very few in relation to large

percentage of unemployed youth population and it should not be the prerogative

of only very few percentage of total population to serve the country till 58,60,62

and 65 years of age. Therefore I feel that as an immediate measure the

retirement age should be reduced to 55 years for all future employments in

government sector with exception of teaching profession in higher education

and judiciary. There is also an urgent need to reduce the retirement age from 58,

60, 62 & 65 years to 55 years in two slabs of equal years in two years duration

in Central government, State governments, PSUs, Nationalized Banks and

Union Territories in existing strength of employees except teaching profession

in higher education and judiciary by giving some extra incentives in proportion

to the remaining duration of service so as to create at least about 1.5 Cr of jobs

of total working strength of the serving population between age group of 55-65

years in Central and State governments, PSUs, Nationalized Banks and Union

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Territories. In addition to creating about 1.5 crore jobs for more energetic youth

population of the country over a period of two years, required posts against the

existing vacancies in various departments of Central and State governments,

PSUs, Nationalized Banks and Union Territories need to be filled up on urgent

basis.

In addition to above urgent measures, there is a need to create more job

opportunities by creating infrastructure on priority in energy and other sectors.

Apart from this, imparting vocational skills in children by continuous

training in vocational courses at school level from 8th class onwards as explained

above in chapter three of this book will go a long way in making the youth

economically self dependent and in solving the problem of unemployment in the

youth population of my country.

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CHAPTER FIVE

HEALTH –THE ECONOMIC LIFE LINE OF MY COUNTRY

Life of the nation is determined by health of its people , the better the health ,

the longer the life line of the country with resultant robust economic strength

and poorer the health of its people ,the shorter the life line of the country with

resultant weaker economic strength due man days loss. Everyone knows that

only the healthy person can contribute economically in the development of a

country and sick person only adds to the man days loss leading to economic

loss. In one of the recent survey conducted by international agency the total

expenditure on small infections in our nation was Rs.69000 crore in one year

while the annual health budget outlay was only Rs. 34500 crore. The man

days loss was very high with huge economic loss. I feel there is an urgent

need to prevent about 70% of commonly prevailing preventable water borne,

mosquito and housefly borne, food and sex borne diseases to reduce the

human sufferings and man days loss. Moreover I feel that effective health

delivery system should be the responsibility of the government to take care of

the health of the people with stress on prevention of commonly occurring

diseases and make the health services affordable to all citizens irrespective of

their economic status.

In my view following measures need to be taken urgently if we really want

that all our members of “Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj” remain healthy

and happy and our nation remains economically strong for all times to come.

1. Application of preventive measures: Everybody knows prevention

is better than cure but this has remained as a mere advice and neither people

nor government followed the principal of prevention which could have

checked unwarranted human sufferings and casualties resulting in huge man

days loss with resultant economic loss. Our almost all cities, towns and

villages are virtually dirty with open stagnant drains, broken sewers lines or

no sewerage system at all with inadequate number or none of Sewerage

Treatment Plants. There is stagnation of filthy water here and there, an

excellent place for mosquito breeding with heaps of garbage scattered here

and there along with intolerable stink without any effective garbage disposal

system. The citizens are forced to live in a totally unhygienic conditions and

with unhygienic habits of many people, the spread of preventable diseases

remain totally unchecked. It is a very common sight to see the street food

venders and sweets shops selling sweets and eatables in open with

surrounding open dirty water drains with dust all around being emanated by

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moving traffic thus exposing the eatables to contaminated dust and houseflies

causing many of food borne diseases.

All water, food, mosquito, housefly borne and sexually transmitted diseases

are easily preventable and need to be prevented by all means and I am totally

surprised that as to why we fail to follow what we preach and why appropriate

preventive measures are not in place to effectively check all preventable

diseases by municipal authorities which at present are causing unwarranted

human sufferings.

Life in slum-a cause of my diseases

Prevention of preventable diseases can be effectively achieved through health

education at school level making it a part of curriculum and through media as

an immediate and long term measure apart from measures to be taken by the

government and other agencies to lay down effective sewerage system with

installation of STPs and proper disposal of treated effluent into streams and

rivers in cities and towns. The construction of common septic tanks in villages

with provision of toilets in all houses of the villages, towns and cities is a

necessity. Effective measures to eliminate breeding places of mosquitoes and

houseflies by preventing stagnation of water and accumulation of garbage

dumps are required to be taken vigorously to check mosquito and housefly

borne diseases apart from other measures of eliminating adult mosquitoes,

houseflies.

Effective steps need to be taken to check the manufacturing and sale of

adulterated eatables and spurious medicines with serious health hazards. This

is causing big concern in the minds of poor common man but nothing much is

being done by the concerned agencies as there seems to be no fear at all in

minds of the culprits.

The good and sound health of the people of a country can prove to be a never

ending economic life line of a country but unfortunately in my country health

care delivery system is not effective for the poor common man or else lot

many of preventable diseases like gastroenteritis, jaundice, typhoid fever,

malaria, filaria, dengue and Kala-azar would have been vanished from my

country long ago remarkably reducing the sufferings and deaths from these

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dreaded diseases. The absence of preventable diseases would have also

improved the economic condition of crores of our families whose earning

capacity is much reduced due these crippling diseases. But due to negligent

and lackadaisical attitude of the concerned authorities, millions of common

men in our villages, towns, cities are suffering from these dangerous

preventable diseases thus remarkably reducing their life span and adversely

affecting even their little earnings.

2. That availability of potable water is becoming a very big problem

in my country and is slowly getting inaccessible. Those who can afford are

forced to drink mineral water and have RO system installed in their houses as

the authorities have failed to supply clean potable water but I always think

about crores of poor people who do not have any access to clean potable water

and cannot afford buy mineral water or install RO system in their houses and

are forced to drink contaminated water with e.coli bacteria and other

contaminants responsible for many ailments. Whose responsibility is to supply

clean potable water to its citizens?

3. The widely prevalent business of manufacturing and supply of

adulterated eatables and spurious medicines in bulk and their sale through

retail in various parts of our country, without even a slightest regard for

human lives, is posing a constant danger of health hazards to human beings.

This is happening possibly due to lack of any kind of fear of law enforcing

agencies probably due to prevailing corruption and very slow justice delivery

system in the minds of greedy businessmen or else no one would have dared

to indulge in such a heinous crime of slow poisoning of human beings.

The big business of manufacturing and sale of fake or duplicate automobile

parts on cheaper rates is putting many innocent citizens on grave risk of road

accidents and needs to be checked by educating the citizens about the grave

risk associated with use of fake parts in their automobiles.

I fail to understand why government is unable to implement the tough laws to

prosecute such bad elements in fast track courts.

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CHAPTER SIX

ELECTRICITY: THE ESSENCE OF LIFE, ECONOMIC GROWTH and PROSPERITY

Although much work has been done to generate this essential component of

life for sustaining economic growth by making it available to the industries,

agriculture sector, daily needs of various commercial establishments and

residential colonies but it still falls remarkably short to meet the daily

requirement and expectations of the people of my country. Efforts seem to be

totally insufficient in view of very large population of my country and ever

increasing demands of electrical power for daily needs, agriculture, industries

and commercial establishments etc. as without this important source of energy

everything, which runs on this, comes to a standstill. Unfortunately sincere

efforts are not seen to be made to generate sufficient electricity through

conventional and unconventional sources. Many power plants are not working

to their full capacity or not working at all for want of coal and gas but why?

This shortage of electricity all over my country has resulted in use of large

quantity of generators to run the commercial establishments, hospitals and

occasionally during celebrations in cities and towns and villages leading to lot

of pollution due to emission of green house gases in already polluted

atmosphere affecting adversely health of the people of my country.

The electrical energy generated by hydro, thermal, gas and nuclear power

plants seems to be quite insufficient to meet with daily needs, therefore the

need to produce electricity through non-conventional renewable sources of

energy from solar power and wind-mill need to be encouraged at all levels

wherever possible. The perennial problem of shortage of power generation

needs to be tackled on a priority failing which all round development and

economic growth seems difficult in my country.

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CHAPTER SEVEN

SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION OF HUMAN BEINGS-

THE HIGHEST and THE BEST CREATION OF GOD

I think everyone knows that we, the human beings, belong to the highest and

the best creation of God among all living beings and are known as belonging

to “Sarvochaya Rachna” as told by our “Dharam Gurus”. This “Sarvochaya

Rachna” constitutes “Serva Manav Samaaj” and it is also a truth then where

is the question of one belonging to a upper and lower caste or forward and

backward caste. I feel it is only the "karma" or deeds of someone which makes

a human being forward or backward, upper or lower in status in the society

and not one's mere identification by caste which is only a part of one’s name,

our true caste remains that highest creation of God the so called “Sarvochaya

Rachna”.

If one wants to help some poor member of our “Serva Manav Samaaj” then I

think no one should have any objection to such a help but if one wants to help

someone after labeling that poor member of “Serva Manav Samaaj” with tags

like Scheduled caste(SC), Scheduled tribe(ST) and Other Backward

Class(OBC) and General category(GC) then it appears to be humiliating and

should not be acceptable as no one has any right to humiliate and degrade any

member of "Highest Creation of God" before helping that member.

I feel these tags of SC,ST, OBC and GC are humiliating social tags and need

to be removed from the constitution. Let every human being first feel being

equal to all others in the society and not have any kind of feelings of

inequality and guilt of being “lower or backward” in relation to the so called

“upper or forward” caste people.

I fail to understand why is there any social categorization of human beings at

all? It is humiliating and shameful to socially classify the highest & the best

Creation of God into different categories just for negligible discriminatory

benefits in form of reservation in education and Government jobs etc.

But the fact of the matter is that because of wide disparity of economic status

among different sections of socially tagged people, it has become a recurrent

cycle of advantage for negligible percentage of economically and

educationally well off members of socially tagged people of SC, ST and OBC

category resulting in total neglect of majority of poor members of socially

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tagged people of the society irrespective of their identification caste, creed,

religion and region for whom any advantage from the reservation policy is just

a mirage or “mrig trishna”.

Moreover it is so humiliating to indicate one’s category whenever one is

required to fill up forms either in opening bank account in public sector banks

or for admissions in schools, colleges or for filling up bio-data in government

jobs. It is a big embarrassment to see and fill up the column “To which

category do you belong to” in required forms in schools, colleges and in

government sector. I feel this humiliating column "TO WHICH CATEGORY DO

YOU BELONG TO" should be removed from all formats in schools, colleges,

banks and government sector or where ever in use.

I feel that we should love and take care of that child who when born did not

know to which family, to which caste, religion and region he belonged to and

that innocent child exists in everyone of us. The moment that innocent child

came to know about his identification caste and religion inherited from his

parents in the society, the division among the members of highest creation of

god started resulting in divided human society which surely is detrimental to

the national unity and integrity. So much so that this highest creation of God

is so much divided on basis of one’s identification caste and religion that

prospective candidates choose their seats for fighting elections on the basis of

percentage of population of particular identification caste and religion

seeking advantage in polarization of “Serva Manav Samaaj” without realizing

that this attitude weakens the country as one should be known by the ideology

of one’s political party & ones past record, if any, and not by one’s

identification caste, religion & region.

The strength lies in unity and not in the divided society and I feel we must

remain united as one family irrespective of one’s identification caste, creed,

religion and region in order to have enhanced feelings of oneness,

brotherhood, social harmony and happiness among different sections of

society leading to a very strong nation.

The identification caste is just part of one’s name and the religion acts like a

cushion against stress and strains of life. One can follow any religion for

attaining mental peace and one should be respected for that.

But one must not forget that we all belong to the highest creation of God and

we should treat each and every member of this “Serva Manav Samaaj” with

love, care and sympathy not with neglect and apathy.

I always feel what kind of leader is one who by his actions and policies

divides the people of my nation on the basis of one’s identification caste,

creed, religion & region leading to feelings of bitterness and disharmony

among different sections of the society resulting in a weak and divided nation,

a situation which is being constantly exploited to the maximum by invisible

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enemies of humanity for their advantage. Let us not allow such a situation to

develop and keep united irrespective of our identification caste, creed, religion

and region.

I, as a common man, feel a true leader is one who makes all out efforts to keep

the people of his country united and always work to create feelings of love,

brotherhood and oneness among different sections of the society and at the

same time achieve targets aimed to enhance economic growth, human

development index and human happiness index for the people of the country.

It is totally surprising and mentally troublesome for me as a common man to

feel as to why our political leaders function by policy of “divide and rule” and

why not by a policy of “unite and work” in the larger interest of people of our

country?

I feel that we can all collectively undo the already done damage to the fine

fabric of highest creation of God of our nation with full cooperation and

support of all 121 Cr family members of our nation.

I feel that we all should do sincere efforts to help and improve the living

conditions of all poor people irrespective of their caste, creed, religion and

region. To achieve this, I feel all those poor people with monthly total income

of up to Rs.12500/-per month in a nuclear family be extended all BPL

services, their children should be given free education and coaching if

required, till they want with facility of reservation of Group- D jobs in public

sector for only their children with minimum qualification of 10th standard.

Apart from this, minimum two vocational courses are required to be

introduced in schools which will function in collaboration with nearby

existing industries, Industrial Training Institutes, Vocational Training centers,

or the best artisans of the area. At least about 90-120 minutes of total school

timings twice or thrice a week and during vacations needs to be devoted to

vocational courses from 8th class onwards so that by the time child passes out

10th or 12th class the child knows about 50-60% of trade which will help the

child in becoming economically self dependent in future. This way in a long

run about 80% of our unskilled workforce can turn into a skilled

workforce resulting in almost 100% skilled workforce in our nation.

This will certainly help to uplift the poor people in getting economically self

dependent in the society, training industries will get more skilled workforce

from among the trained children of the schools, trained children will get jobs

with the industries or with the best artisans of the area, employment rate will

increase, crime rate will be remarkably reduced with employment of more and

more skilled workforce, hunger index will go down, human development

index will go up, gross happiness index and social harmony at national level

will increase thus making the nation much stronger and more peaceful.

These days, demands are mounting high for religion based reservation in

education and government service. I fail to understand where this policy of

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reservation is taking us except for repeated cycle of advantage to the

negligible percentage of economically and educationally well off socially

tagged people and at the same time increasing the level of frustration in poor

class of unequally placed socially tagged people who feel humiliated because

of these tags and get nothing in return except for creating unpleasant feelings

without any fault among different sections of society. This all is happening in

my country at the cost of prime national interest and without thinking a bit for

the nation that needs well qualified and meritorious professionals in all fields

for all round development of the nation down to the level of masses who have

yet to appreciate the meaning of development.

This is high time that our policy makers think about abolishing this socially

damaging factor of categorization of human beings of my country with

resultant negligible, discriminatory and unequal benefits to the members of

the highest creation of God thus unnecessarily creating feelings of bitterness

and disharmony among different sections of society.

The policy makers should strive hard to improve the living conditions of all

those 50-60 Cr or more poor people of my country irrespective of their

identification caste, creed, religion and region by providing them with

minimum basic civic amenities. Efforts are required to make them self

dependent and self sufficient through the process of education and training in

different vocational courses rather than government-dependent through the

process of categorization of human beings with associated negligible

discriminatory benefits.

In my country the word “dalit” is used exclusively for the class of socially

categorized people of scheduled caste (SC). Everybody knows that the word

“dalit” means one who is oppressed and suppressed but I really feel surprised

and fail to understand why this word “dalit” is used as a prefix even before

head of constitutional bodies, ministers and government officers belonging to

social category SC as they are not at all oppressed or suppressed socially,

economically or educationally at such posts. It seems that certain elements in

the society with malicious intentions want this tag to continue even if one has

attained high position in the society. This seems to be done for the purpose of

polarization of members of different sections of society of “Serva Manav

Samaaj” merely as a vote bank politics.

In my view any human being irrespective of caste, creed, religion and region

is a “dalit” or oppressed if one is forced to live near chocked constantly

stinking open drains in company of plenty of mosquitoes, houseflies, garbage

dumps amid numerous diseases and is denied of minimum basic civic

amenities, potable water, sufficient food, good education and health services

required for a decent living.

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CHAPTER EIGHT

AGRICULTURE –THE ECONOMIC LIFE LINE OF MY COUNTRY

Agriculture with employment of about 50% work force contributes only about

17% to GDP. But everyone knows there is a considerable loss of food grains

due to existing poor infrastructure in form very poor storage capacity, lack of

proper and scientific preservation of food grains resulting in several tons of

food grain getting rotten and wasted every year when millions of poor people

are living in a miserable condition of severe under nutrition without a single

food grain. This looks totally unfortunate and pitiable even after 65 years of

independence.

About 30% of farmer’s produce go waste due to spoilage of harvest because

of rodents and lack of cold storage facilities, inadequate irrigation system,

crop failure due to lack of water in draughts or during regional floods, very

poor roads , poor seed quality and absence of organized retail where excess of

agriculture produce, if any, can be sold .

About 72% of vegetables and fruits in India go waste due to lack of proper

retailing and storage capacity as per Ministry of Agriculture in one of its

report. I feel there is a need of cooperative societies for different agricultural

produce who in turn should have the responsibility of selling the produce to

wholesale markets or retail markets thus giving maximum benefits to the

farmers.

Hence it is all the more necessary to increase the proper and effective storage

capacity with multi storey cold storages if possible for preserving agriculture

produce in a scientific way so as to efficiently check unwarranted loss of

valuable agriculture produce.

The Indian farmer gets very less income for his agriculture produce, the rest

going to losses, middle man and retail traders. All efforts are required to be

made to increase income for the poor farmers by eliminating middleman

involvement for sale of agriculture produce.

Due to lack of knowledge and application of advanced technology in the field

of agriculture the current agricultural practices are neither economically nor

environmentally sustainable with high and unnecessary use of chemical

fertilizers resulting in more than acceptable levels of toxic elements in

agriculture produce causing many health problems.

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India's yields for many agricultural supplies are low due to poorly maintained

irrigation systems with about 50% loss of irrigation water and with absence of

drip and sprinkler irrigation in most of the Indian states with absence of

concept of rain water harvesting and conservation is leading to disastrous

consequences for the nation. Water table is continuously going down and

farming is almost totally dependent on annual monsoon. Access of farmers

produce to markets is hampered by absence of roads or poorly maintained

roads, poor market infrastructure, and excessive government regulation with

restriction on inter-state movement of food grains.

Water preservation and recharging of ground water:

Availability of water for irrigation purposes has always remained a perennial

problem and agriculture in my country depends mainly on monsoon. The

excess of rain fall causes floods and shortage of rain fall causes draught and in

both the cases poor farmer suffers from crop failure and a huge economic loss.

Therefore it becomes pertinent to make the available the required quantity of

water as and when required for the Indian farmers. The water table, which is

going down at a very fast pace and is making it difficult to construct effective

tube wells need as to be brought up by all means.

Hence there is an urgent need to raise water table all over the agricultural

fields, villages and cities for making easy availability of water for agriculture

purposes, industries, commercial establishments and daily basic needs.

It has been observed that very large volume of rain water and the water

through government supply is being wasted for want of concern for such a

precious element required for sustaining life by the citizens of my country.

This wasted water flows into severs and surface water drains annually which

needs to be saved by water harvesting, a step to be made compulsory in all the

states and implemented at ground level as it has been observed laws of my

country are not being sincerely implemented by the government authorities

and people have no concern for the existing laws.

Water, being an essential component of life, needs to be potable in addition to

being readily available in sufficient quantity for minimum basic needs of

human beings. Water is becoming a scarce commodity with ever increasing

requirement for daily needs due to increasing population, agriculture and

industrial growth sometimes resulting in fights over issue of water availability

in different areas. The increasing demands and wastage of water through

different sources is resulting in continuous depletion of underground water

with water table going down continuously.

It has become very pertinent for all of us and the government to implement

certain known measures of rain water harvesting, recharging of ground water,

implementation of drip and sprinkler farming all over India so as to preserve

the invaluable water.

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CHAPTER NINE

CORRUPTION and VIP CULTURE

A SOLID WALL BETWEEN LAW and ITS IMPLEMENTATION

No doubt there are many effective laws in my country and if used effectively,

can cure many anti-people and anti-social ills prevailing in my country but

unfortunately corruption and VIP culture of favourtism is a prevailing norm in

the law enforcing agencies and these two factors work as a solid wall between

laws and their implementation.

Instead of judicious implementation of existing laws, most of the time they are

being misused, ignored and exploited by law enforcing agencies, people in

power, bribe givers and bribe takers to get away from the clutches of law for

their wrong deeds or to make money against illegal works thus benefitting

much more the bribe giver than the bribe taker and causing huge losses to the

government revenue.

There is a feeling among masses that one is unable to get one’s legal and

rightful work done from the government departments without paying some

kind of bribe to the concerned staff or official in my country. Rather it has

become a concept of the millions of people of my country that without bribe

in government functioning nothing can be done. This kind of feeling is very

unfortunate however there are many honest staff and officials too but at many

points of time they are being harassed by unscrupulous elements in the

government machinery. It seems as if money has become more important than

anything else even the human values. It appears that no one is concerned with

the national progress and prosperity but only money.

But at the same time over a period of time it has become very obvious that

suspected huge bribes to our elected leaders and the government officials or

staff in any form is being used as an effective tool by very few percentage of

our highly placed rich people in my country to get their wrong deeds approved

by the government and in the process poor and middle class people of my

country so called common man is getting entrapped and is forced to pay bribe

to the habitual government official/staff to get even one’s legal and rightful

work done.

Every other day there is news of a new scam worth crores of rupees involving

politicians, government functionaries, firms and industries resulting in huge

loss of revenue which could have been used for the public welfare. This is

happening as certain government functionaries are not sincerely doing their

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work and implementing rules and regulations for pecuniary gains from

unscrupulous elements in the society.

The corruption has three elements 1.bribe taker 2. bribe giver and 3. money

and if any one of these elements is absent there cannot be any corruption .Of

these three elements, two elements of corruption money and bribe giver are on

one side and play an important role in all illicit deals hence it is the bribe giver

who should be held more responsible and punished much more than bribe

taker for the act of corruption for inducing greed of money in government

functionaries to deliberately ignore rules and regulations.

I feel certain tough laws are required to be made to instill a sense of fear

among the bribe givers who have a feeling of purchasing anything in the

world by their money power even the consciousness of the political leaders,

government officials and staff by inducing greed of money for getting their

suspected illegal deeds approved for making huge profits at the cost of

government revenue. And if at the same time citizen charter is imposed over

government functionaries to deliver the services within a stipulated time after

submission of required documents to the government by the concerned people

then it may be possible to check corruption to a large extent. It will also

ensure effective implementation of rules and regulation as the government

functionaries will be doing their jobs sincerely without any illicit monetary

gain.

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CHAPTER TEN

CRIME and CRIMINAL –A DARK CHAPTER OF MY COUNTRY

All types of crimes are being frequently committed by criminals and anti-

social elements in my country without any fear of any kind of punishment by

law enforcing agencies. I always feel why so many heinous crimes are being

so commonly committed when country’s laws and law enforcing agencies are

very much in place. In my view following may be the reasons:

1. Lack of interest shown by the citizens of my country even if crime is being

committed in front of them for fear of becoming a witness in a police case and

subsequent fear of threats and harassment from the criminals and their

associates with a result no one wants to be a witness as no protection under

law is guaranteed to a witness. As such, many criminals go scot-free without

any sentence for want of any witness. The citizens of my country do not

realize that the same kind of crime can be committed against them also. I

strongly feel that there is an urgent need to make witness protection and

confidentiality law to make law abiding citizens of my nation to be more

responsible and courageous.

2. There is no time frame to deliver justice after filing of charge sheet.

Availability of unlimited adjournments sought by the concerned lawyers for

causing unnecessary delays seems to be a major cause in blocking the

finalization of a case. Delay in finalization of criminal cases has results in

bails to the dreaded criminals and in huge backlog of pending cases making it

more and more difficult for the judicial system to deliver justice in time. I feel

there is an urgent need to make law to limit adjournments to expedite the

finalization of criminal and civil cases.

3. Corruption and VIP culture of favourtism again plays an important

role in not getting the laws implemented with suspected involvement of

people in power, certain law enforcing agencies and the criminals.

4. Lack of inbuilt sincerity and commitment in certain personnel of law

enforcing agencies in discharging their duties.

5. Probable pressure tactics by politicians on law enforcing agencies for

deciding the course of action in particular cases involving their men resulting

in demoralization of force.

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7. Lack of pre-crime incentive schemes without provision to maintain

confidentiality of the informer for providing any kind of information in

catching criminals and anti-social elements in their vicinity or any where well

before crime is committed.

Combination of above factors give a very congenial atmosphere for the

criminals in my country to commit crime of any kind like rape, dacoity,

robbery, road hold ups, murders to terrorists attacks etc. without any sense of

fear of any kind. This all is happening as possibly the criminals have full faith

in some elements in law enforcing agencies easily manageable by suspected

corrupt practices and judicial system where justice is more or less always

delayed by many years.

I fail to understand why a criminal with multiple crimes on his head is again

and again allowed to commit multiple heinous crimes without any fear of law

enforcing agencies? Is it that our laws and law enforcing agencies are so weak

and helpless? That they are unable to catch the habitual criminals and control

the occurrence of frequent heinous crimes at the hands of same criminals who

keeps on committing crime after crime without any apprehension of law

enforcing agencies.

Punishment for those indulging in acts of slow poisoning through manufacturing

and sale of adulterated food stuff, and spurious medicines should be life

imprisonment for whole of the remaining period of life of a criminal.

Punishment for all heinous crimes like mass rape or rape with attempt to

murder and punishment for murder and attempt to murder with intention

to kill committed in a planned manner should only be a death penalty.

I think the mercy petition is being used as a political tool to delay or pardon the

death sentence or life imprisonment to the criminals upheld by the highest court

for their acts of heinous crimes and should not be allowed to be delayed or

changed by the politicians in the larger interest of the justice. I strongly feel the

provision of “mercy petition” should be deleted from the constitution once

death sentence or life imprisonment is upheld by the supreme court of India

in any of heinous crimes. The President of India should not have any powers to

pardon or alter the sentence to the convicts of heinous crimes in the larger

interest of justice.

I feel the system of parole or bail to hardened criminals in jail with charge of

heinous crimes needs to be relooked into and as a rule bail or parole needs to

be denied to the hardened criminals as they are known to commit the same

heinous crimes even on bail or parole.

I feel there should be a wide publicity of the different types of commonly

occurring crimes, punishments against those crime and consequent effect on

the family and future of criminals through mass media, in all schools and

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colleges. This will definitely have the feeling of scare in the minds of children

and the people with criminal mindset and they will be forced to think twice

before committing any kind of crime.

In my view there should be no distinction between a criminal and a terrorist as

anybody even local known anti-social element who creates fear and terror in

the minds of law abiding citizens by any kind of threat of committing crime of

any kind against them needs to be termed as a terrorist and should be dealt

with accordingly.

Our trains, buses and markets have turned in to terror spots with lurking fear

of terrorist attacks which do take place off and on with loss of precious lives

and valuable property. May be the police and government intelligence

agencies are not alert or sufficient to unfold the likely terror attacks in time. It

seems that red alert notice has become merely two words notice and its

meaning is lost and desired action is missing in the minds of security agencies.

Moreover I also strongly feel that if all the citizens of my country remain alert

and work as an alert policemen at whatever place they are and not only take

care of their own goods and family but remain vigilant about the activity of

surrounding people with timely alert to the people around and the police in the

case of any suspicion about the suspicious looking person, may be most of the

terror attacks, where many of innocent precious lives are lost, are prevented.

I don’t understand why there is no continuous mechanism where people

informing about suspicious people and anti social criminal element are paid

good incentives while keeping their confidentiality before crime is committed

rather than putting prize on the head of terrorists or anti social criminal

elements after the crime or terrorist attack has already been committed causing

loss of many invaluable lives and property?

Then if fear of terrorist attacks and theft of house hold goods is not enough,

there is fear of about the safety of grown up daughters, girls and women

whenever they go out for their studies, markets or any other place because of

freely roaming anti social elements in the cities, towns and villages. The

constant fear of anti social elements of the area harming anyone in the city

always lingers on.

I feel we should inculcate fear of punishment against each of commonly

committed crimes in children and adverse consequences affecting their future

at level of schools.

Law enforcing agencies need to be used in a very judicious way and not to be

wasted as a status symbol to the politicians and others so called VIPs as to

make trained law enforcing personnel available for fighting and controlling

various types of crimes in the society.

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

SUMMARY OF THE FEELINGS OF A COMMON MAN:

In a nutshell I shall try to explain the mind of a common man living in cities,

towns and villages as to what one thinks of his country, political leadership

and his central or state government’s governance. This can be summarized in

first lines of an old movie song as “Kabhi khud pe kabhi haalaat pe rona

aaya,baat nikli to har ik baat pe rona aaya”

A common man is shouting at peak of his voice, will someone in the

government listen to me and says I am not concerned with that:-

Whether my government is single Party or multi-party coalition government.

or

Whether my government is a secular or communal government.

or

Whether my government is this or that party’s Government.

BUT

Certainly I am totally worried and concerned with

1. That after so many years of independence of my country, at subconscious or at

conscious level I still feel very unsafe and insecure about precious life of

myself and my family members in my own house, in my own village, in my

own city or in my own country where ever I go.

2. That almost all national and state political parties give tickets to the known

antisocial and criminal elements with criminal cases pending in the court of

law to fight elections on their symbols.

3. That even after 65 years of independence I have been denied minimum basic

civic amenities required for a decent living.

4. That there is no proper sewerage system, no system for collection and disposal

of garbage in my area and I am forced to live with my family in the constant

company of mosquitoes and houseflies and have to bear unbearable stink

constantly emanating from nearby chocked and stagnant open drains.

5. That there is no respite from water, mosquitoes, houseflies and food borne

diseases.

6. That I am still scared to send my daughters to school and college for the fear

of anti social elements in the society who openly and fearlessly roam around

in my area.

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7. That even after 65 years of independence there is no good school with

adequate number of good teachers near my house for my children where I can

afford to send my children for education.

8. That I am not able to pay tuition fee for my children and I remain disturbed

that teachers in school are more concerned with private coaching than

teaching in the school and I am not that much educated that I can give

coaching to my children.

9. That there is no toilet in my house. That myself and my family feel ashamed

and have to face lot of problem and humiliation in going to fields or along the

railway lines in company of dogs and pigs for nature’s call. I do not have

enough money to construct one toilet and septic tank in my house.

10. That there is no electricity in my house and my children have to study in light

of lantern during evening hours.

11. That I am forced to pay some kind of bribe to the concerned staff in

government for my right legal works also.

12. That I have not been supplied sufficient potable water for daily needs by the

civic authorities and I am so poor that I cannot afford to purchase mineral

water or have water filter or RO system in my house.

13. That one has to go out for some distance to fetch water in buckets for daily

needs while standing in long queues. The fights over water have become a

usual feature but there is no sufficient response from the municipal agencies

and the government.

14. That garbage dumps are lying here and there in my villages, towns and cities

without being getting removed for days together causing unbearable stink in

the areas.

15. That there is no sewerage system in cities, towns or villages and if system is

partially laid they are in a bad shape and sewers are broken at various places

resulting in occasional mixing of dirty water with drinking water. One can

have a usual sight of pools of stagnant water here and there all over the cities,

towns and villages in my country, an excellent breeding place for mosquitoes

leading to various mosquito borne diseases.

16. That sewage water and effluent from chemical industries is being directly

thrown into rivers without treatment making them highly contaminated as

either STPs (Sewer Treatment Plants) are insufficient or out of order. The

same contaminated water from the rivers after some ineffective treatment is

being supplied to the hapless citizens. This state of affairs makes me very sad

as to why my government is so insensitive?

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17. That poor street lighting in small towns and cities is a norm resulting in

increasing number of road accidents, thefts and road hold ups and other illegal

activities.

18. That the roads are totally ill maintained and are in a very bad shape all over

the country except in VIP areas.

19. That there is not enough electricity to sustain daily requirement in agriculture

sector, industries, residential areas and commercial setups etc.

20. That I do not understand who will provide at least sufficient water and

continuous supply of electricity to each and every citizen of my country?

21. That It is me in a common man who gets killed or seriously injured in bomb

blasts in trains, buses, markets carried out by terrorist.

22. That there is always fear of theft of my hard earned household goods even

when I go out to market with family for even 2-3 hours.

23. That as our government machinery has seemingly failed to deliver

effectively on all fronts of life, the insurance companies are doing a great

business insuring citizens of my country in sectors of health, road

accidents, thefts of vehicles and other house-hold goods etc. taking

advantage of government’s failures. The common man is paying hefty

amount as premium of his hard earned money to the Insurance

companies for making up expected loss on account of anticipated various

diseases, accidents, thefts of his house-hold goods and vehicles for the

failure of the government in controlling and preventing preventable

diseases, in ensuring safety and security of common man, his family and

his household goods.

24. That one lives in a constant danger of being cheated in my country in the

matter of anything from fake currency to availability of synthetic milk,

synthetic milk products, spurious medicines and duplicate products by fake

companies in the unsuspected markets.

25. That even certain inhuman and anti-social elements for the sake of making

huge profits, don’t hesitate to manufacture and sell spurious medicines in the

market being purchased by millions of poor people of this country in a hope to

get cured of diseases. And this all is being done by the unscrupulous elements

in my country without any human values and slightest fear of law enforcing

agencies. This is probably happening in the absence of either stringent laws,

or very slow justice delivery system in shadow of suspected corrupt practices

in the law enforcing agencies. The system is almost totally ineffective in

convicting these antisocial and inhuman people and the conviction rate is

abysmally low.

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26. That law in my country is sparingly and unequally enforced on the citizens

with catching of a common poor man and leaving other influential people.

Sometimes law seems to be used by the law enforcing agencies as a tool to

make money to let the defaulter or criminal off the hook of legal tangle.

27. That one has to commute to one’s working place on poorly lit and ill

maintained roads, may be as one’s area of living and working place do not fall

in the VIP areas.

28. That one is bound and forced to stay in slums with one’s families due to one’s

poor economic condition next to the open choked drains with constant stink

emanating from it in company of plenty of houseflies and mosquitoes without

slightest effort by the civic authorities to improve the surrounding of these

poor common people.

29. That at most of places for one’s children there are no schools within

comfortable distance from their homes and government schools are in a

dilapidated condition without even qualified teachers and basic needs like

separate toilets for girls and boys, clean drinking water and play ground etc.

30. That government schools where our millions of children of poor common man

go for studies have about 50% of not so qualified teachers selected on the

basis social justice without even thinking that it is the teachers who help in

making the bright future of children by imparting good all round

comprehensive education.

31. Why should the poor man pay the same price for fuel for his two wheelers of

50cc to 100cc power as the rich man for his high end expensive cars.

32. That after about 65 years of our independence and after choosing the

governments of our choice at centre or state level over the large period of

time, we are now forced to think about the democracy, elections and our

leaders and the deplorable way in which many of the leaders conduct

themselves in public life, parliament and assemblies.

33. A common man is in dilemma, whenever the election is held in any part of

the country irrespective of the fact whether the election is at District level to

choose municipal committees or corporations, State level to choose State

government or general election to choose Central government, about which

political party to vote as now a common man seems to be fed up with all the

political parties and their leaders. Following points always confuse a

common man:

a) Which party to vote to power? As all political parties are seen to

behave almost in the same deplorable manner during their tenure.

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b) Why should one vote if the problems and difficulties of a common man

are going to remain same?

c) The perception of a common man is that all political parties are only

interested in making big money out of misuse of their power and no one is

interested in the welfare of people of their country.

d) That if all political parties are infested and infected with members of anti-

social and criminal elements to varying extent, then what good can be

expected from such councilors, legislatures and parliamentarians ?

But at the same time the common man is also ignoring certain duties

towards nation. If one has the right to criticize the policies of the

government then one is also expected to do certain duties towards nation.

As a common man I always think that

Why the people of my country do not cooperate with laws of their

country?

Why should they vote for known criminals in elections against whom

charge sheet has already been filed in the court of law.

Why the people of my country have no concern for their co-citizens?

Has money become the only desire for the people of my country?

Is money generated only through illegal means?

Is my country, a country of an individual or is it a country all 121

crore nationals?

Is there an element of consciousness “atma” left in some people of my

country who are bent upon making money through unscrupulous

means by manufacturing and selling synthetic milk, milk products,

spurious medicines, adulterated fuel and automobile parts without

slightest regard for human lives?

Why should they spit, urinate, defecate, throw litter anywhere they

like in the public areas making the villages, towns, cities and their

country dirty?

Why all citizens of my country not try to create environment friendly

nation?

Why should not they try to reduce noise pollution, a cause of mental

distraction and hearing loss, during their celebrations taking into

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consideration studies of school and college going children, old and

sick people?

Why should not they follow traffic rules?

Why should not they be always alert about the anti-social elements,

criminals, terrorist and inform the police immediately on seeing their

presence in their vicinity or anywhere they go to reduce the dangerous

threat to the citizens? Why the confidentiality of the informer is not

maintained at all cost by the police so as to avoid harassment of the

informer at the hands of the criminals?

Why is government not thinking about the causes of such a public

behavior? Why efforts not being made to remove those reasons so

as to make the people more cooperative.

I feel the parameters of Human Development Index, Human

Happiness Index, mental peace, economic growth, rupee value,

water table & electricity power generation are going down

and need to be brought up and the parameters of Inflation, Hunger

index, corruption, greed for money, stress level, unemployment,

crimes & criminals are going up and need to be brought down to

bring smiles & happiness for all members of Sarvochaya Serva

Manav Samaaj.

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MAY GOD BLESS ALL THE MEMBERS

OF

“SARVOCHAYA SERVA MANAV SAMAAJ”

OF

MY COUNTRY

WITH

GOOD HEALTH, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY

AND

MENTAL PEACE

JAI BHARAT

Dr. Vinay Kumar Chadha

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