Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Does COMMON MAN getting any benefit from so called FASTEST growing economy!!!

This is the thought whenever I come home & meet people here in home town. In fact I feel they are hopeless about our country's future! This is not my one time experience, last 2-3 times when I came here & met different people from different background (Age, Income & Family background). I am mentioning all these age, income & family background because I cant draw a conclusion from any one person's thinking from his backgrounds.

So last time when I was in home, I met one of my uncle & from the discussion we had, I thought his thinking is limited so no need to give any attention. But this time when I met one my grandfather & some other people I had same kind of discussion. So from this discussion I am drawing the above statement as conclusion...

In Bangalore or for that matter in Metros we think, we as a country are progressing after seeing so many things like GDP numbers, Infrastructure (presently however may be pathetic it is!),
Private Jobs & their Income level, Stock market, English media (Paper & TV) articles & analysis (because regional TVs & Papers usually don't cover this kind of news because here also I can draw same conclusion that they don't serve this kind because their target audience are not at all bothered about all the above mentioned things). When I start discussing all these above mentioned things with my high funda data, they simply don't agree with me because they have their own concern in some of the below mentioned things like...

1. Inflation

When they say Inflation, they are not aware & worried about the percentage point. Because I also feel that Inflation measurement itself is in so much controversy, so real inflation numbers GOD ONLY KNOWS! So here when they talk about price hike not inflation (because they are not even aware that in simple terms price hike itself is inflation). Their concern is price of almost everything including food articles (even though they are producing some of these & not getting the benefit due to middle man) is increasing much faster as compared their income. Their point of argument is now everything has become purely business & above their reach, be it agriculture, health, education & etc.

2. Government Working Style/Administrative Hurdles

On this they give one whole night lecture & I can also write lot of things. But bottom line will be same, government is not doing adequate what it is supposed do for common man. Be it from giving sufficient facilities (in one article from Swaminthan's I read, government's Rs. 1 worth of facility to common man is costing around Rs. 3.5 crores!!! I was shocked to read this), corruption, bureaucracy, fighting for power, no intentions at all for development & etc.

3. Legal Issues

As we all know how fast we are getting judgments from judiciary system for all variety of cases be it red handed captured terrorist case, be it simple accident cases, domestic violence cases, be it a cop molesting a woman/girl, be it murder case of bar girl by influence people & etc. And even if you get verdict from court also there will always be higher court to re-appeal your case. And surprisingly if you get verdict from highest court also people will go for President's mercy petition! In addition to all these, there are people called as human rights organizations...

4. Other issues like

--> Inter state issues regarding territory, river & dams building to those rivers, current sharing, language, non residents of their state issue & etc.
--> Basic infrastructure needed in rural areas like connectivity in terms of roads & schools, health related medical centers @ etc
--> Naxalism
--> Terrorism
--> Caste ism & related problems
--> Strikes & etc


So Bottom line is:
Anybody's guess!!!

2 comments:

shunyaseananth said...

The irony is - Inspite of India being a Agricultural country, inspite of the fact that India is believed to 'Live in the villages' - these idiot rural indian masses are at the mercy of urban India. Why should they need any government to solve their problems. All the intelligent and capable masses from rural india migrate to metro with greed of big salaries - only waste bodies stay back. Most rural population is good for nothing people thinking that it is responsibility of the Indian govt to take care of them.

Unknown said...

Very true, Naveen. These are words of common man....U Me n everyone..
BUT blaming govt. is it always correct? What are we doing to improve things?
Questions? May be we cant do anything, but why not one amongst youth gets into politics to do gud for the NATION....Again a question???