Twenty tips for the Indian Government to take India to the next century

Well, this can be considered more of a rant (or a rant-laundry-list) than a creative post..but I believe many fellowmen concerned about the future of this country would second my thoughts..

1. Government servants – Respect your office and portfolio, allow your subordinates to do their duty and keep a check on them. Money isn’t everything, think about your future generations.
2. Revise the pay package for the people in secret services and the police.
3. Stricter laws against corruption – corruption may not be eradicated, nevertheless, can be made to stay at the top-most levels. Corruption starting from the bottom-most levels up to the top is not a healthy practice.
4. Abolish the reservation system in educational institutions and government organizations – why should one be proud to be called ‘backward class/caste‘. Respect, reward and encourage talent!
5. Let’s have a two party system – no meaning in having hundreds of political parties working in thousand different directions. Celebrities entering politics? An under-educated, unqualified pseudo-hero or a gabret dancer ruling the masses, is the last thing our country needs..
6. Cut down red-tapism – well, easier said than done..
7. Honor our scientists – give them the best pay in the industry. You lose them to the best paying developed nations and grumble about brain drain, don’t you?
8. Making education a commercial commodity is the last thing we want – people worry about the ROI, and may resort to unfair means of recovering the capital expenditures. Well, you know, this is a vicious cycle!
9. Make sports compulsory in schools and colleges – a requirement to join universities. Reservations for sports should overrule caste-based reservations.
10. Construct roads with good drainage system for each and every city. Employ good engineers who possesses the talent, marks and commonsense test, not on other vote bank-based caste-reservation criteria.
11. Get some tips from China, they are neither communists nor capitalists, and there is nothing wrong in getting to learn the tips that might help the making of a better India.
12. Educate the masses on the need for better sanitation and to keep the environment clean.
13. Enable better healthcare facilities – not to make more money out of it, but to provide good health care and to constantly remind the people that they are living in a civilized society – mentally, physically and environmentally.
14. Better garbage disposal and recycling techniques – need of the hour. Future Indian cities should not be looking like the intro scenes in Wall-E movie.
15. Utilize e-governance and open source technologies to the fullest. Empower our farmers to obtain information about the latest pesticides, bio-farming, etc., via an on-demand Internet-enabled service infrastructure. Jagriti e-Sewa is doing a commendable job!!
16. Educate the underpriveleged on computers, programming and entrepreneurship.
17. Every individual must respect his fellowmen. It is disgusting to see people fighting over ‘not-wanting-to-share‘ water to the neighboring states.
18. Enforce strict rules to regulate the bourgeoning traffic in cities.
19. Construct multi-level parking spaces.
20. Stop copying from Hollywood movies. Be creative in producing good movies that portray the contemporary and the modern Indian culture and lifestyle. I feel that those movies that were produced between 1940 and 1990 were more interesting, creative, original and intriguing than most of our present day movies. There is a big difference between copying and inspiring!!

This might look like a laundry list of ‘To-Do’ things, but it is sad to note that these (but for the last one) are the bare minimum a tax payer in any country would demand from his government.

What do you think? Am I asking for a bit too much?

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