THE NEW INDIAN ORDER!!!!

Its been a long time. In my last post, I was too worried about the elections and the profile of the parties contesting - Congress led, BJP led and 3rd Front. After the election verdict I am happy that there is a Cong led stable Government at the center.

The Indian people have voted for stability, for growth, for prosperity, for better future. Its time for a NEW INDIAN ORDER. This "New Indian order" will lead to a more prosperous and powerful nation state. For that to happen, Religious hatred, regional hatred and caste based segmentation (leading to more and more complexities and caste based riots) should be rooted out. Well for that we need to have a more mature society. This may take several Decades and can only be accelerated to some extent by better education to masses and improved economic conditions.

There are lot of expectations from Govt. "New Indian order", is not possible without political will of our national leaders. We are plagued by poor infrastructure, miserable health care facilities, poverty, disastrous educational system, etc etc. "New Indian order" is not another marketing or branding stuff like "India shinning", its real and something we can achieve. Its not coined by any political party or media house. Its a dream of every fellow Indian.

The road ahead is full of obstacles, most of them created by ourselves. Some of the things necessary for the "New Indian order" are -

1) Inclusive growth in true sense

2) Power - Not just to Industry but to every household, to even the most interior village. Not just adding power generation capacity by traditional means but also monitoring fraud and theft of power. Not to forget, Nuclear power generation capacity building.

3) Drinking Water - people are worried of Oil shortage crisis. Lakhs still don't have adequate drinking water. In many villages still people have to travel miles to gather few buckets of water. This should be a major concern when the Cong party talks of inclusive growth. Need of the day - Capacity building, water conservation, rain water harvesting, pipe connections network expansion.

4) Roads - Road network expansion has already been identified by Kamal Nath. He has promised a 20 Km per day road addition for the next 5 years. He is setting a new company to manage funds for this purpose - Road Finance Corporation. Lets hope this promise is fulfilled.

5) Education - Structural changes needed. Standard of Indian universities is too low. Just setting up more IIT's and IIM's will not make much difference. The structure, right from primary education to higher education needs a serious revamp. Lets hope Kapil Sibal gets over reservations issue in educational institutes and does some real constructive work. Shortage of quality faculties another issue as far as higher education is concerned.

6) Urban Development - You simply can't have cities with more than a crore population and negligible facilities. Metro rail network, Slum rehabilitation, traffic conditions improvements ........ a long list. We can't talk of shanghai anytime soon.

7) Controlling Rising Food Prices - Forget talks of zero inflation. Look at food prices. If the rise in food prices is not arrested urgently, millions won't get to eat a balanced or even a moderately adequate nutritious diet.

8) Legal System - make the elephant run or it will ruins many lives.

9) Mobile & Internet - Stimulate internet penetration. Get 3G soon. Improve network quality.

10) More FDI, Lower budget defecit, Divestment, .....
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But i feel "New Indian Order" has began. How far can we go and how fast can we go? Can we become an economic behemoth anytime soon? Or will we be dissapointed again?