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dream india of sardar vallabh bhai patel
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Modern Indian history is incomplete without Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. His vision, his work, and his principles were highly remarkable in Independent India.

Integrating India: When our country became independent in 1947, Sardar Patel was appointed as the deputy prime minister for a home ministry of the country. He took over the role as a deputy PM at a time when Indian history was in a very critical stage. Since day one, he had a vision for India to consolidate it into one united country. As the first Home Minister of Independent India, he played an important role in bringing the 565 self-governing princely states and territories into the Indian federation. To the astonishment of his critics and fellow politicians, almost within a year, he drew a new map of India with every princely State being a part of the Indian union and thus, paved the way for cultural unity and harmony.

Civil services in Independent India: According to many, the actual acknowledgment for the formation of the Indian Civil Service in free India goes to Sardar Patel. The Indian Civil Service, formed by the British Government was to protect and strengthen their rule in India. Sardar Patel, on the other hand, wanted a strong and independent civil service. He had put his support for a Federal Civil Service. The Civil Service established in Democratic India should serve the people of India. His argument led to form a groundwork for Unified National Administration. And today, we do have the Indian Administrative Service, the Indian Police Service, and the Indian Forest Service for the people. But, we cannot say whether Patel’s ideology in the true sense has been followed or not as most of these civil servants, barring a few, are in the clutches of corruption and politicians. However, we cannot deny the fact that Patel had the vision to create a strong and vibrant administrative system but unfortunately he did not live long to fulfill his dream.

Concern about border security: Patel conceptualized some of the greatest policies to keep our country secured from border countries’ attack. He wrote a letter to Nehru, pointing out few facts like as:

o   Cautioning him about the threat to India and impending war from China.
o   The need for strengthening defense force.
o   Examining and reshuffling the military position in various borders.
o   Strengthening Northern and North-Eastern frontier.
o   Improvement of transport and communication in these border areas.
However, this was not taken seriously by Nehruji and we had to pay a heavy price in the 1962 Indo-China war. Not only that, certain precautionary measures were taken at that point of time, as pointed out Sardar Patel could have definitely saved our country from the constant fear of terrorism today.