If you were the prime minister of India for one day. What would you do to stop the progress of our country. Please give anwer in 10 points and it should be big.
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Although the results are still a day away, the nation, in all likelihood, would soon see a new government. So, before everyone joins the cacophony on what, who, when, why, where, why not etc that the new government must do, I looked around to see what is it that the new dispensation needs to tackle to win over the people of this country.
These are not economic mumbo-jumbo, nor management jargon, but something that whoever is entrusted with the job of running the nation must bear in mind. Some of it we have read, but there is a lot else that we know, but it gets lost in the general push for what the economists alone think is the panacea for this nation’s ailments. So, here are my 10 suggestions for the new Prime Minister and his government to follow. The list can be a hundred long, but this can be a good start, I feel.
INFRASTRUCTURE PUSH: There needs to be a huge infrastructure push. Yes, we have seen growth in telecom and roads have improved, but are we anywhere close to what a world-class network should be? No! And about electricity, the less said the better. Isn’t it funny that on July 31, 2012, dubbed as the largest power outage in world’s history that affected ”620 million Indian people”, except for people outside India, it didn’t really make a difference.Let me put it differently, most of those who should have been affected, did not even notice there is no power. Why? Because they barely got power anyway. And in the richie-rich condominiums, they have power back-up, so they didn’t feel it either.
SHUN CRONY CAPITALISM, THROW OUT ‘PERMANENT FIXTURES’ FROM TOP LEVEL COMMITTEES: When you talk of infrastructure, a lot of inputs on what and how come from the powerful committees that work under the Prime Minister’s Office. These could be committees on investment, on enterprises, manufacturing, skills development and what have you. The governments may change but these committees don’t. In some of the most important committees, the same set of industrialists have ruled the roost. These individuals also take control of various industry associations and lobby, disadvantaging the vast majority who are not in their cozy clubs. Everyone talks about how the same set of people influence policies and decision making in sectors that affect them, sup with the decision-makers and don’t let anyone enter to hurt their almost monopolistic control over the sector.Their control is sometimes so complete, that they force governments to take decisions that are not even in national interest and have actually hurt our oil and defence preparedness.
The new government would do well to throw out all those who have lasted dynasties and regimes.
TACKLE CORRUPTION: It may sound clichéd, even sloganeering, but this is something that this nation now needs to tackle almost as a mission. It is not going to be easy, but where there’s a will, there’s a way.One of the most memorable interviews I have had in my career was with the former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra. When I asked him about comparing working in India with Thailand, he said: In my country, there is honest corruption, but in your country, there is dishonest corruption. I remember laughing, but he explained. When I pay money in my country, work gets done, here, it doesn’t.Do I need to elaborate more?
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