Question

India achieve the dreams and goals of jawaharlal Nehru ? Write what needs
to be done to achieve them ?

Answer 1

Answer:

This selection provides a new entry point for understanding Jawaharlal Nehru's responses to multiple challenges of nation-building during April-June 1958. The writings and speeches of India's first Prime Minister — judiciously selected and thematically arranged in 11 sections by Aditya and Mridula Mukherjee — recreate his thoughts on a “daring and new India.”

Nehru advocated state-sponsored industrialisation, increasing the “wealth-producing capacity” and using atomic energy for civilian use. But he realised that for industrialisation to be viable it needed a supportive agrarian economy and a small-scale industrial base. His ideas on town planning — going beyond roads and parks to education, recreation, employment and business — were remarkably modern. Slums distressed him; he visualised a symbiotic relationship between the city and the village. Criticising society's acquisitive tendencies, he endorsed the state's role in curbing them. He proposed that every village should have a panchayat, a cooperative society, and a school.

Governor's role

Nehru anticipated the ills to which governance is vulnerable: corruption, administrative delays, and collusive links between the unscrupulous officials and the people. For him, civil service neutrality was a fiction, although he encouraged bureaucrats to cultivate objective and detached thinking. He wanted State Governors to play their part strictly within the Constitutional framework and not perceive themselves to be a “superior class.”