I always believed technology can answer the great problems of India and history proves that. Green revolution brought the self sufficiency to India, white revolution solved the problem of milk and made India as the number one producer of the milk. Educated-Unemployment of India was solved with IT revolution. Any problem, that can be corruption, terrorism, development, medical, educational etc., I believe technology can answer it. I still remembers the days in my child hood, if one has to call out of the district, they have to book a trunk call and wait for may be 30 min to get the call connected to them. It is so hard to get a phone connection, one has to at least wait for a year with highest possible recommendation. You see now, in less than 10 years time, every one now maintaining at least two SIM cards and takes minutes to get a new connection. It was made possible with telecom revolution. Take e-governance, some of the divisions in the government sectors were made at most transparent by utilizing information technology. Media should be recognized on their role in bringing out modern problems.
Indian media, most of the time is recognized as hyper active. Thats true for most part. After being looked at media with pessimistic eyes, and after making so much fun of media... i feel one should recognize what media contributed to the recent Anna Hazare's fight on corruption. The Lokpal Bill was kept undercover for more than 40 years. Many people fought for it and haven't succeeded to pass it in the Parliament. When all the crooked politicians of the nation are trying so hard to keep it under the well, how could a man like Anna on his demands got almost instant nod from the government? Thats where the media came in and played a crucial role. Print and visual media across the nation, from national to local to ultra local, took the information so effectively into the masses. They motivated the people sitting and relaxing on lean chairs to move and act to support him. They created a sense of "this is the time to act" in peoples mind. People across the globe supported him on his fasting and demanded the Govt to act on it. I am not saying this all only happened with media, but I can see what they did for the nation. For a longtime, the people of India for most part were acted as spectators, they watch, feel and forget. Now I think that people has reached their limits in taking things fro granted. Anna being an activist for most of his life, he himself said, that he didn't expect such a huge response from the people. No body expected such a response, otherwise once again politicians would have grabbed it for their only use of votes. I would say, Government was just shocked seeing the peoples response. Remember, On the first day of his fast, Govt said, It is not possible constitutionally to accept his demands and his fast will not yield any results. You see how fast they took back their statement. Seeing the people united to support Anna, I was in blissful happy and my hopes on the nation had gained strength. Its always the people who changed the history. Now seeing them becoming active, I feel India is slowly getting ready for a revolution. I know lot has to be done, and what happened is nothing but a foundation, I am hopeful that with the peoples awareness on the importance of Lokpal and the support of media, we can see a good Lokpal bill passing in the parliament.
Indian media, most of the time is recognized as hyper active. Thats true for most part. After being looked at media with pessimistic eyes, and after making so much fun of media... i feel one should recognize what media contributed to the recent Anna Hazare's fight on corruption. The Lokpal Bill was kept undercover for more than 40 years. Many people fought for it and haven't succeeded to pass it in the Parliament. When all the crooked politicians of the nation are trying so hard to keep it under the well, how could a man like Anna on his demands got almost instant nod from the government? Thats where the media came in and played a crucial role. Print and visual media across the nation, from national to local to ultra local, took the information so effectively into the masses. They motivated the people sitting and relaxing on lean chairs to move and act to support him. They created a sense of "this is the time to act" in peoples mind. People across the globe supported him on his fasting and demanded the Govt to act on it. I am not saying this all only happened with media, but I can see what they did for the nation. For a longtime, the people of India for most part were acted as spectators, they watch, feel and forget. Now I think that people has reached their limits in taking things fro granted. Anna being an activist for most of his life, he himself said, that he didn't expect such a huge response from the people. No body expected such a response, otherwise once again politicians would have grabbed it for their only use of votes. I would say, Government was just shocked seeing the peoples response. Remember, On the first day of his fast, Govt said, It is not possible constitutionally to accept his demands and his fast will not yield any results. You see how fast they took back their statement. Seeing the people united to support Anna, I was in blissful happy and my hopes on the nation had gained strength. Its always the people who changed the history. Now seeing them becoming active, I feel India is slowly getting ready for a revolution. I know lot has to be done, and what happened is nothing but a foundation, I am hopeful that with the peoples awareness on the importance of Lokpal and the support of media, we can see a good Lokpal bill passing in the parliament.
For sure in many ways, lets make it happen!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope the bill becomes a reality without clauses....
ReplyDeleteeven though lokpal bill is passed through parliament, no person in india will implement it perfectly ..... dats the problem......
ReplyDeleteIf Lokpal comes into effect, it will be an independent body just like Election Commission or Judiciary system in India. Autonomus identity, and super powers associated with it will make it a great institution. Citizens of India will also have right to complain any individual or politician and Lokpal will have to act towards the complaint, Lokpal can be questioned with RTI act, so citizen will also have chance to get any specifc critical info on any of the cases.
ReplyDeleteI know there will be limitations, but since Lokpal is an independant system, i have faith on it as other independant systems (election commision, and Judciary) are delivering to society and similar models like Lokpal in Singapore, Hongkong and some European countries were successful
Nice article Venkat. But,what do you think of the situation in our state? Where is it going?
ReplyDeleteThanks sanjeev....Because Bihar and UP are developing and to maintain the overall GDP of india to a constant, AP is trying to match with old Bihar ....:-)
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