{"id":15637,"date":"2013-12-31T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=15637"},"modified":"2014-01-01T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:11:11","slug":"a-few-wishes-for-india-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/politics\/a-few-wishes-for-india-2014","title":{"rendered":"A Few Wishes for India – 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an Indian I asked myself what should I wish for my India in 2014 which should be doable\/ achievable and a work in progress. India doesn’t need a magic wand what it needs is a serious change of course. It needs a new thought, it needs a new approach. There has been a lot of the same stuff and a lot of similar\u00a0 deviations. This must change.<\/p>\n

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  1. In 2014 lesser number of Indians should blame the state for their sorrows and miseries.<\/li>\n
  2. Importance of politics and politicians in running our household should reduce significantly.<\/li>\n
  3. State shouldn’t add to stress, the minute this comes down productivity of each citizen would rise.<\/li>\n
  4. Coming out to help our fellow citizens in difficulty shouldn’t expose us to harassment and corruption. The fear of establishment should go.<\/li>\n
  5. Merit must prevail over favoritism wherever state has an authority to ensure that.<\/li>\n
  6. We must drop cloak of pseudo secularism and go in for generic secularism. We must become a nation where state doesn’t practice any religion or favors any, it allows for comfort zones to establish on the basis of ones own life preferences.<\/li>\n
  7. As a nation, we must incubate a culture of admiration, appreciation and association. People must be encouraged to bring Triple A into everyday life.<\/li>\n
  8. Information about the public should be public. Abuse or for the sake of “public interest”\u00a0 should not fuel vested interests.<\/li>\n
  9. Leadership should be inclusive and inclusive alone. It should not be extractive or intrusive or exclusive. Just plain simple inclusive.<\/li>\n
  10. All Indians be brought to\u00a0 appreciate a few concepts as mantras for our nations growth, being frugal & creating wealth are two such concepts which are least understood by Indians, across economic and social classes.<\/li>\n
  11. We must make our VIPs understand that they are one amongst many and they don’t hold our destinies in their hand and they don’t need to.<\/li>\n
  12. Projects which touch public must ensure direct public participation specifically in electricity, roads, sewage, health care and law and order.<\/li>\n
  13. We must bring in a system of replacing our elected representatives on performance appraisal basis. A transparent system for awarding points should be built in and if any elected representative goes under the minimum acceptability criteria. He must go.<\/li>\n
  14. Lesser number of our aged\/ seniors should be looked at as unwanted by the state. State must have outreach programs to make their miserable years, golden.<\/li>\n
  15. No new horror memories of massacres, gang-rapes and communal riots are seeded.<\/li>\n
  16. Religious scriptures and their interpretations are not distorted by anyone for provoking hatred.<\/li>\n
  17. None of our rivers should have our dead floating in, and their half eaten bodies waiting for more animals and birds to finish them for all times to come.<\/li>\n
  18. Our holy rivers like Yamuna & Ganga must not remain drains or sewage carriers.<\/li>\n
  19. No mountain should be stripped naked to the end that one cloud burst and thousands perish.<\/li>\n
  20. India is a republic, India should be a well established republic with all its institutions tuned towards betterment of its people.<\/li>\n
  21. Areas such as land acquisition & records, where corruption has been institutionalized must be made 100% transparent and systems put in place to institutionalize betterment instead.<\/li>\n
  22. Legit demands shouldn’t need illegal means to be met.<\/li>\n
  23. Economic interests of our nation shouldn’t be given-up for keeping friends of our politicians in business.<\/li>\n
  24. The homeless of the nation are nation’s own, they shouldn’t be made to rot and be treated as hopeless.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is a work in progress, would take several sittings before I am done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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