INDEPENDENCE - Under Siege

[Sanjay Bapna]

Dear Members,

 

This is an article I wrote a few years back. Its my personal view and I thought of sharing the same with you all. Please do care to send me your feedback on the same.

 

Regards.

 

Sanjay Bapna.

 

INDEPENDENCE – under siege

 

Its been more than half a century since we attained independence. We achieved independence after a struggle and sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people. Along with independence we changed our political system, from a colonial rule and feudalism to a parliamentary form of government, where sharing of power amongst the people was the principle. There was a government of the people, for the people and by the people. People from all classes, castes, religion came into political mainstream and shared power.

 

We made the finest constitution that could be.

 

But today there is little we can be proud of.

 

Today the fruits of progress and prosperity still remain a distant dream for majority of our people. This was not the dream of our leaders who fought against the mighty British empire and this is certainly not the India of our dreams where our people do not have clean, pure and safe drinking water, where there is no electricity for either cooking a decent meal or for students to study, roads full of potholes to ply on, with a collapsing public transport system, where hospitals are the most unhygienic places, health care is beyond common man’s reach, where politicians conspire with criminals, where people die of hunger with godowns overflowing with food grains, where people involved in scams one after the other live as respectful citizens,  where the taxmen think themselves to be Gods and respectful businessmen as thieves, rivers overflowing with dirt and filth, where there is absolute distrust between government employees and public.

 

The administrative and the judicial system of the country has failed the aspirations of our great leaders. Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Pundit Nehru never would have imagined in their dreams that a free Indian would not get justice even for decades or the administration would not care for the downtrodden. A common man has to spend a fortune and run from pillar to post to get even the smallest of work done. The judicial and our bureaucratic systems need to be reviewed and reformed.

 

The bureaucracy was designed and trained for the commercial exploitation of India and the Indian people by the British Raj. Their job was to generate wealth for the Queen of England. They were not trained either for the development of India or for the upliftment of the Indian masses. Britishers established inspector raj, empowered with rules and regulation to throttle Indians as and when they wanted, and thwart progress. They wanted us to be at their beck and call, always. They created hurdles at every step to hamper growth. The entire system was evolved on distrust of Indians. The British had an insensitive, manipulative and autocratic bureaucracy, which exists even today and still seems to be living in the colonial period. It was given all the possible power and authority with no responsibility. The cultural heritage continues.

 

Similarly the judicial system was never designed to provide justice to the Indian people. A system of court after court and appeal after appeal was established which became a never ending process, where it is not sure if justice would be done even to the next generation of litigant. In spite of hundreds of thousands of cases pending in our courts, the judiciary goes on vacations years after year. There are increasing allegations of corruption in the judiciary. The courts close on the smallest of events, leaving innocent citizens crying for justice.

 

What we need is system analysis and design to ease life of the common man.

 

It is high time the political leadership took cognizance of these facts and not blame the loss of elections on anti-establishment factors. This is what is the establishment and people of India want to get rid of it.

 

 

Sanjay Bapna.

 

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