Fwd: A New Pracitcal Model for Planning & Development is Required ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: amitabh shukla Date: Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:02 PM Subject: A New Pracitcal Model for Planning & Development is Required To: Kumar, Dalip , Deepti Taneja < deeptitaneja.du@gmail>, dr_cbsingh21@yahoo , dr_ravindrashukla@rediffmail, rs_dubey , Anjali Dewan , sophia ansari , Amitabha Gupta , angadi reddy < [email protected]>, Abdus salam , Arti Sharma < arti.sharma1109@gmail> Cc: braj raj sinha , braj raj sinha < [email protected]>, Dr. VIKRAM D. SHARMA *Goodbye Nehruvianism and Planning Commission! * *The people of the country came to know about the whimsical dream of an otherwise charismatic leader who , fascinated by the charm of Russian communism and the concomitant highly regimented governance , espoused a socialist path which he thought would make honey and milk flow throughout the length and breadth of the country. To Nehru, Russian communism appealed to him more than any other ism. Moreover, seeing the success of the Russian economic model during its heyday of communist rule, Nehru prescribed the same antidote to eradicate poverty in India, with the support of the Planning Commission, christened as Nehruvian socialism by people like Sashi Tharoor now, who extols to the skies even today after having known that the prescription was a Himalayan blunder, but committed by an astute politician who was enamoured by the ideas circulating about socialism. Hence, quite unfortunately, as Indian economy was modeled according to the Russian economic system where everyone was made to work hard for the progress of the country without any freedom and the work carried out by the masses was always religiously overseen without any commiseration, the poor milling millions in India were forced to live in abject poverty for decades after decades.* * Nehruvian socialism became a bitter pill to swallow and it became a nasty pill to many as the aftermath was the unpopular License and Quota Raj which stifled economic growth in India for many a decade under the Congress Raj. The License Raj strangled the private sector too due to rampant corruption. This Nehruvian recipe for progress ruined the countrys prospects to rise like the phoenix from its ashes after a long spell of British Raj which had already crowned India with misery and poverty, the two inseparable and inescapable vestige of the Raj. Throughout the Congress rule poverty was used as a convenient plank to gain power in the elections.* *India would not only been the greatest democracy in the world but also one of the strongest economic giants, had Nehru looked to East and appreciated the growth of countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Instead, blindly inspired by the Russian economic growth model, Nehru thrust upon the country colossal public sector corporations which later metamorphosed into huge white elephants that sucked the sap of the countrys economy, leaving behind liabilities of a gargantuan nature. It nourished on the nascent vitality of a new -born country and never gave opportunities to her citizenry to put to use the latent qualities like learning skills, prowess and adaptability. For decades, the country bore the brunt of Nehruvian socialism which traumatized this sleeping giant into further bouts of inefficiency and declension. Thanks to the Nehruvian-Congress political philosophy, the country produced babus and sycophants- a hotchpotch political leadership who thrived and prospered at the expense of the poor masses. The rich became richer and the poor became poorer syndrome and the resultant vicious circle of poverty was the net result of Nehruvian socialism.* *Hope the new Government would bring out a new practical-oriented institution which would address the real issues the country faces now . * -- With Best Wishes & Best Regards, AMITABH SHUKLA M.A.(ECO.), PH.D.(ECO.)
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:49:07 +0000