PANCHSHEEL TO VAISHVIK KUTUMBKAM- TIME TO ESTABLISH UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE OF INDIAN CIVILISATION FOR GLOBAL HELP AS NOW INDIA LEADS, NOT PLEADS AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR PM WITH BIRTHDAY WISHES! PRIME MINISTER SETS THE TONE FOR SACRIFICING SPIRIT AND NATION HAS TO RE-GAIN OUR VIRTUES OF SACRIFICE FOR SOCIETY, NOT FOR ONES OWN-SELF, AS WE PRACTISE VRATA OR GO TO DHARM-GURUS TO SEEK SALVATION- SALVATION IS POSSIBLE WHEN THE SOCIETY PROVIDES ITS MEMBERS A FULFILLING LIFE IN EACH ASHRAMAS- DOES IT PROVIDE THAT? Ask yourself? PM has expressed his desire of 100 SMART CITIES. BUT THERE ARE 4700 TOWNS IN INDIA, EXCEPT ABOUT 60, ALL ARE LANGUISHING? WHY? THERE IS NO CONCEPT OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS PLANNING COMMISSION STRENGTHENING THE CONCEPT OF REGIONAL PLANNING AS IT SHOULD HAVE CONSIDERED UNIQUE NATURAL-HUMAN RESOURCE ENDOWMENTS OF ABOUT 600 REGIONS IN THE COUNTRY. THEREFORE, WE NEED RENAISSANCE IN OUR PLANNING AND IT SHOULD BE THE MATTER WHICH NEEDS LOTS OF R&D SUPPORT FROM UNIVERSITIES OF THE REGION. BRIJ, AWADH, BUNDELKHAND, MEWAT, VIDARBHA, SAURASTRA, KACHH, SHIWALIK, KUMAON-GARHWAL, MALWA ARE ALL REGIONS HAVING THEIR UNIQUE GEO-SOCIO-POLITICAL IDENTITY. THE CITIES AND VILLAGES OF THE REGION SOMETIMES SHARED BY MORE THAN TWO STATES, THEN, HOW TO ADMINISTER THESE? SHOULD THERE BE SHARED REGIONAL PLAN? THESE ARE ISSUES REQUIRING ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS AND SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS COMMISSION HAS ALL THE SOLUTIONS WHEN IT GIVES MANY SUCH EXAMPLES OF SPECIAL REGIONS WHERE MANY EXPERIMENTS OF REGIONAL PLANNING WITH LOCAL-SELF GOVERNMENT POWER, HAVE BEEN TRIED WITH REASONABLE SUCCESS. NEW INDIA HAS TO LEARN THE ART OF REGIONAL AND LOCAL GEO-SOCIO-POLITICAL IDENTITY IN A WAY WHICH IS OF 22ND CENTURY IN WHICH DIVISIVENESS WOULD HAVE NO PLACE AS THE WORLD IS BECOMING SUCH A VILLAGE IN WHICH TALENTS OF ALL TYPE HAVE TO BE RECOGNISED. ACTUALLY, REGIONS IN THE WORLD ARE TRUE UNITS OF IDENTITY WHERE IN WHICH ONE INDICATOR CITY OF THE REGION MUST CREATE A CONTINUUM WITH ITS HINTERLAND VILLAGES. THIS WORK SHOULD HAPPEN IN 21ST CENTURY AND BEGINING OF THAT MUST BE MADE THROUGH PANCHAYAT OR LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT ON PRINCIPLES OF LOCAL ECONOMIC-ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT (LEED) WHICH IS WHAT FOR MANY YEARS The proGRAM Movement HAS BEEN EMPHASISING UPON THROUGH NAV-GRAM, NAV-RATNA, NAV CHETANA (NNN YOJANA), WHICH HELPS IN CREATION OF NUCLEUS (HUB) VILLAGE WITH 8 SATELLITE VILLAGES (1 NUCLEAR VILLAGE WITH 8 SATELLITE VILLAGES MAKE IT 9 VILLAGES). NNN YOJANA WAS DEVISED IN 2002 AND FROM 12-15 JUNE, 2003, ON INVITATION OF THE THEN CM, HONBLE NARENDRA BHAI MODI JI, THROUGH THE-THEN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT OF LOK SABHA FROM VADODARA, SMT JAYA BAHAN THAKKAR, I WAS TAKEN TO VISIT DISTRICTS OF VADODARA AND CHHOTA UDAIPUR SO AS TO SELECT A NNN CLUSTER AMONGST THESE TWO DISTRICTS. FOR SELECTION OF THE CLUSTER, A WHIRL-WIND TOUR OF THE TWO DISTRICTS WAS ARRANGED IN LEADERSHIP OF THE -THEN EDUCATION MINISTER, SMT JAYANTI BAHAN PARMAR AND THERE WERE TWO MPs, ONE MR RATHWA (WHO WAS ALSO CHAIRMAN OF DRDA, VADODARA). WE SELECTED SAMLI BLOCK OF VADODARA DISTRICTS DESPITE INSISTENCE OF THE-THEN MP OF VADODARA, SMT THAKKAR, WHO WAS NOT MUCH IN FAVOUR BUT I COULD SEE THE FABULOUS PROFESSIONAL APPROACH IN HER AND ALL SYSTEM OF GUJARAT AT THAT TIME (AS I COULD NOT REVISIT IT DUE TO THE TYPE OF EVENTS WHICH CONTINUE TO HAPPEN IN THE LIFE OF AN ACADEMICIAN WHO KEEPS EXPERIMENTING ON HIS CENTRAL IDEA). BUT WHAT I COULD SEE WITH SATISFACTION IS THAT WHAT WAS ADVISED FOR SAMLI WAS IMPLEMENTED. A BIOTECHNOLOGY PARK WAS RECOMMENDED BY ME THROUGH PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP MODE AND IT IS A REALITY NOW (btm.gujarat.gov.in/bt%20park/preallotment/concept%20note.pdf). I AM SO IMPRESSED ABOUT THE STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS OF SOME OF OUR CHIEF MINISTERS IN RECENT YEARS IN DOING PUBLIC GOOD AND I HAVE EXPERIENCED MR SHIVRAJ CHAUHANS PENCHANT FOR THAT IN 2006 AND THAT OF MR MODI IN 2003. WHAT IMPRESSES ME OF THESE CMs (and MUST I BE PUTTING, MR NAVEEN PATNAIK AND CHANDRABABU NAIDU AND SHOULD PAY TRIBUTE A BIT OF MR RAJSHEKHAR REDDY AND MR BANSI LAL) IN SAME LEAGUE) IS THAT ALL OF THEM HAD A BROADEST POSSIBLE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTEXT OF THEIR STATES AND WITH THAT ONLY WHOLE OF THEIR POLITICAL SPIRIT COULD BE UNDERSTOOD. MR MODI COULD FIND STRENGTH IN ANY GIVEN IDEA, BE THAT COMING FROM ANYWHERE AND SHALL PROVIDE FULL-THROTTLED LIFE TO THE IDEA THROUGH A STRONG POLITICAL WILL. THAT CHARACTER IS UNIQUE TO ALL GREAT LEADERS IN THE WORLD LIKE ROOSVELT, TONY BLAIR, OBAMA, MANDELA, RAJEEV GANDHI, TO NAME A FEW. THEY BELIEVED IN A BIGGER PICTURE. THEY ASSEMBLED THEIR NEW TEAM WHICH BELIEVED IN THE BIG PICTURE. OUR FORMER PM LATE RAJEEV GANDHI COINED THE TERM INDIA WILL GO IN 21ST CENTURY WAY BACK IN 1985 AND HE WENT EXTRA-MILES IN ESTABLISHING A BIG POLITICAL SUPPORT TO VARIOUS IDEAS- TO NAME A FEW- TECHNOLOGY MISSION AND ICT-SECTOR, IS SUFFICIENT AND WHAT SAM PITRODA COULD DO WITH THAT DREAM TO SEED IN INDIA, IS A REALITY OF 21ST CENTURY INDIA. OUR COUNTRY IS BLESSED WITH A NEW PM AND HIS VISION OF BUILDING NEW INDIA HAS ALL THE COMPONENTS TO WRITE A LEGACY OF HIS OWN TIME. IT IS CERTAIN TO HAPPEN AS THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND MANY SUCH INSTITUTIONS WILL BE REFORMED (AMONGST THEM TOP IN ORDER IS POLITY ITSELF)! THERE IS CERTAINITY IN MY MIND THAT INDIAN BUREAUCRACY OWS ITS CONTINUITY IN KEEPING THE LEGACY OF BRITISH RAJ INTACT AND ROLE OF CONGRESS IN THAT IS THOROUGHLY UNDER SCANNER AS IN MY BELIEF GANDHI JI GUESSED THAT SYMPATHY OF MR NEHRU FOR SOCIALISM WAS AN IDEA WHICH GANDHI JI NEVER LIKED. HE LIKED SWARAJ AND PANCHAYAT SYSTEM OF SOCIAL AMITY WHICH RECOGNISED PLURALISM AS A UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE OF INDIANNESS. IT WAS FAR AWAY FROM AN IMPLANTED IDEA OF SOCIALISM-COMMUNISM. HE WANTED CONGRESS TO BE DISSOLVED AND NEHRU OR ANYONE, INCLUDING SARDAR PATEL (WHO WOULD HAVE CHARTERED A DIFFERENT ROUTE), TO FORM ONE OR MORE NEW PARTIES. GANDHI JI WAS A VISIONARY OF OUR WHOLE WORLD AND WE COULD SEE THAT CONGRESS SINCE THEN HAD BEEN GETTING FRAGMENTED WITH SOCIALIM AS AN IDEA BEING TAKEN UP BY MANY SPLINTERS WITH THEIR OWN COLOURS TO THE IDEA. SOCIALISTS LIKE MULAYAM SINGH YADAV AND NITISH KUMAR ARE HAVING THEIR OWN DEFINITION OF IT. ON THE OTHER HAND, GANDHIAN SYSTEM OF SOCIAL AMITY THROUGH LOCAL-SELF GOVERNING SYSTEM IS IN TOTAL HARMONY WITH IDEA OF PANCHAYATI SYSTEM, WHICH IS THOROUGHLY INDIAN IN LETTER AND SPIRIT. NEHRU HOWEVER WANTED THAT TYPE OF AMITY AT INTERNATIONAL LEVELS IN THOSE TIMES WHEN INDIA HAS NOT PREPARED ITS OWN SYSTEMS TO FACE THE WORLD AND HIS VISION OF PANCHSHEELS WERE FOUND WANTING AS INDIA WAS NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO GO FOR SUCH A STRONG DIPLOMATIC MOVE. INDIA OF 21ST CENTURY IS A PRODUCT OF MANY SUCH CONFUSING AND STRONG STEPS BY OUR LEADERS. THEY PROVIDED GREATNESS IN SOME AREAS WHEREAS IN OTHERS THEY MIGHT BE WHOLLY WANTING. AT THE TIME OF BIRTHDAY OF OUR PM, WHEN HE IS IN GANDHIJIS SABARMATI ASHRAM (BIGGEST EXPERIMENT WITH TRUTH IN REALITY WAS DONE BY GANDHI JI HERE) AND IS ALSO MEETING WITH A CHINESE PM (OF PANCHSHEEL BITTERNESS OF NEHRUVIAN INDIA, MAY BE REMEMBERED BUT MAY BE A NEW INTERNATIONALISM OF TAGORE AND LOCALISM OF GANDHI MAY BE PUT FORWARD AS A UNIQUENESS OF INDIAN CIVILISATION IN WHICH IT IS WORLD IS VIEWED AS VASUDEVAM KUTUMBKAM- AS ONE FAMILY - MAY BE THIS THEME COULD GUIDE A BILATERAL REALISTIC COOPERATION IN WHICH INDIA-CHINA MAY EMERGE AS ALLIES FOR THE GOOD OF THEIR PEOPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE AND MAY BE FOR ENTIRE BRICS NATION AT THE SECOND AND IN THE LAST, IF THEY COULD CREATE SOMETHING BIGGER, LET THE WORLD BE THEIR CANVASS!!! I WISH ALL THE BEST!!!
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:39:46 +0000
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