Vision Manipur - A Wake Up Call for Manipur manipurtimes/news-article/the-peoples-chronicle-article/item/3213 By Mohendro Handeibam No community, no state and no country can grow without a Long Term Vision. This master document is the Guide Book for interventions; Bible of Development, Geeta of Growth and Puran of Civilization. Nonalignment of short term programmes with the Long Term Vision is bound to create unintended eventuality of contradictions, conflicts, distortions and instability which are very costly for a poor state like Manipur. Right now, caught in the vicious circles of wilderness in this troubled age of cut-throat competition, Manipur, perhaps unknowingly, is moving without any inspiring future; a bright future of Hope, Self-sufficiency and Self-Confidence of a forceful nation ready to engage with the rest of the world. Can we think of a New Manipur with a new vision in a new context? What we should know is that to-day we are in a new world which respects only strength and that a nation is made “great” by its own people, - people from its own soil. Civilization and development cannot be imported and imposed. Very unfortunately, hardened by the prolonged failure on all fronts, pessimism has taken deep roots. The fear of failure has constantly crippled the glimpse of any hope. We are, to-day, a victim of blind admiration and imitation and have very little confidence in our own core competencies. Manipur has, as a result, become a shattered and sad state to be in, after sixty-two years of so called national planning. Painfully plagued by a vicious circle of weak governance, corruption, inefficiency, high rate of poverty, unemployment, debt, insecurity of life, insecurity of business, employment, and income, Manipur has become a “captive economy”. The whole atmosphere has been vitiated by the mounting spectre of unjustified risks and unjustified costs; and the patron-clientelism has established itself to be a highway to unfair personal aggrandizement at the cost of the wealth and well-being of the state. To-day merit has been buried into oblivion. Efficiency is a closed chapter. We are forced to face uncommonly high hurdles with very little resources. The very foundation of modern development has been, knowingly and unkowingly distorted and destroyed,- that too, - in this age of aggressive competition. The greatest loss is the loss of self respect, self confidence and spirit of noble sacrifice for the community. We are caught to-day at the crossroads and increasingly weighted down by the heavy burden of Socio-Economic Stagnation. It is a pity that we have many works to be done but very few jobs. Manipur should not welcome both jobless growth and growthless jobs.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:25:54 +0000
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