Comments on: Stronger India

By: Divya

Divya — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:15:30 +0000

Sai,

I agree with you, by empowering i din mean , rip them off their jobs..Let them do what they continue to do, but with dignity and moral values. If you are a farmer, be a farmer but a well informed literate farmer. thats wat i meant by bridging the gap between the have and the have not’s. Excel in your work. dont be ignorant and let others exploit you.

Gurudev,
Yes development jus not in terms of monetary values but also moral. We need to raise at all sectors..

By: Gurudev

Gurudev — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:54:44 +0000

Sainath
I agree with most of what you said, but not in terms of building bigger companies against small scale industries and self employment..
We should encourage people to be self employed, no matter how small it is, and that will create a stronger India, an independent India, instead of depending heavily on employment by multinationals and a couple of large companies.

Any type of monopoly or concentration of power or wealth should be heavily discouraged. I am not saying we should not have big companies. But then most of India should not be concentrated in these big companies, it should be self employed. This ensures a proper balance and a scope of new outlook and innovation and creativity, as and when some of these self employed small companies click and get converted into bigger companies.. There are many such examples in India even today..

Enterpreunership should be encouraged,no matter how small it is.. which is when the real creativity and innovation comes out of the person… Till today every single graduate, I mean almost all of them, who comes out of Indian universities have been thinking about which big company/MNC he/she can join.

The outlook has to be changed now, the young should start thinking differently, every single graduate out of college, should start thinking as to what new company can he/she start now! Team concept should evolve, group of 4-5 friends should start of a new company with a new concept, it doesnt matter if they are the only employees in their company and their company generates only money enough to be used as their salary. The difference even in this case would be that they are self employed!

By: Gurudev

Gurudev — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:42:38 +0000

Hi Divya
Really great efforts and thoughts being put into action..
Great work!

Yes, we have to ensure that there is not really much difference in terms of monthly income between the most paid and least paid in the country, and this will be the true strong India.

Also, Unlike the west, our measure of development should be, Not how much more money a person has, but instead should be how much more happy a person is.
Happiness should be the true indicator of development and not the monetary assets. We need to build a society of values and of happy families, than a materialistic society where divorce rates increase as people become richer and richer.

By: Sainath

Sainath — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:43:56 +0000

I also feel the laws and rules should be made strict enough that individual thinks atleast 5 times of counter effects before breaking it…Make a centralised place for leaving..so that the roads can be made wider and traffic can be controlled properly…and more trees also can be grown…Make a centralised place for industries…Offices…etc….I understand all this sounds similar to West…but i guess there is no harm in learning good things from others….This would also open large amount of Job openings for sectors……
but All above is possible if there is true dedication, sincerity,no-corruption, commitment and confidence in all and from all the individuals involved in the above….Amen

By: Sainath

Sainath — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:34:33 +0000

also yesterday read below article and felt good…
http://specials.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/13bank1.htm

By: Sainath

Sainath — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:34:05 +0000

aaannnhhh i dont fully disagree or agree to the way above told only because we already have that kind of businesses going all over the places…every 1/2 km (may be less) we have such vegetable vendors, pan shop, tea stalls, food shops etc etc….
There has to be something differently done i guess…may be what Reliance is planning but of course not at the cost of poors land and houses…
like having big shopping malls at every particular places wherein all kind of stuff is sold..ofcourse at an avg rate where even the poorest can think of buying …(concept may sound as in the west)…and there give jobs with quite a sufficient salary….make jobs available within india with proper packages so that everyone should feel working in India instead of going global to make more money….i am not sure how to channelise this…
sometimes i feel the bartar exchange concept of old days was good…..

By: Divya

Divya — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:37:34 +0000

Hi,

Nice thoughts and indeed one of the right ways to build a strong India.. I believe in this and striving towards this chain reaction..Only when the gap between the rich/Have and the poor/have nots gets closer..India will become Stronger..The only way out is , we need to invest(Not spend) in the poor..make them self reliant..
visit this site http://www.dreamindia2020.org (we are trying to educate as many young minds we can…)

we definitely can realise ou dream when most of us realise the role and responsibility of each of us as a citizen to our country…we need to empower others.
we need to do our bit to the country!!