A great man once said "Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men." INDIA, celebrates its 64th Independence Day today. Ever since ancient times, India has been known to be the cradle for all great religions and traditions. Home to the Indus valley civilization, India was known for historic trade routes and was identified for its Commercial and cultural wealth since ages. These factors made India vulnerable to attacks from foreigners, among whom the Mughals led by Babur seiged the throne at Delhi and thus began a golden period in Indian History-Rise of Mughal. Generations apart, it was Babur's grandson, Akbar who was the most prominent ruler of the entire Mughal generation. After the fall of the Mughal Empire, India became vulnerable and thus the British seized this oppurtunity and came across to India as traders who later became rulers. Ever since the British Empire seized the Indian throne at Delhi, countless sacrifices and numerous mutinies occurred throughout the history. Finally, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi decided that Non-Violence is the better option than fighting through violence. His beliefs laid foundations of a peaceful revolution that saw a massive support in the Indian Public. After almost 150 years of British rule, India declared its INDEPENDENCE from the British on August 15, 1947 and Jawaharlal Nehru who along with Gandhi was a pioneer in the Non-Violence movement (satyagraha) was sworn in as the First PrimeMinister of India.
Well coming to the present scenario, India, ranked tenth in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) a worrying fact which indicates that we are not yet a fully developed country. Interestingly, India's economy comes from the rural sector i.e. agriculture. This is one of the concerns of the government, because we are in an age of Technology and we can't rely on age old techniques. India with 28 states and 7 union territories is the second most populated country in the world with an estimated population of 1.2 billion and only 74% of that astounding figure are literates which makes nearly 300 million people living in poverty or even worse conditions. I dont want to point the cause for this problem but would put up a solution to tackle this "poverty menace".
Recently , there was a report from wiki-leaks that nearly 1,70,000 croresrupees is been stashed in the Swiss banks. This is a real shame to the government as they have failed to curb corruption and interestingly many disgraced politicians make up that list. One such example i would point out would be the case of Mr.A.Raja, former central ministed for Telecommunications who was found guilty of being implicated in the 2G scam which shook the very foundations of the UPA government. A. Raja is noteworthy as the largest political corruption case in modern Indian history, amounting to a record $40 billion loss from underpricing to the Government of India.[citation needed] The alleged modus operandi was telecom bandwidth being grossly undervalued and offered to a chosen few with vested interests, on a dubious 'First-Come-First-Served' basis. It is alleged that it should have been put under a transparent auction system, purportedly advised by higher office.
The bandwidth-spectrum allocation of 2G bandwidth had later come under criticism for gross irregularities. An FIR filed by the CBI claims that the allocation was not done as per market prices, resulting in a scam worth 200 crore (US$44.6 million).[4] However it had been alleged by Arun Jaitley of Bhartiya Janata Party that the scam is worth around 176,000 crore (US$39.25 billion). The Comptroller and Auditor General holds Raja personally responsible for the sale of 2G spectrum at 2001 rates in 2008, resulting the previously mentioned loss of up to Rs. 1.76 lakh crores (US$40 billion) to the national exchequer. On February 2,2011 Raja was arrested by CBI and was found guilty for causing a loss of almost 30,000 crores to the government. This judgement was a landmark in the history of Indian Judicial System. I really look forward to see a lot of crooked politicians get proper justice for their wrong actions.
Well the solution to eradicate poverty is quite a general idea, create an autonomous body that can act on its own and can file charge sheets against any corrupt individual. This would ensure that Justice would be served quicker than expected. The Autonomous body would hence freeze the accounts and get the money back to India using which India's entire Debt's since its Independence can be wiped out. We need people to know about the facts which the government has hid from the public. If we can eliminate corruption starting from the very bottom level in the society then we can believe we have achieved true INDEPENDENCE.
I am against Corruption!!
Are you ?
Well coming to the present scenario, India, ranked tenth in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) a worrying fact which indicates that we are not yet a fully developed country. Interestingly, India's economy comes from the rural sector i.e. agriculture. This is one of the concerns of the government, because we are in an age of Technology and we can't rely on age old techniques. India with 28 states and 7 union territories is the second most populated country in the world with an estimated population of 1.2 billion and only 74% of that astounding figure are literates which makes nearly 300 million people living in poverty or even worse conditions. I dont want to point the cause for this problem but would put up a solution to tackle this "poverty menace".
Recently , there was a report from wiki-leaks that nearly 1,70,000 croresrupees is been stashed in the Swiss banks. This is a real shame to the government as they have failed to curb corruption and interestingly many disgraced politicians make up that list. One such example i would point out would be the case of Mr.A.Raja, former central ministed for Telecommunications who was found guilty of being implicated in the 2G scam which shook the very foundations of the UPA government. A. Raja is noteworthy as the largest political corruption case in modern Indian history, amounting to a record $40 billion loss from underpricing to the Government of India.[citation needed] The alleged modus operandi was telecom bandwidth being grossly undervalued and offered to a chosen few with vested interests, on a dubious 'First-Come-First-Served' basis. It is alleged that it should have been put under a transparent auction system, purportedly advised by higher office.
The bandwidth-spectrum allocation of 2G bandwidth had later come under criticism for gross irregularities. An FIR filed by the CBI claims that the allocation was not done as per market prices, resulting in a scam worth 200 crore (US$44.6 million).[4] However it had been alleged by Arun Jaitley of Bhartiya Janata Party that the scam is worth around 176,000 crore (US$39.25 billion). The Comptroller and Auditor General holds Raja personally responsible for the sale of 2G spectrum at 2001 rates in 2008, resulting the previously mentioned loss of up to Rs. 1.76 lakh crores (US$40 billion) to the national exchequer. On February 2,2011 Raja was arrested by CBI and was found guilty for causing a loss of almost 30,000 crores to the government. This judgement was a landmark in the history of Indian Judicial System. I really look forward to see a lot of crooked politicians get proper justice for their wrong actions.
Well the solution to eradicate poverty is quite a general idea, create an autonomous body that can act on its own and can file charge sheets against any corrupt individual. This would ensure that Justice would be served quicker than expected. The Autonomous body would hence freeze the accounts and get the money back to India using which India's entire Debt's since its Independence can be wiped out. We need people to know about the facts which the government has hid from the public. If we can eliminate corruption starting from the very bottom level in the society then we can believe we have achieved true INDEPENDENCE.
I am against Corruption!!
Are you ?
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