Recently some of us had met informally at a place in Bangalore to just chit chat and share ideas on what we think about our own country and what we can do to make things better for India in our own capacity. During the course we'd asked ourselves three basic questions. Here are the questions and the answers that came up.
Q1 and Q2: what would you wish to change and why?
· Education
o Make children strong
o Education empowers people; access to knowledge; ability to question
o Makes people informed citizens
o Larger percentage of educated class tends to vote correctly
o Education is indication of future
- Healthcare (incl. maternal health, child mortality)
- Corruption / Legal system / Justice Delivery
o Book 20 people for corruption in NREGA and Mid-day meal scheme and send them to jail; will get 5X improvement in execution of these schemes
o Legal system is the foundation for everything
- Infrastructure
o Create Public Works projects
o Make people remember the Golden Quadrilateral and its impact
- Remove taxes on petrol and diesel
o 60% of price is tax which goes to government and the people in govt
o Removal of these taxes will make goods cheaper
- Make India strong – economically and from a security point of view
o Make people fear and respect the constitution; today, there isn’t respect for police even
- Other Ideas
o Universal Conscription / Military Training / Social Service
o Sustainable Development and environment focus
o Women Empowerment
o Remove Articles 25-30 from India’s Constitution (dealing with Secularism)
o Electoral Reform (who can vote, and who can contest elections)
Q3: What is India’s greatest asset?
- Young People / demographics
o New generation of people
o Young / Middle India; 30-45 age group
o Hope in Middle Class
o Parents sacrificing for Children’s future (hardly seen anywhere else in the world)
o Middle Class value system
o Population Numbers
o Family system
o Middle Class (we) – who have responsibility to our Children to create a better future for them; our generation is the first that has seen no shortages; we owe it to the next generation to build a better tomorrow
- Pluralism (open to ideas / lifestyle)
- Indians can work with limited resources
o Survival Strength
o Innovation – just need opportunities to create own unique solutions; Resourcefulness
- Cultural Inheritance (one phrase which captures everything); Dharma
o Confident, Unshackled Mind, combined with our Culture
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