Saturday 31 May 2014

A letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modiji


Sir,

First of all I would like to congratulate you and your party wholeheartedly for such a decisive victory in the recently held Lok Sabha Elections. Your party's agenda for these elections this election has been development, good governance leaving behind low-level politics based on caste and religion division. What is really significant is that idea has been widely accepted by the people of India, which can easily be inferred from the election results. Being a responsible citizen of India I would like to participate in this movement and want to connect with you to express my gratitude and to raise a few points of concern about the problems that India is facing currently which needs to be looked at with a priority.A special thanks for this opportunity.

* Women Safety: I believe women are the greatest assets of our country. We all seem to understand that but sometimes some of us ignores this fact by abusing them mentally or physically. We must make India a safer place for women. To achieve this, I propose the following.
  1. We may ramp up the country's internal security infrastructures by implementing CCTV cameras at important locations.Strict,responsive and helpful team of vigilant must be put in action.
  2. We should create more awareness on women empowerment and security.Social media play an important role in this regard.
  3. Last but not the least we should have zero tolerance to any crime indulged against women and making this a priority in national agenda.All court cases that cater the complaints and grievances raised in this regard should be fast-tracked and accountable.
 * Joblessness: India's burgeoning population is often considered as a big challenge by many economists but it also presents a tremendous opportunity for our country if such large number of human resources can be utilized and managed well. Currently there is a big challenge in terms of joblessness that our country is facing. There is huge gap between the demand and supply for resources in terms of job opportunities. To tackle this rising problem, I propose the following.
  1. Special focus should be given to Manufacturing Sector to explore huge export opportunities that lies ahead of us, which has been ignored largely in the last decade. For this need we should improving strategic tie-ups with different counties and serving them Quality products and Human Resources by analyzing the demand and shortage in external economies.
  2. Grooming and promoting Entrepreneurs is the need of hour. We can strengthen our education system to create skilled individuals who can be leaders in the future and lead the society to new heights of development. Each individual counts and we have so many to make a difference. 
  3. Considering India's strength that we have a large pool engineers,there lies enormous untapped job opportunities for sectors like electronics, electrical and defense. For this we can consider allowing Foreign Direct Investments specially in the defense sectors.
  4. India has been lagging in investments in Research and Development, which can be considered as  investment in future. This can help us to retain the best brains that our nation produces who currently has to leave our country due to the lack of enough scope in research field. We can consider Public Private Investment model for the same.
* Stabilizing Our Economy : Our economy which has earned special attention from countries around the world has failed to realize it's real potential, due to highly sticky inflation and several other challenges. Having failed to contain inflation to comfortable levels has derailed our countries GDP  growth rate to sub 5% levels. To improve this looming situation, I propose the following.

  1. We need to improve market sentiments for promoting investments in various ailing sectors like manufacturing, infrastructure, power for the revival of our economy. Interest Rates needs to be lowered we must take pro-growth stance before it's too late.Such high interest rates does not encourage new investments.We much act urgently on this.
  2. To control inflation we should bet on better supply chain management and improve country's storage facilities. Proper regulatory measures must be implemented to stop food stock price manipulation and hoarding which often happens at grass root level.We need to use real time analytic Information technology systems to check real time data on the Key Parameters like demand,supply,Price trends to have a dynamic monitoring system to check rising inflation.Based on this we may formulate a price regulation mechanism to check the rising inflation.
  3. Considering the fact that India being a populous nation and has huge demand in power consumption, this is the high time that we should shift our focus towards production and use of renewable sources of energy and conserve our natural assets before it dries up.
  4. Tourism in India is yet to realize it's real potential.India has a diverse portfolio of tourist locations, which if can be blended with the so many diverse cultures can open a new room of opportunity for our economy and can also help in job creation.
 * Strengthening our Judiciary System: The loop holes present in our judicial system has been a big problem for our country and the situation needs to be revisited for improving it's efficiency as early as possible .It has often been seen that court trails take years long time to deliver judgment. This sends a wrong signal and often encourages the wrong doers at all levels. We need to improve the efficiency of our judicial system which can reduce crime, corruption and other wrong activities to achieve a better society to live in.

Thanks & Regards,

Subhodeep Bandyopadhyay
(An Honest Citizen of India)




Thursday 15 May 2014

16th May'14 brings a new direction in Indian Politics


Tomorrow is the d-day.It's 16th May,2014.It's a historical day for Indian politics and it is just few hours away for the poll results to be declared for the world's largest democratic nation, India. It is need less to say, the country has suffered from poor governance, multi-crore scams,stagflation and many more crippling issues over the last decade.Stagflation is a term used in economics to describe a situation where the inflation is high, the economic growth rate slows down, and unemployment remains steadily high.  But,who is to be blamed? It is the none other than the ruling government which is run by the Gandhi family,which is a prominent Indian political dynasty. Their political involvement has traditionally revolved around the Indian National Congress. 

2014 Lok Sabha elections is all about voting against anti-incumbency and one person who has been able to make most of it is Narendra Damodardas Modi ,NDA's PM candidate for 2014 Lok Sabha elections.Popularly known as NaMo, Mr Modi is on his fourth term as Chief Minister of Gujarat.Riding on the success of Gujarat development model,Mr.Modi's high octane election campaign is most likely to have swept most parts of the country's vote share.Mr. Modi is being seen as the most prominent political leaders in the country much ahead of Rahul Gandhi,the Congress Prime Ministerial candidate and newbie politicial face, Arvind Kejriwal from Aam Admi Party.It is for this very reason that Mr.Modi has been a frontrunner for the post of Prime Minister.Political pundits are betting all in for Narendra Modi. He is also a favorite among the business community.The stock market is making new record highs each day to welcome him at the helm of the country's affairs.If there is no if and there is only but ;it is that BJP numero uno needs to shred off his communal image if he has got any and must practice development oriented inclusive politics.However in my personal opinion it is better to look forward to a political party which is called communal but acts as secular than a party which calls itself secular and behaves as a communal force.With high hopes for a better future ,I believe a stable government willing to take India to new growth levels is need of the hour.Indian countrymen were sick and tired of the ruling party's misgovernance and definitely were looking for a change in the current situation.Indian politics seems to be heading towards a new direction, and NaMo seems to be the exact solution India was looking for.Though this can only be confirmed after the results are out on 16thMay,14,but we can definitely expect some change in dynamics of Indian politics.