When I look at India
from US I get more ideas and an open perspective view than, when I am in India.
I feel this tells me,
one has to take a step back and see things from a distance and do proper
analysis and then provide solutions to any problems.
I am sure within India
people are just doing stuff over and over again, with no thought or mind to
change or improve. When you have so many people and so many process and
procedures it gets hard to change anything. So to address this issue, my mantra
today will be do some small changes which will result into big impact down the
line. And on the same lines make sure your change will not result into adverse
effect.
So, what are those
small changes which India can adopt?
1. Timings
We all
know Indian standard timings which always run late. How would one change the
people's mindset? I know it is difficult to change minds of all people. How
about kids? They are small with fresh and clean minds. There you go, change all
school and college timings to start early.
Say at 7 Am or 7:30
Am. Go ahead and implement this change in small towns and villages and district
places. Look for impact on the people, if everything looks good go ahead and
implement in big metros and cities.
Advantage of starting
early school is immense. It will make kids, parents, teachers every other
person connected to school/college to change. This change will help people gain
time in the evenings and do something productive.
Secondly it would make
people to go to bed early, today we see good family people roaming around in
downtown at 10 or 11 PM in night. It gets harder for police to differentiate
good guys and bad guys in night. When you isolate good guys from the bad guys, Police
can function better in night and therefore lesser crime.
2. Capital Cities
For haven sake, we got
to change current state capitals. Any person with sensible thinking can easily
tell all our current state capitals are heavily crowded. Most of the state
capitals are also finance capitals. Politicians are getting involved into
finances and running business by staying in the current capital cities.
When you change the
current capital cities to something under developed place, we will be achieving
2 things.
Firstly we will reduce
unnecessary politicians in the busy crowded capitals and on the same scale we
will improve the new capital city. This change might have severe back lash,
this must be done in a phased manner otherwise some politicians and business
men might create lots of problems.
3. Education
Education is the key
for any society to progress. But India is one place which is not trying hard to
provide education to all. It gives subsides, loan waivers, unwanted schemes
without concentrating on education and teachers.
Lots of villages and
cities in India do not schools or proper schools. Many schools have no
teachers. Schools which have teachers do not have students. Lots of teachers do
not come to schools and do different business and collect pay checks.
Schools in big cities
have become so much commercials entities. Real education does not happen;
instead there is a race to collect as much donations from people. Children and
parents who go to these schools have only one dream, to get out of the country
as early as possible.
To fix this issue, one
need to make on small change of increasing the number of teachers across board,
Double the number of schools and colleges in all towns, districts and villages.
Finally, there could
be many more than 3 points which I have stated above. Any country needs a good
leadership to implement these smallest of small changes to improve the society as
a whole.
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