agenda for election 2014

As General Election 2014 is nearing every political party is busy in making big promise and trying to draw the attention of public towards them. General election is the biggest festival of a democracy specially a participative democracy where stake of a common man is more or less limited to casting vote once in a five year. It’s a chance of every adult to express the values, ideals they stand for and what they want from their law makers. Keeping this argument in mind it’s very important for people to set agenda, issues for general election and hence selecting appropriate government. Today the major problems our country facing are price –rise, increasing gap between labour and middle class, high unemployment rate and more importantly very high hidden unemployment (for example if one person is sufficient to do the job and two person are doing the job then one person is suffering from hidden unemployment), productivity of capital investment and human resource use, increasing crime graph and all time high corruption and opaque system and arbitrary process of decision making. Most of the problems can be tackled by boosting Indian economy in Indian way. Increasing proportion of manufacturing in GDP so that more jobs are created and unemployment rate goes down. At the same time we need to check the harassment of labour and executives by big corporate. We also need to make small blocks of industries so that the migration from villages to metros stops and the difference in development of states goes down and all states can be happy. It will also help in uniform the utilisation of resources of all the places like ground water and air. We need to correct the education system in a way so that it doesn’t produce machines or robots but intelligent humans with humanitarian values rather than being totally focussed for material benefits and with innovative thinking and a thirst for going up not for materialistic benefits but for betterment of fellow citizens. The other area of concern is inefficiency and malpractices in delivery of public services be it police, ration, education, health or any other service. Because there are malpractices in public delivery system, all of our policies are failing and right people are not getting their rights and despite of several policies in place our country and society is not going forward. Inflation needs to keep in check and not by subsidies but by right policies. Subsidies should be provided in areas which directly affect poor people. Another most important point is to that whosoever parliamentarian comes in parliament he must follow parliamentary decorum and should not disrupt parliament because disrupting parliament is like killing government and governance because parliament is highest decision making body and it should take decisions otherwise country will go in policy and decision paralysis. Public should out rightly reject the parliamentarians who are killing the parliament. Law and order situation of the country needs to improve and criminals or politicians supported by criminals must be kept out of power. A mechanism needs to be set in place by which inefficient public servant can be thrown out of the system so that efficiency of public servant increases. On the foreign relation front i am quite satisfied with current government’s policies but new government should try to improve our relations with our neighbours and most important of them is China. Boundary issue with China should be settled so that trust with china can be developed and our defence expenditure can be cut down to utilise it for some other purpose. On the defence side we need to develop more infrastructures to reduce our dependence on foreign machineries. Energy security should be given importance and nuclear technology should be used aggressively for electricity rather than defence purpose because nuclear energy is till now looks to have better future than all the renewable sources combined because all the renewable technology available till now either needs high capital investment with low returns. And in the end railways should be given prime importance because it has suffered most from coalition politics since 1996 and railway is most important source of conveyance for India. It should be made more secure, and more robust. Four lane railways should be employed on busy tracks to increase efficiency of railway and instead of just increasing the number of trains we should focus on increasing the number of rails and other infrastructure.