MY COUNTRY INDIA And FEELINGS of A COMMON MAN By Dr.

Vinay Kumar Chadha

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Preface

This book has been written on basis of my personal feelings about inner conflicts of the existing social set up and prevailing living conditions of people of my country and also on the basis of personal interaction, over a period of many years, with people of different sections of the society of my country ranging from poor human beings to high Government officials & businessmen with social tags of scheduled cast (SC), scheduled tribe (ST), other backward class (OBC) and general category (GC). I hope this book will be helpful for all members of Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj, the highest Creation of the God, of my country in enhancing feelings of oneness, brotherhood and social harmony among different sections of the society irrespective of their identification caste, creed, religion and region. I would also like to mention that the character Ram Niwas in this book is totally imaginary and does not relate to anyone living or dead. The views expressed in this book do not intend to hurt the feelings of any individual and in case the feelings of anyone are hurt, then I extremely regret that. The author of this small book is a medical graduate from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and has taken voluntary retirement for a social cause after putting in 35 plus years of glorious central government medical service. Author Dr.Vinay Kumar Chadha

CHAPTER ONE
A COMMON MAN versus GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION

This is my country India with a population of about 121 crore people. Here I always feel that I have my own people. My country is known by many names as India, Hindustan, Bharatvarsh or Bharat and its people are known as Indians, Bhartiya or Hindustani world-wide who speak different kinds of languages and have diverse culture. I am known in my country as a common man aam aadmi, the term that includes crores of poor and middle class people of my country, you can say whom nobody knows or recognizes as a prominent citizen. I can be a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Parsi or anybody who remains as an unknown identity for other crores of people of my country except for ones near and dear ones. I generally live only on hopeless hopes and dreams that one day, time will come when my circumstances, my life, my familys life, my living conditions will also change for better in my country. When I will have sufficient potable water to drink, sufficient food to eat for myself and my family, will have good school for my children, will have minimum basic civic amenities in my area, improved sanitation conditions, a house away from choked and stinking drains, when there will not be any water, mosquito, housefly and food borne diseases like gastroenteritis, worms infestation, typhoid fever, jaundice, malaria, dengue, filariasis. When there will not be any mixing of potable water with sewer water. When health authorities will do their job sincerely and regularly to supply safe drinking water to the helpless people of my country. When the kitchen, attached with hotels, restaurants, eating joints and catering service providers, where food is prepared will be regularly checked for maintaining hygienic conditions in preparation of food. When food handling staff and venders in the market will be regularly and sincerely checked medically by the health authorities to exclude any contagious or communicable diseases in them. It is pitiable to see some small restaurants, food venders in cities, towns and villages selling snacks and sweets in totally unhygienic conditions just near open and choked drains with plenty of houseflies around and with moving traffic on side of restaurants and food venders releasing lot of contaminated dust getting settled down over the snacks and sweets and the poor people unknowingly buying that contaminated food stuff without realizing the consequences adversely affecting their health. I fail to understand why sale of such contaminated food stuff is allowed by the health authorities. I do not know when the health and education delivery system for the people of my country will be considered a top priority by my government administration. When the people of my country will have continuous supply

of electricity in agriculture sector, industries, commercial establishments and residential areas and when all roads of my country will be well maintained and adequately lit. When agriculture produce in my country will not get rotten and wasted in open for want of adequate cold storage capacity where millions of poor people are facing problem of hunger. I also do not know when no one will dare to manufacture and sell adulterated milk, milk products and other eatables. When no one will dare to manufacture and sell spurious medicines in the market. When no one will dare to play with the health and life of the people of my country. When no one manufacture and sell fake and duplicate spare automobile parts. When law enforcing agencies will do their job sincerely and my country will be free from crimes and criminals. when I will feel safe and secured for myself and my family in my house, in my village, in my city and anywhere in my country. But unfortunately I have yet to see the implementation of required minimum basic needs of a common man of my country being fulfilled for ones decent living and these living conditions make me sad and frustrated. As if above factors are not enough for my sufferings, I am also being frequently exploited by different political parties and their leaders for political sponsored bandhs, dharnas, agitations, strikes and very importantly my vote at the time of periodical elections of corporations, state assemblies and parliament. It is me who is tortured mentally in all walks of my life in one way or the other by the attitude and policies of the same political leaders and their representatives who are voted to power generally by this very poor common man. These days a common man is a very popular term and is being used by the leaders and their political parties alike in election manifestoes and election speeches. Since it is me in this poor common man who gets easily lured by the hopes and dreams shown by the leaders of different political parties, hopes which are never meant to be fulfilled. Many of these political leaders are always eager to exploit the caste, religious and regional sentiments of a common man through media and other existing propaganda methods with the basic aim to divide these classes of common man for the purpose of polarization of different sections of the society on the basis of caste, creed, religion and region for the sake of so called vote bank politics. Apart from this, a common man is also being targeted fearlessly by the notorious elements in the society involved in cheating business by floating fake companies, by doing cloning of credit cards and by doing different types of frauds. In the name of poor common man or for the sake of common man, our leaders of various political parties are promising one thing or the other to alleviate their sufferings which are in fact the creation of their own political deeds and

policies. In a way they first mentally hit a common man and put him under stress and then pretend trying to find out remedies. A very good example of this was recently seen in very important northern state of my country where first authorities allowed very large number of unauthorized colonies, with population of about 50 lakh, to flourish for many year without any provision of basic civic amenities, without any system of sewage and garbage disposal forcing the people of the unauthorized colonies to live in totally unhygienic conditions in constant company of foul stink, plenty of mosquitoes & houseflies for years together. This was done without any concern for the residents about creation of unhygienic living conditions for them and then for political gains the leaders of the ruling party sympathized with the residents of those unauthorized colonies and announced regularization of the unauthorized colonies near the times of elections by doing wide publicity. I fail to understand why at all these unauthorized colonies were allowed to flourish without providing the area with basic civic amenities. Have the authorities taken any punitive action against the responsible officers and staff who allowed the residents to build unauthorized colonies without provision of basic civic amenities thus forcing the residents to live in a deplorable unhygienic conditions resulting in many of the preventable water borne, mosquito borne and food borne diseases in those particular colonies with spread of these diseases to other parts of the state. Such a situation seems to be totally appalling & disgusting.

Innocent children living in deplorable conditions in my country I fail to understand why people do not understand that only by keeping their houses clean, without any concern for surrounding areas and other colonies with deplorable sanitary conditions, will not prevent the breeding of mosquitoes and houseflies and the occurrence of diseases like dengue, malaria, typhoid fever and jaundice. All cities, towns, villages in my country are dirty with filthy and unhygienic conditions prevailing all around and are required to be kept clean with laying of proper sewerage system with a system

of proper disposal of garbage and supply of safe drinking water along with other measures to prevent all preventable diseases. I fail to understand why sincere efforts were not made by the concerned authorities to prevent all commonly occurring preventable diseases. I feel application of knowledge of preventive medicine has not been sincerely put to use in my country. Always it is me in a common man who suffers during rainy season on broken roads sometimes even putting my life in danger of drowning by walking on water logged streets with invisible deep drains without manhole covers. It is me who suffers from many preventable diseases like dengue, malaria, typhoid fever, gastroenteritis, jaundice etc, It is me who has to constantly bear the foul stink from the open and choked drains near my residential colony. It is me who has to live in company of plenty of mosquitoes and houseflies in my house and in my locality. It is me who always suffer regarding issues relating to insufficient basic civic amenities like water, electricity, schools, roads and poor sanitation. It is me who suffers for want of safety, security of self and family members. It is me who suffers from poor education and health delivery system, poor housing, rampant corruption and from fear of being cheated anywhere in money matters or in purchase of adulterated consumables like milk, milk products, oil, cereals or even spurious medicines required for the sick members of ones family. Sanitation has so far been totally neglected by the authorities for the last 65 years and no sincere efforts have been made to reduce the human sufferings in my country from the preventable diseases being spread through contaminated water, mosquitoes, houseflies and food. The authorities are not making any sincere efforts to eliminate breeding of mosquitoes & houseflies, supply clean potable water to the people of my country and do not have any effective concern for food safety. No one in my city, town or village knows who will be the next target of dreaded gastroenteritis, dengue fever, malaria, typhoid or jaundice. I feel that the priorities of the government administration for required areas of development are totally misplaced.

Life in Slums in my country

I feel, in fact, our leaders dont want that the sufferings of a common man should ever be mitigated. That is why that most of the time their policies are without looking into the common problems of this common man of the country, who constitutes majority of population of our country as a whole. The policies of our existing leaders have a clear motive of dividing the different sections of society of a common man of this country on the basis of caste, creed, religion or region for achieving their personal goals in politics. I feel our leaders always work to increase their vote bank through dubious ways of polarizing the society on the basis of caste, creed, religion region and by excessive use of money power for on the spot purchase of vote of poor people of the society by distributing small amount of money in cash, alcoholic drinks and other intoxicants making the poor people addicted to the intoxicants for each vote rather than by working positively for common man of the country to alleviate ones sufferings. Why our leaders do not make sincere efforts to make our country worth living place where no one is scared to drink water anywhere, where there will not be any need of mineral water, where everyone feels safe and secured for self and ones family, where sanitary conditions are of highest order in villages, towns and cities, where all preventable diseases as mentioned above are totally prevented by effective preventive measures by concerned authorities to reduce unnecessary human sufferings, where each and every citizen of my country is respected and treated with love, care and sympathy and not with neglect and apathy irrespective of ones identification caste, creed, religion and region. But it is not happening as expected by a common man of my country and being a common man is a sort of mental torture in my country which varies from individual to individual depending upon the economic condition of ones family. Poorer the economic condition, more and more numbers of mental and physical tortures one has to face in my country and this is for sure that no one is there to listen to ones grievances.

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CHAPTER TWO A COMMON MAN VERSUS SOCIETY I live with my family as an unknown entity since many years in a village on the periphery of one of small city of my country. You can say I am part a larger group of people whom only very few in society recognize. Almost similar is the story of every one in of my area. I belong to a very poor family. My father was an illiterate and worked as a laborer in fields of a landlord of my village with a meager earning of about Rs. 100 per day. To meet the two ends meet, my mother used to work in landlords house as a maid doing all household petty works with all attached humiliation. The total income of the family varied from 3000-5000 per month. I have two brothers and two sisters. I am the youngest child in my family. My age is about 34 years and my name is Ram Niwas. May be my parents kept my name as Ram Niwas as they might have thought that what can be more beautiful and powerful than the name of God Ram and what can be more beautiful than the house of God. But they must not have ever imagined that the whole life of their beloved son is going to be passed in state of poverty in a one small room house in 24 hours company of mosquitoes and houseflies near constantly stench emanating blocked open sewer drain full of filth and dirty water. Sanitation around my house and in a village is very poor with open drains and pools of dirty stagnant water all around with constant stink emanating from them. Only few houses have their own septic tanks and toilets but others probably do not have money to have their own septic tanks and toilet facility in houses and therefore going to the fields for natures call. There are terrible living conditions prevailing in my area. The basic civic amenities are totally lacking in my locality. There is no tap water, no street light, no system of disposal of garbage, no sewerage system and no roads but many poor people are also using cell phones may be the communication with cell phones has become much better. There is one hand pump for fetching water for the people in my locality, the water of which has never been tested for its quality by the health authorities. There is no school in the vicinity and children have to go to a school far away from their houses for studies. Every time some big promises are made by the politicians during the election period by the leaders of various political parties but once election is over nobody bothers to address the grievances of the poor people residing over there. Sometimes some people are tortured by the winning or losing political party for their known political inclinations that is why everyone is scared of speaking about their political inclination. I have seen over the period of time that whether you vote or do not vote, whether ones chosen political party wins or loses but there seems to be no improvement at all in living conditions of poor common people.

Living conditions of members of Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj in my country Despite extreme difficulties and poor economic condition of my family I could study and pass class 12th at the age of 19. I tried my level best to fulfill my dreams. I started doing hard work to achieve my goals without any guidance or coaching because of poor economic conditions of my family. Anyhow despite poor economic condition of my family I could do graduation in BA from a private college. Following which I started applying for the competitive examinations. I took competitive exams for group C jobs in Nationalized Banks, Railways, state subordinate services continuously for 3-4 times with a hope to get selected but I could not make it. But as the destiny would have it even after a lot of hard work and even with social tag of OBC belonging to a very poor family I failed to get selected anywhere in the desired Government job and ultimately started doing a petty job of a caretaker in a factory at the age of 27. I failed to understand the advantage of this social tag of OBC for poor people with meager income, whom many leaders and people even call as belonging to pichchri jaati,. I still remember that like many other children of my school I was not aware of my social tag till class 9th in school when my class teacher asked each and every child to stand up and tell about his or her social category while filling up forms for 10th class Board examination. Though I could not answer same day but next day I confirmed from my father that we belonged to Other Backward Class (OBC) also called as pichchri jaati by many people and political leaders alike and told my category to my class teacher the next day. Later on I came to know that the social category of OBC of people are further divided into Creamy and non-Creamy layer and it is non-Creamy layer of OBC who are eligible for some reserved seats in education and Government jobs. But what was the relation of my knowledge and examination with my social status? At that point of time I really felt degraded and humiliated when

class teacher asked about my social category but could not say anything. Similar was the story of other students belonging to Scheduled caste (unsuchit jaati), Scheduled tribe (unsuchit-janjaati) and General category when they were also asked to stand up in class to tell their category. At that point of time I failed to make out why these people talk about the category of human beings but certainly now I understand that these categories are associated with certain discriminatory benefits for the socially tagged people in the fields of education, government service and reserved constituencies in elections to various constitutional bodies but at the cost of self-respect of human beings. The leaders of my country have classified the members of Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj of my country into four categories of SC, ST, OBC and GC for certain negligible discriminatory benefits to them thus humiliating and degrading the human beings and the humanity in the society before any kind of help is rendered to those socially tagged members of the society. I came to know through government advertisements for the various government jobs and for admission in higher education that 15% vacancies are reserved for SC and 7.5% of vacancies are reserved for ST category of human beings without any ceiling on income for the beneficiaries indicating if the person is earning even more than two lakh per month still ones children are entitled to the benefits of the reservation, on the other hand 27% vacancies are reserved for non-Creamy OBC category of human beings with ceiling of annual income up to 6lacs/year (50,000/month). But I always feel is the government really interested in helping poor people or already well off people? I feel that because of wide disparity of financial status among different sections of socially tagged SC, ST and OBC category of people, this reservation policy is just a mirage MIRIG TRISHNA for the majority of eligible poor class of socially tagged people and I feel it has become a recurrent cycle of advantage for the children of economically and educationally well off socially tagged SC,ST and OBC category of people. On the face of it, it seems to be a good percentage of reservation for the socially tagged people but looking into about 85crore of 121 crore people of my country being socially tagged how does it make a difference for those majority of socially tagged poor people who still live in a miserable conditions without even minimum basic civic amenities in comparison to those negligible percentage of already economically and educationally well off socially tagged people with all facilities and privileges at their door step resulting in absolutely negligible advantage for majority of socially tagged poor people. No doubt there are various welfare schemes run by central and state governments for socially tagged people of SC,ST,OBC category and minorities but I totally fail to understand why there seems to be no positive effect of these beneficial welfare schemes on the poor socially tagged people of this country who still are forced to lead a miserable life without even minimum basic civic amenities. These poor people are still living in an

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absolutely unhygienic conditions without potable water, electricity, toilets, sewerage system in constant company of mosquitoes and houseflies adjacent to blocked open drains and pool of stagnant dirty filthy water. But certainly many people fail to understand that I like others, belong to the highest and the best creation of the God, the sarvochya rachna constituting Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj of which I am also a member like any other human being all over the world. I dont understand why has this best creation of the God the Sarvochaya Rachna has been labeled and categorized by the leaders of my country. Now since quite some time common man has become a very popular term and is being commonly used and almost always exploited on the issues concerning common man like inflation, fuel prices in my country for the sake of political gains by organizing politically sponsored agitations, bandhs, dharnas, strikes by various political parties for their political gains. The majority of crowd of people taking part in the agitations, dharnas, bandhs, strikes is always formed by the common man and is also at the receiving end of police lathi charge, police firing and arrests. But unfortunately it is this common man, in whose name these political agitations are organized, suffers much more during such large scale agitations at local or national level than without them. During these bandhs and strikes at national level all transport system comes to standstill with undue stoppages of trains mid way between stations putting traveling people of all age groups to suffer a lot for hours together who eagerly and desperately wait to reach their destinations without water, eatables in scorching heat without any fault of theirs. Government transport buses are unnecessarily damaged and burnt which are meant for these very common people who burn them. During such agitations daily wage earners like rehrri walas, rickshaw walas and daily wagers like them are hit hard without any earning whose families survive on little earnings on daily basis. Sometimes serious patients cannot be taken to hospitals as roads leading to hospitals are blocked. Many office goers cannot reach their offices. Normal life gets virtually paralyzed with the resultant huge financial loss and the height is when sponsoring leaders from political parties term the strikes and bandhs as successful with broad smile on their face without even a little concern for the poor daily wage earners and their families who survive on the daily earnings and whose bread they have snatched for a day, serious patients who could not be taken to hospitals, children who could not reach schools and colleges and those who got seriously injured or killed during police action with huge economic loss to the nation. This is all very unfortunate for my poor developing nation where all round poverty with high hunger index is very much visible without any concern of those leaders. But unfortunately there are no strikes, agitations, bandhs and dharnas organized by any of the political parties for real concerns of the common man regarding insufficient basic civic amenities, unavailability of potable water, insufficient electricity, lack of sanitary conditions with poor sewerage

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system, absent surface drainage system, very poor roads, frequent stagnation of water here and there, mosquitoes, houseflies and food borne diseases like dengue, malaria, filaria, typhoid fever, jaundice, diarrhea etc, frequent thefts and frequent occurrence of heinous crimes like rapes, murders, dacoities, road hold-ups etc. There are no protests by the political parties for very important concern of common man regarding ones safety and security in day to day life. I fail to understand why these political parties do not protest regarding main basic issues concerning common man? May be they do not have solutions for those basic issues or there is no deliberate attempt to solve these basic issues of much concern to poor common man. The issues of poor basic civic amenities and poor sanitation related diseases, poor health and education delivery system are giving much more problems to a common man. But the political parties are always eager to misuse the common man for the purpose of mass agitations, dharnas, bandhs and valuable votes. Common man is always seen as a vote bank by the politicians of various political parties alike as it has been observed over a period of time that it is mainly the poor common man who votes in majority in each election and constitutes majority of vote share. More over it is me in this poor common man who easily gets lured by some money and alcohol as on the spot bribe apart from mostly false promises of getting jobs, water, electricity, roads and overall development of the area by the politicians of different political parties during times of election. The political parties are always eager to exploit the caste, religious and regional sentiments of a common man through media and other existing propaganda methods with the basic aim to divide these classes of common man belonging to same Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj. It seems to be very unfortunate for my country. It is totally surprising and troublesome for me as a common man as to why my politicians and leaders dont function in the larger interest of all round prosperity and progress of people of my country. I certainly appreciate some good development in field of science & technology in my country but either the development is just not sufficient for a very high population of my country or your development filter is so microscopic that the effects and the benefits of development have failed to percolate down to the masses or the priorities for the required areas of development are wrongly placed that the common man aam aadmi, is still facing lot of problems in ones day to day life. Everything seems to be done in the name of this poor common man by our national & state leaders but nothing seems to be working for him who unfortunately continues to survive only on hopeless hopes and dreams and is still very much suffering from the ill effects of poor governance. ______

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CHAPTER THREE EDUCATION THE FUTURE OF MY COUNTRY Right from the time of independence of our country or even before that there was no bar of any kind on taking education by going to the schools and colleges. But the access to the education was available to the very few percentage of our population because of the good economic condition of their families. Education to majority of the children was in a way intentionally denied by their parents for the probable reasons of Poverty, lack of schools, gender based education with preference to educate male children, lack of safety and security to a girl child or the far distanced schools. At present also almost same factors are responsible for contributing to lack of education and illiteracy. These factors are lack of 100% quality and meritorious teachers, lack of good teaching in schools with stress on private tuition and coaching by school teachers, poor infrastructure of schools without separate toilets for girls & boys, play ground, higher cost of education and lack of job oriented education in the schools resulting in knowledge without its practical and economical utility. Other factors are lack of uniform syllabus in the country excluding regional languages, categorization of the different social groups of human beings resulting in social discrimination of children in schools, gender based discrimination with preference of sons education, I feel the Right To Education Act with education only up to 14 years of age and with inclusion of existing policy of reservation will not make any difference till above mentioned probable factors are solved in the larger interest of children and future of the country by following ways: 1. Imparting vocational training in different skills: There is an availability of only about 20% skilled work force in my country and remaining about 80% work force is unskilled. This is because of lack of job oriented education in my country resulting in low employment capabilities and poor economic conditions of the people of the country. It is pertinent to impart job oriented skills to the school going children in vocational courses at school level by introducing at least two vocational courses in schools which will function in collaboration with existing industries, Industrial Training Institutes, Vocational Training Centers or the best artisans of the area. At least 90-120 minutes of total school timings need to be utilized for training in vocational courses from 8th class onwards twice or thrice a week and during vacations. The children are likely to learn at least

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50-60% trade in various vocational skills by the time they pass out 10th or 12th standard. This training at school level to the children will be very useful in certain professional jobs with increase in rate of employment. The children are likely to get jobs in the same industry or with same artisan where they have learnt skills during 5 years of vocational training from 8th-12 class of their schooling and industries and artisan will get the skilled workforce from among the same group of children trained by them. It will be a win-win situation for both industries and children. This way in a long run about 80% of our unskilled workforce can turn into a skilled workforce resulting in almost 100% skilled workforce in our nation. This will certainly help to uplift the poor members and youth of my country in getting economically self dependent in the society, training industries will get more skilled workforce, employment rate will increase, crime rate will be remarkably reduced with employment of more and more skilled workforce, hunger index will go down, human development index will go up, gross happiness index and social harmony at national level will increase thus making the nation much stronger and more peaceful. 2. Capitation fee: It is a curse in my country where unmeritorious children with sound economic condition of their families can also acquire degrees in different professional fields by paying hefty amount in lakhs resulting in flourishing business of opening private colleges in various fields of education. This business has spread all over the country with output of likely substandard professionals in fields of even medicine and engineering hence I feel this kind of education with capitation fee is required to be curbed in the larger interest of the nation. 3. More schools with Good infrastructure: there is need to improve the infrastructure of the existing schools with separate toilets for girls and boys, supply of sufficient water, play ground and opening of more and more schools where children dont have to move a long distance from their residences. Budgetary allocation for education sector needs to be increased to impart good comprehensive education to the children in an effort to make strong nation. 4. Appointment of quality teachers: the importance of teacher in making fruitful future of the children thus resulting in strong future of the country must not be undermined and only quality and meritorious teachers are required to be appointed at all levels of education. The teaching profession is required to be given higher respect, status and emoluments at all levels to attract good quality professional teachers. There is need to start State Teaching Service and Central Teaching Service for appointing meritorious teachers at school level for building a strong foundation for the growing children. 5. Safety and security of girl child. Safety and security of girl child needs to be ensured through tougher laws to allay fear in the minds of parents sending

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their daughters to the schools and punishment of the culprits by fast track courts need to be ensured.

6. Affordable fee as per economic status: Slab system of fee structure for children as per the economic status of their parents needs to be put in place instead of uniform fee system in order to make education affordable for the majority of common poor children of my country. 7. Uniform syllabus: Uniform syllabus except for optional subjects in regional languages in different states needs to be put in place all over the country far imparting uniform job oriented education in era of competitive examinations at state and national levels to make self dependent citizens. 8. Apart from teaching moral values, efforts to control crime at school level by imparting the basic knowledge of different kinds of punishment, their associated stigma and consequences against committing a crime of any kind needs to be inculcated in the minds of children to induce a sort of fear psychosis in an effort to make them law abiding and disciplined citizens from the very beginning. 9. Education to all children till 10th class, as against education only up to the age of 14 years as per Right To Education Act, needs to be ensured by the law and made a low cost affair to enable the willing children to have good education as long as they want to study with limited financial resources of majority of people. ______

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CHAPTER FOUR YOUTH POPULATION

VERSUS

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM With about 60-65 Cr youth population (about 50% of total population) of my country, public & private sector has failed to provide enough jobs and employment opportunities to the youth population resulting in unavoidable and vital problem of an unemployment of mostly unskilled but educated and uneducated youth population of my country, who could contribute remarkably in economic growth of my country, needs to be tackled on a priority. As this vital segment of my country has been constantly ignored by the successive governments, the signs of perceptible increasing levels of frustration, irritation and intolerance in the youth of the country is leading them to committing heinous crimes like attempt to murder, murders on just slightest provocation in day to day life and other criminal activities of road hold ups, looting of banks, kidnapping, rapes & more importantly they are getting entrapped by the anti national forces into more dangerous field of terrorism for certain monetary gains. I always used to feel about how to solve this unavoidable and immediate problem of an unemployment in such a high percentage of youth population of my country which in turn is linked to various acts of different criminal activities in the society, thus disturbing peace in the country, so that the youth of my country is absorbed in meaningful productive employment. I feel that the jobs in the public sector are very few in relation to large percentage of unemployed youth population and it should not be the prerogative of only very few percentage of total population to serve the country till 58,60,62 and 65 years of age. Therefore I feel that as an immediate measure the retirement age should be reduced to 55 years for all future employments in government sector with exception of teaching profession in higher education and judiciary. There is also an urgent need to reduce the retirement age from 58, 60, 62 & 65 years to 55 years in two slabs of equal years in two years duration in Central government, State governments, PSUs, Nationalized Banks and Union Territories in existing strength of employees except teaching profession in higher education and judiciary by giving some extra incentives in proportion to the remaining duration of service so as to create at least about 1.5 Cr of jobs of total working strength of the serving population between age group of 55-65 years in Central and State governments, PSUs, Nationalized Banks and Union

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Territories. In addition to creating about 1.5 crore jobs for more energetic youth population of the country over a period of two years, required posts against the existing vacancies in various departments of Central and State governments, PSUs, Nationalized Banks and Union Territories need to be filled up on urgent basis. In addition to above urgent measures, there is a need to create more job opportunities by creating infrastructure on priority in energy and other sectors. Apart from this, imparting vocational skills in children by continuous training in vocational courses at school level from 8th class onwards as explained above in chapter three of this book will go a long way in making the youth economically self dependent and in solving the problem of unemployment in the youth population of my country. _____

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CHAPTER FIVE HEALTH THE ECONOMIC LIFE LINE OF MY COUNTRY Life of the nation is determined by health of its people , the better the health , the longer the life line of the country with resultant robust economic strength and poorer the health of its people ,the shorter the life line of the country with resultant weaker economic strength due man days loss. Everyone knows that only the healthy person can contribute economically in the development of a country and sick person only adds to the man days loss leading to economic loss. In one of the recent survey conducted by international agency the total expenditure on small infections in our nation was Rs.69000 crore in one year while the annual health budget outlay was only Rs. 34500 crore. The man days loss was very high with huge economic loss. I feel there is an urgent need to prevent about 70% of commonly prevailing preventable water borne, mosquito and housefly borne, food and sex borne diseases to reduce the human sufferings and man days loss. Moreover I feel that effective health delivery system should be the responsibility of the government to take care of the health of the people with stress on prevention of commonly occurring diseases and make the health services affordable to all citizens irrespective of their economic status. In my view following measures need to be taken urgently if we really want that all our members of Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj remain healthy and happy and our nation remains economically strong for all times to come. 1. Application of preventive measures: Everybody knows prevention is better than cure but this has remained as a mere advice and neither people nor government followed the principal of prevention which could have checked unwarranted human sufferings and casualties resulting in huge man days loss with resultant economic loss. Our almost all cities, towns and villages are virtually dirty with open stagnant drains, broken sewers lines or no sewerage system at all with inadequate number or none of Sewerage Treatment Plants. There is stagnation of filthy water here and there, an excellent place for mosquito breeding with heaps of garbage scattered here and there along with intolerable stink without any effective garbage disposal system. The citizens are forced to live in a totally unhygienic conditions and with unhygienic habits of many people, the spread of preventable diseases remain totally unchecked. It is a very common sight to see the street food venders and sweets shops selling sweets and eatables in open with surrounding open dirty water drains with dust all around being emanated by

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moving traffic thus exposing the eatables to contaminated dust and houseflies causing many of food borne diseases. All water, food, mosquito, housefly borne and sexually transmitted diseases are easily preventable and need to be prevented by all means and I am totally surprised that as to why we fail to follow what we preach and why appropriate preventive measures are not in place to effectively check all preventable diseases by municipal authorities which at present are causing unwarranted human sufferings.

Life in slum-a cause of my diseases Prevention of preventable diseases can be effectively achieved through health education at school level making it a part of curriculum and through media as an immediate and long term measure apart from measures to be taken by the government and other agencies to lay down effective sewerage system with installation of STPs and proper disposal of treated effluent into streams and rivers in cities and towns. The construction of common septic tanks in villages with provision of toilets in all houses of the villages, towns and cities is a necessity. Effective measures to eliminate breeding places of mosquitoes and houseflies by preventing stagnation of water and accumulation of garbage dumps are required to be taken vigorously to check mosquito and housefly borne diseases apart from other measures of eliminating adult mosquitoes, houseflies. Effective steps need to be taken to check the manufacturing and sale of adulterated eatables and spurious medicines with serious health hazards. This is causing big concern in the minds of poor common man but nothing much is being done by the concerned agencies as there seems to be no fear at all in minds of the culprits. The good and sound health of the people of a country can prove to be a never ending economic life line of a country but unfortunately in my country health care delivery system is not effective for the poor common man or else lot many of preventable diseases like gastroenteritis, jaundice, typhoid fever, malaria, filaria, dengue and Kala-azar would have been vanished from my country long ago remarkably reducing the sufferings and deaths from these

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dreaded diseases. The absence of preventable diseases would have also improved the economic condition of crores of our families whose earning capacity is much reduced due these crippling diseases. But due to negligent and lackadaisical attitude of the concerned authorities, millions of common men in our villages, towns, cities are suffering from these dangerous preventable diseases thus remarkably reducing their life span and adversely affecting even their little earnings. 2. That availability of potable water is becoming a very big problem in my country and is slowly getting inaccessible. Those who can afford are forced to drink mineral water and have RO system installed in their houses as the authorities have failed to supply clean potable water but I always think about crores of poor people who do not have any access to clean potable water and cannot afford buy mineral water or install RO system in their houses and are forced to drink contaminated water with e.coli bacteria and other contaminants responsible for many ailments. Whose responsibility is to supply clean potable water to its citizens? 3. The widely prevalent business of manufacturing and supply of adulterated eatables and spurious medicines in bulk and their sale through retail in various parts of our country, without even a slightest regard for human lives, is posing a constant danger of health hazards to human beings. This is happening possibly due to lack of any kind of fear of law enforcing agencies probably due to prevailing corruption and very slow justice delivery system in the minds of greedy businessmen or else no one would have dared to indulge in such a heinous crime of slow poisoning of human beings. The big business of manufacturing and sale of fake or duplicate automobile parts on cheaper rates is putting many innocent citizens on grave risk of road accidents and needs to be checked by educating the citizens about the grave risk associated with use of fake parts in their automobiles. I fail to understand why government is unable to implement the tough laws to prosecute such bad elements in fast track courts.

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CHAPTER SIX ELECTRICITY: THE ESSENCE OF LIFE, ECONOMIC GROWTH and PROSPERITY Although much work has been done to generate this essential component of life for sustaining economic growth by making it available to the industries, agriculture sector, daily needs of various commercial establishments and residential colonies but it still falls remarkably short to meet the daily requirement and expectations of the people of my country. Efforts seem to be totally insufficient in view of very large population of my country and ever increasing demands of electrical power for daily needs, agriculture, industries and commercial establishments etc. as without this important source of energy everything, which runs on this, comes to a standstill. Unfortunately sincere efforts are not seen to be made to generate sufficient electricity through conventional and unconventional sources. Many power plants are not working to their full capacity or not working at all for want of coal and gas but why? This shortage of electricity all over my country has resulted in use of large quantity of generators to run the commercial establishments, hospitals and occasionally during celebrations in cities and towns and villages leading to lot of pollution due to emission of green house gases in already polluted atmosphere affecting adversely health of the people of my country. The electrical energy generated by hydro, thermal, gas and nuclear power plants seems to be quite insufficient to meet with daily needs, therefore the need to produce electricity through non-conventional renewable sources of energy from solar power and wind-mill need to be encouraged at all levels wherever possible. The perennial problem of shortage of power generation needs to be tackled on a priority failing which all round development and economic growth seems difficult in my country.

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CHAPTER SEVEN SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION OF HUMAN BEINGSTHE HIGHEST and THE BEST CREATION OF GOD

I think everyone knows that we, the human beings, belong to the highest and the best creation of God among all living beings and are known as belonging to Sarvochaya Rachna as told by our Dharam Gurus. This Sarvochaya Rachna constitutes Serva Manav Samaaj and it is also a truth then where is the question of one belonging to a upper and lower caste or forward and backward caste. I feel it is only the "karma" or deeds of someone which makes a human being forward or backward, upper or lower in status in the society and not one's mere identification by caste which is only a part of ones name, our true caste remains that highest creation of God the so called Sarvochaya Rachna. If one wants to help some poor member of our Serva Manav Samaaj then I think no one should have any objection to such a help but if one wants to help someone after labeling that poor member of Serva Manav Samaaj with tags like Scheduled caste(SC), Scheduled tribe(ST) and Other Backward Class(OBC) and General category(GC) then it appears to be humiliating and should not be acceptable as no one has any right to humiliate and degrade any member of "Highest Creation of God" before helping that member. I feel these tags of SC,ST, OBC and GC are humiliating social tags and need to be removed from the constitution. Let every human being first feel being equal to all others in the society and not have any kind of feelings of inequality and guilt of being lower or backward in relation to the so called upper or forward caste people. I fail to understand why is there any social categorization of human beings at all? It is humiliating and shameful to socially classify the highest & the best Creation of God into different categories just for negligible discriminatory benefits in form of reservation in education and Government jobs etc. But the fact of the matter is that because of wide disparity of economic status among different sections of socially tagged people, it has become a recurrent cycle of advantage for negligible percentage of economically and educationally well off members of socially tagged people of SC, ST and OBC category resulting in total neglect of majority of poor members of socially

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tagged people of the society irrespective of their identification caste, creed, religion and region for whom any advantage from the reservation policy is just a mirage or mrig trishna. Moreover it is so humiliating to indicate ones category whenever one is required to fill up forms either in opening bank account in public sector banks or for admissions in schools, colleges or for filling up bio-data in government jobs. It is a big embarrassment to see and fill up the column To which category do you belong to in required forms in schools, colleges and in government sector. I feel this humiliating column "TO WHICH CATEGORY DO YOU BELONG TO" should be removed from all formats in schools, colleges, banks and government sector or where ever in use. I feel that we should love and take care of that child who when born did not know to which family, to which caste, religion and region he belonged to and that innocent child exists in everyone of us. The moment that innocent child came to know about his identification caste and religion inherited from his parents in the society, the division among the members of highest creation of god started resulting in divided human society which surely is detrimental to the national unity and integrity. So much so that this highest creation of God is so much divided on basis of ones identification caste and religion that prospective candidates choose their seats for fighting elections on the basis of percentage of population of particular identification caste and religion seeking advantage in polarization of Serva Manav Samaaj without realizing that this attitude weakens the country as one should be known by the ideology of ones political party & ones past record, if any, and not by ones identification caste, religion & region. The strength lies in unity and not in the divided society and I feel we must remain united as one family irrespective of ones identification caste, creed, religion and region in order to have enhanced feelings of oneness, brotherhood, social harmony and happiness among different sections of society leading to a very strong nation. The identification caste is just part of ones name and the religion acts like a cushion against stress and strains of life. One can follow any religion for attaining mental peace and one should be respected for that. But one must not forget that we all belong to the highest creation of God and we should treat each and every member of this Serva Manav Samaaj with love, care and sympathy not with neglect and apathy. I always feel what kind of leader is one who by his actions and policies divides the people of my nation on the basis of ones identification caste, creed, religion & region leading to feelings of bitterness and disharmony among different sections of the society resulting in a weak and divided nation, a situation which is being constantly exploited to the maximum by invisible

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enemies of humanity for their advantage. Let us not allow such a situation to develop and keep united irrespective of our identification caste, creed, religion and region. I, as a common man, feel a true leader is one who makes all out efforts to keep the people of his country united and always work to create feelings of love, brotherhood and oneness among different sections of the society and at the same time achieve targets aimed to enhance economic growth, human development index and human happiness index for the people of the country. It is totally surprising and mentally troublesome for me as a common man to feel as to why our political leaders function by policy of divide and rule and why not by a policy of unite and work in the larger interest of people of our country? I feel that we can all collectively undo the already done damage to the fine fabric of highest creation of God of our nation with full cooperation and support of all 121 Cr family members of our nation. I feel that we all should do sincere efforts to help and improve the living conditions of all poor people irrespective of their caste, creed, religion and region. To achieve this, I feel all those poor people with monthly total income of up to Rs.12500/-per month in a nuclear family be extended all BPL services, their children should be given free education and coaching if required, till they want with facility of reservation of Group- D jobs in public sector for only their children with minimum qualification of 10th standard. Apart from this, minimum two vocational courses are required to be introduced in schools which will function in collaboration with nearby existing industries, Industrial Training Institutes, Vocational Training centers, or the best artisans of the area. At least about 90-120 minutes of total school timings twice or thrice a week and during vacations needs to be devoted to vocational courses from 8th class onwards so that by the time child passes out 10th or 12th class the child knows about 50-60% of trade which will help the child in becoming economically self dependent in future. This way in a long run about 80% of our unskilled workforce can turn into a skilled workforce resulting in almost 100% skilled workforce in our nation. This will certainly help to uplift the poor people in getting economically self dependent in the society, training industries will get more skilled workforce from among the trained children of the schools, trained children will get jobs with the industries or with the best artisans of the area, employment rate will increase, crime rate will be remarkably reduced with employment of more and more skilled workforce, hunger index will go down, human development index will go up, gross happiness index and social harmony at national level will increase thus making the nation much stronger and more peaceful. These days, demands are mounting high for religion based reservation in education and government service. I fail to understand where this policy of

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reservation is taking us except for repeated cycle of advantage to the negligible percentage of economically and educationally well off socially tagged people and at the same time increasing the level of frustration in poor class of unequally placed socially tagged people who feel humiliated because of these tags and get nothing in return except for creating unpleasant feelings without any fault among different sections of society. This all is happening in my country at the cost of prime national interest and without thinking a bit for the nation that needs well qualified and meritorious professionals in all fields for all round development of the nation down to the level of masses who have yet to appreciate the meaning of development. This is high time that our policy makers think about abolishing this socially damaging factor of categorization of human beings of my country with resultant negligible, discriminatory and unequal benefits to the members of the highest creation of God thus unnecessarily creating feelings of bitterness and disharmony among different sections of society. The policy makers should strive hard to improve the living conditions of all those 50-60 Cr or more poor people of my country irrespective of their identification caste, creed, religion and region by providing them with minimum basic civic amenities. Efforts are required to make them self dependent and self sufficient through the process of education and training in different vocational courses rather than government-dependent through the process of categorization of human beings with associated negligible discriminatory benefits. In my country the word dalit is used exclusively for the class of socially categorized people of scheduled caste (SC). Everybody knows that the word dalit means one who is oppressed and suppressed but I really feel surprised and fail to understand why this word dalit is used as a prefix even before head of constitutional bodies, ministers and government officers belonging to social category SC as they are not at all oppressed or suppressed socially, economically or educationally at such posts. It seems that certain elements in the society with malicious intentions want this tag to continue even if one has attained high position in the society. This seems to be done for the purpose of polarization of members of different sections of society of Serva Manav Samaaj merely as a vote bank politics. In my view any human being irrespective of caste, creed, religion and region is a dalit or oppressed if one is forced to live near chocked constantly stinking open drains in company of plenty of mosquitoes, houseflies, garbage dumps amid numerous diseases and is denied of minimum basic civic amenities, potable water, sufficient food, good education and health services required for a decent living.

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CHAPTER EIGHT AGRICULTURE THE ECONOMIC LIFE LINE OF MY COUNTRY Agriculture with employment of about 50% work force contributes only about 17% to GDP. But everyone knows there is a considerable loss of food grains due to existing poor infrastructure in form very poor storage capacity, lack of proper and scientific preservation of food grains resulting in several tons of food grain getting rotten and wasted every year when millions of poor people are living in a miserable condition of severe under nutrition without a single food grain. This looks totally unfortunate and pitiable even after 65 years of independence. About 30% of farmers produce go waste due to spoilage of harvest because of rodents and lack of cold storage facilities, inadequate irrigation system, crop failure due to lack of water in draughts or during regional floods, very poor roads , poor seed quality and absence of organized retail where excess of agriculture produce, if any, can be sold . About 72% of vegetables and fruits in India go waste due to lack of proper retailing and storage capacity as per Ministry of Agriculture in one of its report. I feel there is a need of cooperative societies for different agricultural produce who in turn should have the responsibility of selling the produce to wholesale markets or retail markets thus giving maximum benefits to the farmers. Hence it is all the more necessary to increase the proper and effective storage capacity with multi storey cold storages if possible for preserving agriculture produce in a scientific way so as to efficiently check unwarranted loss of valuable agriculture produce. The Indian farmer gets very less income for his agriculture produce, the rest going to losses, middle man and retail traders. All efforts are required to be made to increase income for the poor farmers by eliminating middleman involvement for sale of agriculture produce. Due to lack of knowledge and application of advanced technology in the field of agriculture the current agricultural practices are neither economically nor environmentally sustainable with high and unnecessary use of chemical fertilizers resulting in more than acceptable levels of toxic elements in agriculture produce causing many health problems.

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India's yields for many agricultural supplies are low due to poorly maintained irrigation systems with about 50% loss of irrigation water and with absence of drip and sprinkler irrigation in most of the Indian states with absence of concept of rain water harvesting and conservation is leading to disastrous consequences for the nation. Water table is continuously going down and farming is almost totally dependent on annual monsoon. Access of farmers produce to markets is hampered by absence of roads or poorly maintained roads, poor market infrastructure, and excessive government regulation with restriction on inter-state movement of food grains. Water preservation and recharging of ground water: Availability of water for irrigation purposes has always remained a perennial problem and agriculture in my country depends mainly on monsoon. The excess of rain fall causes floods and shortage of rain fall causes draught and in both the cases poor farmer suffers from crop failure and a huge economic loss. Therefore it becomes pertinent to make the available the required quantity of water as and when required for the Indian farmers. The water table, which is going down at a very fast pace and is making it difficult to construct effective tube wells need as to be brought up by all means. Hence there is an urgent need to raise water table all over the agricultural fields, villages and cities for making easy availability of water for agriculture purposes, industries, commercial establishments and daily basic needs. It has been observed that very large volume of rain water and the water through government supply is being wasted for want of concern for such a precious element required for sustaining life by the citizens of my country. This wasted water flows into severs and surface water drains annually which needs to be saved by water harvesting, a step to be made compulsory in all the states and implemented at ground level as it has been observed laws of my country are not being sincerely implemented by the government authorities and people have no concern for the existing laws. Water, being an essential component of life, needs to be potable in addition to being readily available in sufficient quantity for minimum basic needs of human beings. Water is becoming a scarce commodity with ever increasing requirement for daily needs due to increasing population, agriculture and industrial growth sometimes resulting in fights over issue of water availability in different areas. The increasing demands and wastage of water through different sources is resulting in continuous depletion of underground water with water table going down continuously. It has become very pertinent for all of us and the government to implement certain known measures of rain water harvesting, recharging of ground water, implementation of drip and sprinkler farming all over India so as to preserve the invaluable water. _______

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CHAPTER NINE CORRUPTION and VIP CULTURE

A SOLID WALL BETWEEN LAW and ITS IMPLEMENTATION

No doubt there are many effective laws in my country and if used effectively, can cure many anti-people and anti-social ills prevailing in my country but unfortunately corruption and VIP culture of favourtism is a prevailing norm in the law enforcing agencies and these two factors work as a solid wall between laws and their implementation. Instead of judicious implementation of existing laws, most of the time they are being misused, ignored and exploited by law enforcing agencies, people in power, bribe givers and bribe takers to get away from the clutches of law for their wrong deeds or to make money against illegal works thus benefitting much more the bribe giver than the bribe taker and causing huge losses to the government revenue. There is a feeling among masses that one is unable to get ones legal and rightful work done from the government departments without paying some kind of bribe to the concerned staff or official in my country. Rather it has become a concept of the millions of people of my country that without bribe in government functioning nothing can be done. This kind of feeling is very unfortunate however there are many honest staff and officials too but at many points of time they are being harassed by unscrupulous elements in the government machinery. It seems as if money has become more important than anything else even the human values. It appears that no one is concerned with the national progress and prosperity but only money. But at the same time over a period of time it has become very obvious that suspected huge bribes to our elected leaders and the government officials or staff in any form is being used as an effective tool by very few percentage of our highly placed rich people in my country to get their wrong deeds approved by the government and in the process poor and middle class people of my country so called common man is getting entrapped and is forced to pay bribe to the habitual government official/staff to get even ones legal and rightful work done. Every other day there is news of a new scam worth crores of rupees involving politicians, government functionaries, firms and industries resulting in huge loss of revenue which could have been used for the public welfare. This is happening as certain government functionaries are not sincerely doing their

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work and implementing rules and regulations for pecuniary gains from unscrupulous elements in the society. The corruption has three elements 1.bribe taker 2. bribe giver and 3. money and if any one of these elements is absent there cannot be any corruption .Of these three elements, two elements of corruption money and bribe giver are on one side and play an important role in all illicit deals hence it is the bribe giver who should be held more responsible and punished much more than bribe taker for the act of corruption for inducing greed of money in government functionaries to deliberately ignore rules and regulations. I feel certain tough laws are required to be made to instill a sense of fear among the bribe givers who have a feeling of purchasing anything in the world by their money power even the consciousness of the political leaders, government officials and staff by inducing greed of money for getting their suspected illegal deeds approved for making huge profits at the cost of government revenue. And if at the same time citizen charter is imposed over government functionaries to deliver the services within a stipulated time after submission of required documents to the government by the concerned people then it may be possible to check corruption to a large extent. It will also ensure effective implementation of rules and regulation as the government functionaries will be doing their jobs sincerely without any illicit monetary gain. _______

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CHAPTER TEN CRIME and CRIMINAL A DARK CHAPTER OF MY COUNTRY All types of crimes are being frequently committed by criminals and antisocial elements in my country without any fear of any kind of punishment by law enforcing agencies. I always feel why so many heinous crimes are being so commonly committed when countrys laws and law enforcing agencies are very much in place. In my view following may be the reasons: 1. Lack of interest shown by the citizens of my country even if crime is being committed in front of them for fear of becoming a witness in a police case and subsequent fear of threats and harassment from the criminals and their associates with a result no one wants to be a witness as no protection under law is guaranteed to a witness. As such, many criminals go scot-free without any sentence for want of any witness. The citizens of my country do not realize that the same kind of crime can be committed against them also. I strongly feel that there is an urgent need to make witness protection and confidentiality law to make law abiding citizens of my nation to be more responsible and courageous. 2. There is no time frame to deliver justice after filing of charge sheet. Availability of unlimited adjournments sought by the concerned lawyers for causing unnecessary delays seems to be a major cause in blocking the finalization of a case. Delay in finalization of criminal cases has results in bails to the dreaded criminals and in huge backlog of pending cases making it more and more difficult for the judicial system to deliver justice in time. I feel there is an urgent need to make law to limit adjournments to expedite the finalization of criminal and civil cases. 3. Corruption and VIP culture of favourtism again plays an important role in not getting the laws implemented with suspected involvement of people in power, certain law enforcing agencies and the criminals. 4. Lack of inbuilt sincerity and commitment in certain personnel of law enforcing agencies in discharging their duties. 5. Probable pressure tactics by politicians on law enforcing agencies for deciding the course of action in particular cases involving their men resulting in demoralization of force.

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7. Lack of pre-crime incentive schemes without provision to maintain confidentiality of the informer for providing any kind of information in catching criminals and anti-social elements in their vicinity or any where well before crime is committed. Combination of above factors give a very congenial atmosphere for the criminals in my country to commit crime of any kind like rape, dacoity, robbery, road hold ups, murders to terrorists attacks etc. without any sense of fear of any kind. This all is happening as possibly the criminals have full faith in some elements in law enforcing agencies easily manageable by suspected corrupt practices and judicial system where justice is more or less always delayed by many years. I fail to understand why a criminal with multiple crimes on his head is again and again allowed to commit multiple heinous crimes without any fear of law enforcing agencies? Is it that our laws and law enforcing agencies are so weak and helpless? That they are unable to catch the habitual criminals and control the occurrence of frequent heinous crimes at the hands of same criminals who keeps on committing crime after crime without any apprehension of law enforcing agencies. Punishment for those indulging in acts of slow poisoning through manufacturing and sale of adulterated food stuff, and spurious medicines should be life imprisonment for whole of the remaining period of life of a criminal. Punishment for all heinous crimes like mass rape or rape with attempt to murder and punishment for murder and attempt to murder with intention to kill committed in a planned manner should only be a death penalty. I think the mercy petition is being used as a political tool to delay or pardon the death sentence or life imprisonment to the criminals upheld by the highest court for their acts of heinous crimes and should not be allowed to be delayed or changed by the politicians in the larger interest of the justice. I strongly feel the provision of mercy petition should be deleted from the constitution once death sentence or life imprisonment is upheld by the supreme court of India in any of heinous crimes. The President of India should not have any powers to pardon or alter the sentence to the convicts of heinous crimes in the larger interest of justice. I feel the system of parole or bail to hardened criminals in jail with charge of heinous crimes needs to be relooked into and as a rule bail or parole needs to be denied to the hardened criminals as they are known to commit the same heinous crimes even on bail or parole. I feel there should be a wide publicity of the different types of commonly occurring crimes, punishments against those crime and consequent effect on the family and future of criminals through mass media, in all schools and

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colleges. This will definitely have the feeling of scare in the minds of children and the people with criminal mindset and they will be forced to think twice before committing any kind of crime. In my view there should be no distinction between a criminal and a terrorist as anybody even local known anti-social element who creates fear and terror in the minds of law abiding citizens by any kind of threat of committing crime of any kind against them needs to be termed as a terrorist and should be dealt with accordingly. Our trains, buses and markets have turned in to terror spots with lurking fear of terrorist attacks which do take place off and on with loss of precious lives and valuable property. May be the police and government intelligence agencies are not alert or sufficient to unfold the likely terror attacks in time. It seems that red alert notice has become merely two words notice and its meaning is lost and desired action is missing in the minds of security agencies. Moreover I also strongly feel that if all the citizens of my country remain alert and work as an alert policemen at whatever place they are and not only take care of their own goods and family but remain vigilant about the activity of surrounding people with timely alert to the people around and the police in the case of any suspicion about the suspicious looking person, may be most of the terror attacks, where many of innocent precious lives are lost, are prevented. I dont understand why there is no continuous mechanism where people informing about suspicious people and anti social criminal element are paid good incentives while keeping their confidentiality before crime is committed rather than putting prize on the head of terrorists or anti social criminal elements after the crime or terrorist attack has already been committed causing loss of many invaluable lives and property? Then if fear of terrorist attacks and theft of house hold goods is not enough, there is fear of about the safety of grown up daughters, girls and women whenever they go out for their studies, markets or any other place because of freely roaming anti social elements in the cities, towns and villages. The constant fear of anti social elements of the area harming anyone in the city always lingers on. I feel we should inculcate fear of punishment against each of commonly committed crimes in children and adverse consequences affecting their future at level of schools. Law enforcing agencies need to be used in a very judicious way and not to be wasted as a status symbol to the politicians and others so called VIPs as to make trained law enforcing personnel available for fighting and controlling various types of crimes in the society.

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CHAPTER ELEVEN
SUMMARY OF THE FEELINGS OF A COMMON MAN:

In a nutshell I shall try to explain the mind of a common man living in cities, towns and villages as to what one thinks of his country, political leadership and his central or state governments governance. This can be summarized in first lines of an old movie song as Kabhi khud pe kabhi haalaat pe rona aaya,baat nikli to har ik baat pe rona aaya A common man is shouting at peak of his voice, will someone in the government listen to me and says I am not concerned with that:Whether my government is single Party or multi-party coalition government. or Whether my government is a secular or communal government. or Whether my government is this or that partys Government. BUT Certainly I am totally worried and concerned with 1. That after so many years of independence of my country, at subconscious or at conscious level I still feel very unsafe and insecure about precious life of myself and my family members in my own house, in my own village, in my own city or in my own country where ever I go. 2. That almost all national and state political parties give tickets to the known antisocial and criminal elements with criminal cases pending in the court of law to fight elections on their symbols. 3. That even after 65 years of independence I have been denied minimum basic civic amenities required for a decent living. 4. That there is no proper sewerage system, no system for collection and disposal of garbage in my area and I am forced to live with my family in the constant company of mosquitoes and houseflies and have to bear unbearable stink constantly emanating from nearby chocked and stagnant open drains. 5. That there is no respite from water, mosquitoes, houseflies and food borne diseases. 6. That I am still scared to send my daughters to school and college for the fear of anti social elements in the society who openly and fearlessly roam around in my area.

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7. That even after 65 years of independence there is no good school with adequate number of good teachers near my house for my children where I can afford to send my children for education. 8. That I am not able to pay tuition fee for my children and I remain disturbed that teachers in school are more concerned with private coaching than teaching in the school and I am not that much educated that I can give coaching to my children. 9. That there is no toilet in my house. That myself and my family feel ashamed and have to face lot of problem and humiliation in going to fields or along the railway lines in company of dogs and pigs for natures call. I do not have enough money to construct one toilet and septic tank in my house. 10. That there is no electricity in my house and my children have to study in light of lantern during evening hours. 11. That I am forced to pay some kind of bribe to the concerned staff in government for my right legal works also. 12. That I have not been supplied sufficient potable water for daily needs by the civic authorities and I am so poor that I cannot afford to purchase mineral water or have water filter or RO system in my house. 13. That one has to go out for some distance to fetch water in buckets for daily needs while standing in long queues. The fights over water have become a usual feature but there is no sufficient response from the municipal agencies and the government. 14. That garbage dumps are lying here and there in my villages, towns and cities without being getting removed for days together causing unbearable stink in the areas. 15. That there is no sewerage system in cities, towns or villages and if system is partially laid they are in a bad shape and sewers are broken at various places resulting in occasional mixing of dirty water with drinking water. One can have a usual sight of pools of stagnant water here and there all over the cities, towns and villages in my country, an excellent breeding place for mosquitoes leading to various mosquito borne diseases. 16. That sewage water and effluent from chemical industries is being directly thrown into rivers without treatment making them highly contaminated as either STPs (Sewer Treatment Plants) are insufficient or out of order. The same contaminated water from the rivers after some ineffective treatment is being supplied to the hapless citizens. This state of affairs makes me very sad as to why my government is so insensitive?

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17. That poor street lighting in small towns and cities is a norm resulting in increasing number of road accidents, thefts and road hold ups and other illegal activities. 18. That the roads are totally ill maintained and are in a very bad shape all over the country except in VIP areas. 19. That there is not enough electricity to sustain daily requirement in agriculture sector, industries, residential areas and commercial setups etc. 20. That I do not understand who will provide at least sufficient water and continuous supply of electricity to each and every citizen of my country? 21. That It is me in a common man who gets killed or seriously injured in bomb blasts in trains, buses, markets carried out by terrorist. 22. That there is always fear of theft of my hard earned household goods even when I go out to market with family for even 2-3 hours. 23. That as our government machinery has seemingly failed to deliver effectively on all fronts of life, the insurance companies are doing a great business insuring citizens of my country in sectors of health, road accidents, thefts of vehicles and other house-hold goods etc. taking advantage of governments failures. The common man is paying hefty amount as premium of his hard earned money to the Insurance companies for making up expected loss on account of anticipated various diseases, accidents, thefts of his house-hold goods and vehicles for the failure of the government in controlling and preventing preventable diseases, in ensuring safety and security of common man, his family and his household goods. 24. That one lives in a constant danger of being cheated in my country in the matter of anything from fake currency to availability of synthetic milk, synthetic milk products, spurious medicines and duplicate products by fake companies in the unsuspected markets. 25. That even certain inhuman and anti-social elements for the sake of making huge profits, dont hesitate to manufacture and sell spurious medicines in the market being purchased by millions of poor people of this country in a hope to get cured of diseases. And this all is being done by the unscrupulous elements in my country without any human values and slightest fear of law enforcing agencies. This is probably happening in the absence of either stringent laws, or very slow justice delivery system in shadow of suspected corrupt practices in the law enforcing agencies. The system is almost totally ineffective in convicting these antisocial and inhuman people and the conviction rate is abysmally low.

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26. That law in my country is sparingly and unequally enforced on the citizens with catching of a common poor man and leaving other influential people. Sometimes law seems to be used by the law enforcing agencies as a tool to make money to let the defaulter or criminal off the hook of legal tangle. 27. That one has to commute to ones working place on poorly lit and ill maintained roads, may be as ones area of living and working place do not fall in the VIP areas. 28. That one is bound and forced to stay in slums with ones families due to ones poor economic condition next to the open choked drains with constant stink emanating from it in company of plenty of houseflies and mosquitoes without slightest effort by the civic authorities to improve the surrounding of these poor common people. 29. That at most of places for ones children there are no schools within comfortable distance from their homes and government schools are in a dilapidated condition without even qualified teachers and basic needs like separate toilets for girls and boys, clean drinking water and play ground etc. 30. That government schools where our millions of children of poor common man go for studies have about 50% of not so qualified teachers selected on the basis social justice without even thinking that it is the teachers who help in making the bright future of children by imparting good all round comprehensive education. 31. Why should the poor man pay the same price for fuel for his two wheelers of 50cc to 100cc power as the rich man for his high end expensive cars. 32. That after about 65 years of our independence and after choosing the governments of our choice at centre or state level over the large period of time, we are now forced to think about the democracy, elections and our leaders and the deplorable way in which many of the leaders conduct themselves in public life, parliament and assemblies. 33. A common man is in dilemma, whenever the election is held in any part of the country irrespective of the fact whether the election is at District level to choose municipal committees or corporations, State level to choose State government or general election to choose Central government, about which political party to vote as now a common man seems to be fed up with all the political parties and their leaders. Following points always confuse a common man: a) Which party to vote to power? As all political parties are seen to behave almost in the same deplorable manner during their tenure.

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b) Why should one vote if the problems and difficulties of a common man are going to remain same? c) The perception of a common man is that all political parties are only interested in making big money out of misuse of their power and no one is interested in the welfare of people of their country. d) That if all political parties are infested and infected with members of antisocial and criminal elements to varying extent, then what good can be expected from such councilors, legislatures and parliamentarians ? But at the same time the common man is also ignoring certain duties towards nation. If one has the right to criticize the policies of the government then one is also expected to do certain duties towards nation. As a common man I always think that Why the people of my country do not cooperate with laws of their country? Why should they vote for known criminals in elections against whom charge sheet has already been filed in the court of law. Why the people of my country have no concern for their co-citizens? Has money become the only desire for the people of my country? Is money generated only through illegal means? Is my country, a country of an individual or is it a country all 121 crore nationals? Is there an element of consciousness atma left in some people of my country who are bent upon making money through unscrupulous means by manufacturing and selling synthetic milk, milk products, spurious medicines, adulterated fuel and automobile parts without slightest regard for human lives? Why should they spit, urinate, defecate, throw litter anywhere they like in the public areas making the villages, towns, cities and their country dirty? Why all citizens of my country not try to create environment friendly nation? Why should not they try to reduce noise pollution, a cause of mental distraction and hearing loss, during their celebrations taking into

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consideration studies of school and college going children, old and sick people? Why should not they follow traffic rules?

Why should not they be always alert about the anti-social elements, criminals, terrorist and inform the police immediately on seeing their presence in their vicinity or anywhere they go to reduce the dangerous threat to the citizens? Why the confidentiality of the informer is not maintained at all cost by the police so as to avoid harassment of the informer at the hands of the criminals? Why is government not thinking about the causes of such a public behavior? Why efforts not being made to remove those reasons so as to make the people more cooperative.

I feel the parameters of Human Development Index, Human Happiness Index, mental peace, economic growth, rupee value, water table & electricity power generation are going down and need to be brought up and the parameters of Inflation, Hunger index, corruption, greed for money, stress level, unemployment, crimes & criminals are going up and need to be brought down to bring smiles & happiness for all members of Sarvochaya Serva Manav Samaaj. .
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MAY GOD BLESS ALL THE MEMBERS OF SARVOCHAYA SERVA MANAV SAMAAJ OF MY COUNTRY WITH GOOD HEALTH, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY AND MENTAL PEACE JAI BHARAT Dr. Vinay Kumar Chadha Author -------

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