After a long gloomy eclipsed fortnight of cultural attacks and soaring foreign intentions, it turns to a harmonise diversity and booming global alliance. The Argumentative Indians have once again started foraying the long established forts of social evils, the deep rooted psychic dogmas.
As a part of this long continuing chain of efforts that are being put into since the Independence I am trying to provide a link from where we can add our thoughts and ideas to further elucidate and discuss causes and their effects.
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Today I was reading the actual scenario of Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project (SSCP). It's embrassing to know how such a deep issue turned to lit-up political wrestels. The strike in protest of withdrwal of affidavit filed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the Supreme Court by DMK government and its allies soared up the political intentions of AIDMK. Infact AIDMK itself started the project in UPA regime. None is none, DMK itself violeted supreme court and led to the trouble of President rule. Isnt it the 84 year old Karnanidhi need to be revived of contemporary demands!!!
"Legends are not those which are expected but are those which give feed to expectations"
The account of Shahid Bhagat Singh provoked Indians when we were struggling to get rid of British raj still have an ability to agitate long hibernated, ignorants. This charm of Shahid Bhagat Singh become evident in my opinion because of his dedication to a "true cause."
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been publishing the annual Human Development Report (HDR), focussing on the conceptual issues and policy strategies to tackle poverty and deprivation. One important component of the HDR is the Human Development Index (HDI), which ranks countries on the basis of three basic capabilities: life expectancy (ability to live a long and healthy life), educational attainments (ability to acquire knowledge through literacy, basic and secondary education and so on) and economic standard of living (to have access to the resources needed for a decent living standard).
The HDI index illustrates that the orthodox income-based GDP per capita measure is an imperfect indicator of human development and that the addition of capabilities-based indicators shows quite different results.
since 1995 the HDRs, by introducing the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), have tried to underscore through facts and figures the gender-biased character of poverty and deprivation, and how in many parts of the world girls and women are much more disadvantaged in terms of nutrition, education, health and self-respect than boys and men. And yet over the last 10 years very few countries can speak of any significant improvement of gender-related development indicators.
Politicians, including presidents, prime ministers and finance ministers of countries and their policymakers are quick to pick up the human rights and human development rhetoric. But when it comes to policy decisions they are led by populism and short-term gains. Often enough, taking human development seriously means more investments in social sectors and public infrastructures, and in long-term goals that will enhance the health, educational, employment and social capabilities of people.
There is, however, another related concern, the dilution of the theoretical richness of what the idea of human development as a whole stands for. Ideas are like the ripples created by a pebble thrown into a pond. As they spread, from a small group to a wider public, from a minority of believers to a majority of followers, they tend to lose their vigour, originality and charisma. Amartya Sen frequently stresses the need to “go beyond the human development index”.
People’s well-being and freedom are influenced by a wide variety of social, political, economic, legal and environmental factors. The HDI, which selects and concentrates on some of these elemental features, cannot but be limited in comparison to the complexities and richness of the actual human life. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, former Director of the Human Development Report Office and lead author of several HDRs, speaks of the tendency to “imprison” a wide range of possible human development ideas and strategies within the HDI and the consequent need to “rescue” the human development concept from the HDI.
The popular appeal and success of the HDI has, unfortunately, created the wrong impression in some circles that human development is just about education and health, and nothing more.
The human development agenda in the future, according to Fukuda-Parr, should concentrate on other areas such as political freedoms, human agency, participation, empowerment and collective action.
The Kerala government’s two-month- old anti-corruption drive at the Walayar checkpost proves to be a remarkable success.
Surely, the method adopted, with transparency, people’s participation, and evaluation and efficiency as its keywords and with the Citizen’s Charter and Social Audit as its highlights, can be a model for checkpost reforms anywhere in the country. No State government has so far shown the courage to prompt its citizens to ask “Has corruption been eliminated?” “Have traffic blocks been cleared?” “Have the mafia gangs been suppressed?” “Have you added more facilities?” “Have you computerised the accounts?” “Has the tax revenue gone up?” or “Have you implemented the Citizens’ Rights Charter?” as the Kerala government did in huge newspaper advertisements on the eve of the social audit at Walayar.
Yet, it is important to remember that, much before the Right to Information Act was passed by Parliament, Kerala had incorporated such a provision in the law governing its local bodies, and the State’s decentralisation experiment, with its “Power to the People” slogan, made the concept of social audit quite familiar to its citizens. But it is a moot point whether the people had made full use of the lead they had obtained through such innovative experiments, even as the Kerala decentralisation campaign, with similar underlying themes of transparency, people’s participation and evaluation, became a model for other States to follow.
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