VISION FOR 2014 - 2019

Vision 2014 - 2019

A nation building requires vision, it should come inherently by virtue of experience of life. In the factory of event managers, many people can spin a web of vision every year!!. Vision with lack of will is a born dead infant. Our nation requires vision and along with vision a WILL to carry that VISION.

1.    Defense sector –

(a)  Procurement.      To cut the procurement time, the following is needed :-

(i)            Increase the financial limit of the CFAs. Increase to be linked to the inflation and at regular intervals automatic increase of the limits.

(ii)          All revenue procurements be brought under the service HQ and MOD should not be CFAs for that as the revenue procurements are generally used to sustain in service eqpt, fast procurement is required.

(iii)         Capital procurement upto 50 Crs be given to Service HQ where MOD need not be consulted.

 

(b)  Indigenisation :-

(i)            Ammunition. Indigenisation of NATO standard ammunition which is relevant to the already inducted weapons be started so that dependency upon foreign countries during war is minimized. An example is that of 70 mm  rkt ammunition for ALH (WSI). This helicopter is designed by HAL, Bangalore but the armament is foreign, the ammunition is being imported, it is a standard NATO ammunition and could be indeginized in ammunition factories but a holistic view has to be taken and concerted efforts in that direction has to be applied.

(ii)          UAVs. Unmanned Air Vehicles is future of warfare. At present we are importing these costly UAVs from Israel. We must have a plan of making the UAVs in bulk. ADE, Bangalore is designing the UAVs but they don’t have a grand plan, the vision is limited and there are no plans to manufacture it in bulk. It is more of a research project, just to keep these organisations alive.

(iii)         DRDO Labs. Like pvt companies do restructuring and shed non profitable businesses and concentrate on core businesses, DRDO is reqd to be refocused. We should make it professional and stop unproductive or low tech activities. Low tech activities could be easily passed to pvt partners in Indian industry. DRDO should not be looked as an employment giving organization but it should be totally result oriented, it should get that earlier sheen which Dr Abdul Kalam gave when he created integrated missile development programme.

 

2.    Urban Areas.                        The problems in urban areas are many fold. One of the main problems is ever ballooning nature of the city. Take any city, its city limits keep increasing. We must have a vision and concept of limiting the area of the city. Thereafter the next city should start and get developed. For example take the city of Bangalore. Why should its city limits be extended at all? Instead plan a city of Yelhanka. Which over a period of time should equal Bangalore in name, fame and net worth. Plan a city of Mandya. Over a period of time should equal Bangalore in name, fame and net worth. This would have following spin offs :-

(a)  States would have more number of urban areas.

(b)  Limited areas of the city would then be managed and planned well. The planning would then get more focused.

(c)  Over a period of time the cities would have home grown culture and identity.

 

3.    Take a Road and Re Do it.             With the limitation imposed in the geographical area of a particular city, if the following tips are employed by the municipal corporation of the city, then the city roads could become model roads in 5 yrs. If the municipal corporation re do one arterial road per two months and it is repleted to other city roads then in five years time most of the roads in urban areas would become pleasant and presentable.

(a)  Place vats at the garbage points. Pick the garbage in the night.

(b)  Bring down the stray dog and cattle menace.

(c)  Make effective width equal to the actual width of the road.

(d)  Mark the roads properly. Remember people have inherent respect for anything written, printed or marked. The first reaction is to follow the instructions. People would think twice to jump the marked line. 

(e)  Make overnight parking of the public carriers and goods carriers, not in the city but outside the city.

(f)   For GOD’s sake don’t work in compartments. Have coordination between different departments.

(g)  Have the roads broad, neatly lay out and focus on its beautification.

(h)  Make the specifications tighter, standardised and uniform.

 

4.    Take a Market and Re Do it. With the limitation imposed in the geographical area of the city, the number of markets would be limited and they could be developed by focused attention over 5 yrs. The other day I was in KOTLA MUBARAKPUR (same is the case for Chandni Chowk, Chawri Bazaar market) market. The market has answers for everything in terms of commerce. One has to imagine in his mind and the product is available there. It has variety of stores dealing with plethora of goods. But – here ends the story of a market. The roads are bad, the sanitation is worse, traffic sense is nil, numerous cables, TV wires pass overhead in haphazard manner, and the road is so narrow that it is impossible to travel on it. This is the scene in every market. Vision is to change this. More than vision there requires will to change this. Take it to next level by making it beautiful rather than only satisfying the basic needs for this make the specifications of high standards. There should be good roads, nice kerbs, specification should have beautification aspects, the mkts should be bustling but should not give a shabby look. Sanitation and cleanliness should be of very high standards. All overhead electrical wires, TV wires, and cables need to be neatly routed. If a dictat of supreme court through a PIL comes to reroute the wires, the government obeys and does. Then what is the problem in doing by themselves. Why wait for supreme court imposed will? The government should garner the will. Remember earlier in the case of Delhi, when the supreme court imposed a directive that the old buses should be phased out and CNG buses should be used, it was implemented by the government then who stopped them in implementing ab initio?

 

5.    Youth.            Make them take RASHTRAVRAT ( for further reading on concept of Rashtravrat, click on this http://www.rashtravrat.blogspot.in/p/rashtravrat.html )along with it, improve their skills. There has to be a major national mission to improve the skills of the youth. The energy of the youth, has to get channelized by making them develop skill. It has to be some skill and the youth should be so proficient in that skill that he should be able to command a price for his skill. Unless skill of youth is encouraged and developed, quality consciousness would remain a distant dream. Once the skill is developed, youth would turn enterprising and the commerce would improve, improving per capita income and making the youth an important contributor to the GDP growth of out nation.

 

 

6.    Education. We all know about the present syllabus which has been adopted by all the schools in India. We all complain about loading our child to no limits in pursuing the syllabus. We also criticize the present system where in the teachers are always burdened and thereby they cannot keep real check on the performance of the child. Present teachers can’t give enough time per child because of crowding of classrooms. Increasing the number of divisions in each class results in burdening the teacher more and to top it the teachers themselves are required to undergo never ending participation (which is more or less compulsory) in various conferences, meetings, workshops. To top it there is always the duty of invigilating various competitive exams held on various Sundays. With the Right to Education (RTE) becoming a reality, the burden is going to increase more in the coming days. RTE is a positive step in providing ‘Sarva Shiksha’ to the under privileged children and should be welcomed by everybody with open hands and individual proactive contribution is required towards achieving it. To make this happen and to maintain and improve quality of education, time has come to revisit and review the syllabus which we are presently following. We should usher ourselves in thinking differently and try to impart real and practical knowledge to the aspiring child by weeding out unnecessary activities which load the child. At the same time some relevant aspects of civic sense should be introduced which can help make their moral fabric stronger. ………..For further reading click on this http://www.rashtravrat.blogspot.in/2010/08/syllabus-for-primary-school-children.html

 

7.    Specifications. Very new concept but very relevant. Specifications are important and there should be a specifications directorate which lays out specifications which cater to our nation, which are close to international standards and should have ingredients such as high class, tight tolerance, presentable and ergonomic. If they are laid out it would be easy to get things done fast. For example, if a road has to be laid out, then the specifications are there laid out, the tenders should be based on this standardized specifications. If street lighting is to be carried out, it should be as per the standardized specification then only the standard would be maintained and development would get noticed. If a name plate has to be made for the road, then tender should be floated against a standard specification. Once the specification is set, it would control corruption as whenever a standard work is to be carried out, the standard high quality specification is available and there is no need of making one to suit any one.

 

 

 

 

WHO ARE WE ?????????? FINAL PART

Some Snippets (All references in these snippets are taken from Wikipedia! I acknowledge it here.  You can yourself ponder on our antiquity)

 

Languages

 

History of English Language: The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD (Sanskrit, Tamil developed 3000 years before it). These tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, crossed the North Sea from what today is Denmark and northern Germany. At that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language. But most of the Celtic speakers were pushed west and north by the invaders - mainly into what is now Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Angles came from "Englaland" and their language was called "Englisc" - from which the words "England" and "English" are derived. Later by 11th century Latin had more influence than Greek language on English Lexicon.

 

History of Greek Language: Greek has been spoken in the Balkan Peninsula since around the late 3rd millennium BC (Antiquity of Sanskrit and Tamil is as good as Greek). The earliest written evidence is found in the Linear B clay tablets in the "Room of the Chariot Tablets", an LMIII A-context (c. 1400 BC) region of Knossos, in Crete, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language (Not Sanskrit of Tamil because in Aryavarta, Bharatvarsha we used to recite not write!). Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct Anatolian languages.

 

History of Latin Language: Latin is a member of the broad family of Italic languages. Its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, emerged from the Old Italic alphabets, which in turn were derived

from the Greek and Phoenician scripts. Historical Latin came from the prehistoric language of the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where Roman civilization first developed. How and when Latin came to be spoken by the Romans are questions that have long been debated. Various influences on Latin of Celtic dialects in northern Italy, the non-Indo-European Etruscan language in Central Italy, and the Greek of southern Italy have been detected, but when these influences entered the native Latin is not known for certain.

 

History of Sanskrit Language: Sanskrit is a member of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family of languages. Its closest ancient relatives are the Iranian languages Old Persian and Avestan. In order to explain the common features shared by Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages, many scholars have proposed migration hypotheses asserting that the original speakers of what became Sanskrit arrived in what is now India and Pakistan from the north-west some time during the early second millennium BC. Evidence for such a theory includes the close relationship of the Indo-Iranian tongues with the Baltic and Slavic languages, vocabulary exchange with the non-Indo-European Uralic languages, and the nature of the attested Indo-European words for flora and fauna.

 

History of Tamil Language: As a Dravidian language, Tamil descends from Proto-Dravidian. Linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around the third millennium BC, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin in peninsular India. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were the culture associated with the Neolithic complexes of South India. The next phase in the reconstructed proto-history of Tamil is Proto-South Dravidian. The linguistic evidence suggests that Proto-South Dravidian was spoken around the middle of the second millennium BC, and that proto-Tamil emerged around the 3rd century BC. The earliest epigraphic attestations of Tamil are generally taken to have been written shortly thereafter. Among Indian languages, Tamil has the most ancient non-Sanskritised Indian literature. Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world. It has been described as "the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past" and having "one of the richest literatures in the world". Tamil literature has existed for over 2000 years. The earliest epigraphic records found on rock edicts and hero stones date from around the 3rd century BC. The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from ca. 300 BC – 300 AD.

 

HISTORY OF OTHER NATIONS – Before 350 BC there were no notable invasions and the civilizations were forming.

 

History of England: In AD 43 the Roman conquest of Britain began; the Romans maintained control of their province of Britannia through to the 5th century.  The end of Roman rule in Britain enabled the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, which is often regarded as the origin of England and the English people. The Anglo-Saxons, a collection of various Germanic peoples, established several kingdoms that became the primary powers in what is now England and parts of southern Scotland. They introduced the Old English language, which displaced the previous British language. The Anglo-Saxons warred with British successor states in Wales, Cornwall, and the Hen Ogledd (Old North; the Brythonic-speaking parts of northern England and southern Scotland), as well as with each other. Raids by the Vikings were frequent after about AD 800, and the Norsemen took control of large parts of what is now England. During this period several rulers attempted to unite the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, an effort that led to the emergence of the Kingdom of England by the 10th century.

 

History of India:       From 327 BC to 2012 AD for 2340 years of history, around 800 years were free, 800 years we were at war with various invaders and around 800 years we were under the rule of foreign invaders. At the same time South India was almost free, stable and progressing for 1400 years. There are many countries who have same pattern, England France were at war for over 1000 years! Some countries like Egypt and Middle East gave up and lost their identity. Some countries like Spain fought and when they won, finished the Muslim invaders and all their signs of victory were demolished. Therefore Spain is still free and without any sign of being ruled left in that country.

 

History of Russia: The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples. The first united East Slavic state, was founded by Rurik's successor Oleg of Novgorod in 882. The state adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in 988,beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Kievan Rus' ultimately disintegrated as a state because of the Mongol invasion of Rus' in 1237–1240. During that time a number of regional magnates, in particular Novgorod and Pskov, fought to inherit the cultural and political legacy of Kievan Rus'. After the 13th century, Moscow came to dominate the former cultural center. By the 18th century, the Tsardom of Russia had become the huge Russian Empire, stretching from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth eastward to the Pacific Ocean.

 

History of America: The history of the United States as covered in American schools and universities typically begins with either Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage to the Americas or with the prehistory of the Native peoples, with the latter approach having become increasingly common in recent decades. Indigenous populations lived in what is now the United States before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people. They were prosperous and growing rapidly, and had developed their own autonomous political and legal systems. The British Parliament asserted its authority over these colonies by imposing new taxes, which the Americans insisted were unconstitutional because they were not represented in Parliament. Growing conflicts turned into full-fledged war beginning in April 1775. On July 4, 1776, the colonies declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the United States of America. The identity of original inhabitants were lost.

South India free for 1400 years

                          

Some Interesting Names…

 

Present Name	Names during Bharatvarsh
Afghanisthan	Ahigansthan
Kabul river	kubha nadi
Yavan	Yayati son anu (Yavan from corrupt form of..)
Alexander	Sikander in Persian
Jhelam River	Vitasta nadi
Jeuz	Diu (corrupt form)
Port	Pattanprasth
Atom Bomb	Kaal Dhwam (This is new suggested word in Hindi)
Swat  region	Suvastu
Gumal	Gomati
Peshavar	Purushpur
Punjab / Sindh	Panchnad (five rivers). Earlier in Puranas Saptasindhu (seven rivers amongst it one was Saraswati) got corrupted to HaptaHindu and people living this side of Sindu got the name of Hindu, because we were one of the strongest and modern civilization so people used to talk about us!
Gibralter	Jabel E Tarik
Bay of Bengal	Gangasagar
Arabian sea	Sindhusagar
Great Trunk Road (GT Road)	Uttarpath

 

Writing of Magasthenes: Such was the kingdom of Chandragupta that Megasthenes was permanent Ambassador to him (from Greece). He writes - At the beginning of his Indica, he refers to the older Indians who know about the prehistoric arrival of Dionysus and Hercules in India, which was a story very popular amongst the Greeks during the Alexandrian period. Particularly important are his comments on the religions of the Indians. He mentions the devotees of Heracles (Lord Krishna) and Dionysus (Lord Shiva or King Lord Indra), but he does not mention Buddhists, something that gives support to the theory that the latter religion was not widely known before the reign of Ashoka. His Indica served as an important source for many later writers such as Strabo and Arrian. He describes such features as the Himalayas and the island of Sri Lanka. He also describes a caste system different from the one that exists today, which shows that the caste system may to some extent be fluid and evolves.

 

Shak, Hoon, Kushan Tribes: When they came, even Europe, China also went through cycles of invasions, not only Bharatvarsh. China went through Hoon invasions and therefore to protect themselves erected The Great Wall of China. Hoon invaded Europeon Russia, Poland and Gaath, Roman empire.

 

Alexander during his Pursuit: Conquered Syria, Egypt, most of that time Europe, Bactria, Greece, Persia (Iran), Babylon etc.

 

From Here Where We GO? Now we know who we are. We know our strengths. We know our weakness. We are an independent nation. We must secure what we have. We must protect what is left with us. We must progress. We must develop our nation. For this to happen, we have to study our history and be vigilant. In the frame work of secularism, we must strive to achieve next level. We must have one thought. A thought that is above religion, a thought which will make our nation strong and progressive, a thread which will bind all of us, a fabric which has threads of the religion well woven binding us all. Each and every one of us should subjugate ourselves to our nation’s interests and goals. We cannot change certain things, so make peace with our history, accept and move ahead, without forgetting our victories, our failures, our mistakes and our history. Our task is cut. The first step is to secure our boundaries (which is not done till now) as these are the weak links in our Armour, or we can say chinks in the armour. Arrest infiltration and be firm with our neighbours. Remember we exist because our Nation exists. Otherwise our identity would be lost like other countries that have lost their identity years back. Our ideal should be one religion of humanity and one nation that is earth, but this is a distant dream. Till such time the concept of religions and nations are there we must preserve our identity. May be, after few centuries our civilization will be ready to accept earth as our nation and humanity as our religion.

 

Authors Referred: Plutarch, Jayaswal (Hindu Polity), Vincent Smith (Early History of India), Justin, Megasthenes account, Gibbon, Riyasatkar Sardesai and from net.

 

 

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WE ARE NOT A NATION OF DEFEAT, SUBJUGATION OR AT THE RECEIVING END OF OUR INVADERS. GREAT NATIONS ALWAYS GO THROUGH THIS CYCLE OF INVASIONS, IT IS NOT HOW MANY TIMES WE WERE INVADED BUT IT IS HOW WE CAME OUT OF IT. THERE ARE MANY COUNTRIES WHICH WERE ERASED FROM THE MAP OF THE WORLD BY INVASIONS OR IF THEY STILL EXISTS ON THE MAP, THEIR CULTURE, THEIR RELIGION WAS CHANGED PERMANENTLY THAT MEANS THEIR IDENTITY WAS CHANGED…… NOT OURS, OUR IDENTITY IS INTACT……. BUT, AS USUAL … CONDITIONS APPLY……………..