INDIA OF MY DREAMS -SESHIL RAJ (5055)

I dream of India as a nation where the resources of the rich people of our country is shared among the poor section of the society. It is the responsibility of each Indian to make sure that this happens without any failure.

Our country has a government which never fails to put up with different plans and schemes for the young Indians but the successful completion of these plans happen only in rare occasions. I wish a strong government would come into force which would be strong and determinant enough to ensure the success of the same.

Each one of us should keep in mind the motto “unity in diversity”.  Often this motto is not given proper respect, to be specific, in application forms whether it be admission in educational institutions or job offers. India is a nation where people belong to different religion and caste. We should understand the fact that it is inhuman to differentiate them just on the basis of religion and caste.

Recent incidents points out we Indians have failed to create a safe environment for our own women. Just as we take the pledge “all Indians are my brothers and sisters” we should question our conscience as to whether we are able to do justice to this. Merely   uttering it wouldn’t make any difference in the society .

let us pray to God to enable us to do our part to fulfill our dreams for our nation.

RAHUL BABU 5024

      

         INDIA CAN AND INDIA WILL

                 My Dreams on India

Our goal of  "Dream Country" has to be unique and not just be a rehash of what US or Europe did. We have to redefine what superpower means. We should neither threaten nor be defenseless. We should strive to be a superpower in technology, education and lead the world in ideas just as we did from the start of human civilization. I would rather have India known for its Zero or Yoga rather than an India victorious in its massive showdown against China or Pakistan.

We should look to leapfrog technologies. Just as we went into mobile phones without a landline revolution, we have to jump past many of the old technologies in the "old world". 

We could do the following in the pursuit of our new definition of superpower.

EducationWe have to attain 100% literacy while keeping a higher bar for counting who is a literate. In a knowledge economy, we cannot afford to have 300 million illiterates. The mobile phone & TV penetration has to be leveraged more. Literacy has to be a fundamental national priority. Build urgency to make broadband penetration to reach every Indian. Broadband can substantially improve education reach and bring India's villages to Quora, Wikipedia and Youtube University. We have to understand that educating 1 billion people can't be done through traditional universities (simply not scalable). We have to take lead in disrupting the education market by non-traditional tools. The government could sell BSNL (state owned telephony provider) and use the $30b market value of that to build a constellation of satellites and a network of optical fiber cables to achieve this. Just like what we did with mobile phones, we have to leapfrog the broadband revolution.

SocietyModernize the Police force. We have only 130 policemen for every 100K people.

First increase that to world standards - 220/100K people.

Second, cut off politicians from using massive fraction of police force.

Third, train and equip them to handle modern law enforcement.

Without adequate law enforcement we cannot grow our economy. Build new cities at an aggressive rate. Our existing cities have become slums and shanties unable to take the onslaught of migrants. We should look to build 500 new cities with 1-2 million population each. We have enough land to do that. Assuming each city requires 500 sq km of land, we will need 250K sq km (8% of India). But these new cities could hold 60-70% of our population with a relatively manageable density. The planned urbanization can put rocketfuel for the economy.

Geo Politics
Attain closure with Pakistan with respect to Kashmir. A superpower cannot afford to constant bicker about a non-issue. LoC should be made the International border and India-Pak must move on.

Economy
Indian economy has to grow really fast (at 10%+ rates for the next 20 years) to leave enough wealth to be shared around. At 10% growth rate, our per-capita GDP will grow to $10000/person/year by 2030. Not a great amount to brag about, but still sufficient to pull most people from poverty. India has to bring a big chunk of its 600 million odd agricultural workers into services bypassing the industrial revolution. Power reforms have to proceed at full speed and we have to get to the era of solar cell/fuel cell powered vehicles bypassing the automobile era