Causes of Corruption in India

Root cause of corruption is some loop-whole of our Governance system. Our Constitution , one of unique constitution among all , was made by some patriot leaders with wisdom for the interest of common citizen of this country but our Governance system borrowed from British colonial secretariate system (Which was made by British to rule this country and keeping natives under their control) given absolute power to Buerocrats & Politicians (ruling or opposition), with backdoor support of Traders & capitalist., who shares cream of powers among each others and looks after each others interests by be fooling billions of illiterate cityzen by taking opportunities of democracy and faulty electoral system.
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Our politicians cum Ministers enjoys absolute powers of administration without any accountabilities.Police forces are demoralized being corrupt , used by politicians to safegurd them and in exchange politician guard them from punishment . Powers without accountability and lack of transpirency are the root causes of corruption in India.

Possible Solution:

1. People oriented Administration reform is urgently required instead of Government oriented administration exists now. Accountabilties to be fixed.

2. Regorous punishment for tax evaders(Minimum five years RI) and capital punishment(death) for saditious activist and rapist.

3. Immediate Law Commission is required to be set up to make our laws(CRPC & IPC) more easily accessible by common people. All laws should be translated in common language. In India doctrine of "Show me the man ,I will show you the rule" prevails.

4. Fundamental Duties should be equally enforcable in the court of law as Fundamental Rights given by Constitution.

5. Compulsory Education for Every Children from Kanya Kumari to Kashmir and Tripura to Gujrat.More Budget allocation for education .

6. Compulsory military training for every young man & women seeking Government employment.(Doctor/Engine /Accountant/ Teacher/Clerk/Officers Etc Etc.)

7. Our Trained Arm forces in peace formation should be used as part time teacher for adult education at villages at no war time. After all ,tax payers money spend on them should be properly utilized.

8. Compulsory Population Control Scheme. irrespective of religion,caste or community.

9. There should not be any Minority or Majority with religious identity. There should not be any Schedule caste or General caste. It is the Governments who are playing divide & rule Policy since last 60 years ,like Britishers played in last to last 200 years. There should be one identity ie INDIAN by Birth ,INDIAN by domicile as per constitution. Terrorism shall be automatically finished.

Child Marriage In India

Child marriage is an age old practice that is still prevalent in India, especially in the state of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana till today.

The development and modernization of India and with the implementation of the strict rules of marriageable age to be 18 for girls and 21 for boys has resulted in a considerable downfall in the number of child marriages. Still there is a lack of awareness in small villages where the illegal practice of Child marriage is prevalent.

Child Marriage Has Fatal Consequences:

1. The girl who gets married as a child is confined in the four walls of the household even before she enters puberty. In almost all the cases, the married girl child gains no further education thus increasing the illiteracy rate in India.

2. Some child marriages are conducted between a girl child and an old man. Though this is astonishing but this is true. As a result of this these girls get widowed by the time they attain adulthood and most of the society do not allow widows to remarry. A girl child has to live the life of a widow for no fault of hers.

3. As a result of child marriage, the girl child is considered merely as an object of pleasure by her in her husband and other members of the family.

Apart from this a girl child who is married by her parents does not and cannot possess a will of her own. She is just like any other electronic object of the house that can be controlled as and when necessary. As a result of child marriages, Indian women at large cannot participate in worldly affairs thus hindering its social, economic and political development as a whole.

How can a country prosper when a section of young women are confined into the walls of a household and the only thing expected from them is pleasing her family and rearing and tearing of children? Even bonded slaves are in a better position than the women who have to face this fatal accident known as child marriage.

What is required on the part of the citizens and the government in general is to join hands and raise a movement so wide that every parent could only visualize themselves locked up in jails even if they think of committing such a crime.

It is essential on the part of the citizens to remain active. People who witness child marriages should be determined enough to launch a police complaint against the parents of both the bride and groom.

It is essential on the part of the government to award the people who inform about the conduction of child marriages and also to enforce harder laws to discourage this practice. Thus by helping two children from entering into such a horrendous affair, you are assuring a brighter future not only for these children but for India as a whole.

Gandhi’s Philosophy of Life

Mahatma Gandhi was a complex, many sided personality. He was a religious saint, a politician, a patriot and nationalist, and economist, and a great freedom fighter, all in one. He was also one of the most profound and original thinkers that the modern age has produced. He has expressed his views practically on every sphere of life, and invariably what he has said is of far reaching significance even today after 50 years of his death.

                    Gandhi ji stood for religious values in a materialistic world; he stood for renunciation and
self sacrifice in a world crazy for worldly wealth, power and pelf. Truth and non violence were his religion. He saw God has truth; truth for him was the very basis and centre of universe. Non violence he considered to be the highest law, “the law of our species, as violence is the law of the brute”. He was never tired of emphasizing that non violence is only for the brave; the cowards can never be non- violent.

                   His message was the message of love: “Love thine enemy as thyself”. He loved all without distinction of caste, creed, religion or nationality. This makes him one with such great religious thinkers as Buddha, Mahavir and Lord Christ and he is as relevant today as these great teachers of mankind who lived and taught thousands of years ago. Indeed, the world can be saved from total destruction only if it heeds his teaching of love and non- violence.

                Gandhi was against the separation of morality and politics. He emphasized the importance of right means. He taught that only the right means can lead to right ends. Our ends can be good only if we have used right means i.e., moral means to achieve them. He did not believe in the theory that ends justify the means; for him it were the means that justified the end. If Indians wanted freedom from the British rule, they must use only the right means to achieve their goal. They must wage a non-violent struggle to free themselves from the foreign rule. The British rule was an evil, and so they must non-cooperate with it. But at the same time they must hate only the evil and not the evil doer. They must not hate the Englishmen. Rather, they must love them and try to win them over through their love. In this way he tried to bring religion and politics close together. He moralised politics. In his own life, he demonstrated the usefulness of non violence as a political weapon. By winning freedom for his country he showed that the weapons of non violence knows no defeat. This is his greatest contribution to political theory. His message holds good even today.

                Gandhi ji gave due thought to economic problems that faced the country and suggested his own solution. He saw that the Indian masses were groaning under the crushing heels of poverty. They could not even enjoy two square meals a day. Their poverty was largely due to their exploitation by the British imperialists. Spinning of the Charkha and swadeshi were Gandhi’s way of self dependent. They must lead a simple life. They must spin and weave their cloth, and shun the use of foreign cloth. They must wear only swadeshi. His economics was the economics of the charkha. This would not only give employment to the Indian farmer who is under employed during the greater part of the year, but would also strike at the very roots of the British rule in India. If cloth manufactured in the mills of Lanchashirefound no market in India, if India was no longer economically worthwhile for the British, they would leave the country by themselves. Hence he emphasis on the boycott of foreign goods.

                 Gandhi ji made a forceful plea for social justice for all. British rule was unjust, and justice demanded that the British should free the country. But if Indians wanted that justice should be done to them, they should first themselves do justice to their own brothers. He advised the rich to voluntarily give a part of their wealth to the poor. He thus taught them the lesson of renunciation. To the upper caste Hindus, his advice was that they should do justice to the section of their own society whom they have enslaved and compelled to live like animals. The eradication of untouchability was the very corner stone of his programme of social reform. He also advocated the emancipation of women and equality of treatment to them. Since God is one, different religions are many ways of reaching to him. He stressed the oneness of all religions. This made him staunch advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity. The world must follow the path shown by him.

              Gandhji sought to awaken the conscience of man. His appeal was to the heart and soul of mankind. In the age of the atom bomb, he had the courage to stand up for ‘AtmaBal’. The only salvation for the world lies in heeding his message and following his footsteps.

Dr. Abdul Kalam : Missile Man of India

Dr. Avual Pakir Jainulabeen Abdul Kalam, the missile magician has become a name synonymous with India’s technological development in satellite launch vehicles, main battle tank and light combat aircraft.

              Dr. Kalam was born on 15^th October, 1931 in Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu. He graduated from St. Joseph in Trichy and later specialized in aero-engineering at the Madras Institute of  Technology. His only stint abroad was a four month visit to NASA in the United States. In 1958 he joined the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and five years later joined the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

              The genius of Dr. Kalam was gradually recognized. He had core competence from the start and was interested in rockets even though it was not his specific area of work. In ISRO, as a project director for SLV III, Dr. Kalam contributed to the design, development and management of India’s first indigenous satellite launch vehicle to inject the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit in 1980. It took about 10 years from conception to the launch of SLV III, but it faced failure for the first time. Dr. Kalam owned all the responsibility and his dedication and motivation achieved success the next time.

            Dr. Kalam left the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in 1982 and joined the Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Hyderabad, as Director. It was here that he conceived the futuristic Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) and laid a solid foundation for indigenous design development of critical technology projects. In 1986 the Guided Missile Board took the decision to take up the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTRC). From then on the short range anti-tank Nag, surface to air Trishul and Akash, 250 Km range Prithvi and Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni came in existence.

                In early 1980, Dr. Abdul Kalam was inducted to steer the missile programme which by then was acquiring a certain strategic relevance. At that time it seem improbable that a nation that could not design its own scooter, let alone a major defence item, could actually design and build a missile. Also an ambitious missile programme for a nation that could not feed and educate most of its people was regarded as an absurd act and that also led by an unlikely leader, Dr. Abdul Kalam, who was a mere diploma holder, seemed ridiculous. Yet Dr. Kalam with his intelligence, dedication and determination conducted the first successful test of the Agni in 1989. Over the last 15 years, the Kalam team have delivered five missiles to the nation of gradually improved efficacy and this was primarily due to the kind of leadership and vision that Kalam provided.

                 India’s missile man, Dr. Abdul Kalam is basically a man of peace. He loves classical music, writes poems in Tamil, plays the Veena and is a voracious leader. A bachelor, he leads a strict life, occupying two rooms at the Asiad Village Complex in Delhi. Public recognition came to him in November 1997, when he was awarded the the Bharat Ratna, the nation’s highest civilian award. He served as the President of India from 2002 to 2007.

                Dr. Kalam is a man of war who is at peace with himself. He chases the dream of India becoming a superpower by 2020. Already his weapons of war have taken India into the rarefied heights of being a missile power. The nuclear bomb underground tests conducted on May 11 and 13, 1998 by the joint efforts of DRDO team led by Dr. Abdul Kalam and the atomic energy team had made India the 6^th nuclear power in the world. Indeed Dr. Kalam has made India proud and we are certainly proud of him. Really he is an illustrious son of India.

The Kashmir Problem

                The so called Kashmir problem came into being almost with the independence of the country. Though sixty five years have passed, the problem still remains unsolved. Kashmir still remains the most important source of friction between India and Pakistan.

                 The British withdrew from India on 15^th August, 1947. The princely Indian States were given the option either to (a) accede to India; (b) accede to Pakistan, (c) or become Independent. No serious difficulties arose in the case of other states. But the position of Kashmir is unique. It is contiguous both with India and Pakistan,  so it could accede to either of them. Both desired it, for the state is not only a ‘heaven upon earth’, it has also far reaching significance from the military point of view. While it was ruled by a Hindu Maharaja, its population was predominantly Muslim. In this fact, lay the real problem. Pakistan claimed it as its own for it has a predominantly Muslim population.

                  The Hindu Maharaja was still hesitating whether to join India or Pakistan, when Pakistan encouraged her war like tribes to enter the state. They were supported by regular Pakistan army. Having no other option left, the Maharaja acceded to India and urgently requested to help. The accession was endorsed by the popularly elected constituent Assembly of Kashmir. Indian armies were flown over the Srinagar immediately, and the invaders were pushed out of the Kashmir valley. They could not be thrown out of the rest of the state territory, so to do so would have meant bombing of military bases in Pakistan. As India wanted to avoid an all out war, it complained to the Security Council against Pakistan. A ceasefire was declared immediately, as a result of which Pakistan remained and still remains, in illegal possession of a part of the state which is called “ Azad Kashmir” by Pakistan.

                The UNO then made various efforts to settle the dispute peacefully. The true facts thus came to light, and Pakistan was declared an aggressor. The UNO passed a resolution in 1949. It was accepted by both the countries. The resolution provided that (1) Pakistan should withdraw all its forces from the state (2) That the Azad Kashmir Government and its forces would be disbanded, and (3) When conditions permit, India, too, would gradually withdraw her forces. Time passed, but Pakistan did not withdraw her forces nor did it disband the Azad Kashmir Government. Every year, it complained to the UNO that India was oppressing the Kashmir Muslims and the Islam was in danger. On countless occasions, she was guilty of violations of the ceasefire line. Power politics also came in the way of a just solution of this dispute.

              The rulers of Pakistan took to the warpath. When the USA did not encourage them in their war like actions, they turned to China for help. Encouraged by China, they sent infiltrators into Kashmir in Sep 1965. This led to an all out war between India and Pakistan. The Pakistan army was badly defeated and its armoury destroyed. However, late Mr, Shastri’s statesmanship enabled the two countries to reach a famous agreement, known as Taskant Pact. The two countries agreed not to use force, but to solve the Kashmir problem by peaceful means.

              The position at present is that the armies of the two countries still confront each other along the ceasefire line. While Pakistan continues to demand Kashmir, India declares that that the only problem is that the aggressor should be asked to vacate. Both countries are spending huge amounts over their armies in Kashmir. No solution of the problem seems to be in sight in the near future. The relations of the two countries continue to be bitter and hostile. Even the crushing defeat suffered by Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistan war of Dec, 1971, has failed to make that country see reason. Efforts were made through the Shimla agreement to normalize relations with Pakistan, but not to much avail. In 1999, Pakistani intruders crossed over to Indian territory in Kargil sector and was defeated by the Indian army.

             In more recent times, there has been considerable deterioration in the situation in Kashmir. Pakistan trained submersives have infiltrated in large numbers. One slogan “ Independent Kashmir” has been used to misguide the people. Pakistan has tried its best to politicize the problem and win international support for its point of view. It seemed that the two countries were on the very brink of war. However good sense prevailed and the danger of war receded. But violence still continues, life in the state is still insecure and thousands have migrated from the valley  into Jammu, Delhi and the other parts of the country. Kashmir problem is the most serious problem that India faces today.