Development - Illusion..?? (II)

Continuing from my last post. We need not to define these parameters again, our internal system has been traditionally inward looking and the development thereto linked to its achievements. Deviation corrected, flaws amended and systematic adage of prudence passed on from generations to generations. At the village level.

The vision of "gram swarajya" where unless the bottom most person of the societal hierarchy is revitalized, the holistic development and dream of an egalitarian society would continue to meet each other at crossroads. The grass root democratic participation of decision and sustainable empowerment could add tangible inputs. By having:

• Consistent focus at grass root level to seek and develop agriculture inputs as according to the need, temperament and sustenance of ecology for the people and not on a central policy basis of subsidies and their relative interdependent plans. We still are an agrarian economy, to remember
• Land Improvement and support where the class, caste and displacement of people are ill effected and major development projects co-exist supplementing efforts of each other with each having its sphere of influence then forcing a option of for “either this or that system”
• Focus on integrated educational development which assures the right of employment then right of knowledge and its use in the developing world
• GDP measurement to include ancillary services which do not connote a commercial value yet still are a national component e.g. the labour barter which could be seen every season across the agrarian community of farmers pooling and taking turns to till fields for saving the spend on outsourced labour and retaining their cultural bonhomie, the very backbone of the system or perhaps challenge the GDP factor itself to define a new (GPF) Gross Prosperity Factor
• Developing comprehensive agenda towards maintaining the intricate balance of the fragile eco-system of people and their livelihood resources including water & irrigation, land & forests, cattle & livestock and indigenous cultural knowledge heritage
• Approach to seek active involvement and virtual democratic participation in governance and administration. Reforms should not be skewed as a secondary choice for an already defunct system, as add on. If it needs a complete transformation, the will should be able to support these actions with sole aim of efficient governance as its objective

Some would argue the thematic nature of these suggestive parameters as being basic. That’s the anomaly; the basics need to be revisited.

The present agitational reflex of continuously questioning the existence and relative outburst for demanding these basic rights at slightest provocation by mass at large somehow does not matches with the theme of cohesive development. The farmers fighting for their rights to co-exist in western part of the country, cooperatives being formed for the displaced people for gainfully seeking livelihood opportunities against integrated development of industrial zones, lack of constitutional empowerment to question these policies (never mind even if a basic right has to be made a act to “rightfully” ask what ideally should be due by itself) and continuous rupture of faith on executive, legislative and judiciary functions have all contributed negatively to not to believe there is development all around.

Singular attempts would not form a collective disposition and could not be an alibi for development. The aggression of polity with policy should match the pace at equal levels of societal execution. When we stop measuring the average rate of deaths on a per day per week basis due to hunger, starvation, displacement, incorrect policies and their long term impact (several of these) even despite of not being able to proudly acclaim the developmental fact, opt it as a plank to launch ourselves with every opportunity, we would surely be matured to fall out of this illusion and face the reality of being called as developed.