[MyThought] Growth vs Growth

Before going to our main topic lets us look what growth means to us. The definition of growth is vary from person to person , situation to situation , nation to nation .what is growth for India may not be growth for USA. Thus, we find that growth is a dynamic phenomenon that is changing it looks according to its environmental factors. In simple term growth defined as to make our environment a better place to live. Well it is a too simple way to express growth but in reality defining growth is far more complicate phenomenon. There are many indicators for growth because growth can’t be sustained on single factor. Some of these indicators are likes – Education, Sex ratio, Poverty etc.

[My Thought] “ Good Fences make good neighbors”

“Good fences make good neighbors “ it is a proverb means that it is better for people to mind their own business and to respect privacy of others. This well known saying applicable to every field of our life whether it is our family or our office or our Nation .Interference with others matter always ushered to a conflict. Every one of us like our privacy and don’t want that anyone interference in our personal matter. Now coming to problems, why we need fences? Off-course that is a psychological question, but I are not interested in that. Since the dawn of human civilization , people felt fundamental need to divide the world into territorial areas. In last century, hundred thousands of people died in ethnically violent clashes due to Territorial dispute. A Territorial dispute is disagreement of possession or control of land between two or more states. There are many countries in world which are indulging in some kind of territorial disputes. this list of disputes is to large so we can’t explain each and everyone but let try to understand some majors disputes in briefly.

India has territorial disputes with Pakistan, China, and Bangladesh. India had fought many war with these country on the matters of territorial possession. Recent, Kargil war between India and Pakistan was a good example. The cause of war was infiltration of Pakistan soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions of Indian side of LOC, which served as de facto border between these two nation. Finally The Indian Army with the help of Indian Air force, recaptured the majority of Indian territory occupied by Pakistani militants. But in the whole process is there any gain for any country whether it is India or Pakistan but of course they looses live of many soldiers. They are fighting for Kargil sector, which is Iceland not suitable for habitation. There are many other cases also like Gaza strip dispute between Israeli and Palestinian , Arunachal Pradesh disagreements between India and China , territorial disputes in south china sea between China and Vietnam , etc.

This disagreement or disputes affect not only political, social and cultural conditions of these countries but also global economy. Recently, in news we heard about the dispute over East China Sea islands , called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, is such an emotionally charged issue in China that it has sparked widespread anti-Japanese riots across the country and a boycotting of Japanese products there. This will adversely affected some of companies like Toyota Motors whose sales depend on China to a considerable extent fall down gradually. Apart from these territorial disagreements also affect economic life of people of territory because extra cost burden of these conflict bear by people only. If government more indulge in these kind of conflicts it levy more tax to fulfill extra burden created due to these conflicts.

Now finally we conclude that wheather it is a individual life or a nation it is better to keep visible and acceptable fences between them because it not only make life peaceful but also help to grow economically, politically and socially.

 

[My Thought] does IT can help to reduce corruption?

I think yes, IT can surely help us to increase transparency and accountability in government. In western world countries corruption rate is much lower compare to Asian countries. One of the main reasons for that is these countries are technologically much advance. The use for Information and communication Technology ( ICT) in government in India still lagging behind developed country. Still, we believe in pen paper system for work although there is other way around. Through using pen-paper system we are not only harming our environment but also hiding loophole in various government policies. Its very difficult to keep accountability of government servants in pen paper system because their discrepancy in work hide somewhere in collections of huge piles of files. If we can use IT services then this kind discrepancy never come because there is no hiding of information. WE CAN MAKE HUMAN FOOL BUT WE CAN NOT MAKE MACHINE FOOL. So use of IT will enhance the efficiency as well as productivity of government. Well , our government has taken many step to promote IT-IT enabled services . there is one state owned enterprise called NIC (National Informatics centre) that help government to implement IT enabled services for government. 20 years back function of government is totally confidential and out of reach of common man. Of course there is provision to publish important bills in gazette for get people thought about that bills, but that is just a formality kind of thing, because for getting people thought meeting was organized or people have to send their thought via post. Well both of these processes are very slow and limited to some person only due to government time and money restriction they can’t make people more participative. But as the concept of New public management come in picture government realize that for a good governance it is better to make people more participative in policy making and implementation but that is very difficult with use of traditional Pen-Paper system. Our Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi created a remarkable history by making India front runner in IT Industries. From that period IT industry is booming in India. it help private sector to grow a lots but government sector lazy to use of this services , because if everything going to be transparent than how they can hide their discrepancy in duties. But due to pubic agitation as well as pressure from international forum make India to make government more transparent. Coming to present scenario of ITes in India , Well by late off course but government finally realize the importance of IT-ITes . Now we can find almost every department have their portal in internet . Anyone can access these portals and find about activity of department as well as register his/her grievances if any. Through the use of ITes many kind of time consuming activity people perform from home like applying for passport, filling Income tax return. It save time for both the government official as well public and it also don't give any opportunity to staff to do favor someone for their personal gain. CPGRAMSGrievance Redress Mechanism in Government developed by NIC is a fine IT enabled services in India. Recently prime minister announces National policy for direct case transfer in this policy with the help of ITES government can reach direct to beneficiary of various policies. This will reduce the role of minister in allocating fund because government directly transfer fund to beneficiary account. This policy help to reduce corruption to a large extent, because then minister have to just administer the policy and there is no scope for scam like thing.

So, finally we find that IT-ITes play a vital role to make our government more transparent, efficient, accountable, productive and corruption free India.