The First Few Thoughts……

 

The thought about a profile called Ideas for a Better Nation struck my mind when I was rolling on my bed at 12:00 Mid night - sleepless after a tiresome day.

The thing I understood about this is you needn’t be very high on your moods or very creative and attentive in your thoughts to try to make a change. The only thing required is focus and thinking about the areas where in which we are lagging behind.

Now one of my very first ideas/ suggestions :

Being the citizen of a country, we sure are expected to follow the constitution of the country but then there are ways to make the habit better.

I heard and understood from what I saw that there is no educational qualification to become a politician or a minister as educational qualification wouldn’t be a checklist for the capabilities of a person. – True I do agree for that but then, we would atleast like to know the attitude of our politicians.

I don’t expect that the political parties that are already present might take up this idea but can this be adapted by the newly formed and the parties that might form in the future.

• People joining in the political parties must undergo a test – a test that assesses the candidate on his attitude.

May be the parties can hire some professionals like psychiatrist, and some others to develop few tests which can be used to assess the attitude, logic and the personality of the person who wanted to join the party. In that manner, we will sure know that the person who might one day be a politician has some good attitude towards the fellow countrymen.

There are exams that can be rated as few of the toughest ones in the world for securing seats in the best rated B schools and Tech schools in India but isn’t it pathetic to know that there are no qualifying tests or minimum requirements defined to become a politician ??

Now the question is : what would be the qualifying thing for such tests and why would any parties take up such a thing ??

my answer is : This I was expecting to be adapted by only parties that are not into politics to loot people but help them in building a better nation. I don’t want to name the parties which have looted the country but I see the Young Generation Party – The Jago Party - http://www.jago.in/ can take up this.

• Now coming to the next thought, why do we need the Police department to work under the Politicians ?? Why can’t the Police department be made an independent and a stand alone department to avoid political pressures ? The whole of the Police department should be headed by one person on the country’s level and then he would be backed up by one Police head each from one state. Following the tree structure to the bottom to avoid any confusions and pressures from the politicians.

 

• The next thought is : It is very well know that the Judiciary system in India goes on a very slower pace. We have the patience to prosecute a terrorist who went on a ruthless open fire in Mumbai for years together. We also have the patience to let the mentor behind one of the biggest IT corporate scandals to take rest in jail and in hospital for years together always filing petitions in the court for a bail.

Why can’t people’s vote be considered in deciding the fate of an offender ?

For this I do understand that there are many issues involved but then. some of the points I can think of as of now :

There should be computer kiosks everywhere to capture the vote of the citizens. These should only register the vote submitted by a person who identifies himself with his UID number, his eye scanner (IRIS), his date of birth and finger prints. These kiosks should be run and maintained by the government and this can generate huge amount of job opportunities for the unemployed. There should also be an option of a helper who can help people with no knowledge on computers to register their votes and any fraud done there could be filed in a toll free call number.

Now what about the logistics behind ? There should be a government run website always showing various votings available and would be updated on a regular basis as a multiple choice questions. Say for in the case of the above mentioned terrorist, the only options available (that I could think about are) 1) Hang him to death 2) Prosecute him for further information, 3) Set him Free – on humanitarian grounds and 4) cannot say.

The voting for every question should have a deadline and the final number of votes should be taken into account for passing on the judgment. Also there should be a government run television channel and a news paper (irrespective of the ruling political party) to update the news on results of the votings and the decision taken.

• The country’s income and expenditure can also be audited every year and be made available for the public for more transparent transactions.

I do understand that many of the above said thoughts are highly impossible and they take a lot to implement but I was only saying them with an Utopia called India in my mind    

 

P.S: A very comfortable format of the Indian constitution can be found at : http://bit.ly/f0h2Q3