Bikash
Choudhury
Saturday, September 22, 2012
WHO NEEDS SUBSIDIES LPG?
The Tibet Card
Bikash Choudhury
Apropos “dangers of Sino-Pak nexus” I entirely agree with the strategy of playing Thursday, September 20, 2012
Communication with Usha Padhee, Bureaucrat
Dear Mrs. Usha Padhee,
This is with reference to your article “we can still do it”
in Orissa Post, 5th Sep 2012 .
I entirely agree with your contention that if we were to
target, making the class and content interesting for the students then first of
all we must try to kill cynicism among educational administrators, bring
respectability to the teaching profession and introduce continuous evaluation
system. For this to happen, we need to look at the load factor in the school
curriculum (I guess 60 % of the essential/ core content to be retained and
balance 40% left for the student to learn out of own need and interest; need to
check how developed countries like New Zealand does on the subject)
Recently
came across a news report ‘school children making full length feature films and
documentaries’ and those have been recognized by international film festivals.
I feel this is about creating passion among children and leave them to do
wonders in their chosen field/ or area of interest.
In my opinion, this is not a question of resources; but, an
enabling mindset in the entire delivery mechanism of “school & mass
education dept.”. That require “leadership” and I believe the same is in safe
hands.
Warm Regards,
BIKASH CHOUDHURY
Activist
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
FAULT LINE
Bikash
Choudhury
Events in Assam
had its repercussion in Mumbai and little later in Bangalore ,
Chennai, Pune and Hyderabad ; with
mass exodus of students & workers from North East. As reported in the
media; there was threat to life and property of people of North East from some
unknown extremist forces largely spread through social media and internet
tools. Biggest tragedy was none of our
intelligence forces could get a wind of such an act. This is one of the biggest
failure of intelligence after 26/11 and most dangerous among all; as it pose
direct challenge to our Nation hood, its unity and integrity. What ever
happens; Govt. should and must go after the perpetrators behind the act and
annihilate them silently. The important message & learning from the
incident are: there are some known & unknown adversaries of our country who
work in land, air and in the seas round the clock and 24x7 and more
importantly, below the surface there are deep fault lines in our society and
between various regions of our country; this is some thing which is not unknown
to politicians and administrators. Frightening thing is this fault line is
deepening with growing economic disparity and social inequality which could
pose serious challenge to our security and economic prosperity. What is the
solution? The solution lies in Political Unity at the highest level on
important National issues and a firm resolves by all concerned, not to
politicize sensitive matters for short term political gains. Further, it is
imperative to work systematically to bury the fault lines sooner than later.
Both Govt. at the centre and States could encourage social dialogue among
regions, religions, communities and languages. This social interaction, over a
period of time would certainly fortify inter & intra community relations
despite the disparity and inequality. Eventually, it is for the Govt. to
unleash sustained and equitable development of the country through good
Governance to eliminate the fault line for good.
Reforms should match with Governance
Bikash
Choudhury
“Unleash the animal spirit of the economy” said the Prime
Minister a few weeks ago while temporarily looking after the Finance Ministry,
after the exit of Pranab Mukherjee. This Friday on 14th Sep. 2012 PM walk the talk while
clearing slew of majors by cabinet and cabinet committee on economic affairs; most
controversial among them was 51% FDI in multi brand retail. PM took such
drastic step of his own sweet will or under duress is not the matter of concern;
but, eventually he made up the mind of his Govt. on critical issues much
expected and against determined opposition was captured in his expression “ if
we were to go; must go fighting”. There should not be any illusion that recent
decisions of Govt. are good ones and expected to benefit the people over time.
Opposition to such move can be attributed to current and growing partisan
politics and respective vote banks. However, opposition is within its rights to
draw the attention of the Nation to corruption in Govt. which is in scale and
size never imagined before and UPA Govt. would remain answerable to people and
parliament. Senior people from opposition benches should know that certain
decision of Govt. can’t be deferred indefinitely without hurting the National
interest. People will welcome bold steps of Govt. more if it were matched with
improvement in Governance. The current state of economy is not only due to
macro economic mismanagement; but, on poor governance. Therefore, PM should now
burn some mid night oil to plan a face lift of his Govt. After 65 years of
independence our country has multiplied four times in terms of seer numbers
(120 crore population) and complexities actually no body accurately know. One
prime minister does not have actually time and scope to administer the country
properly; it would be appropriate to induct four Dy. Prime Minister to look
after the developments of states in four geographical regions apart from
looking after their respective ministries. It would be ideal if we could create
Dy. Prime Minister-Economy by grouping the ministries of
Finance, Industry & Commerce, Dy. Prime Minister-Infrastructure
by grouping the ministries of Road, Rail, Aviation & Shipping, Dy.
Prime Minister-Energy by grouping the ministries of Power,
Petroleum, Renewable energy and Mining and Dy. Prime
Minister- Security by grouping the ministries of Home and Defense. This
would help the Prime Minster to take more strategic decisions while leaving the
day to day running of the Govt. to four senior colleagues while matching
individual ambitions with political expediency. There are many expected
benefits of such a system; this would facilitate appointment of younger Cabinet
Ministers under over all guidance of DPM, better inter ministerial
co-ordination and synergies while lifting the image of Govt. and delivery of
better Governance. Current UPA Govt. has very senior and experienced members in
the cabinet like Chidambaram, Pawar, Antony
and Farooq Abdullah who could be elevated as deputy prime minister. Though,
election is just two summers away Govt. should not shy away from taking hard
decisions in the larger interest of the Nation.
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Friday, September 7, 2012
BOLD & BEAUTIFUL INDIA
Bikash Choudhury Apropros "India Flounders at NAM" (6th Sep.2012, in The New Indian Express) . Can't agree more. People would say, what more could you expect from a glorified cabinet secretary? God
willing there should be a PM in 2014 at the helm; who would redefine IndianForeign Policy vis-a-vis NAM and Globally.India could occupy the moral
high ground by pursuing "Peace & Development" with "Disarmament &
Reduction in Defense Expenditure Globally" while emphasizing on broad
religious understanding and racial unity. India could actually
propound a new paradigm " Long term National Interest of a country
can't be in conflict with the interest of Humanity". That would be a
bold and beautiful India.
ODISHA CONGRESS IN DEEP FRUSTRATION
Bikash
Choudhury
UPA chairperson & Congress President before leaving abroad
exhorted her Member of Parliament and party cadres to be offensive against
opposition or more specifically for BJP with their vocal cord; rootless,
listless and leaderless Congress Party in Odisha understood that for blanket
mandate for violence for which their leader would remain answerable at a later
point of time. 6th September
2012 Congress rally at Bhubaneswar
turned violent and poor police men and women were at the receiving end of their
fury in full public view and camera glare. The timing and scale of violence
perpetrated by Congress activists proves violence were pre-meditated, planned
and incited by their leaders to present the union Govt. with a law and order
situation to clamp Presidents’ rule; however, Congress managers failed
miserably and measurably with pants down as the National media peaked up their
entire antiques and telecasted in the prime time news. Odisha Police managed to
keep their cool and restraint in the face of great provocation which put paid
to, otherwise Congress plan to sacrifice the lives of innocent workers; who
would never come to know the design of their leaders. As the Congress leaders
would have understood by now; that, this unruly incident would not go
unanswered in the court of people of Odisha as and when next election takes
place. UPA II led by Congress has lost the mandate by half to rule at the
centre and in the State of Odisha it would have lost mandate to remain the
principal opposition by larger than half or little more; it just remains to be
seen, how many Congress candidates would loose their deposits. The forward
looking socio-economic policies of Naveen Patnaik Govt. and its emphasis on
tribal up-liftment in north & south Odisha would certainly rob Congress of
its traditional support base further down hill leaving the party high and dry.
Therefore, the entire Congress leadership in the State is deeply frustrated and
entirely clueless. There is a need of an active opposition in the State as an
oversight mechanism over the Govt.; I wish to offer two suggestions to State
Congress. One, they should choose a young, thinking leader and a man of letters
for themselves and two, they should think of a constructive program to gain the
confidence and trust of ordinary voters. Congress, which swears in the name of
Gandhi and Nehru, certainly can’t regain its lost laurels with the help of
senseless violence and rowdies in the State.
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