It said that : Development is a process of providing services for removing obstacles and giving freedom from all kind of discrimination.
As the election of world's largest democracy is in it's final stage and the formation of new government is expected in the month of June. All the parties did the no. of meetings, campaigns but none of them define DEVELOPMENT clearly. The campaigns of 2014 is more interested in persons rather than society.
So, What the development means and who is it intended for? My short answer to this question is IT DEPENDS.
Why it depends: What is development to poor person from small rural village living in Metro city? To a lower caste migrant worker in Mumbai slum? To every woman in India? To the farmer who is the highest risk taker still do the same business to feed the nation? There may be certainly be points of convergence but the answers will definately diverse.
So what kind of development we actually need?
Development in simplest sense should be the ability of all of us to realize our true potential.
Development is not just about building of roads, big businesses and shining tall buildings. They are people, community, gender. The must thing require for better development id good governance and we called governance is good when there is 5% of better policy and 95% of their actual transparent implementation. It will make very adverse effect to economy if the things go reverse.
Most of the people thinks that rising incomes, growing infrastructure is actual development. Not always true, rising incomes is no guarantee of greater personal welfare. Similarly, a larger economy does mean growth not the development. It doesn't ensure proper wealth distribution,access to quality healthcare,women safety etc. The richer getting richer and the poor continue to live in a slums in big shining cities with poor nutrition and livelihood.
India has the largest number of poor people in the world. We also lead in diseases like cancer, TB and diabetic.One of every three Indian children is malnourished as per the WHO report. Our cities are no longer safe to roam around.
No doubt the running govt crated the no. of new regimes like RTE, Food security,land bill but on other side the lot of money goes away in the form of various scams and the reason we are much ahead in our non plan expenditure compare with budgeted one.
At last I just want to say whoever forms the next government they must ensure their should not be system discrimination of caste,religion and gender. Development is real when each one of us lives a life of respect without any fear in any community,village,city,state and the nation.
(Views are personal...)
