INDEPENDENT INDIA TOWARDS ATMANIRBHARTA

 

           INDEPENDENT INDIA TOWARDS ATMANIRBHARTA

On the historical day of independence first of all I wish all Indian happy independence Day

     On this Day India declared  as a sovereign nation on global map. This journey was not a one day process. More than two centuries and unmeasurable sacrifices made by our freedom fighters, national leaders and specially women who fought shoulder to shoulder with men to get freedom from colonial government. 

This hard earned independence is more valuable to every Indian than anything else. The process of making a nation was evolving from centuries. Because, before arrival of British, Indian society was not United as in 20th century.

So One question that always hits our mind is that why British succeeded in ruling India? The answer lies in our societal structure, political backwardness and inability to find real enemy etc. Our indigenous powers fought with each other and even helped British to conquer other indigenous powers. This finally leads to fall of all Indian empires and turning self sufficient country into colonial country..

    Along with political causes society was inequality stratified  education was not accessible to all...women were denied basic rights.. untouchables were ill treated.. social sanction was imposed on them. This historical injustice hindered the growth of society as one unit. So full potential was not utilized for society'. For sake of few privileged we lost our glory.

But our reformer, national leaders identified it and tried to eliminate these weaknesses, tried to put a every man on equal front. This was possible because with the advent of British western ideas of democracy, liberty,, equality , fraternity secularism also arrived in India. This ideas shaped the nationalist ideology. As as result United front was created against oppressive foreign government. Number of mass movements, heroic individual sacrifice by our young freedom fighters, organized consistent efforts bear fruit on 15th August 1947. On this day India born as independent sovereign nation and  tryst with destiny accomplished.

 

    After independence there were many challenges since from beginning. India had to bear cost of partition. The world was bipolar. So it was decided to remain aloof from polarization and focused on development and also bring newly born countries on same path to meet need of every new country. India also championed for decolonization in other parts of world. Our struggle inspired many countries to get their independence. This shows India since beginning have potential of global leader.

The whole nationalist ideology, philosophy of social, economical , political justice and equality enshrined in the one of world's best constitution by our constitutional makers. This helped us to achieve development in many fields of political, social , science and technology ,space, medical ,economy ,agriculture etc.

    These directives must be followed . Otherwise we need to face many hurdles. Year 2020 will always remember for pandemic like COVID 19.This pandemic has taught us many lessons... and exposed the many weakness in social infrastructure specially in health sector.. Our doctor to population ratio is not according to standards. Hospitals even in many metro cities fails to accommodate patients. many patients lost their lives in between . We lacked PPE kits, beds were insufficient. Despite this weakness our government decided to fight with available human resource and infrastructure.

    

     

    This pandemic can be stopped by maintaining Social (more specific physical)distancing. So government declared lockdown under epidemic act . This also added new problem of migration. Millions of workers ,daily wage earner started to migrate to their native states. This highlights there is unequal development in country. Few state are ahead many are lacking to meet their labor demand.

In this hard time our economy showed low growth rate ever since independence.. There was another challenge at our boundaries. Chinese aggression on border lines.. India again proved that we will never compromised with our territory ..our soldiers are always ready to defend our mother land. Galwan valley incident underscores this idea.

 

    Now our leaders are focusing on "Atmanirbharta" i.e self-reliance. Reducing imports mainly from China. Emphasizing on manufacturing, labour intensive sectors to revive our economy.

    We can definitely achieve these goals. This is proved in past also e.g. when USA decline sharing of space technology with India. We decided to develop own space technology .and India got success in developing indigenous space technology. Last year India launched USA satellites by indigenous PSLV technology. This was a proud movement for every Indian.

     Self-sufficiency is possible with indomitable will power. Our political leaders need to shift their agenda from religious line to developmental line. Our election process should need utmost attention. "We the citizen of India" should vote to a candidate who will champion for development, building schools, colleges. Our policies should not degrade environment. That's why world is advocating for sustainable development.

    In democratic country like India every state should move ahead. This will help to address migration issues Along with this we need to revisit our foreign policy with current multipolar world and specially with Chinese aggression.

     Every country has been busy in researching vaccine for Corona. Many has successfully passed 2 stages hope till the end of this year we would get vaccine . But Corona is not single problem..it helped to expose our weakness or what we called ostensible development.

    So we need to focus on social infrastructure as well.. Our education system is going to make crucial role in making India a developed nation. For this our education system must align with modern lines. This is highlighted in new education policy 2020 . But care should to taken while dealing with technology.. as Mahatma Gandhiji said "SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY IS CURSE."

    The whole purpose of education should be of creating good human beings. Who will become harbinger of equality, fraternity, humanity, secularism. Then only egalitarian society will take shape in India. This is a idea of India we must follow then only more color will be added to this hard earned independence and India will become "AATMNIRBHAR"..

PRALAY BHARAT SAWANT.

 15th August 2020

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