Re: transforming rural India through IT
by Ramesh on Mar 18, 2009 03:08 PM
Here the observation made by Mr.B Raman is illustative. How does the State connect to the family on the roadside? What institutional mechanisms we have to create the linkages?
E-governance surely is a critical component. But the gap between individual families and the state is too big to be easily covered.
To encourage creation of linkages on the basis of various identities be it caste, religion, language, regional, almost any format needs to be seen as welcome development.
Those who see such effort as communal agenda on part of BJP are doing a great disservice. Even Indian professors in US have written research papers condemning education be imparted by Saraswati mandirs as communal prpaganda!
It is this shackle of liberal world view which does not look at how to motivate the provider of voluntary services which needs to be forcefully broken first.
BSP and other caste based outfits have captured rural imagination by their call for social justice. Leftists typically try to ignite revolutionary fervour.
BJP, which is perceived as forward caste party can not make the same appeal, instead may have to focus on cultivating empathic understanding to usher social equality and generating trust in their capability to provide economic security.
The INC appeal is typically modernist. The old slogan “naa jaat par, naa paat par..” continues to hold sway in some form or another.
The rural sector, thanks to different kinds of political forces competing there is likely to be politically explosive and to create basic trust to facilitate private investments into rural areas for rapid development of the rural sector in market economy is the real need in which one or both national parties need to succeed.
Was the Editor sleeping when this article was published ? or Sheela Bhatt was hired by congress for their forthcoming election campaign?
The above article shows the incapabilty of the writer to genuinely come up with a clear picture or she is hihly biased toward the Congress.All her remarks are pro-Congress without even pin pointing it a single win situation for them. The article only points out the drawbacks of anti Congress parties.
She has taken evidence of Gujrat, inabilty of Shiv Sena to win even after building 80 flyOvers, Mayawati etc. in order to show the poor vision of Congress Oponent parites.But is she knows the fact that 80% of the 52 years since Independece Congress is ruling the country.And they don't have a vision till NOW,except Gandhi Family members to be the ruler of this country.
I didn't understand a Tad what was she trying to proove, one shouldn't have a vision, or shouldn't tell about vision(she quoted Mayawati) or a failed attempt to garner votes for cheap public money distribution(NREGA), she's a blind supporter of Congress, she comes up everyday with some st.upid article to punch the BJP ????? People will give you your answer Ms. Bhatt, when Sonia congress will get less than 50 seats in 2009 general elections
IT seems madam bhatt is very eager to join politics....any way if we could tolerate people like mulayam,mayabati,pawer etc etc we can tolerate this one also....hope she won in the comming election so that we rediff user are spared of such biased media coverage from hyprocate like this one.
