Saturday, May 16, 2009

YES WE CAN ! FOR THE GROWTH OF INDIA WE'LL HAVE TO

(i ) Maintain a growth rate of 7-8 per cent per year for a sustained period;
(ii) Provide universal access to quality basic education and health;
(iii) Generate gainful employment and promote investment;
(iv) Assure at least hundred days of employment to the breadwinner in each family at the minimum wage;
(v) Focus on agriculture, rural development and infrastructure;
(vi) Accelerate fiscal consolidation and reform; and
(vii) Ensure higher and more efficient fiscal devolution.

Protect Wealth of Natural Environment & Bio-Diversity of India

  • Give a completely new look to urban governance with the assistance of Corporate World.
  • Recognize that our towns and cities are engines of creativity and innovation, create a new model of urban administration with financially-viable self-government institutions as the pivot with possible public private partnership model.
  • Offer a new deal to our youth to participate in governance with innovative ideas.
  • Design and launch a voluntary national youth corps which enable young men and women in the age group of 18-23 to serve up to two years in constructive nation-building activities.
  • Protect India’s natural environment and take steps to rejuvenate it .India has an enormously rich biodiversity that is under threat Commit the Young India to strengthening people’s movements whose objective be to protect and preserve our bio-resources and ensure their sustainable use.
  • Climate change has now emerged as a serious challenge for the world community. Unveil a national Action Plan for Climate Change. It is an acknowledgment of our responsibility to take credible actions within the overall framework of meeting the development aspirations of our people for higher economic growth and a higher standard of living. This action plan will be implemented in letter and spirit.
  • Carry out a massive renewal of our extensive science and technology infrastructure. The vast infrastructure for science and technology that India possesses and which has made so many far-reaching contributions to the country’s progress — in agriculture, nuclear energy, defence, space, industry, energy, telecom and IT. Extend full support to the modernization and expansion of our science and technology institutions and will ensure that they attract and retain the best talent from India and abroad.

Fiscal Prudence, Path of Growth & Development

  • Maintain the path of high growth with fiscal prudence and low inflation. Rapid economic growth creates opportunities for increased government expenditure in vital areas like education, health, agriculture, social security and infrastructure.
  • Strive to maintain the momentum with a relentless emphasis on growth that accelerates the generation of productive jobs for our youth. Be committed to maintaining high growth with low inflation, particularly in relation to prices of essential agricultural and industrial commodities.
  • Path of fiscal responsibility be maintained so that the ability of the Centre to invest in essential social and physical infrastructure is continuously enhanced. Which will require that all subsidies reach only the truly needy and poor sections of our society.
  • Both the public sector and private sector are essential for India’s continued high growth success story.. Public sector enterprises in the manufacturing sector (like energy, transport and telecom) and in the financial sector (like banks and insurance companies) should diversify with private sector and be given all support to grow and become competitive.
  • The manufacturing industry in India has seen a revival in recent years and this will be sustained and deepened, particularly labour-intensive manufacturing. The emphasis in all foreign investment policies be maximization of local value-addition and export potential.
  • Ensuring the highest standards of corporate governance in private companies, especially to protect the interests of small shareholders and small investors. Regulations be made to ensure good corporate governance, ethical business practices and accountability to all stakeholders, with entrpreneurship & competion.

Opportunity,Welfare & Enterpreneurship

· Rural women population should be enrolled as members of self-help groups linked with banks and that they will get loans from banks at moderate interest rates.
· Education, SME, business entrepreneurships are needed on a larger-scale for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and women.
· Social security schemes for occupations like weavers, fishermen and fisherwomen, toddy tappers, leather workers, plantation labour, construction labour, mine workers and beedi workers be expanded.
· Ensure equality of opportunity and full participation of persons with disabilities, including the blind, in all sectors of life.
· Combat communalism of all kinds and caste atrocities with determination with continuous extermination of terrorism.
· Ensure that the welfare of children as guaranteed by various laws is protected and promoted. New schemes to improve the nutritional status of children, especially girls, and educate them.
· Make elected panchayat institutions financially strong. Which is essential for inclusive economic growth & full Constitutionally-mandated devolution of funds, functions and functionaries to the panchayats. The annual allocations to gram panchayats that can be used for purposes designated as priority by the gram sabha be substantially stepped up.
· Connect all villages to a broadband network within a short span of time. Make internet free.
· Give special focus to the small entrepreneur and to small and medium enterprises
Pledge a “new deal” for SMEs and for first-generation entrepreneurs by assuring them greater access to collateral-free credit, liberating them from the multiplicity of laws and forms, and freeing them from the clutches of inspectors in different areas like education, coaching, career guidance, textiles, food processing, handlooms and handicrafts, consumer goods, khadi, coir and other traditional industries, and engineering. And be given access to finance, technology and marketing and will be provided vastly improved infrastructure.

Improve Living Standards of People of India

1. Towards faster and more inclusive growth

2. Police reforms & strengthening intenal security.

3. Health & Social Security for all.

4. Literacy, education & skill up gradation for all.

5. Strengthen education at all stages — primary, secondary and university.

6. Ensure comprehensive social security to those at special risk

7. Make quality education affordable to everyone

8. A massive expansion in higher education.

9. Iimplement a nation-wide skill development programme.

12. Give greater impetus to the empowerment of weaker sections of society.

13. Coaching facilities & Career Guidance Programs should be encouraged.

14. National scholarships for boys and girls belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes be further widened.

15. Carve out a reservation for the economically weaker sections of all communities without prejudice to existing reservations for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and OBCs.

16. Introduce reservation for women in panchayats and nagarpalikas, public and other institutions.

Foreign Policy:

1.Secure the membership of UN Security Council.
2.Strengthen up its economic and military power, nuclear arsenals & military modernized.
3.Tighten security over borders & Issue Identity & Citizenship Cards.
5.Greater research and development (R&D) allocations for missile development, military refurbishment and space technology.
6.Drastic regional and class inequalities in distribution of the fruits of liberalization need to be redressed immediately.
7.India must develop sea-borne nuclear capability fitted with ballistic missiles.
8.Resolve to transform the relationship between develop countries and establish a global partnership.
9. Strengthen the prospects India has as a major player in world politics.For decades on the fringes of America's radar screen and the two great Asian powers, China and Japan in fact India should lead. 
10.India should gain acceptance as an "Asian Power" due to its "Inner Ring" - comprising Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - India is a hegemon and a superpower and act as Big Brother in the region.

India as a World Power


India has the capacity to become a world power by means of economic transformation and defining itself as a bridging power.The current global supremacy of the United States was greatly helped by its longest and strongest economic boom of 1992-2000. The world and India are bullish about the Indian economic performance in the next 20 or even 50 years. A recent Goldman Sachs report has projected Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICS), as the new global economic super power. If they keep their recent rapid growth rates, it predicts very significant shifts in world power balances and India is projected to grow fastest.There are remarkable features of India's economic performance over the last two decades. It has experienced a very high growth rate of output per capita (3.8 percent) surpassed only by China and east Asian countries. Its growth has been most stable surpassing even China and east Asian countries. About 60 percent of its growth has come from the rise in total factor productivity, a performance that was only surpassed by China, and hence sustainable in future. India is riding on a wave of growth fundamentals such as demographic transition, huge reservoir of young and world class human resources, improved incentive structure and security environment and diffusion of new technologies such as information technology. Basis for strong growth is country's good economic and political institutions - a stable democratic polity, reasonable rule of law and protection of property rights. They need to be reformed, nurtured and fine tuned but they collectively represent an opportunity to leapfrog into a new phase of growth. India's forex reserves are at record levels and rising, inflation is low, the share of services in GDP has increased to 50.8 percent and industry is picking up. Fiscal fundamentals are, however, grim and worsening - a large fiscal deficit in the order of about 11 percent and public debt amounting to about 75 percent of GDP. This is particularly important due to link between fiscal consolidation, investment and growth. Inadequate infrastructure, slow growth of employment, poor performance in human development and regional disparities are other major areas of concern.