I've identified some core areas which we need to focus in the next decade to become a developed nation.
Here we go :
Agriculture
Agriculture is the backbone of our country.Over 60% of the country's population employed in agriculture.Hence Agriculture plays a major role in the overall development of a country. Most of the country's agriculture population depends on monsoon or natural rainfall.We are seeing regularly that when one part of country affected by excessive floods the other parts suffered by severe drought. How we are going to solve this issue? One solution might be the interlinking of rivers across india.But there are practical difficulties in implementing the integration of rivers at one shot. We can do this by interlinking the rivers within the state, then between the neighbouring states and finally across the country.We can also take a leaf out of the countries like Denmark, Newzealand etc for implementing the efficient techniques to the growth of agriculture.Agriculture plays a major role in the overall GDP of these countries.
Education
Education plays a
major role in shaping a country's future.Our goverment should strive
to improve the quality of basic education given to the students in
rural areas.How long are we going to say that so many indians are
working in Nasa, Microsoft, Google etc? Let us say that so many
foreigners are working in our indian organizations like ISRO, HAL
etc.
We have to invite bright students from US, Europe and other
countries to learn in our universities by improving the quality of our
educational institutions .In this way we can utilize the brightest
minds across the world for the development of our country.
Healthcare
Most of the people living in rural
parts of india struggle with the public health care system as its
minimal or non existant in the villages. Due to commercial gains the
health care system is concentrating on cities and urbanized places.We
have got world class hospitals with excellent doctors which attracts
the millions of patients outside of the country.But we are not able to
provide a basic health care system to our citizens.Our goverment along
with the private health care institutions should provide a accessible
public health care system to the rural people at free of cost.The
strength of india lies in its Human Resources and our goverment
responsibility is to take care of it well.Lets make India a healthy
nation by 2020.
Infrastructure
I think this is one of the most
discussed topic in the last couple of years. Infrastructure means
providing best environment like roadways, airports, bridges, clean
water, electricity, sewages etc to the citizens of a country. This not
only improve the quality of living but also bring more foreign
investments to the country.Infrastructure is like fuel for the fast
growing nation like India. According to Businessweek "The
infrastructure deficit in india is so critical that it could prevent
India from achieving the prosperity that finally seems to be within
its grasp. Without reliable power and water and a modern
transportation network, the chasm between India's moneyed elite and
its 800 million poor will continue to widen, potentially destabilizing
the country".
Others
Apart from the above areas there are certain things that we need to give importance. One is the transparency in our political system like western countries. This will prevent the corruption which is hindering the growth of our country.
Second one is protecting and nurturing our culture which dates back to millions of years ago.No one will deny that globalization and libralization have changed our cultural values. There are both postive and negative things in globalization and we should try to accompany the positive things of it without affecting our values.
Development along with our cultural values will take our nation to greater heights.
Let us say "Tomorrow is Ours "
Thanks
Kathir