(Pic: grabbed from a tv news)
This picture is now making millions of rounds in the
media. This is of Dana Majhi of
Kalahandi district whose wife died and the hospital denied him a mortuary
vehicle. He started walking down to his village carrying his wife himself and
had crossed about 10 kms of the total 60 kms road that some media people
discovered this, made a news and called up the district medical officials so
that a vehicle can be arranged. The
entire country is angry on this incidence and rightly so. This is a shame on our system but I am sure
no one will be held responsible for this.
After we discover another such news, Dana Majhi's case will be
forgotten. After the Mahanadi issue
popped up, we have forgotten the Nagada malnutrition deaths of children!
This brings me back to a few pertinent questions that I keep
asking to myself and others. 1. What is
the real development? Building roads and buildings or having a humane system
that manages these? 2. How has the GDP growth number helped improve the service
delivery system and more importantly the accountability of the system managers
i.e. government? 3. Is it really 'development deficit' or the failure of
'development?'
Don't be under any illusion that Dana Majhi's case is a
singular one in the country. This is
just one of the reported cases. There
must be thousands of such cases happening in each state during the duration of
my writing this post. Our governments
are busy in 'construction' as the 'image' of development. We have all sorts of jargons like Smart
Cities, Digital India, bla bla... but no teachers to teach our children in
govt. schools, no doctors to treat the common people, no growth in quality
public transport, no increase in provisioning clean drinking water and most
importantly no accountability.
Be it contamination of drinking water, failure of health
administration in cases such as the one in point, pollution of water bodies by
industries, killing of our forests and rivers by our government
policies/actions, collapse of our education system so on and so forth, no one
is accountable. Each time a case gets
reported and there is a media/public outrage, an inquiry committee is formed
that either delays the report till the public memory fades or covers up the
mistake of the govt. The government that
we see does not behave like one elected by the people and meant for their
service but a servant of the powerful politicians, bureaucrats and their
masters.
Our memory fades and we clap when another road is built for
the rich's car and industrialist's goods truck to ply.
We love roads, buildings, big shots and our ability to
forget things so fast.
We are positive people, we should not report all these
negative news. Praise the governments,
the politicians and bureaucrats day in and day out and there are many benefits
on the cards! Dana will get some more kilograms of rice, a few thousand rupees
and a few artificial sympathizers.
Keep doing that my progressive friends! Keep calculating the
GDP numbers. Development is going to
take birth in this nation some day for sure!!
- - 26th August 2016
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DeleteWell documentated, we are the instrument for such. First we need it proper documenst and then we will inquary the saem, this will the General out come form the so called officail are take or Handel these kind of issue. I think.. approch can be made as social allart like 4-th lion-- why not such need one finger print allocate (aadhar) for the needly in the near by any prominate place of each and evry corner of block and hospital, commom place or public centre to allot such and person such need help can be a suggestive sollution.
Well documentated, we are the instrument for such. First we need it proper documenst and then we will inquary the saem, this will the General out come form the so called officail are take or Handel these kind of issue. I think.. approch can be made as social allart like 4-th lion-- why not such need one finger print allocate (aadhar) for the needly in the near by any prominate place of each and evry corner of block and hospital, commom place or public centre to allot such and person such need help can be a suggestive sollution.
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