SINE QUA NON

                                     SINE QUA NON

           Complete fulfillment of citizenry rights coupled with enforcement of law and order are sine qua non for a civilized society in every corner of the globe.A relaxed state of affairs on either front will make any civilized country into India-Pakistan- Bangladesh where there is neither law and order or concious fulfillment of citizenry rights.Every citizen is supposed to be watch dog of others rights and observations of all civic obligations.At the same time Courts have to be fully geared up to fall heavily on wrongdoers quickly.Both the aforesaid aspects are absent in our country.
          Go to any public place,one finds that nothing is in order.All pavements are illegally occupied by shop owners leaving no place for shoppers to walk in the market.You can not question anybshop keepers as all other shop keepers will pounce on you.You can not even lodge complaint to civic authorities,either they are not visible or if they are visible,they will plead "what can be done ". Police presence is recorded but those uncouth Policemen are not to serve you but to win their weekly fees.
           Go to any Court premises in any sub divisional or district places,you have to start paying to the court staff for any thing and every thing.It is not that the Presiding Officers do not know what is happening.They are part and parcel of the loot.You can not lodge any complaint to any one.You have to merge with their demands and spend the day.It is not that only you are paying illegal gratifications,every one is doing the same thing.All promises made to Anna Hazare  that we will not indulge in any kind of corruption evaporated within a few days.Life became normal where corruption is part and parcel.
             Go to any government offices, every citizen is found giving bribes to get the work accomplished, you can not raise alarm their as you will be thrown out by your fellow citizens as you will be hindrance in their performance of task.No ration card,no driving license, no birth certificates are available without paying bribes.As citizen,we do not make any grievance of it as we know there is no remedy against these malaise.
               Our Courts are not fully geared up to hear the grievances of the citizens and force the authorities to deliver in rightful manner.It takes years and years to receive verdicts from the Courts.This has added to rise in corruption all around.
               I have been going to US and Canada for couple of years during summer vacation of Supreme Court to stay with my daughter and her family.There scenario is quite different.I find every one is so courteous,observes all civic obligations,they are always conscious of and fully aware of others rights not being trampled. The are quite cautious in public places,fully aware any wrong doing will land them in deep trouble.The Law Enforcement Agencies are merciless and enforce law mercilessly without any interference from any quarter.Politicians dare not interfere in their duties.
               My three- four year old grand daughter is taught all civic obligations by the teachers.My daughter used to pay Can$ 250.00 per mensum to get her daughter trained in citizenry obligations.In two years she has hardly learnt alphabets or numbers but was made perfect in citizenry obligations failing which she will be quite misfit in the society.
              Suffice to say pressure from the citizens and the Courts alone can keep ours a civilized society.Both pressures are sine qua non for maintain an orderly society.PLEASE ASK YOURSELF ARE WE CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS AN ORDERLY SOCIETY?

WOULD INDIA CARE ?

                                  WOULD INDIA CARE ?

        THE startling revelations by ex-CAG Vinod Rai in his book "Not an Accountant...." and his conversations with Arnab Goswami coupled with press report of TOI of Sept.12,2014 would force you to ponder whether you really care for India.The sum and substance of accusations are complete sale off of our national resources,be it 2G or Coal or Commonwealth Games or Air India purchase of Aircrafts or Augusta Helicopter Deal etc.The central figure who was responsible for all the squandering of resources appear to be Dr.Man Mohan Singh the Puppet Prime Minister of India for 10 long years.
          All the bucks stopped at him but he cared two hoots for it,continued to enjoy the bribe he was getting for letting his puppeteers plunder the nation.He was neither blind nor deaf nor dumb.Whenever his integrity was targeted he spoke and spoke very loudly that he was completely clean but it was his coalition dharma which tied his lips. He knew nation was being plundered but he maintained stoic silence and allowed plunder to go on.
         Sri Vinod Rai says:-
                 " There is no question of targeting him.For 2G and the Coal case.he was the PM and issue reached him.He was certainly in the know of things.In the 2G case all the letters written by A.Raja indicated what he was planning to do and the PM,unfortunately, gave very routine reply to him.
         On the coal issue ,it goes to his credit that the moment the then coal secretary Parakh made it known that the screening committee procedure was leading to windfall gains,pressure and lobbying,he understood...........................
        However,I hasten to add that despite having agreed upon to change the procedure to Auction in principle,the Coal Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh  did not do anything to stop windfall gains,pressure or lobbying as he was himself under pressure to allow such windfall gains,pressure or lobbying.Would you believe,218 coal blocks were allotted without a penny coming to the state exchequer. Most of the allottees are just sitting on the coal blocks without working on it and the Puppet PM continued to import millions of tonnes of coal.This was the wisdom of economist PM.
         Now let us take the case of purchase of Aircrafts for Air India.The Board passed a resolution to purchase 28 Aircrafts but at the nudge of the Minister Prafull Patel 68 Aircrafts were purchased at the extra costs of 38,000 Cr.The Air India came under the debt of 97℅ which made it completely unviable. As there was no need of so many aircrafts,they had to be sold at the rate shirts or trousers, Buy One and get Four free.Five aircrafts were sold for the cost of purchase price of new aircraft.Such a huge plundering was done in Civil Aviation Ministry without any intervention from PM.
          Similar things happened in Commonwealth games,Augusta Helicopter deal etc.but the PM would not even care to look at those allegation.On the contrary,he did not allow Suresh Kalmadi to be removed from the Games till Games were organised.
           If my memories serves me right,Dr.Subramaniam Swamy had accused openly Sonia G ,Karunanidhi and A.Raja having made huge money in 2G scam.There was no ripple on the face of any congress leader.They shamelessly continued to defend the leadership.Today also I heard Sanjaya Nirupam and Sandip Dixit abusing Sri Vinod Rai for having named them for putting pressure on him to exclude the name of PM.
              These bizarre things can happen only in India as India does not care for it.Had it been any Western Country,Dr.Manmohan Singh would have landed in jail for all his acts of ommission and commission. But we do not care for it.Neither we will get the trail of money where they have gone or there will not be any action against Dr.Manmohan Singh.He would continue to live on tax payers money throughout his life.

RIGHT TO FREE EDUCATION

                            RIGHT TO FREE EDUCATION

       Right to free education for the children between age of 6 to 14 years are very fundamental for the development any nation.An illiterate nation can never advance and shall always remain poverty and corruption stricken nation.India has also not advanced on the front of literacy much.There are certain States in India like Kerala,Sikkim etc.which have obtained the optimum but literacy is still at minimum level in most other states.I may venture to say that the Governments,Central or State have not endeavoured to provide enough funds for opening adequate number of schools in the country to provide education to the children.It has been an abject failure on the part of governments.
        Just compare it.My grand daughter who is born and lives in Canada was registered in her neighbourhood school the day she was born.From the age of 2 and 1\2 yes.she started to go to a Play School where my daughter had to pay Can$ 250 per month as she wanted to keep the daughter engaged.But when she completed 4 yes.my daughter was invited to admit her in a regular school in the neighbourhood.The school was and more children were to be admitted,the school started adding new rooms in the school with the result it has become a huge school but it has admitted all the children in the school.They have not taken the excuse that they have no funds to raise further construction.The State was aware of its obligations.In Canada,education and health care are free for all its citizens unlike ours.Now from Sept.4,she has started going to her regular school.
         Here also,many children get free education but most of the children do not either go to school as there is no school in the neighbourhood or there is no incentives to go to school.Midday Meal is  one incentive to attract to the schools but inadequacy of of proper schools, lack of facilities,absence of infrastructure at the school such as black board,teachers,toilets,drinking water are some of the reasons children are not interested in going to school.
       Ultimately,The UPA Govt.enacted The Right to Education Act,2009 to fulfill States obligation to provide free education to children.The RTE Act was challenged before the Supreme Court wherein many contentions were raised and answered by the Court in a case entitled Society For Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan Vs. Union Of India ( Reported in 2012 ( 6 ) Supreme Court Cases 1 ) where the Court laid down as under:-
        311.( 1 ) Art.21-A casts an obligation on the State to provide free and compulsory education to children between 4 Yrs.to 14 yrs.
              ( 2 ) Right of children to get free and compulsory education can be enforced against the schools defined under S.2 (n) of the Act but not against any unaided minority or non minority schools.
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             ( 5 ) The appropriate  Government and Local Authority have to establish neighbourhood schools within the time limit stipulated under the Act.
           There are many other directions issued by the Court to implement the RTE Act,2009 but suffice to say whether the Appropriate Government and Local Authorities are opening adequate number of schools in the neighbourhood to admit the children.
          As a good and responsible citizens we must see to it that the directions of the Supreme Court is implemented and the Appropriate Government and Local Authorities are not allowed to sleep like Kumbhkarna.We keep a watch on our neighbourhood whether new schools are coming up or not and whether all children are being admitted to the school or not.
          Let us fulfill some obligation on our part to awaken the authorities to abide by the direction of the Court.Let us be conscious of our obligations.

NEHRU's FICKLE MIND

                            NEHRU'S FICKLE MIND

       I was just 13 years old( Born in 1949 ) in 1962 when China humiliated India.I hardly recollect the details of what happened then except that there was a sence of fear and anguish during that period.I was living at a small place called Sonepur in Saran District of Bihar.Sonepur then was famous for its longest railway platform in India and biggest Cattle fair in Asia.We had description of Sonepur in our school curriculum. It was a huge District for Railways.My father was in Railways.
        At the break of war with China,people started talking about the casualties suffered by our forces,sale is news paper had increased,newspaper then used to fetched from the A.H Wheelers stall from the Fly.platform.My father had deputed me to fetch news paper from the Rly.Station every morning.At the news paper stand,elders would elaborately discuss about what happened in the war a day before and the casualties suffered by our forces.Except vague recollection I do not recollect the details of war.However,I have read several books on Indo -China war and know much more than a common man but not from my memories of those days.The second source of information's used to be collected from Radio which my father used to hear regularly.He used warn us that now the news bulletin is going to come so we were supposed to maintain silence in the home.
        The other day I finished a biography of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel written by Sri Balraj Krishna,a well researched book on Sardar Patel published by Indus Source Books in India in 2012.The book discloses startling informations which I wish to share with my friends for which purpose I have written this blog.At page 238 of the book Dr.Radhakrishnan's statement appears wherein hi said as follows about Nehru:-
           " The people listened to Nehru,while Nehru believed the Chinese" His was a lost mind,and he suffered physically too.He was not the same,:ever youthful and sprightly.But hi did not want to leave his seat of Prime Minister ship.He preferred to continue in that pathetic state of mind and body till his death at the end of May 1964.Had Nehru listened to Patel,India's power and prestigue would have been far different. Nevertheless, some may console themselves with the thought:Destiny governs the lives of individuals and nations.
           Crestfallen after humiliating defeat,Nehru confessed that he had been touch with the realities in the modern world and living in an artificial atmosphere of our own creation.Nehru further admitted  that he " did not trust them one bit......they are arrogant ,deceitful, hegemonists and a thoroughly unreliable lot.we can not trust them at all .They are inimical to us......."
         Same is still true for Chinese till today and PM Modi has started a true and realistic strategy about China when he started visiting all the Nations unity of which may send a signal to China to behave well in future.