TOI(27th Aug’2014)-Time For Bold Reforms, Mr. Modi; Like Lee Kuan
Yew or Deng Xiaoping, India's first post-colonial PM has the confidence to push
change: http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31814&articlexml=Time-For-Bold-Reforms-Mr-Modi-27082014014028
After nearly 20Yrs
of India’s Independence, one small tiny island by name “SINGAPORE” also became
Independent under leadership of a common man by name Mr. LEE KUAN YEW who
dragged the nation from ACUTE POVERTY to one of the richest nation in the world by sheer
HONESTY of HUMAN RESOURCES simply by
imposing QLY
PERFORMANCE AUDIT (QPA) on
Highest Chairs of Singapore and CANNING on all
criminals, right from political leaders to petty thieves!!!
AND
Even after 66Yrs
of Independence, INDIA still crawling to provide SANITATION and DRINKING WATER
to its AAM AADMI , a BIG THANKS TO POLITICS OF COMPULSION THAT ENSURED EVERY
PARTY AND THEIR NETAs GET A CHANCE TO LOOT THE NATION rather than providing SANITATION
and DRINKING WATER to its people who after 66Yrs still defecating in open air: http://rationale-jay.blogspot.in/2014/05/can-we-afford-this-luxury-of-spending.html
No, this blogger
will not repeat the ROOT CAUSE behind this “POLITICS OF COMPULSION” that were
exposed in earlier blogs, readers may go thru them if they wish to in following
URL: http://rationale-jay.blogspot.in/2014/07/wonder-if-we-truly-have-spine-at-our.html
How SELF-CREATED and KEPT-ALIVE issues of India
were resolved 45 Yrs back by other: http://rationale-jay.blogspot.in/2014/02/how-self-created-and-kept-alive-issues.html
Just 48Hrs enough to pass new JUDICIAL bill, but 66YRS not enough to
raise the debate of QPA: http://rationale-jay.blogspot.in/2014/08/just-48hrs-enough-to-pass-new-judicial.html
GANGRAPE OF Indian Governance FOR COMPULSION OF COALITION POLITICS
or Indian Governance : http://rationale-jay.blogspot.in/2014/08/rape-of-indian-governance-for.html
What a SHAME on Governance that got SPOON-FEEDED
by SC about Constitutional expectation from
PM/CM: http://rationale-jay.blogspot.in/2014/08/what-shame-on-66yrs-old-rotten-impotent.html
However, in NUTSHELL,
the reason behind- why India never produced an Indian Lee Kuan
Yew can be best
described in one sentence : Indian Leaders LOOTED the Nation by hiding behind
excuse of “POLITICS OF COMPULSION” which could have
been eradicated years back by passing a simple amendment as mentioned in
earlier blog whereas Singapore Leader Mr.
Lee Kuan Yew plugged all left-open loopholes
(that allow LOOT to happen) with the help of QPA and CANNING, thus proving to
the world how nation-building can be done with sheer honesty of human resources
of a nation that has to import even
drinking water for its daily consumption !!!
Singapore is a role model country that transformed itself from a very poor and corrupt to ultra modern and prosperous nation. In his vision for a superior Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew a man with an iron hand was the main reason and he worked his life for the welfare of his own countrymen. Singapore had a brief merger with Malaysia, but because of discriminative practice policies favoring Malay Muslims, Singapore separated and became an independent nation in 1965. Most political analyst thought it will not survive because it had no resources and, since Singapore did not had peaceful neighbors where Veitnam was invaded by USA, Japan bombed by USA, Cambodia saw genocide of 40 lakhs civilians under khymer rouge government, there was multiple problems in Indonesia.
ReplyDeleteLee passed one anti corruption bill and put all 23 corrupt ministers in Parliament in jail and finished corruption in a year.
Lee Kuan had to lock up communist, language chauvinist and religous extremist in jail without trial since Singapore had strong communist movement who wanted a communist Singapore.
He did judicial and social reforms where he passed strict laws, so that companies who invest will feel safe about investment with property rights and legal process and they don't have to bribe anyone to get the paperwork done and eliminate graft and red tapism.
Singapore today has 7000 MNC companies, 26,000 international companies and 1 lakh SME for their 5.5 million population and it is gateway to Asia pacific. How did Singapore bring so much investment. Lee Kuan Yew made English as first language at workplace and school, educate their workforce, invite best talent and induce meritocracy and multicultural Lee realized what are other countries weaknesses can be our strength like in APAC region, India has red tapism, corruption, long paper work,and complicated beaurocracy. China has language problem, Japanese follow different work culture, Korea and Taiwan are different and ANZ is more like EU. Singapore invited best talent and integrated all culture in workplace but meritocracy as system . In real fake multicultural democracies like Canada, UK invite people from world but expect them to behave like them. So with help of all culture, Singapore become center of APAC and gateway and head office of almost all MNC companies in Asia Pacific where it communicates to China in its language and mannerism, deals with India and other key region because it had those people in workforce.
Lee Kuan Yew managed news media very well. He said one value that does not fit Singapore is media acting as fourth estate. The American concept of marketplace of ideas instead of producing harmonious enlightenment has led to violence and bloodshed means media in Pakistan and India is often called the fourth branch of government (or "fourth estate"). That's because it monitors the political process in order to ensure that political players don't abuse the democratic process. Paid media by politicians, actors, businessmen cannot be the voice of nation, certain debate on TV on sensitive topic can lead to division, hatred and fear. It is more dangerous when it is not monitored for content and media wind created for example recently in India was Modi wave created by media by taking millions of money. Average person do not have logics to evaluate pros and cons of it, and wherever the wind blows, people go with the wave, then you are not a leader.
Lee also said when you have right men in politics, even with weak political system but with honest and strong men at charge, you can have decent progress. People in Singapore did entrepreneurship on political stage on national level and he changed the course of Singapore politics. He also said only politics can determine people's destiny. Singapore create its own economic miracles because they put the system in place before making development. In his journey to transform Singapore from third world to first world, he overcame each and every battle whether its communist, neighbours like Malaysia who threw him out, extremist, no resource, small tiny land and he build that place a modern and superior Singapore which became a role model country and one of the four Asian Tigers.
ReplyDeleteSeeing Singapore success, it changed the neighbors mindset today Indonesia was voted best democracy in Asia Pacific, Malaysia is emerging market, Vietnam is progressing.
Very few knows Singapore is a role model country in religious pluralism
DeleteNow in Asia Pacific there is one country and it is a role model country and maintained religious pluralism, Singapore was led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew with an iron hand, this is how Singapore maintain its pluralism. Many countries in order to achieve economic progress becomes rich, but very very very few of them achieves religious pluralism and economic progress like Singapore.
Singapore current level of harmony is not of natural state, they have seen bloodshed and violence on their roads. How do create harmony
1) Singapore believes that the most practical approach in building a harmonious multi-racial and multi-religious society is integrating all races within a national framework. Each community, be it by race, religion or language, can be thought of as a circle and the area where the circles overlap one another is where all Singaporeans, whatever their race, religion or language, work and play together.
2) Meritocracy (jobs opportunities based on merit, talent not caste or referrals) ensures that Singaporeans from all communities can progress and be rewarded according to individual merit, and no one is discriminated against or disadvantaged on the basis of race, language or religion.
3) Secularism refers to the approach of separating Government policy decisions from racial or religious priorities, within the context of a secular state. The Government does not regulate religious activities, but works with religious organisations to deliver programmes that benefit society in general. For example, the Government partners the welfare arms of religious organizations in providing family and social services. Similarly, the cloak of religion like are not permitted to enter politics or Government.
4) In Singapore, there are constitutional and legal provisions to protect the rights of minorities. Key institutions / legislative measures include the Presidential Council for Minority Rights (PCMR) which scrutinizes every piece of legislation passed by the Parliament to ensure that minority rights are not infringed. The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act (MRHA) was introduced to give the Government powers to issue restraining orders and to take stern measures against individuals who stir up hatred between our ethnic and religious communities.
5) The electoral system ensures minority representation in Parliament so that political parties to practise multi-racial politics rather than to take political advantage based on race or religion.
6) The Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices which has introduced a set of guidelines to ensure that employers hire on merit - regardless of age, race, gender, religion, family status or disability.
7) A top-down approach of promoting racial and religious harmony must be complemented by working in partnership with the different communities towards commons goals and benefits. It is therefore crucial to provide platforms and opportunities for different community groups to interact and work with each other; so as to widen the common space, build relationships, mutual trust and understanding among each other.
Delete8) At the national level, the Community Engagement Programme (CEP) is an initiative introduced for community, ethnic, business, religious and grassroots leaders to network and build understanding across groups. This network is replicated at the grassroots level, with similar networks known as the Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circles (IRCCs) established in every constituency. This creates a multiplier effect in promoting dialogue at the people-to-people level. Today, 89% of all religious organisations in Singapore are part of these networks, which have proven crucial not only in building bridges, but also in mediating occasional unhappiness over differences in religious practices among groups.
9) The counselling program RRG a volunteer network of local religious scholars and teachers acting in their individual capacities to provide religious counselling for detained members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) to wean them away from radical ideology
Draconian laws of Singapore
Warning: Death for drug traffickers under Singapore Law. Once a Dutch National was caught with drugs in Singapore. It generated lot of media buzz in Netherlands, human rights, dutch foreign minister and even queen of dutch requested Singapore government to pardon him, Singapore went ahead and executed him and send a message there is no escape for bringing drugs in Singapore.
No hugging without permission, you can be charged for outraging modesty. Jail or fine.
Not flushing toilets in public can cost 500 dollars fine
No mooning pranks ie not drop down your pants. Its call insulting modesty. Fine. Nick Leeson was charged for that.
No grass. Its call drug consumption. Long jail.
Walking around naked in your home is illegal.
Any public Illegal gathering after 10 PM is illegal.
Rape involves either capital punishment or long jail sentence along with corporal punishment
No writing removable marking ink on someone else car. Its called vandalism. Cane. Ask Micheal Faye.
No sports or bar brawl. Its called Affray. One week jail.
No pocketknife in public places. Cane for locals. Deportation for foreigners. One Jap fought his way out in court.
No expletives especially at women. Its called insulting her modesty. One architect got fine or jail.
No mention of the word 'bomb'. Whether in humor or anything. The bomb squad, goon squads will be all over you. One mother got it at the airport. Got interrogated for hours. Missed her flight of course.
No poking adverse comments at religion. You can be cited for sedition and war against country. Very serious matter. Ask one blogger. Or the Danish film producer.
No guns of any kind. Even electronic starter 'gun'. All guns are illegal in Singapore. Call them anything else or surrender it to the arms and explosive department.
No firecrackers. I think it is jail/cane/fine.
Only local ciggies allowed. 2 charges. One for illegal smuggling. Sentence further upsized for evading sales tax.
No pranks such as pulling another pants down. 2 charges. One for molest, the other for usining criminal force.
No utterance, 'I kill you' or waving a chopper even if you happen to be in the kitchen chopping veggies. Its called criminal intimidation. Lady jailed after losing appeal.
Don't introduce any stranger as your good friend and speak well of him. Its called abetment if he happens to be crook. Jail.
No fancy gifts like Playboy magazines. its called possession of pornographic materials. Fine on per item basis. The boys can go Geylang or the 4 floors of whores by themselves.
Countries with Strictest law
1)Singapore (Strictest)
2)Japan
3) China
4)Cuba
5)Saudi Arabia
Finally one reader contributed so much to this article very much UNLIKE other readers incl Media Honchos who never bothered to write few words on any of the article including the HEADER, leave aside this one! Hence, I dedicate one full BLOG to you: Mr.LKY ensured no LOOT can happen in the name of Development by putting system in place B4 Development: http://rationale-jay.blogspot.in/2014/10/this-is-exactly-what-mr-lee-kuan-yew.html
ReplyDeleteHere is your answer why India still remain a backward country. This was said by Lee Kuan Yew himself in his book, one man view on world.. Lees view on India.
ReplyDeleteGrand master insight on China, USA and world Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore who served as PM for Singapore for 30 years and being minister and mentor for another 15 years, he is considered to be the sharpest of them all and he has insight knowledge of world.. This is what he said about Nehru of India..
he destiny Nehru envisaged was of a modern, industrialised, democratic and secular India that would take its place in the larger historic flows of the second half of the 20th Century.
Nehru’s speeches resonated with me. I shared intellectual and emotional roots with Nehru because I had also experienced discrimination and subjugation under the British Raj and admired Nehru for his vision of a secular multiracial India, a country that does not discriminate between citizens because of their race, language, religion or culture. Like Nehru, I had been influenced by the ideas of the British Fabian society. But I soon realised that before distributing the pie I had first to bake it. So I departed from welfarism because it sapped a people’s self-reliance and their desire to excel and succeed. I also abandoned the model of industrialisation through import substitution. When most of the Third World was deeply suspicious of exploitation by western MNCs (multinational corporations), Singapore invited them in. They helped us grow, brought in technology and know-how, and raised productivity levels faster than any alternative strategy could.
Nehru had a great vision for India and for Asia and his elegant style of writing and speech captivated many young minds in the British empire. He had insights into the causes of India’s problems, but, burdened by too many issues, he left the implementation of his ideas and policies to his ministers and secretaries. Sadly they did not achieve the results India deserved.
Nehru’s ideal of democratic socialism was bureaucratised by Indian officials who were influenced by the Soviet model of central planning . That eventually led to the “Licence Raj”, corruption and slow growth.
The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union undercut the strategic premises of India’s external and economic policies. By 1991, with the country on the verge of bankruptcy, India had no choice but to change.
DeleteThe end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union undercut the strategic premises of India’s external and economic policies. By 1991, with the country on the verge of bankruptcy, India had no choice but to change. Some Indians believe that, had Rajiv Gandhi lived to serve a second term as India’s Prime Minister, he would have pushed for major reform. But he was cut down before he was able to.Ah, if only Rajiv had another term, surely he would have transformed India. LKY is devastating with faint praise. I bow deep in recognition of the maestro’s skill.And the reason for the delay is not hard to figure out. The bureaucrats and the politicians had a wonderful time with the “license control permit quota” raj. With the machinery that Nehru had engineered, they could continue to rob the country with impunity. The racket they had going was –and it still continues to be– too lucrative to give up.
At independence in 1947, two years before the Chinese Communist Party liberated China, India was ahead in many sectors. Both lost steam by adopting the planned economy. But because of its “great leap forward” and “Cultural Revolution”, China suffered more. However Deng Xiaoping was able to acknowledge China’s mistakes and China’s course dramatically change when he returned to power in 1978. India fell apart because of its politicians
China’s leaders learnt from their mistakes and took corrective action. India is still hung up on Nehruvian socialism to make real progress. One should read LKY’s statements very very slowly. They are the words of a person who is not only immensely bright but amazingly perceptive of the nature of the world. Of course I am sure, to the illiterate bunch of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats listening to the man in person, the words carry no meaning. I should mention that the ruling dynasty of India does not have a single university degree among the whole lot of them, starting with the celebrated Nehru whose name graces scores of universities and colleges around the country.
DeleteSecond failure of Nehru was that he had a chance to break the caste system in India where he failed as a leader. Like India, Singapore has social class system which Lee was able to break it in Singapore with Han chinese being majority like Han Dynasty, peasant, military, Cantonese, Haka, Min Nam.
"India is a Nation of Unfulfilled Greatness"- Lee Kuan Yew
Deletendia has wasted decades in state planning and controls that have bogged it down in bureaucracy and corruption. A decentralised system would have allowed more centres like Bangalore and Bombay to grow and prosper. . . The caste system has been the enemy of meritocracy. . . India is a nation of unfulfilled greatness. Its potential has lain fallow, underused. There are limitations in the Indian constitutional system and the Indian political system that prevent it from going at high speed. . . Whatever the political leadership may want to do, it must go through a very complex system at the centre, and then even a more complex system in the various states. . . . Indians will go at a tempo which is decided by their constitution, by their ethnic mix, by their voting patterns, and the resulting coalition governments, which makes for very difficult decision-making. India's political leaders are determined to reform, but the Indian bureaucracy has been slower and resistant to change. Regional jostling and corruption do not help. Furthermore, populist democracy makes Indian policies less consistent, with regular changes in ruling parties. . . . India has poor infrastructure, high administrative and regulatory barriers to business, and large fiscal deficits, especially at the state level, that are a drag on investment and job creation.
India is not a real country. Instead, it is 32 separate nations that happen to be arrayed along the British rail line. The British came, conquered, established the Raj, incorporated under their rule an amalgam of 175 princely states, and ruled them with 1, 000 Englishmen and several tens of thousands of Indians brought up to behave like English.
I am against a society which has no sense of nurturing its best to rise to the top. I am against a feudal society where your birth decides where you stay in the pecking order. The example of that, par excellence, is India's caste system.
DeleteIndia is an established civilisation. Nehru and Gandhi had a chance to do for India what I did for Singapore because of their enormous prestige, but they could not break the caste system. They could not break the habits.
Look at the construction industries in India and China, and you will know the difference between one that gets things done and another that does not get things done, but talks about things. . . . It is partly because India is such a diverse country - it is not one nation, but 32 different nations speaking 330 different dialects. . . . In China, it is 90 per cent Han Chinese all speaking the same language, with different accents, but reading the same script. If you stand up in Delhi and speak in English, out of 1. 2 billion people, maybe 200 million will understand you. If you speak in Hindi, maybe 250 million will understand you. If you speak in Tamil, 80 million people will understand you. So there is an enormous difference between the two countries . . . . We are comparing oranges and apples. . Let me not be misunderstood. The upper class in India is equal to any in the world but they face the same hurdles.
The average Indian civil servant still sees himself primarily as a regulator and not as a facilitator. The average Indian bureaucrat has not yet accepted that it is not a sin to make profits and become rich. The average Indian bureaucrat has little trust in India's business community. They view Indian businesspeople as money-grabbing opportunists who do not have the welfare of the country at heart, and all the more so if they are foreign.
He starts off with quoting from Nehru’s famous “tryst with destiny” speech of 14th Aug 1947 which he heard as a young student at Cambridge. I suppose it is de rigueur to quote those lines about
Delete“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”
I must hand it to Nehru -— he did make pretty speeches. The problem was not lack of flowery language; it was all form and no substance. All talk about stepping out of the old into the new is meaningless if the same structure of bureaucratic control and a meddlesome government is imposed with a vengeance that even the British could not match.
After liberalisation, China and India have followed different models of development, maximising their respective strengths. China adopted the standard East Asian model, emphasising export-oriented manufacturing. China has been immensely more successful in attracting FDI. India has focused on IT and knowledge-based services. Job creation is much slower in India and will continue to remain so until India’s infrastructure is brought up to date to attract the many manufacturers who will come to use India’s low cost workers and efficient services.
DeleteBut India cannot grow into a major economy on services alone . Since the industrial revolution, no country has become a major economy without becoming an industrial power.
India’s relatively young population can be an asset if they are universally well educated. UN forecasts that India’s population will outstrip China’s by 2030. Job creation through faster GDP growth is therefore an urgent necessity. Growth in IT and other services will not create enough jobs. IT-related jobs make up only one quarter of one percent of India’s labour force.
To create jobs the main thrust of reforms must be in manufacturing. That requires a change in labour laws to allow employers to retrench workers when business demand is down , streamlining the judicial processes, reducing the fiscal deficit, loosening up the bureaucracy, and most of all improving infrastructure. Let me focus on the last two as I believe they are crucial and inter-connected.
Industrialisation cannot take off without adequate infrastructure: better roads, and a reliable supply of power and clean water, better ports and airports. By one estimate, economic losses from congestion and poor roads alone are as high as US$4 to 6 billion a year. Another estimate is that the cost of most infrastructure services in India is about 50% to 100% higher than in China. The average cost of electricity for manufacturing in India is about double that in China; railway transport costs in India are three times those in China. China has spent over eight times as much as India on its infrastructure. Three years ago, China’s total capital spending on electricity, construction, transportation, telecommunications and real estate was US$260 billion or more than 20 percent of its GDP as compared to US$31 billion or 8 percent of India’s GDP.
If there are budgetary constraints , the answer is to privatise these infrastructure projects. There are well established construction companies, Japanese, Korean and others, that have done many such infrastructure projects on franchise terms.
DeleteThe Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) based in Hong Kong, recently surveyed expatriate businessmen on bureaucracy and red tape in Asia. India was rated worst out of the 12 countries covered. PERC’s conclusion was that:
The World Bank has also done its own study. It found that in India it can take a decade to close a business through insolvency proceedings. It also found, among other things, that official fees amount to almost 13 percent of a property transaction in India as against just over 3 percent in China.
My secretaries asked Singapore businessmen with investments in India what, apart from infrastructure, they found as major constraints. To a man, they replied it was the bureaucracy.
India needs reform in various areas. The most critical area is the bureaucracy. Why India got saddled with a dysfunctional bureaucracy is easy to understand: the British were in India to exploit and extract wealth and created the bureaucracy with that objective. When the British left, the bureaucratic infrastructure was not jettisoned because it was the perfect tool for the “command control license permit quota” Raj which began with Nehru and still impedes India’s progress.