Thank God;
finally one reader Mr. Sameer Shaikh contributed so much to this article: Why one Indian Lee
Kuan Yew never emerged in India (out of so many DeshBhakt NETAs) and neither it
will emerge in next 66Yrs: http://rationale-jay.blogspot.in/2014/09/why-one-indian-lee-kuan-yew-never.html
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 this entire blog to Mr. Sameer
Shaikh !!!
I would just quote one line from this reader Mr. Sameer Shaikh: “Singapore
create its own economic miracles because they put the system in place before
making development.”-UNQUOTE;
and India does just the opposite,
they start development caring a DAMN to the system with hundreds of left open LOOPHOLES that allow these DESHBHAKT NETAs like LALLU/ JayaLalitha /BENIWAL (and their projects like 2G/COALGATE) LOOT and GANGRAPE the NATION in the name of development, resulting in “MASALGAON” villages across India!!
and India does just the opposite,
they start development caring a DAMN to the system with hundreds of left open LOOPHOLES that allow these DESHBHAKT NETAs like LALLU/ JayaLalitha /BENIWAL (and their projects like 2G/COALGATE) LOOT and GANGRAPE the NATION in the name of development, resulting in “MASALGAON” villages across India!!
How can you
ever allot fund for Development without system in place that will plug all
LOOPHOLES (allowing LOOT to happen) so that our DESHBHAKT NETAs will think TWICE before LOOTING (like LALLU/ JayaLalitha /BENIWAL/2G/COALGATE)
and there will be no village in Map of India by name “MASALGAON (in Maharashtra)”!!
This is exactly what Mr. LEE KUAN YEW did in his development model so that there will be no LOOT and GANGRAPE in the name of Development as happening in India since last 66Yrs, UGLY example of which is existence of thousands of above mentioned “MASALGAON” village in India, not to talk about 2G/COALGATE/Chopper scam !!!
This is the crusade
of this Blogger who is single handedly fighting for imposing QPA and CANNING on Highest Chairs of India
ELSE
The very
ESSENCE of Development will slowly turn into LOOT and GANGRAPE of Indian Governance as evident from LALLU/JayaLalitha/BENIWAL/2G/COALGATE LOOTING
THE NATION!!
Once again I
repeat:
ISSUE IS NOT LALLU/ JayaLalitha /BENIWAL/2G/COALGATE LOOTING THE NATION; ISSUE IS HOW MANY MORE YEARS (as if 66Yrs not enough) WE AAM AADMI WILL HAND OVER COUNTRY’S LEFT OPEN TIJORI (with crores awaiting to be looted) TO HANDFUL NETAs (WITHOUT ANY CHECKS AND BALANCES which is concept of “Minister-On-Probation” and QPA) JUST BECAUSE THOSE NETAs WON THE ELECTION!!!
ISSUE IS NOT LALLU/ JayaLalitha /BENIWAL/2G/COALGATE LOOTING THE NATION; ISSUE IS HOW MANY MORE YEARS (as if 66Yrs not enough) WE AAM AADMI WILL HAND OVER COUNTRY’S LEFT OPEN TIJORI (with crores awaiting to be looted) TO HANDFUL NETAs (WITHOUT ANY CHECKS AND BALANCES which is concept of “Minister-On-Probation” and QPA) JUST BECAUSE THOSE NETAs WON THE ELECTION!!!
Can any human INCLUDING MYSELF resist temptation of LOOT if the
NATION blindly hand over its LEFT OPEN TIJORI (with
thousands of CRORES awaiting to be LOOTED) to these Leaders (who are after all
human, not GANDHI BAPU nor GOD/KHUDA/Raja Harishchandra to resist
the temptation of LOOT); GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY, even this blogger would have LOOTED the booty in
the same way (or rather at a much higher degree)!!!
Jago Modiji
Jago; NATION needs system in place before making development ELSE you
will create more and more CROREPATI’s in every LAP of 5Years whose DECLARED
asset will jump by LEAPS AND BOUNDS every 5Yrs,
irrespective of they stay inside or outside JAIL and
we HELPLESS AAM AADMI forced to SUCK their THUMB and silently watch the LOOT and GANGRAPE
of Indian Governance as we are doing ever since Independence!!
Let me add In our beloved Modiji"s style : Let there be JAN-ANDOLAN for imposing QPA and CANNING on Highest Chairs of India very much like SWACCH BHARAT campaign as all other profession are under scanner of PERFORMANCE AUDIT excl these HIGHEST CHAIRS LOOTING INDIA EVER SINCE INDEPENDENCE by exploiting our 66Yrs old ROTTEN IMPOTENT GOVERNANCE SYSTEM that present them (DESHBHAKT NETAs) LEFT OPEN TIJORI with thousands of crores awaiting to be LOOTED!!
"India is a Nation of Unfulfilled Greatness"- Lee Kuan Yew
ReplyDeletendia 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.
ndia 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.
Why has China's peaceful rise, however, raised apprehensions? Is it because India is a democracy in which numerous political forces are constantly at work, making for an internal system of checks and balances ? Most probably, yes - especially as India's governments have tended to be made up of large coalitions of 10 to 20 parties. . . . India can project power across its borders farther and better than China can, yet there is no fear that India has aggressive intentions . . . . India does not pose such a challenge to international order as China - and will not until it gets its social infrastructure up to First World standards and further liberalises its economy. Indeed, the US, the European Union, and Japan root for India because they want a better-balanced world, in which India approximates China's weight.
DeleteHe 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.
The license quota permit control regime was instituted with the express purpose of making sure that essential goods and services were affordable and available to the people and thus was the sole prerogative of the government. An admirable socialist goal of reaching the commanding heights of the economy. The outcome should not come as a surprise: shoddy goods and services, affordable and available to only those who had the clout and could bribe the officials. Bajaj scooters had a waiting time of 7 to 10 years! They were prized as dowry; want your homely daughter married soon, promise a scooter to sweeten the deal.
DeleteBut democracy should not be made an alibi for inertia. There are many examples of authoritarian governments whose economies have failed. There are as many examples of democratic governments who have achieved superior economic performance. The real issue is whether any country’s political system, irrespective of whether it is democratic or authoritarian, can forge a consensus on the policies needed for the economy to grow and create jobs for all, and can ensure that these basic policies are implemented consistently without large leakage. India’s elite in politics, the media, the academia and think tanks can re-define the issues and recast the political debate. They should, for instance, insist on the provision of a much higher standard of municipal services.
He concludes this part of his talk with a wonderful example of the mendacity of the communists. West Bengal, once upon a time the most valuable jewel in the Crown, is a basket case, now more known around the world as the “Gutter” (thanks to the tireless working of the “Saint of the Gutters” who enriched her own organization by show-casing the poverty of Bengal). How did this remarkably sorry transformation take place, you may ask. The secret sauce: communists.
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.
Mr. Author!
ReplyDeleteDont think and expect any media honcho or news editor would come and debate on what is problem with "India. This is very high level talk. Only a leader like Lee Kuan who is one of the only nation builder in world along with kemal ataturk of turkey can say. Its a very high level talk. Editors, media and public are too busy in watch sunny leone porn and bollywood senseless movies.
You are bang right India do not produces Lee Kuan Yew type leader. Modi is good and has good intentions, but you cannot allow corruption,. communalism, no rule of law, lack of meritocracy... Anyways less we talk about Indian leaders better it is ... You want to know what Wilston Churchil said about Indian people during independence speech...Wilston Churchil was again hell of a legend in british time, but not as great as lee.. he said below about indian leadership qualities.
Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed in India."
Winston Churchill speaking in the British House of Commons in March, 1947, about what would happen when India became independent.