The electronic and print media too builds and impacts opinions thus this section is to vent out one’s anger and frustration by a news which is unwarranted for or appreciate an event which is need of the hour. This will be the section in future to display the actions we would initiate in the practical world after having decided on something. Who said we cannot make news?

============================================================

Trade Unions (Haves & Have not’s) 

The head of an Indian oil company pronounced today on TV with evident concern that the officers those who have gone on strike to force the government to raise their salaries are already earning 100,000 Rs a month (trainee officers) to 300,000 Rs a month (mid level officers). These are a few thousand officers and it is expected that other PSU employees may follow suit soon since the much hyped 6th pay commission has not been applied to already overpaid employees of PSU’s, majority of which are running in loss. 

It seems so strange that the political parties running the governments have been pampering these government employees, who have been extremely inefficient and irresponsible, and they do not form a major vote bank and whatever that bank is, is further fractured in the religious, caste, regional, linguistic biasness.  

The population of India is fractured by the vote bank politics into many fractions polarized by Religion, caste, language, region etc however, if we dig deep there are only two kinds of people in India the minority of ‘Haves’ and the majority of ‘Have not’s’. The Haves comprise of government employees - central and provincial, and semi government employees or the so called PSU employees floated by Central or provincial governments. It has a small section of people associated with private business and enterprises. The rest are the ‘Have not’s’. The most pampered group is the elite IAS lobby which is directly involved in policy determination and its implementation and it has done everything in it’s powers to ensure its supremacy over other classes of government sections and thus the discontent among the later section. It was and is entrusted with the responsibility of working in tandem with the politicians to ensure that the masses get the benefits of the governments they chose and the bureaucrats whose salaries they pay and yet both the prime instruments of delivery to the common majority of Indians have only been busy in elevating their already elevated positions and have left the vast majority lurking in stark poverty and immense misery. 

The current strikes show that the government arms are only interested in their well being and the majority of the masses and thus India over all is no where near in their considerations. The whole system of governance and delivery is screeching and is soon to be halted if it has not halted already. 

The politicians and the IAS officers want these PSU’s to exist even if they are making losses because these PSU’s are nothing but milking means for these politico-bureaucratic nexus. To keep on milking they keep on ensuring that the governments bail these sick units from time to time and this has ensured that the employees keep on getting salaries and perks and even bonus and salary hikes. The employees too have come to know that their salaries are intact irrespective of the fact whether the company is making profit or loss.  

Should we be surprised when these employees make a hue and cry and the trade unions go on strikes every time there is a talk of privatization of these sick units? We should not be surprised since these employees know that if privatization happens the company would be forced to make profits and for that they need to work and since they are in the habit of not working at all so they would not exist in the system and hence would be axed. Since they did not do anything in their careers thus they have no skills which could be used in a similar or any other industry thus they know that should there be privatization they would turn into vegetables. Every PSU has IAS officers as board members or directors and should these companies be privatised these officers lose their zamindari. Politicians lose the opportunity to put forward unwarranted demands thus it is the nexus of these small interest groups which are powerful and capable to serve their interests at the cost of majority of Indians together responsible for duping the common masses. 

Government spends more than half of its revenues in paying salaries and how many people get these salaries? The recipient of government salaries could not be more than 5-10% of the total Indian population. Why are we affording more than 50% of revenues being spent on only 10% of the people? What will happen to the rest? If these small groups can form unions and bring the country to stand still then what is the majority population doing? The unemployed youth is 3 times bigger than all the organized unions then why do they not come together to form associations and put forward their demands? 

These are pertinent and logical questions but answering them would be difficult. It is the rational people like us who need to come forward to chalk out a plan so that it is ensured that the government is made for the majority rather than of the minority. The current political parties will not take this up and the bureaucrats would not let this happen. The only way out, however difficult it may seem, is to form an association of majority and replace these selfish brats and embark upon into the future where poverty elimination and equitable development is a reality.

Chief Justice of India,

Supreme Court of India,

New Delhi. 

(Sub; Public interest litigation to promote Equality of status and opportunity.) 

Honorable Sir,

 The first topic one reads in the constitution of India is the Preamble and it states “WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

 JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

 LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

 EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;”

 Honorable sir, please allow me to ask if the government of India and subsequently the state governments are allowing equality of status and opportunity by practicing dual education policy whereby the government schools do not teach English till the class 5^th and the private institutions teach in English from the very beginning as the primary medium of instruction from nursery standard?

Sir, in the wake of technological developments available to the world is it possible for a normal student of a government school to compete in the world skill market without having any knowledge of the lingua franca of the world the English (save a few rare talents)? Would it not be appropriate to allow the children of India to be proficient in not only the vernacular language but English and any one other foreign language from the very beginning of education? Around 80% of the people in India reside in rural areas and there the people from the lowest strata too want their children to be educated in English so that they can grab an opportunity for themselves and be capable of even thinking about equality.

Sir, please help me in advising the government for majority of the downtrodden people living in slums and rural areas to provide world class education to each and every child from the beginning? Sir, let me share this information with you that the propagation of vernacular at the cost of English and foreign language is just a political gimmick so that the current political establishment could keep on milking the inadequately educated people of India who in majority of the situation are jobless and or underemployed. Lack of modern education has led to a situation today where even after 6 decades of independence Indian democracy has not come out of Caste, Religion, Language and Region based electoral gimmick which has only led to closure of Opportunity and thus the gap between the classes have widened. If I think a bit far then I feel the social and economic justice and freedom of thought too get indirectly restricted as majority of the people are not equipped to claim the same. 

Sir, the future does not seem pregnant with the idea that the government will be able to generate the majority of the jobs since capitalism will demand quality and government will either sell its businesses or wind it up and in that situation the professionally run businesses would demand world class skills and the current primary and secondary education structure available to majority of the Indian population come no where near the requirement rather they are grossly inadequate.

Your action in this direction might lead to petty faction of the lumpins come out in the street to propagate hooliganism in the name of saving vernacular language however the common masses would welcome an attention to this issue and people will get to know how unfavorable the current leadership is to the structure of our society and country.

This letter to you is emotional but rational in nature and it is aimed at calibration of what preamble states and how things are on the grounds.  

Regards, 

Uniteindia.net

(A group of concerned Citizens of India)