‘Should be’- sounds good but not it is
--Shraddha Joshi
From morning till evening many people rush into buses and trains to grab variety of opportunities and to reach various destinations. One -the most powerful factor behind rushing people is the job market or job-demands. And to get a single job people have to struggle a lot from study-stage to job-stage. They have to acquire many skills and various degrees to get a good job. In case of lakhs of people even after getting good qualification they are longing for a good job they deserve. For them ‘Q’ of qualification leads them to a queue of candidates in job market.
Now let us move towards another side. That’s the area of politics. Our politicians have made this big ‘Q’ of qualification almost at zero level hence they need not wait in a queue. The most tragic fact is that politics is the only field where no qualification is required. Even an illiterate person can be a leader of the nation. How poor the government is! It spends crores of rupees to promote literacy in the nation but the leaders-the pillars of the government themselves don’t know much about literacy. Worse thing is that many of our politicians are having a long list of criminal record and yet they are managing government. Here applies ‘should be’ factor. Actually after independence during these sixty years in the constitution of Bharat, not a single worth considering change has been made. Now it’s the time to make certain changes in it. First and foremost change required is to make a rule of certain qualification even in the field of politics. A politician standing in any level of election should be at least graduate otherwise he should not be allowed for any sort of election. He should not be having a single criminal record on his name. at the same time voters also should be having at least high school-education otherwise he should not be eligible for voting. Perhaps it would sound exaggerating but now it is very much required to build up healthy environment of the nation.
In current scenario what happens, an illiterate politician dressed in white ‘khaadi’ orders highly qualified ‘adhikaris’ and they have to dance on the tune of such politicians. This ‘khaadi’ has become the only qualification required and it should be removed forever. In case of reservation quota on the basis of caste and creed, it was suggested after the independence to keep it for few years to uplift downtrodden ones and then it was to be removed. But nobody did it. As a result today it causes lot of injustice to open category people in education and in job field as well. One more thing required to change is there should not be special provision in law and rights for anyone on the name of caste and religion. The law should be equal for one and all.
But unfortunately all these ‘should be’ factors are prevailing in our nation as it is. We have already had many bad experiences of the system due to these reasons and our coming generations have to taste much more bitter outcomes of these things. Don’t know how and why people tolerate all these things so silently. Now it’s the high time that there must be a strong wave among the people of the nation to raise voice against this. But still we don’t know what has been written on our forehead and how long yet to wait…!?!? All these ‘should be’ factors sound good enough but unfortunately not a single thing of these factors is as it should be.
--Shraddha Joshi
(Send your comments, suggestions and opinions on: shraddhavidyarthi@yahoo.co.in)
--Shraddha Joshi
From morning till evening many people rush into buses and trains to grab variety of opportunities and to reach various destinations. One -the most powerful factor behind rushing people is the job market or job-demands. And to get a single job people have to struggle a lot from study-stage to job-stage. They have to acquire many skills and various degrees to get a good job. In case of lakhs of people even after getting good qualification they are longing for a good job they deserve. For them ‘Q’ of qualification leads them to a queue of candidates in job market.
Now let us move towards another side. That’s the area of politics. Our politicians have made this big ‘Q’ of qualification almost at zero level hence they need not wait in a queue. The most tragic fact is that politics is the only field where no qualification is required. Even an illiterate person can be a leader of the nation. How poor the government is! It spends crores of rupees to promote literacy in the nation but the leaders-the pillars of the government themselves don’t know much about literacy. Worse thing is that many of our politicians are having a long list of criminal record and yet they are managing government. Here applies ‘should be’ factor. Actually after independence during these sixty years in the constitution of Bharat, not a single worth considering change has been made. Now it’s the time to make certain changes in it. First and foremost change required is to make a rule of certain qualification even in the field of politics. A politician standing in any level of election should be at least graduate otherwise he should not be allowed for any sort of election. He should not be having a single criminal record on his name. at the same time voters also should be having at least high school-education otherwise he should not be eligible for voting. Perhaps it would sound exaggerating but now it is very much required to build up healthy environment of the nation.
In current scenario what happens, an illiterate politician dressed in white ‘khaadi’ orders highly qualified ‘adhikaris’ and they have to dance on the tune of such politicians. This ‘khaadi’ has become the only qualification required and it should be removed forever. In case of reservation quota on the basis of caste and creed, it was suggested after the independence to keep it for few years to uplift downtrodden ones and then it was to be removed. But nobody did it. As a result today it causes lot of injustice to open category people in education and in job field as well. One more thing required to change is there should not be special provision in law and rights for anyone on the name of caste and religion. The law should be equal for one and all.
But unfortunately all these ‘should be’ factors are prevailing in our nation as it is. We have already had many bad experiences of the system due to these reasons and our coming generations have to taste much more bitter outcomes of these things. Don’t know how and why people tolerate all these things so silently. Now it’s the high time that there must be a strong wave among the people of the nation to raise voice against this. But still we don’t know what has been written on our forehead and how long yet to wait…!?!? All these ‘should be’ factors sound good enough but unfortunately not a single thing of these factors is as it should be.
--Shraddha Joshi
(Send your comments, suggestions and opinions on: shraddhavidyarthi@yahoo.co.in)
