70 Years of Indian Independence - A long Journey ahead.

                            Seventy years ago, on this day the citizens of this country came together to celebrate the Independence from colonial rule. Yet there are many challenges infront of them to make independent India a global platform which can compete with the best in every field. They laid a platform for our country with the best constitution and other amenities. They trusted us, our skills in making our country better and better. In these 70 years we as a nation had achieved many goals, we had put out country in a position which seemed impossible 70 years before. India's freedom struggle with non violence is a global lesson to maintain peace in the world. Our leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, APJ Abdul Kalam has become global icons for their respective deeds. Today countries like America, China, Russia gives importance to maintain friendly relations with us knowing our potential and strength. Our Army, Navy, Airforce are regarded as one of the best security forces. Our national space organization ISRO stunned the whole world with the missions it had taken making India a global competitor in Space science and Technology. The Maangalyan mission and the cost of the mission had made us unique. Organizations like DRDO, HAL are symbols of India's capability in sector of manufacturing. The recent fighter jet ' Tejas ' made the world look at our capabilities. The Indian brands like TATA made a global impact and registered its name in the top 100 most valued brands in the world. India reached a position to take in global contracts in various fields strengthening its ties with other countries across various fields. We have succeeded in establishing world class educational and research institutions such as IISC etc. We had dominated the world in the production of Milk. We listed our name in the top producers of steel etc. In the recent past we also gave attention on renewable energy resources and nuclear energy. To add to this we have many achievements in various fields. Still there are challenges left infront of us to make our country better. We need to have a broader mindset of Independence. We need to understand the idea of democracy. We need to curb caste based and religious based politics. We need politicians who are capable of changing the system. We need knowledge centered education system where every child has a right to pursue knowledge in a field he likes to. We need youth who can understand the idea of India. We need youth who are ready to serve the country. We need to set a platform where our citizens don't depend on other countries to settle in life. We need Independent India where my farmer friends doesn't depend totally on monsoons rather they use technology to make efficient use of monsoon rainfall. We need FREEDOM. Freedom from corruption. Freedom from poverty. Freedom from female foeticides. Freedom from crimes especially against my female friends. Freedom from caste and religious differences. Freedom from child labors.Freedom from farmer suicides. Freedom from scams. Freedom from hunger. Freedom from litter. Freedom from struggle.

                                         Let us all pledge this Independence Day that we achieve this FREEDOM for our mother land.  'Vandemataram' is not 'One Day mataram' , we try our best to make our country better and never forget that we belong to this holy nation. Every single day let us celebrate Freedom and salute our nation for giving us this atmosphere. Wish you all a very happy Independence day.

Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

EAMCET Leakage Scam( Telangana ) - Isn't this the fault of our Educational System.

                The recent news of leakage of EAMCET examination in Telangana has shattered the whole student and parent community in the state. Finally government of the state has taken a call to cancel the examination and re conduct it again. There are reports from CID that more than 200 students are beneficiaries of the leakage. There were many officials involved and each student has spent around INR 50,00,000. Now let us see this in a different view. Just think, what made those students spent so much, what made them so greedy about the ranks, parents who need to guide their children had misguided them with the greed for ranks and marks. It shows the level of greediness for marks. No matter how they come, parents just need marks, ranks. In fact the whole society needs just final scores. This in one of the reasons which forces students to commit malpractices in examinations to get marks and ranks. It is very unfortunate that parents are also part of such malpractices in the recent EAMCET scam. This is clearly the failure of the education system we follow. This system gives emphasis to final scores than actual knowledge one has gained. The student is also trained to face the examination but not trained to apply knowledge he has gained. Even the parents are not bothered about the knowledge their children gained but only bothered about the final scores. This was not the case with only engineering or medical entrance examination but this is the case right from  the start of the education. This leakage scam alarms all of us about the system we follow today. It is not that only those 200 students are corrupted in their mind but most of the students are corrupted, it is only that they are not caught or didn't get a chance. This is the failure of our system in building our character and consensus. This is a failure of the system in making us interested in gaining knowledge rather than marks or ranks. This is a failure of our system in testing the actual knowledge of a particular individual. Simply this is commercialization of education. Education should be knowledge centered, not money centered or marks centered. It should focus on our character building and give us the strength of decision making rather than focusing on jobs and money making. System should be able to capture the interests and strengths of a particular student and train him to achieve perfection in those areas irrespective of subjects or sports. Hope we see a system focusing on education with values, system which emphasis on quality rather than quantity.

Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

                    

Alcohol Consumption is just injurious or a threat.

                 We know very well that alcohol consumption is injurious to health. In-spite of the hazardous effects there is a large community who are addicted to alcohol. Controlled quantity is fine but overdose has become threat not to the consumer but to others. Most of the people drive after consuming alcohol even though they are aware of the fact that they are not in full control of themselves. This is fact, we see many cars and bikes parked before every bar. All these drive after drinking. If not all, most of them. These people who are not in full control can't control the vehicles too and some times these results in serious accidents involving others. Some times these accidents put an entire family in jeopardy. Recently in Hyderabad one of such accident resulted in death of 10 year old girl and two others all belonging to the same family. A small girl who was totally unaware of her future might have many young thoughts in her mind but all those were vanished just because of the crime committed by some alcoholics. This was not the only accident, there were several of these cases noticed in the recent past and several were unnoticed. This is not the crime which can be spared. These need serious actions to be taken by officials. Drink and Drive can not be spared. Government officials in Hyderabad have been alerted by the incident stated above are taking action on such cases. The thing is these cases should be checked in regular intervals. Another accident another family getting victimized can't be allowed. The police should keep a strict check on vehicles leaving bars and wine shops. Specially youngsters pursuing graduation are being the victims of this dangerous habit. There is no meaning of the education if we commit such crimes involving poor lives. Let us all come forward and make our country a better place to live where innocents are not the victims of accidents. This need no big deeds but a small change in ourselves. The parents should also keep check on their children and protect them from these habits. Police should also engage such youngsters in counselling camps. There are many lorry and bus drivers travelling on national highways committing the same crime resulting in even more dangerous accidents. Government should keep a check on these culprits. As a first step they should ban all the bars and wine shops on the highways. Hope the government will take in these important issues and travel in their journey of Transforming India.

Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.                

No Smoking - Ban Smoking in Public Places.

                      ' No Smoking, Smoking kills ' These are the common statutory warnings we see almost  daily. Is this effecting the smokers, it seldom does but the real victims of smoking are passive smokers. They are paying for something which they are not responsible. It already late, let us all rise and stop this evil from ruining our lives. Public smoking is banned in India. Public places includes all auditoriums, parks, offices, railways etc. In short smokers are allowed to smoke in special zones allocated to them if they are such places, if not smoking is banned in public places. But this rule is hardly followed and checked by officials. The more concerned issue is the officials who are supposed to protect the law are violating it with no regrets.When some common citizens question them, we all know what happens. In this country there always that invisible force which protects the officials and lawmakers from prosecution giving them rights to violate laws. After all laws are for common citizens not for lawmakers and bureaucrats. The sale of tobacco products in prohibited within 100 yards from an educational institution. The sale of tobacco is prohibited to the people under 21 years of age. He cannot involve in production too. This law is taken for  granted and today we see small stores specifically for tobacco products targeting students of those institutions. We see children selling these products near railway stations, bus stations etc. We know many child labor employed for manufacturing of local beedis and other products involving tobacco. How many actions are taken on those type of stores? I think none. The development of the country lies with its responsible citizens. Unfortunately our citizens are prone to dangerous cancer and other diseases due to this evil smoking. The corporate companies are busy earning profits through tobacco products, Government and the oppositions are busy fighting in the parliament, Media is busy with TRPs. The government and the media should take steps in knowing laws and enforcing them. In the recent years the cancer cases are increasing, the pollution in the atmosphere is rising, better not late its time for us to wake up and fight for smoke free country, India is set for a Change, It is Changing, Let us include every problem in its course for Change, Let the Change start from us. 

#BanPublicSmoking  #SmokeFreeIndia  

Jai Hind. Satyamevjaythe.