There is a lot to learn from the Chinese !!

Recently China made a "bang" on the 60th National Day Parade, a year before it conveyed a clear message to the world community about its intentions.Tanks rolled through the heart of the city, and fighter planes scissored the skies, the People's Liberation Army revealing 52 new types of weapons, including its latest nuclear missiles – all made in China, even a matuer can guess what the communist Nation is thinking down the line, a greater say in the world affairs so far the key to which remains with the United States. It has not been over a night or a mere glimpse of the Indian eye, it took them decades to dramatically transform the so called unsuccessful communist approach (in those days) to what we now see the second biggest economy in the world. They have worked way ahead of us, China's GDP is more than two times the Indian, so what is the problem with us, why haven't we? Don't we thrive for more, or are we satisfied with what we have got so far.

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, not so stentorian guy, a soft speech economist vis-a-vis politician, i guess he has still not got all the traits of being a true politician, but i hope he may be learning it fast, asked the sleeping, dull and lethargic planning commision to get from the bed and take some steps to focus on the key areas such as the Indian Railways. Nearly two decades away they were behind us and now they are way beyond us, in a mere span of twenty years they have well executed the projects on schedule.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Let-s-take-China-track-on-rlys-PM/H1-Article1-466603.aspx

Thanks to the political system which has recognised at least well educated politicians to represent India, but other than this our buruecratic system seems to be comparable to worst in the world. We in east and specially in India are very good at copying the West, thanks the irresponsible Indian media which abjures all the technical knowledge of a human being, but what we have missed is Nation neghouring us and we have ignored it till now. The Chinese Government has lighted the nights of people whereas nealry 75% of Indian populations still lives under drastic conditions.

The Prime Minister must know that piecemeal directions like the one that he has given are not going to make the Indian Railways get ahead of, or even close to, the Chinese, ever. Their railways has not steamed ahead in isolation by accident. Nor has ours failed to get any real move on vital national projects like the two dedicated freight corridors, among many others, by chance or due to bad luck. Or because India is a democracy.

Something has to be done about the sloth and the lack of purpose and pride that afflicts every government department. Something has to be done to put a sense of time and urgency into decision-making and enforce accountability. Something has to be done to end the colonial disconnect between arms of the government and the people, and involve the latter more meaningfully in governance.

Even the Russians, recently 'blessed' by democracy, are not letting that model of governance blind them to the needs of their country. In 1949, the People's Republic of China was born with an ideology it had aped primarily from the erstwhile Soviet Union. Exactly 60 years later, the balance of economic and ideological power has reversed. But Russia is not sitting either on false pride or the idea of democracy. As per a report in The New York Times, it is openly looking at China as a role model. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is examining how his country can emulate China which has used a one-party system to not only keep the country well-governed but also drive unparalleled economic growth. The Russians are keen to learn lessons from the divergent paths taken by the two countries in the last couple of decades in which Russia has had to endure dark days while China has carried out a similar shift smoothly and powerfully. We should have been doing the same too.


Ask any foreigner about India and he can relate it to poverty and slums and diseases, whereas they have developed their minds with China as synonym of progress. So where are we wrong, horribly wrong !! We need to pin-point the whole burueacratic setup and implement plans on a new and progressive scale if we want to pioneers, we have always been slaves at least.