21st century: India’s road to a developed country

India, popularly know as Hindustan is the land of sacred rivers, pure wisdom, the country of colours, diversified languages, traditions, norms, festivals, culture and genuinely innovative youth. Whenever we talk about India, many things come to the depth of the universe of our mind. India, the most spectacular, thoughtful and incredible country where everyone knows, how to love each other from the strong veins of their heart. Being around many powerful countries, India is still among the most influential, diversified, innovative and mature country in the world. After seventy years of strong independence, India always looks new, phenomenal and has been growing like a developed country. Yes, after seven decades, India is still enumerating its name in the list of developing countries. Being a citizen of India, everyone wants India to grow with full acceleration and without obstacles, also up to the full potential, but is it really happening in India?  Is India still growing and reaching toward the road to a developed country? India is also known as youth India, but are we really fulfilling our responsibility as a citizen? Are we behaving like the youth? Or we are only growing at the macro level. The country, whose population is majority intelligent youth, is still struggling to become a developed country. Do we forget the sacrifice of our freedom fighters? “Nothing is beyond our imagination, till we remind our goal and work for it.”

In India, especially in Delhi where rape cases are normal, spitting on the road is the sign of smartness, gender inequality is intelligence, crossing red lights is swag, tax aversion is called tax saver, baba’s are treating like god, good policy is always people sacrifice, money laundering is the profession, sustainable development is only written in the books and farmer's suicide are only a trend, would never grow to become a developed country. We are living in a country whose capital is popular knows as “Rape City”. There are 34,600 rape cases registered in India till now. What has changed over time? Even the girl children are getting raped, and this is not the matter of debate, instead, it’s the matter to know, why is this happening again and again in India? People are only wandering with the fake masks and waiting for the real justice. Nothing has changed till now except the real financial position of the India. India’s GDP has risen to 7.2% and has listed its name in the top growing market. Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has introduced so many schemes such as goods and service tax, demonetization, UDAN scheme, budget, digital India, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and many spectacular policies, but why is India still stuck in the poor problems, which has been teasing India for a long time. Once upon a time when India was known as a developing country, but something has changed over the span of seven decades, the real wealth and real thoughts of India. There is now a big gulf between developing and developed the path for India. India’s road to a developed country is going critical day by day. In my opinion, the 21st century is the road to becoming a developed country, but that road can be built only on the strong and mental revolution of youth. We are working tremendously to emerge India as a global country.

Digital India is one of the best initiatives of the government. 

But the main question is, why are we still lagging behind our tour to become a developed country?  A country can only be developed with the growth of its financial resources and better infrastructure, but to build the real strongest pillar of a developed country, can only be made by the genuine social support of the citizens of a country. We are actually lacking behind in showing our honest responsibility as a citizen. People are running at a very fast pace in the digital era, even some people don’t have time to look at their parents and loved ones. We are living in a country where honest personal responsibility requires the regular fines. People are only working to fulfil their own greediness, irrespective of the development of the country. People lack the nature of sustainability now a day. Thousands of instances, you may find every day, if you observe the people kindly.  Like if we talk about the system of the odd-even car implemented in Delhi, what was wrong with the system? Is this system being not the true initiative to reduce the pollution and global warming in Delhi, but we took it as a hazard, just because of our convenience. We can’t ignore the needs of earth, for the sake of our own convenience. Why don’t we focus on the legal aspects? If literate people behave in a negative way, then how would we able to understand illiterates. People should accept the best initiatives with their honest reasons and should reject the one, which looks irrelevant carefully. Demonetization was also the good implementation of our Indian government, but somewhere it was a giant failure because of its poor implementation.  Even we lost our loved ones in this tragedy. But somehow, people don’t have time to take initiative but has infinite time to criticise the policies. Babas are still treating as the god; the recent Ram Rahim case was really crucial and sensitive. Girls were raped in his possession, and people were treating him like god and burned the city, so this is the real sign of a developing country! Girls were raped in our country, and we were marching with the candles. Why don’t we come up with the real reason? The trains are derailing continuously, resulting in loss of our thousands of our loved ones. Babies are dying (Gorakhpur case) and killed in schools (Pradyuman case). Is this the sign of a developed country? Girls can’t walk peacefully on the road. What about our own responsibility as a citizen of India? Terrorists are still trying to attack India, and we are developing. We are still fighting over the Kashmir, instead of working together to create history in the whole world. Whenever something happened in our country, we switched on the news channels, watch unending debates, switched off the TV carelessly and busy in our personal lives. 

This is not the commitment between the citizens and our own country; instead, it’s the responsibility of each and every citizen of our India to initiate our government to take best decisions, to make best policies around the whole world. We are still fighting the poverty, unemployment, dowry system, girl education and red tapism in our government offices instead of growing further. Garbage’s are still on the streets, spitting on the road is common, people wear helmets only to prevent fines and our government is working only to prove own selves.  Now the opposition tells the real power of other political parties. Why don’t the political parties work together, to make India a developed country? Irrespective of the money power we hold, why don’t people work for the social and real growth of our country? We are emerging as a global country where ransom ware attacks are so easy for the hackers. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was failed because we were still fighting over the issues, whether it was launched by BJP or AAP party. Instead of taking the initiatives, we always fight over the policy makers, not on the policies. In February 2016 India overtook China as the fastest growing major economy in the world. We are growing gradually in the economic background, but really lacking behind in the social growth of India. 

Society is made up of people who are full of responsibility. India’s social growth can’t be possible with the honest support of the society. The government can launch the policies and it totally depends on us whether to make it good, better, best or worst. India needs a mental revolution. We are half way on the road to creating India a well-developed country. People need to change their perspective towards the society. Somewhere we have lost in our digital world, where people are only digitally connected and mentally disconnected. We all are surging towards a bad society, where everyone is just playing a bad game to fulfil their own selfishness.  We are the responsibility and authority of our country. Without social development, India can never become a developed country. Rape cases and various incidents of loss of life and money are now common because somewhere we are forgetting that it is our country and to make it powerful and responsible, we should become the responsible citizens. Illiteracy is not the major cause of it, as there is a huge difference between illiteracy and crime. 

“We all are living in a dual faced society, where one is supporting and another one is against and these negative and positive faces are not but a big zero for our society.” This is the time when we need to think like a senior head on young shoulders. The main obstacle in India’s development is not the financial growth instead it’s the social growth. Dowry system, molestation, ignorance, poverty, lack of self-responsibility, delay in good work, laziness, unending debates, unnecessary fights and selfishness are still there, but solutions are not. I think there’s big irony in our system, “We want to grow, but we don’t want our country to grow.”
There is no solution to fight over the unending debates. A good debate is never focused on proving own opinion right, instead, it’s about to find out the quick solution for which the debate is incurred. People now a day, hesitate so much in speaking our mother tongue Hindi language, what is more, significant language or communication? Communication is significant, even more than any language. Common languages setup conversations, not the different languages and it may be anyone, nothing matters. India is lacking in tiny responsibilities and making it giant day by day. Wake up now and be a responsible, sustainable and a useful human resource. We remind as human because of our humanity. Bring it out soon.

”I want India and our society to do a golden handshake to make our country, the golden bird again.”

Written by: Deepak Gupta