Talking About Development

The national debate over the changes that are to employed in the election system of  India has taken a new turn  with the suggestion of Chief election commissioner Mr. Sv Qureshi to decrease the tenure of lok sabha and vidhaansabha to 4 years.Qureshi although hasn't stated any valid reason for his statement.The issue ; for making our system more accountable had been going since a long time.Whether it is about the Right to Reject or the Right to Recall or to prohibit the participation of criminals into politics or to stop the candidates from spending huge amount over campaigning,the debate has been going on and in.Every political party talks of giving the tickets to the people having so called "clean image".However when the time comes,only people those people who have the most winning chance and who generally constitute of less educated people are put up in the show.The credit of the our infamous political system goes to those mindless people who consider it as a business to yield capital instead of national service.Neither the ideals matter to such people nor the basic moral values.The government doesn't seem to be able to control the participation of criminals and charged people into politics,And the same case is with the expenditure involved in political campaigns.The candidate parties keep on spending lavishly but rarely he/she has been rejected so far for not falling in the frame work of election guide lines.Everybody needs to understand that only talking and debating would lead us nowhere.
If a criminal gets successful in climbing up to a powerful post,then who is to be blamed?The parties which frame and fund them or the electors who vote for them.If instead of decreasing the tenure to 4 years,Qureshi thinks of ways to prohibit the entry of some scarred people into politics and to limit the expenditure done in the elections,then there is a possibility of some amends.This aint an impossible task to accomplish. In fact all it requires a quick and positive approach.There had been a number of chief election commissioners in India but nobody has earned the respect and status like T.N.Seshan and no one stands a chance too.Even Qureshi wishes to  improve the  of the situation but to put his thoughts into action,he will have to first ponder on the basic problems regarding the various political parties and the government.To come forward and work upon it is an urgent need oh this hour.

My first reporting task

Me with some of the women who were a part of the gathering

Dark,dusky lanes, houses merely being supported by broken tin sheets, foul smell lingering around every nook and corner and a bunch of some of the most poor people around the world. Well this truely resembles a description of a typical kachchi basti but how many people have actually seen it. Unfortunately i got a chance to.Unfortunate because the sight of the people living in such a dreadful state is enough to rack your brains and actually think about it.
Okay so this place situated almost 20 kms from main jaipur city (rajasthan state, india) is inhabitated by mostly people of muslim community indulged in bangle making business.The reason i went there was that that a workshop for the upliftment of muslim women had been organised there by an ngo Vividha which had been working for the cause since an year or two.After having listened to what the speaker ( an ngo activist) was saying ,i decided to actually talk to these women to know what actually their grievances were and the answers which they gave me were quite shocking.I thought i had landed at some unknown place far far away from the development that our country is been undergoing.Scarcity of  proper 2 meals, no govt. schools around, girls being married of at a tender age of 18, extreme conditions of employment and poverty.I had always heard of such things,saw them on tvs, felt sorry and then ultimately forgotten but my this encounter with a bunch of muslim women who were ailing and subdued by men, shook me apart and forced me to ponder hard.For the first time, i realised that which ever government comes into action,nothing can be done for them because our system has a habit of making promises and showering fake sympathies but let me tell you people distributing blankets an food once in an year doesnt seem to be a possible solution to it,Does it ?