Development issues or those concerning the masses are seldom being discussed in the public domains where commons are more busy about looking life and beyond the ordinary life. The recent TV show Satyamev Jayate hosted by Amir Khan holds discussion and brings issues common to the concerns of those into the development works. The tasks scientifically performed by organisations such as Population Councils, Planning Commission, Pollution Control Board etc who seldom produce the results in the language most understood by the men on the street. The TV show is welcome step towards looking at the issues from the different prism. Many concerns related to society which remains to be driven by highly technical talks by the experts needs to be told to citizens of the country. Their concerns and activities goes beyond nominal corruption, the people are poorly aware about the functioning of parliaments, operations of MNC, trading of stock, banks, insurance companies. The bottom line is that many of these functions are poorly managed and some times people ignore the realities behind the scenes. The ignorance of the people or deliberate omission of the resposibilities acts like a twin sword on the development agenda.
How many of us know that urban local bodies needs to conduct Area Sabhas (like Gram Sabha) to take opinion of citizens on development issues?
Crores of Rupees are spend on the cities and citizens are charged through taxes but we have not bothered to ask questions on how and why such an project?
Participation of citizens for the development projects remains to be just beneficiaries only, the people who are left out has not much concerned to the activities or planning for their own cities. Do we mean all these money or expenditure done by the governments, people have no role?
Prices of properties across the cities are rising steeply. Do we think the middle class even with the monthly take of 10,000-25000 would be able to purchase property in metropolitan cities?
Answers are difficult to find, there are layers of activities, it would be wise for the TV shows to inform the public on truth behind the scenes. Rest let them be ignored for their own plight.
How many of us know that urban local bodies needs to conduct Area Sabhas (like Gram Sabha) to take opinion of citizens on development issues?
Crores of Rupees are spend on the cities and citizens are charged through taxes but we have not bothered to ask questions on how and why such an project?
Participation of citizens for the development projects remains to be just beneficiaries only, the people who are left out has not much concerned to the activities or planning for their own cities. Do we mean all these money or expenditure done by the governments, people have no role?
Prices of properties across the cities are rising steeply. Do we think the middle class even with the monthly take of 10,000-25000 would be able to purchase property in metropolitan cities?
Answers are difficult to find, there are layers of activities, it would be wise for the TV shows to inform the public on truth behind the scenes. Rest let them be ignored for their own plight.
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