On 11/27/2011 08:51 PM, jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Sunday 27 November 2011 17:06:57 Dinesh Shah wrote:
On Nov 27, 2011, at 9:33, Binand Sethumadhavan binand@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 November 2011 23:09, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
and I suppose that you also believe that you need to know how to drive in order to get a driving license?
Kill the wrong process not the purpose of it.
This is what we should do. Kill the wrong process, and implement a right one. Not build another process that is equally if not more flawed on top of it and then hope that these two wrong processes will cancel out each other.
Good. Now we should be able to make some headway. Experts here please suggest appropriate solution to this identity problem?
If we can provide an alternative and "correct" solution no one can deny to adopt that one!
Oh. Is the problem defined? Or do we proceed on the brain dead assumption that people dont have identities. Identity is one that I choose to identify myself as. The state has no say in the matter. The problem the state is trying to solve is wholly of it's own invention. Which is to selectively channelise resources to it's choosen ones.
Why does one need a freaking ration card to buy ration when trillions of tons of food lies rotting. Not to mention the cattle quality starvation quantity dished out in he PDS.
Why do I need proof of identity to open a bank account with my money, on which the bank profits.
Why does a small borrower need hundreds of docs to borrow from a bank, when trillions of Rs. of loans to sakhar karkhanas are written off?
Why do I need proof of identity to enter a death trap known as public health service, as though the government was conferring luxury services.
Why do I need proof to buy a freakin cell phone connection. OH oh Security. Never mind that bombs go off as and when the bombers please and the cops get rapped in court for fake encounters.
Talk of manufacturing solutions to non existent problems. Cart, horse etc.
Just get off this nonsense of people not having identity. The state wants to target selectively groups it may wish to confer benefits on or supress. Hence this manufactured need. The so called leakages stem from the fact that the qualification criteria for PDS, health and other entitlements are pegged so low that huge swathes of our people who should be actually entitled to these services are denied that. Not because they dont have identity, but because the state chooses to play a cynical vote / power channelling game. The ones who can "afford" better services already avail of them by paying top dollars. The utterly inhumane Rs.32/- per day per person is a case in point.
It angers me no end that the richest professionals in the country along with the government are riding on the backs of the poor, without the slightest thought to the above mentioned reasons. Foisting a wholly artificial and manufactured "identity crisis", and plastering onto that all sorts of panaceas for corruption, poverty elevation, rural employment, banking etc. Not a single study has been undertaken to show that identity is the problem. Infact existing studies show that it is the native power structures and arbitrary rules that have caused the problem. Yet we insist on keeping the arbitrary rules in place and spending humongous amounts of money to climb those artificial barriers, instead of demolishing and flattening those barriers, providing equal universal access to basic neccessities of food clothes, medicine, education etc.
One does not need a name to eat or learn or be nursed back to health. But one does require steely resolve to bring ones self out of ones glass tower and stand with the poorest of the poor. The last few persons to do that were M. K. Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. One would do well to read carefully their views on our society and understand the burden of identity amongst the poor.
Simply putting forth extreme points of view does not solve problems. This is similar to what happens in public places where, during any discussion of a particular problem, there will always be someone who will be very angry and vocal at everyone and everything specially politicians and Govt. servants. They keep going on and on about corruption, malpractices, crimes, criminals, how this Nation is doomed, how people must get together to teach the wrong doers a lesson, there is really no hope etc. etc.
As citizens of a democracy, if we want to make a change, we have to let the Govt. function too. IMHO, a good approach would be to let the Govt. function and carry out projects but in full light and in glass houses so that there are no dark places to undress. We will never get 100% success in this but we got to keep coaxing and pushing on to keep the success rate high. No individual or group can function as an island.