The Musings Of An Aspiring Prime Minister: A Reflection On India's Need Of The Hour
Prologue: On the eve of a very important day, Ms. Ann X stood still near her veranda. It was the night time, clear sky with the constant twinkling of stars made her realize that she was still on the ground of the Earth. However to the world, she has become the Xth prime minister of India and now it was her time to shoulder the responsibilities. She had never imagined this to be true but felt it was the moment for her to pull out her old diary and write what she wanted as a prime minister. How she wanted to change the lives of others. The following is a page of her diary dated, dd.mm.yyyy.
Agriculture: Introduce genetically modified crops. Help people to grow out of the myth. No pesticides, no harmful chemicals yet with same vital nutrients required to live. Take a larger part in the C4 rice project. Publish an agriculture based magazine to feature the best agricultural methods and how to apply them in regional languages. The UAV-based field protection and communication system and introduce processed water for a better living. Give a basic and advanced agricultural education degree to help farmers stick with their profession with love and education. Inspire their children to study and value their work. Promote home based business and help them earn and learn extra and this will also support their mental wellness.
Environment and forest: Enkindle school children about forests and wild animals, involve them into small projects in protecting trees, marking each tree and look after one with the dedicated students' group. Make them understand the value of biodiversity, Inspire IOT based startups in developing high-security applications that couple some checkpoints in the forest to monitor areas. Automate the service with intelligent bots.
Science and technology: The most important section of all and one and only which will power each and every aspect of living.
Revolutionize department of science and technology with the latest advancements, fast process the industrial prototyping of lab-grown products, allot each university to specialize their research and development sector and enhance its productivity. Investment in innovation. Recognition to individuals or teams for an innovation and allot funding irrespective of their academic qualification. Online portal for such independent work. Dividing sectors on the basis of project types and allow universities to collaborate on the matter and supervise the work along with the tech-giants.
Infrastructure: strict internal migration policies. People from villages are migrating to cities and city natives are moving to the larger cities. Migration with reasons are necessary but that should have some limitations. Based upon this section other 3 sections must be improved:
- Hospitals and health systems: villages must have super specialty hospitals as well and that must not take extra lands. Solution? A bridge or second-floor land where the hospitals will be located above something. Small first aid kiosk in every 1 km with high-speed internet and a phone booth.
- Transportation: AC and Non-Ac buses with no standing facility. Promote online seat reservations. Re-launch govt. aided school buses in both the villages and cities. Smart train stations with proper waiting rooms with an attached restroom, properly maintained and matching an international sanitation standard. The touch of innovation and uniqueness is required to design high-speed automobiles with the help of large companies.
- Network: Ensure country-wide high-speed internet, tie-ups with Google free internet and Facebook internet balloons and guide them to the needy. Computing centers, free courses to the kids and adults and give them early access to coding irrespective of their curriculum.
Roads and Maintenance: “Cat and Dog” cubicle and artificial birds’ nest. This must boast of a significant priority number in the list. The idea is to keep the street cats and dogs in a safe zone. Help them in living a safe life with normal standards. Offer them a free breeding zone, regular health check-ups and access to human adoption. Promote the idea of pet adoption and convince one to adopt street animals.
Social Development: No Street Begging. No Street Living. Only Street Performances. Allow a dedicated team or a group to check if any such practices have been taking place. Offer the beggars a home, a work and prospect to live their lives without being a part of the nasty businesses. In this case, many non-profit organizations will happily get involved and inspire others to do the same. Maintain a general standard of the economy. If monetary independence is not possible then at least help them to live under a roof with food and water and education facilities.
- Birth control – Strict the laws and regulation of birth control. “Offer more space”, which means innovation will be required to settle a habitation underwater just like underwater cables and promote such ideas. In short, colonize some spaces under water without harming the sea life.
Defense: WAR is not the solution, it’s the need of the moment. With the help of DRDO, “save the lives of soldiers first" initiative must be taken. To diminish the causalities, the soldier uniform must be redesigned with high-tech devices involving virtual reality tools for war simulation, analyzers to detect the weak points and probable strength left in the soldiers. The garments must be completely bullet and explosives’ impact proof.
Investment on Space Exploration and Technology, Cancer Research and Education Outreach: The culmination of serial and consistent development and yes, the zenith of all planning. Empowering private space research-based start-ups to conduct experiments and take part in the possible outcomes. One part of govt. funding will boost the growth of cancer research and with urgency, the project will be clubbed with check marks and deadline for a fast, better and accurate results. Lastly, students from undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate will get a particular outreach grant to teach deprived school children on a weekly basis.
Education: The pillar of every assortment of development will depend on this section, education. A distinct change in the education system is required. A minimum standard must be set for specializations such as Medical and Engineering field so that each college gets the most out of this and manufacture mechanics, not workers. In the most basic level, the students must be introduced to the modern science and technology. Irrespective of social standards and economy, they must know how to make an android application, how to tinker with a laptop and how to create his own bicycle. A perfect coupling between theory and practical studies will evolve their mind to pursue science.
Women Security: inner-voice of Ms. Ann (being a woman, I am empathetic to those women who still suffer from Rape Trauma Syndrome disease or lost their life battling with severe pain, embarrassment and grace. I strongly believe it’s my duty to protect them). Promote women security applications and inspire every woman to learn at least one self-defense technique.
It’s the start, my mind has suddenly got the spark to include areas where I must intervene to help my people. Questions are cluttering in my mind, what about the LGBT community? What about the foreign policies? What about Fisheries and Dairies? What about smart cities with high speed connectivity? What about the laws and policies? With the growing era, our mind must develop and with the bless of engineering and my experience, I developed into a woman with the conscience and a strong sense of justice. I will change, change everything one can think of and will go beyond.
Epilogue:
She closed her diary. Switching the alarm to 4am, she went into the deepest sleep of her life. The new era is yet to come and why not? She is after all in the charge now.
