Respecte
P CHIDAMBARAM
Subject:
Urbanisation and Ruralisation
Hello Mr.PC
I happen to be the brother in law of your son's good friend. I am not stating this to get a reply from you but just hope that you will read this message with a little extra attention.
When you talk of building hiring teachers, I would like to see the current lot of teachers being paid better. This helps build a quality talent pool. It is sad to see the most noblest profession being the least paid. As a result it attracts the less desirable lot which reflects on the output in terms of material taught and students being churned out.
Talking of building classrooms, where are they and who is accountable for them? Building it in the middle of nowhere, employing under qualified teachers and expecting students to walk in cannot be termed a school.
What I am coming to is the fact that India is urbanising with people moving from villages to cities, with cities growing and consuming nearby towns, farm land being converted to towns, farming communities giving up their profession for a city life etc. This is not the recipe for long term growth and well rounded nation building. How do we arrest this?
I do not want to sound cliched and use the oft repeated phrases and remarks. But the western model of development need not be followed shamelessly nor am I advocating the communist way. There has to be a balance and bright/innovative minds need to meet and discuss possibilities without selfish motives or election results as goals.
Stock market boom, industrialisation, cheap loans etc. alone will not drive growth nor are they signs of development. A freeze frame of the American economy will show a country deep in debt, living on the world's money as they happen to be the bankers to all the countries parking their funds in USD.
India need not take the same path. What do we do next? Are you willing to hear from a group of young, eager and energetic minds who care deeply for our Motherland?
Yours Sincerely,
sundar ganapathy
Tanzania
2007-03-02
Budget 2006