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How can India become a developed nation? Where

are we lagging now?

There was a nice village that had a big well in the centre. One day, there was a big robber raid on that

village and many villagers jumped into the well to save themselves. Some of them fell by accident, others

were pulled into it while rescuing others. Some were confused, some were just like a sheep following theleader. Few fell in to be with their friends and a few others were forced into. Eventually, everyone was in the

well. any died in the process.

! few generations grew inside the well, making use of the water and little resources. "y then, the e#ternal

attacks were long gone. "ut, the villagers didn$t reali%e that. Scores died, living in the s&ualor, and there was

misery all around. !s the number of generations grew, people started forgetting that there was a once village

above the well.

One day, a guy named ohan finally rose up from the well and saw that there was a world around him. 'e

started grouping others and slowly people started getting out of it.

The challenge now is broken down into ( parts)

*. +onvincing people about the life outside the well, in the village.

. -etting them out in an orderly fashion .

. Finding enough ropes .

(. !dvocating the patience as it is going to take a lot of time taking a million people out of the well.

This was the state of /ndia and many other countries 01 years ago. 2eaders in many countries have since

then brought the ropes to pull out the people.

/ndia was a little slow than a few other countries, but we still pulled out as many people out as 3apan and

-ermany did. /ndia$s middle class with college education and profession jobs is more than the population of

-ermany. 'owever, /ndian well had a lot of people to start out with and thus while -ermany was done with

pulling 41 million people out, /ndia is not yet done even after pulling out *51 million people since *6(7.

8ou can take people out of the well only so fast and it takes time.

'owever, we can drive the process faster if)


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*. 9e can get a lot more ropes and

. :ig a few more holes on the side to create alternate paths.

The ropes are in these case jobs. For a long time, our government was the only provider of good jobs and

there are only so many jobs ;ropes< to pull out people. 9hat other countries have done is bring more ropes =

entrepreneurs and dig more side holes ;foreign investments< to get the people out. ost successful countries

have done = Singapore, >orea, Taiwan, 3apan, Europe. ost recently +hina ;flooded with foreigninvestments and entrepreneurs


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/f we can get every /ndian kid to have the standard of education of even a >endriya Didyalaya or :!D or

:AS, /ndia can have a 1G boost in productivity. That means more schools, more good teachers, better tech.

Step ': (ime to add more )udges and police

/ndia has too few courts and judges. !dded with archaic laws and processes, we have a dysfunctional

judicial system. 9hen the judiciary is dysfunctional, society cannot progress. Enable legal reforms to

simplify the processes. "ut, more importantly add *111s of judges and millions of new policemen. 9e

cannot have better security until our police and judiciary levels reach international levels. First, fi# the&uantity and then fi# the &uality.

!cute shortage of judges at all levels ails our judicial system

/ndiaHs Aolice Force 2ags uch of the 9orld

Step *: +ighting graft ,corruption-

This is a comple# process and there is no one=step silver bullet. / have a detailed answer on this point) 'ow

can corruption be eradicated from /ndia?

Step .: !ational level skill development

/n the ne#t 1 years, we need to bring out 511 million people out of agriculture. / have said this many times.

9e don$t need 011 million people working in farming. /t is again simple math = if 011 million people are

re&uired to produce food for *. billion people, we either have to drastically push up food prices or have the

farmers live in poverty.

'owever, if *11 million people can produce food for *. billion people, the farmer salaries can go up 0G

without pushing up food inflation. Simple, maths right? !nd all developed economies have pulled this off.

This is not rocket science.

@ow, what will these 511 million people do for a living? This is where we need a national level skill

development. 2et us produce new industrial workers, new accountants, new doctors, new mechanics, new

drivers... illions of /ndian businesses are suffering from not having access to &uality people. /n our family

business everyday there is a struggle to find &uality people.

Skills shortage is costing /ndia dear

9here !re /ndia$s Skilled 9orkers?

Step /: (his is rocket science

/ndia went to mobile revolution, without touching landlines. 9e directly went into software before we even

had factories or toilets. /ndia needs to leapfrog, wherever it is possible. 2et$s leverage technology to the hilt.

2et us be the most efficient guys to go to space. 2et us be the leader in online education. 2et us be the leader

in robotics, d manufacturing and /nternet of things ;/oT< = things that are going to drastically alter the

world$s economy in the ne#t *1 years.

3ust like /SO, we need to have a national center of robotics, national center for /oT and a national institute

of : manufacturers. -et on to this, before the world, even reali%es this. !merica and "ritain fully used

/ndustrial revolution as they didn$t have big industries before that and were able to leapfrog /ndia and +hina.@ow, it is time for the ne#t cycle. 9e don$t have many industries to lose now and this is when we can

leapfrog.

Step 0: (ap our Sun and get out of foreign energy
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/ndia can$t forever depend on Saudi !rabia and other countries for our oil. +oal will kill our environment

like it is doing to +hina. 'ydro power will kill our forests. Thus, we need to use solar energy as a national

priority. Even if it is e#pensive for now, we must put all our national efforts and get the economies of scale.

This will give us the energy security and the one who has the energy will be one with metaphoric power.

/ndia has 11,111 s& km of deserts in the western side ;Thar :esertand ann of >utch


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Inia =A6 become a eelope country .

All Inians shoul wor> together an abolish poerty in Inia.

?hen poerty is abolishe an basic eucation is gien to all5half the )ob is oer

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+echnological improement will only o the remaining - of the wor>. Inia

has really aance an it is 1 true that all ultiC6ational companies from

many parts of the worl are trying to come into the Inian mar>et.+he process

has to spee up.2or E$ :C+he Broaban 0ownloa limit has to be abolishe

totally. any eelope countries in the worl o not hae the concept of

limiting the internet usage.Eeryone shoul be traine in basics of technology.

Bribery cannot be abolishe by us now but we can help the country by 63+

+ADI64 BRIBE, on any account. +oays youth will rule tomorrows country.

8ae a better Inia in min . 9et the common Inian Bloo ma>e us all wor> for

a better Inia @@@

Fai 8in @@@

ake no mistake, the aspirations of ours to become a Superpower or even a developed nation by 11 is

&uite a lofty one, considering the present scenario of us as a people, more than that of as a nation. That is

because there are many things that constitute a how a developed nation should be, and infrastructure is just

one of them. "ut it depends more on the people of the @ation. 9hatever it may be, here / present 1 things

that would identify /ndia as a developed country, the one that we all dream ofL

!ctivist types, please note that this list does not contain M@on=corrupt politicians and bureaucratsN. "efore

outraging, please to understand that whatever given here will be the result of people putting aside their

personal ambitions and working for the country, 'ence resulting in development. +orruption or nocorruption, / donHt care. /n fact, / wouldnHt mind a bit of corruption if the country were to be the greatest in

the 9orld, as long as they donHt loot it. Tall order? 8es. 9ithin 11? / donHt think so.

Roas. Real E$pressways5 8ighways an Interstates.

M/f you want to be rich, you have to build roadsLN /s an old +hinese Aroverb. /f you look at any developed

country today, there is one thing they all have in common. oads. @ot two=bit highways like we have, but

real ( lane e#pressways stretching hundreds of kilometers without touching any major city and with real

multiple grade interchanges and entryJe#it points. :evelopment does not bring roads, roads bring

development. /nfrastructure heaven.

'ow "angalore Silk "oard 3unction 9ould 2ook 2ike in :eveloped /ndia

ore ?omen than there are en

/f we are kind to our women, all our social indices will improve automatically, and the country will prosper

on its own. /f all our little girls are allowed to be born and to live, that alone will bless our country infinitely

more than outraging against pictures of goddesses on swimsuits.

Save the -irl +hildL

+he Best Railway 6etwor> in the ?orl

! look at the /ndian ailways will show you why biggest isnHt always best. ! well=developed rail network

is the hallmark of any developed country, one which allows people to travel in dignity ;like no shit on the

tracks


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94 =onnections which can be bought 3nline@

From Flipkart for instance. +omplete deregulation of everything, a totally decentrali%ed market based

structure will be the only thing that can ever cure corruption and @itro=boost /ndiaHs economy.

eople ?ith Increible =iic ,ense

This is asking for the impossible. +an you imagine an /ndia where people do not defecate in the open, spit

Aaan and tobacco all over the place, do not throw garbage on the roads and in water bodies and keep all their

surroundings clean and recycle? @o? O>.

9hen all Alaces in /ndia are as clean as etro Stations areL

Bureaucracy that +reats =itizens as 8uman Beings

One of the main things that will change the face of a country is a bureaucracy that works for it like a well

oiled machine, and not a set of holier=than=thou uber=citi%ens who sit behind grilled and dusty ancient

counters partially hidden by mounds of papers treating their salary=payers as dirt and work only at the smell

of minted paper.

/ndia Aost is an E#ception, mostly. ;Aost Office at >ottakkal, >erala

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