For an overview of the new Big Tent read this. To understand how the new Big Tent will differentiate itself read this and next read this for the 5 big ideas that shall shape the new Big Tent.
This post further developes the ideas behind Freedom to the Individual and Freedom to the Community with the ultimate aim of creating an Ownership Society based on a Culture of Responsibility that celebrates the Spirit of Enterprise.
Sheela Bhatt writing in Rediff called Vidarbha the “Ground Zero” of the recent elections. In a way she is right for there perhaps is no better example of the “Tyranny of the State” than the vicious spiral of debt and hopelessness the people of Vidarbha find themselves in.
The tyranny of the ideas of Balanced Development and Controlled Pricing in Maharashtra and its impact on Vidarbha has been well explained by leaders like Sharad Joshi over the years. The absurdity of “Balanced Development” was well exposed in this recent news story where Sharad Pawar famously rationalized deprivation of funds for one region of Maharashtra on account of technical issues and backlogs to do with funds for other regions.
There clearly is more to solving the problem of Vidarbha than just throwing crores of largesse it.
the answers to Vidarbha’s problems are found when one pays close attention to the local leaders of Vidarbha.
Sharad Joshi the founder of Shetkari Sanghatana and Rajya Sabha MP and NDA partner in an op-ed column in the Indian Express in July 2006 has made some very meaningful suggestions. Private trade should freely operate, and purchases made without any restrictions. farmers who find themselves unable to pursue agriculture as a vocation should be given the option of selling their land at current market prices. According Mr. Joshi soon after the formation of the state of Maharashtra, the Maharashtra State Cotton Monopoly Procurement Scheme (MSCMPS) was introduced resulting in India’s cotton producers as a whole receiving a price that was 110 per cent lower than that prevailing in the international free market, but Vidarbha’s farmers — under the MSCMPS — got a price that was just about half the price received by cotton producers in states like Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. Vidarbha’s cotton farmers, it is estimated, lost more than Rs 30,000 crore only on account of the MSCMPS Mr. Joshi claims.
The unimaginative solutions peddled by the Progressives have unintended consequences.
In February 2008, the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced a Rs 60,000-crore wavier and relief package for farmers. As a part of the plan, farmers who owned land of 5 acres and above in size were required to settle only 75 per cent of their outstanding amounts, with the government waiving off the remaining 25 per cent, or Rs 20,000, whichever was higher.
The first instalment was to be paid in September last year, the second in March 2009, and the last in June 2009.
But according to bank officials, the response has been very poor, particularly on account of election manifestoes of different political parties, which have been luring farmers with promises of another debt waiver.
There can be alternatives to State sponsored debt relief but they need out of the box thinking.
Bibek Debroy writing today in the Indian Express makes an excellent case for rethinking the role of the State on Welfare while challenging some of the basic premises on who is the “aam admi”.
But more importantly while making the case for Direct Cash Transfers he highlights what he calls the “paternalistic element” where subsidies are linked to human capital investment
Freedom to the Community must also mean taking responsibility for this paternalistic element.
There can be multiple paths to it from vesting with the local government the responsibility to devise local solutions to local problems and looking for avenues for skill development and Enterprise harnessing local knowledge and innovation.
Prof Anil Gupta of IIM Ahmedabad writing in the Indian Express has another idea that can meaningfully recast the NREGS to create rural entrepreneurial opportunities.
Thousands of local varieties preserved in the National Gene Bank are supposed to have descriptive information about local uses of such varieties. However, the relevant column either doesn’t exist in the descriptors of the gene bank or are blank. The employment guarantee programme can be used to generate such data from different households and put it in the gene bank. The food processing industry will get a fillip in the process.
The opportunity for recasting the employment programme requires moving away from a colonial legacy of treating people as worthy of only menial labour. India deserves better. Indian labour deserves even better because it has such an intimate knowledge of resources, environment, climate change and other factors of survival.
In closing let it be said that unless we raise the bar and think the unthinkable and dream the impossible we will never shed the baggage of failed ideas of “Poverty Preservations” that have been passed off as “Poverty Alleviation” by the progressives.
Let the Shveta Chhatra come to stand for that indomitable Spirit of Enterprise that has always been the autonomous dominion of the Local Community even in ancient India, for in that “Freedom to the Community” lies Dharma.
Village Panchayats, town-councils and trade-guilds also were under the general supervision and control of the central government. Long established tradition had however limited the State’s intervention in the autonomy of these bodies only to those rare occassions when they were in breach of their traditions or constitution. The unitary character of the state in India therefore to a large extent was modified by the presence of these autonomous bodies which used to function by their own rules, though revolutions occured at the center – Page 41, State and Government in Ancient India, By A.S. Altekar
Filed under: DesiPundit, Shveta Chhatra
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Yoss,
Are you calling for discarding centralized intervention in favour of a more localized one? While it is certainly a step forward, it has potential to open another can of worms all by itself.
The last paragraph on pre-British India’s panchayat level autonomy completely skips how these administrative bodies were primary enforcers of caste system.
Ajay – I am saying leave it to State and Local governments to find the solutions empower them with the necessary autonomy financial or otherwise.
Caste prejudices are a reality there is no need to revisit History for that, we need to address them with a Justice system that delivers on the promise of the Constitution.
So to be blunt, no autonomy does not mean violating the basic Constitutional Dharma to provide a backdoor entry to Caste Discrimination.
It is more like saying, centralized decision making has failed, so let us do a grand experiment and decentralize decision making, all the while hoping that local governments will uphold the constitution better than Delhi Sultanate.
I’m not saying it won’t work, rather, do we have precedence to prove it does? Panchanyats have been strengthened in the last couple of decades more than they have ever been in Independent India. Has this lead to any tangible change in ground situtation?
Even small improvements, such as, increased number of medical clinics at villages etc since the empowerment of local bodies, will make a case for further increasing their autonomy.
But drawing conclusions without such data would be no better than attempting to replace one delusion with another!
Ajay – you are missing the point.
Its not about replacing one grand scheme with another.
Its about leaving it to the people to decide what is appropriate. I am not advocating it has to be every village having its own local govt.
I am merely saying let the States and the people determine what works best for them – it cud be blocks, it cud be districts, it cud be taluks or mandals or whatever makes sense for a given demographic and geography.
As far as upholding the Constitution goes it has to do with a Justice system that delivers on time more than anything else.
Ultimately it depends on the people to make the choice.
In some circumstances they will make wise choices and in some they won’t. But they would have no one else to blame but themselves for the ultimate responsibility rests with them rather than on some bureaucrat sitting in far away state capital or new delhi.
Urban rural gap will widen under decentralization.
Villages will be unable to provide good infrastructure from lack of capital, while cities will have no such problems, thanks to economics of scale and higher utilization factor.
Many villages today have broadband, thanks to BSNL. How will this be compensated in a decentralized environment? As I have noted in earlier comment, has existing decentralization lead to improvements in basic infrastructure at local levels? I doubt,
A mere call for decentralization without addressing the problems that may arise out of it will not make the cut, it’ll only help shift the problem
Ajay – See my comment above, it need not be every village for itself.
Also the discussion is on local socio-economic activity and not on backbone Infrastructure which will obviously continue to have a State and Central role.
Yoss,
I’m only saying that handing power without requiring deliverables will not make a difference on ground.
Our countrymen have shown a acute lack of concerns for their own long term interests.
Has child mortality rate, illiteracy etc ever been factored in when evaluating performance of our babus and netas?
My assertion is that the basis of your call for decentralization is shallow at present. It has no solutions to address problems of non-performance nor does it bring a better governance structure to table.
Rather, it is only a hope that people will ask for more accountability when decision making rests at a more localized level.
Ajay – Its on a fundamental principle that people should have the freedom to make the decisions that impact them most on every day life.
Solutions have to be evolved by each based on local needs. It is presumptuous and arrogant to prescribe a solution with a one size fits all mindset.
That does not mean there are no templates to borrow from or suggest as a best practice.
But ultimately it must be left to each local government to adopt and implement.
while many of have got up wrong, nazarwala has managed to get the trend in last two elections. he talked of maya victory in up, this time he said she will do well and also talked of bjp rout.
A lesson, just because some of them are known bjp baiters, dont throw what all they say as nonsense.
there is a facebook group which asks President Obama to read the book Carnivore’s dilemma. its a pretty good book which discusses the corn industry in detail. maybe Sharad Pawar and more importantly BJP MPs shud read it. its a tale of how Government and industry enslaved the corn farmers with Minimum support price and all.
I am sorry a misatake- read maya will not do well in above post
Decentralisation or empowering people/ bodies at grassroots level is desirable but not the primary remedy for eradicating India’s poverty and problems.
There will be hardly be another country in the world, which in spite of being democratic throughout, with rich natural and human resource assets, has performed that pathetic in human development index and in eradicating poverty….
I think only changing mode of governance will just have cosmetic effects … what actually is required is change in the attitude of people …the jane-do attitude and tendency to forgive/overlook non-performance and corruption by people in power.
There has to be an accountability and feedback system in place….
Criminals/ Corrupt and failed politicians keep on getting recycled in the governance system…. People like Vilas Rao Desmukh are back in the governance system as industry minister … Where will he take Ramu this time to … A koyle-ki-khan accident site to inspire him to make Kala-Patthar -2 ? Does the media or the people of this country care to question Congress about it?
The problem is even if you empower a village … politics will seep in at that level effectively making the villagers nakara, fighting among themselves for power and money…. It will not work standalone ….
To give an urban example check out the RWAs…. they hardly make any difference in the welfare of the residents. You could see local netas eating gutka out there, collecting chanda for fighting the builders against irregularities but actually duping the very residents they are representing …
The problem is the stage and the level changes (whether Union Govt or a Panchayat) but the actors, the corrupt people and infighting remains the same.
People are their own enemy …
For them development is not about life, water and employment, its merely a political rhetoric …by voting a totally non-performing Congress again, they have proved it.
I still feel inspite of BJP shortcomings, they were best placed to govern and India indeed has lost 5 precious years in moving towards the right direction….
What needs to change in India is the mindset … Politics or questioning/monitoring people in Governance should not be a part-time hobby, gossip topic over tea, but should be taken very seriously and people need to be more aware politically.
While decentralising power will help in more effective governance , provided people’s attitude change for good, India still needs to accept and follow the development-focussed governance of NaMo and also his definition of liberal Hindutva… that is the only way forward!!
Decentralisation of administration without concurrent tax reform is meaningless, IMO.
I am sure our villages/mandals/districts are capable of coming up with their own development plans.They just don’t have the confidence because they are made to beg for every rupeee of funds.
All taxes should be collected at the local level only, and the local Govts should then send a specific % upwards to the State and Union govts.
Yes, this will be a complete reversal of what happens now.But then we are looking at a developmental chasm here.As the chinese say, one can’t hop, skip and jump over a chasm; one has to take a great leap over it.
About lack of scale economies at local levels, there are any number of models incluing the ones proposed by Atanu Dey and Vinod Dham (RISC) or even the PURA by APJ Kalaam.The role of Union Govt could be focused on setting the policy, managing the regulatory environment, and other facilitative activities than in actual execution.
>>>While decentralising power will help in more effective governance , provided people’s attitude change for good, India still needs to accept and follow the development-focussed governance of NaMo and also his definition of liberal Hindutva… that is the only way forward!!
DRV,
I couldnt agree more. The biggest challenge remains communicating this agenda.
All that bloggers and commentators are now identifying as the central theme – “a more calibrated Hindutva’ – is something NaMo figured out long back.
Even during the 2007 state elections, his focus was entirely on governance. Its no surprise that Gujarat has not seen a single communal riot or shrill Hindutva since 2002.
Even his response to “Maut ke Saudagar” was more a media fueled (and promoted) ‘issue’ than any change in tactics.
He gets it.
Cutting through the media BS will remain his biggest challenge.
Yossman,
another glaring case of media bias.
On a trip to M’rastra almost 2 years back, Shankar Sinh Vagela (yes the same one), had made an astounding statement.
It went something like:
“M’rastra’s farmers are lazy, cant make money and in turn are driven to suicide”.
Then M’rastra CM Vilas Rao Deshmukh (yes the same one) shared the dais with him.
This statement turned up as a little blip on the media radar and disappeared.
Vilas Rao even defended it – in a round about sort of way.
Imagine if NaMo or Jaitley had made such a statement.
Congress must go – BJP must find a way to usurp MNS’ growing constituency.
Shiv Sena has lost much of its credibility in Mumbai.
OT:
A word I submitted to the Urban Dictionary is starting to go mainstream.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Liberal%20Taliban
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=312
Yoss, if you are coming from the very successful model of local governance in US of A, I completely agree that it is something to yearn for.
It was practised successfully in pre-British India.
But things have changed for the worse since then here. Caste harmony is gone,
As somebody noted, India is now probably the only country where communities fight FOR backward status. There used to be a time, when communities were formed to help each other and progress faster. That fundamental principle itself has been done away with today.
Wouldn’t Meena and Gujjars take their fight to panchayat politics? Would members of a particular community vote for member of another just becasue he is honest and hardworking?
India may descend into anarchy from oligarchy if it moves to local governance.
A plague called casteism still haunts our fertile motherland, weakning its sons and daughters, and blinding them from seeing potential in themselves and others.
Till the plague has been wiped clean from our lands, we need a governing structure that’ll work around it and still deliver.
Moving to local governance is inevitable, but such a transition cannot be done suddenly.
It will be no better than releasing a deer that has lived all its life in a zoo, into the wild, without training it on the skills required to survive and thrive in the wilds.
Sorry for using animals as a analogy for human behaviour, but the big tent calls for a leap of faith from people barely able to walk.
I’m not trying to deride the concept here, only inject a dose of reality.
I’m using Karnataka elections as a example only because it provides a good case study.
Karnataka is probably the only state to vote overwhelming in 2004 for continued governance under BJP and Vajpayee. Many regions, both rural and urban, stepped out of caste based and power politics, and instead choose to vote for better governance. But even here, BJP had to stoop down to playing with caste appeal to win the 2008 and 2009 polls.
Under performning “leaders” continue to win, just for being the torch bearers of their caste.
If caste still plays a big role in the most nationalist state in the country, what is the hope for local governance in places where caste still rules the roost?
Ajay,
Sorry, but you are sounding more like the our erstwhile colonial masters did over whether Indians have the capacity for self-government.
The point is not whether they are capable or not.The point is about the freedom to govern themselves, using the tax money they pay.
For local governance to be effective, a high regard is required for law of the land. Not just by babus and netas, but citizens too, IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE.
Kumar
True, maybe i’m being too cynical.
Yossarin,
“Harvard is putting Dharma to practice http://is.gd/JODE while we are still debating what the Shveta Chhatra must stand for”
well they have too. They are stuck too deep in immorality. Recession came back to as their own mis-deeds. I think once the things get back to the upside, they will get back to their ways. Dharma IMO cant be practiced alongside greed!
Yoss,
” Manmohan Singh makes a good bi-partisan beginning offerint Deputy Speakership to the Opposition ” – your twitter
But this is a convention that exist in Indian Parliament where the deputy speaker is from opposition. Last time deputy speaker was from Akali Dal.
Check this IE – http://expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=PM+offers+Deputy+Speaker+post+to+NDA&artid=mI|mzIOm/ns=&SectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&SEO=Advani,+manmohan,+speaker,+upa,+nda&SectionName=pWehHe7IsSU=
“As per convention, the post of Deputy Speaker is given to the main opposition.
However, in 2004, BJP had passed on the post of Deputy Speaker to its key NDA ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Charanjit Singh Atwal was given the post at that time.”
“The convention of giving the Deputy Speaker post to the Opposition has been continuing since 1991.”
Sudhir – yep he continued with the convention good start.
I am trying to be optimistic as much as possible these days:
(1) A lot of the trash has been taken out of the cabinet
(2) The Communists, Lalu and Paswan are neither here nor there…they do not matter.
(3) The dignity post-election being shown by MMS and LKA after the election is common in Western nations, where mudslinging is followed by reconciliation. I think without the Left/Lalu/Paswan in the picture, there is a lot of pending legislation BJP and Congress can pass through…none of the regional parties with any clout in the coming Lok Sabha has any reason to care about these bills.
(4) The offer of Deputy Speaker should be taken in the right spirit. So should Advani’s upcoming retirement.
The wasteful social schemes factor is an inherent part of Congress culture…I am not sure that the new team will any less inclined to use it…mild to extreme socialism, ranging from the Yedyurappa/Shivraj Singh Chauhan variety, to the YSR and MK variety, proved highly successful in the elections. I think this is likely to take up a big part of the upcoming agenda and budget.
Meira Kumar, aside from her upstanding image, was a disaster in the last cabinet…I am quite pleased to see her shifted to the speaker’s post instead of handling a heavy ministry such as Water Resources…other notes:
- C. P. Joshi (Rural Development): Very likely to generate a number of cash “spread the wealth” schemes for votes. Watch out. He is a prototypical “Yes” man.
- Kapil Sibal (HRD): Has the potential to refocus HRD from a reservation ministry to the actual point of expanding locations and improving standards…strong hopes here.
- Mamata Banerjee (Rail): Expectations based on past performance are that she will run this as her personal fiefdom until when/if she becomes the WB CM. No hope at all here.
- Kamal Nath (Road/Highways): We hope to see Mr. Nath undo some of the destruction TR Baalu did to NHAI projects…some hope here.
Anyone have any comments on some of the other key posts and what sort of agenda we expect?
Janpar
Check this out
http://dailypioneer.com/179666/You-won’t-forget-who’s-in-charge-of-roads-this-time.html
“Kapil Sibal (HRD): Has the potential to refocus HRD from a reservation ministry to the actual point of expanding locations and improving ”
Kapil Sibal has already talked about reservation in private institutions for OBC and Moily reservation for OBC in judiciary…As put by Swapan in his sunday daily pioneer article – “The first statements by the new Law Minister and the HRD Minister also indicated that identity politics is still alive and kicking.”
You forgot about MEA lead by SM Krishna. Hope he is better than Pranab who was reduced to Minister for Coalition affairs because of the tantrums of the allies.
Sudhir, I was really taken aback that Sibal mentioned reservation in private institutions…but a tiger never changes its spots, and I respect SM Krishna to a certain extent…he was the only Congress leader worth a grain of salt in the KPCC, which explains its sorry state of affairs today…and am pleased with Praful Patel getting Civil Aviation, he did a pretty good job and he has a good vision for improvements at the second-tier airports…thank goodness the metro rail projects are under the state governments, else Mamata would have ensured that the Bangalore/Mumbai metro opened in 2050. Lalu is being praised for making rails profitable, but he really did not do anything to change the face of it or plan for the future, my guess is Mamata will just follow his example.
Oh, and thanks for the link to MJ Akbar’s column…he is a rational thinker…and the mention of Murli Manohar Joshi gets my blood boiling – I am sorry that he believes his return to the Lok Sabha makes him the ‘heir’…luckily, I don’t think anybody in the BJP second-rung or Vajpayee/Advani will back that fuddy-duddy.
Folks,
The new cabinet has given final approval for the ‘Foreign participation in higher education’ bill (dont know the official name of this program.
Great start.
NDA had a great chance to launch 1 lakh primary schools and appoint Sangh supporters as teachers/administrators.
They can still do it in BJP ruled states.
Once in place (and unionized) this army of educators could become one of the great pillars upon which to establish the new hindutva.
It would be a much better option than burning churches/mosques.
Just a thought.
“No policy can be successful which does not take into view the end to be attained and the amount and nature of the effort needed to effect it…To place before himself a great object and then to shrink in the name of expediency from the expenditure and sacrifice called for in its pursuit is not prudence but ineptitude. If you will be prudent, be prudent from the beginning. Fix your object low and creep towards it. But if you fix your object in the skies, it will not do to crawl on the ground and because your eyes are sometimes lifted towards the ideal imagine you are progressing while you murmur to those behind, “Yes, yes, our ideal is in the skies because that is the place for ideals, but we are on the ground and the ground is our proper place of motion. Let us creep, let us creep.” Such inconsistency will only dishearten the nation, unnerve its strength and confuse its intelligence. You must either bring down your ideal to the ground or find wings or aeroplane to lift you to the skies.This is what Aurobindo says. How apt for BJP and its broken promises leaving many a supporter with broken heart. Please click on my name for a new blog on this and the path ahead.
Kanchan gupta highlights the need for an ideology,
but calls for aa new one that imbibes good of hindutva and integral humanism while purging the negatives which are not suited to current situation while adopting other right of centre ideas.
his last few sentences in his pioneer artcile add to his blog.
Though ‘Integral Humanism’ and ‘Hindutva’ are, at one level, all-embracing and all-inclusive, they are not one and the same. The time has now come for the BJP to either integrate them into a modernist worldview, or jettison both and craft an entirely new, right-of-centre political charter without disowning the party’s Hindu ethos; merely choosing between either will not suffice, nor will grasping at both provide a lifeline. This is by no means an easy task, not least because those at the helm of the BJP are rooted in certitudes of the past and the RSS cannot just be wished away. Cosmetic makeovers do not convince people, and that is one lesson the party should learn from this election.
while he has pointed out the negatives of vhp,bd acts, he does argue that bjp cannot disown fraternal organizations. So, it is not only the bjp, but these organizations to need to adopt different approach to address their issues as their act will affect bjp if it cant disown them.
NR – good point. Hence the need to choose a metaphor that they cant run away from yet which makes it crystal clear to them where to draw the line between faith and governance.
The metaphor chosen by you fits the bill, as we have seen before. It is moored in indian tradition of dharma and all encompassing
I noticed something. You have apparently copied the same comment you left on kanchan gupta blog in swapan da blog. So the top sentence that you agree with kanchan gupta misses it out in swapan da blog as it does not mention his name
The tribals of eastern gujarat show the way.
ibals in the eastern districts of Gujarat would begin a new experiment on this World Environment Day on June 5 with the creation of Green Economic Zones (GEZ) which will work only with local resources and investments without causing any harm to the eco-system.
Dubbed as the tribals’ answer to SEZs which require huge foreign investments and plundering of natural resources, the GEZs aim at creating self-reliant centres of economic development that add value to products grown by tribals.
This effort is the outcome of tribals in 1,200 villages working for last one decade to create a network of micro-credit federations, setting up own food grain banks, water harvesting cooperatives and running informal learning centres.
The idea began in 2000 when a group of young tribals met at Tejgadh, in Vadodara district, and resolved to make themselves free of hunger, indebtedness, exploitation due to illiteracy and forced migration due to depletion of natural resources in their native places, said Prof Ganesh Devy, a writer and activist who set had up the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh few years back
more at
http://dailypioneer.com/179898/Gujarat-tribals-to-launch-green-economic-zones.html
@ Yossarin and others,
Back after an extended break.
Its really good to see the Reservation issue being raised by Yoss.
Any new political formation that seeks to upset the present unreliable UPA alliance should seek to base its politics on Equality.
And the best way to start this is to oppose reservations. This will instantly attract attention from the media and support from the youngsters.
A Sushma Swaraj speaking against Reservation can start as a good beginning for the BJP.
The Central Government has rejected Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s demand for scrapping centrally sponsored schemes and giving funds in lieu directly to the States.
http://dailypioneer.com/180124/%E2%80%98No-scrapping-Central-schemes-in-States%E2%80%99.html
yoss fit case for this
The White Umbrella shall stand for the assurance that local aspirations will be met without the need for central patronage and entitlements
No offence, but your sudden shift from “Flat World Hindutva” to “Shveta Chhatra” after just one election defeat looks like timidity.
It reminds me of Aurobindo Ghosh running away from the heat of the freedom struggle and seeking solace in mysticism after the British cracked down on him.
Gujarat’s Water managment shows the way: Local issue, local response.
http://deshgujarat.com/2009/06/02/centre-asks-states-to-adopt-gujarats-wasmo-model-for-water/
My Comments:
- As mentioned above Local government without concurrent tax reform will not be sensible. If local government is going to take decisions they must be given both the funding for it (automatically and not as a grant) and be held accountable for it.
- Accountability and Transparency should probably be a big feature of the Shveta Chhatra philosophy. Any department, even NGO’s run on public tax money should be accountable to the public and should share their findings, their plans of actions, accounts, etc with the public. This should be non-negotiable.
- Unique problems for our unique solutions have to be the way to go!
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