Little late would mean too late

Quick policy making can result in big benefits for the government; even if was a little late, it would be too late. For example: The BSNL took its time in opting for procuring GSM equipment and lagged behind like the rabbit while the mobile revolution which overtook it and other private service providers took over the phone market. BSNL missed the great opportunity to participate in the mobile revolution race. Now the BSNL is now opting for e-bidding to quickly procure, so that it can get the wares ready to upgrade it. But late now means late forever. Because all government affairs become late; cause of this is due to delays in learning what went wrong, in making plans, in implementations, in modernizing, in innovating and keeping up with the technology-led world. We may rollout 3G services, data-card, multiple (technology level) platforms CDMA etc Wmax to rural, and wireless broad–band, fiber-optics etc. But we have to make technology relevant to the time we live-in. How to make this useful to the welfare of the people? How government is going to make policies to mobilize resources which are little compared to the giant demands of the people. By strategic partnerships with private firms, we can make growth possible. How are we going to accommodate the rural (neo-urban) masses? We have to modernize to bring a certain standard of living to the people of India now or we will be forever late. All modernizing cannot be done by government itself; it can use private enterprises to do part of its work. Policies should be made to make Public Private Partnerships (PPP) quickly. To assure transparency, e-bidding should be used in commencement of PPP in making deals; government should keep the ownership of facility for itself and leave the services to the private company to maintain. Private companies can make big profit from the charges from maintenance (from tickets, entry charges electricity bills, water bills, gas bills).  There is greater profit when more digital technology is used, and private companies always digitize business faster. More efficiency is brought by greater use of modern technology.  So instead of waiting for slow implementation in government departments to happen, we can employ private firms to construct schools, hospitals and other infrastructures like metros, flyovers, power companies etc. Private firms will easily implement profitable processes in the making of efficient socially benefiting services. Government is providing medical help for the masses by getting specialists available online along with Video facilities at primary health centers. Telemedicine can provide specialized diagnosis for masses, but cost of medicine is high for the average Indian person. Only medical insurance can bring medical help to the working citizens. Citizens should be encouraged to get medical insurance for their own benefit. Banking and insurance are again better handled by private sectors better. There are other basic needs of the people that government has to provide for the people like for instance water. Drinking water and residential area are closely linked. People who live in remote areas cannot expect government to reach them and provide them with drinking water. They will move to towns and cities where potable water is available. They have to be accommodated in shelters as they cannot live in the streets. Infrastructure for sheltering the homeless can be made by deals with the private sectors. Water and electricity are utilities which are better managed and maintained by private sectors. (For instance, complaints for electricity cuts and dry taps are ignored by municipality officials) Private utilities like Yamuna or BSES(power companies) immediately attend to public complaints(by phone or online) because their profits are at stake. Urbanization will be the result of welfare schemes offered for the rural people, as they would find moving to cities the only way out as their livelihoods is lost in rural India. Small scale farming would be given up, when welfare schemes are there to offer free food. Accommodating a large urban mass will be a challenge which government cannot manage. It will have to make deals with the private sector to make homes for the homeless in a large scale (infrastructures with water and electricity as basic amenities) As rural people move to urban areas they would have to pay for services which they did not previously (village well or pond provided them with free water).Impoverishment of the people may take place even with all the welfare schemes offered. How will people pay for electricity bills? How will they pay for water bills, for they have not had such liabilities previously?  We have to improve the purchasing power of the poor, we have to teach new skill-sets and make him powerful to be independent of the welfare schemes soon. We have to make the new urban Indian independent by increasing his ability to earn well. Government alone cannot build all basic infrastructures and services. We need to be effective and have to make quick policies, adopt modern techniques to meet new exigencies; we have to streamline processes, and make partnerships with private sector to succeed. Lets quickly modernize and not let other countries overtake us. We can do it as we are the best.