Today's Youth should play better role

Today another event of protesting took place in New Delhi.Fasting, donning caps, resorting to “slogans” of freedom struggle shows that the young educated  protesters are not modern enough.The present new generation must look for new methods of protesting and not just reenact the freedom movement(64 years ago). Revivalism is not required.There is no need to invoke patriotic fervour to express dissent.When there is hesitancy in progressive policy making, when elected people have behaved irresponsibly, we must protest. The old rituals of “fasting” and slogan shouting are not essential features of today’s changing times.Instead of protesting against a broad phenomenon (corruption), young protesters can point to how elected people have taken wrong steps (specifically) in making ineffective policies. We must to more exact.Easily, the youth make the event appear like a “mela” or carnival with music, and hurrahing.Now the Delhi administration staffs have become experts in managing big crowds. And people also seem to enjoy the merriment of “chalo aaj masti  karen” or “lets enjoy ourselves today” attitude. And the seriousness of the event is forgotten in the merriment. Media too has its story to munch on for the day. For most part, it’s a media event. This is enlarged by live coverage and exaggerated running commentary of talkative anchor persons. 24*7 media coverage makes one think what does media out of this.

Educated people should show more seriousness, and younger people should be more innovative in protesting. Young people should make speeches; form more intellectual communities, make more blogs on development,write more bigger emails to government,and “tweet” more on how to overcome corruption. This looks like a mass get-together,  it is too casual.People should give their protests more content.Trivialising of issues by slandering could have been averted by the seniors. Verbal mudslinging should not be adopted.And by inviting other parties,the organisers cannot assume compliance. Changing how the government functions is what this protest was about, and not changing the parliament. Now the head may make his own constitution and preamble and give outline for Directive Principles too.There are other ways of implementing better governance, for example altering the role of bureaucrat, promoting better appointment procedures for bureaucrat, stress importance of meritocracy and giving powers to those bureaucrats who adopt technological skills better.To give no space for corruption in practises like e-tendering, e-procurement and restructuring of office procedures with computerisation could be brought about. This was a success as it indicates that a civil society can voice its belief and propose a new frame work which the government will adopt.