How the West see us

As you read this, the meeting at Davos(World Economic Forum) on development would have taken place. The Western countries want to invest in India not for benefit of India but for their own selfish benefits. The West sees a market in India. They want to expand their tentacles to exploit the developing world.As they want,we cannot make concessions for them, so that they can trade here. That will lead to further impoverishment of our people.

We cannot be exploited again as we were when we were a colony of the British. We are now a free nation and cannot be taken for granted as before.Our decisions will be made by us.

There cannot be equality in a trade relationship between unequal nations.Those who have superior technology will try to use weaker nation's resources to their own advantage.And Indians are bright enough to know this.At this point, we can help ourselves only.They cannot help us.

The Western countries have lost their hold on their position as the so called  "developed world".The Eurozone crisis, economic turmoils and the world recession are all indicators of their downfall.Always the Western countries took the resources of the underdeveloped world and constructed their economies. But now developing nations have a put an end to that, now where will they go for resources? They have lost all colonies whom they had exploited.Unfair policies cannot last for long.This is  how the "West has lost" and is now completely sunk.The West has set a bad example, and we cannot follow them.We can learn from them and avoid that path.

When heroic materialism or consumerism takes over and indiscreet use of resources takes it toll, their economies will collapse.Lifestyles of luxury stems from exploitation of resources to its farthest limit. They have now found the limits. 

Now, may be they can try to live in a more simple manner using fewer consumer items.But they are not going to trade with us and impoverish us all over again.We are too smart to fall for that trick. We keep hearing from Europeans, "because of growth of new rising economies, we are experiencing  economic down trend"Why? All through history, we were economically down because West had exploited us.And now what we hear is: 'We are not economically doing well because of emerging economies' We did not stop prosperity of any one else.
Its our turn to industrialize, and we will keep in mind that our ecological heritage is in tact.

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Conjuring past icons to win elections

Some Indians have an incorrigible inclination to live in the past--our glorious history conjures in us the images of great kings; we like to dwell in the Golden Age.And using this 'lets revive the past' movements are created by the political parties. Activism inculcating past values will not be supported by all because we can think for ourselves. Actual state of affairs cannot be covered up with dressy language. So political elite cannot promise a return to the glorious past. We demand the basic need--livelihoods for all, and no party makes this as its central issue.

Indian growth story has brought prosperity to a small number of business class. The purchasing power of the workers/farmers/laborers has not been elevated.The growth has taken place at the cost of the poor farmers, and at the cost of the poor forest people whose resources have been absorbed up by the business class. This plundering of resources has been facilitated by the ruling elite by means of "development agenda". By providing for capital subsidies, by giving incentives, and by offering concessions, skewed policies for growth has been made.It will be soon understood by the people who will be able to see the vast differences in wealth of the rich India and the deprived India. Growth for the rich has taken place when the rights of the poor has been robbed while selling  a "dream of development"By believing in icons that our glorious past will be revived, people vote for contesting parties.
When are we going to provide livelihoods for the people?How to fit the people of old cultures in modern India?This is the true challenge of the modern ruling elite.

The Republic Day

Sixty three years ago, today, India became a nation.Before the independence, we were a divided country. Various states were carved out of cultural divisions of language, and creed(religion);we had united to overcome the British who had been ruling over us.After getting independence, we had adopted the Constitution and had become one united country. the Republic of India.We have come a long way since then.In the capital, New Delhi annual parade an flypast were impressive and were watched by billions on their TV sets by live transmission.This give a great sense of unity and patriotism amongst all.

Even in the midst of enormous economic crisis(inflation) the Republic day is being celebrated in a grand manner. National anthems, national songs and new popular patriotic songs could be heard everywhere.Speeches are given by heads of schools, colleges and grand parades were organised all over India. The people of India are high spirited and they are full of hope;and they teach the new generation the ideal values of  nationhood and patriotism. These children who are taking part in these celebrations are going to make more changes to shape future India better; they will construct India  with new zeal and make it a mighty nation.We have great faith in what these young people of the nation can do, as we can see the enthusiasm in these parades.
There is great need for making livelihoods for billions of Indian people.With the coming of industrial revolution, farming will be done by few people.Skills have to be taught to initiate the big rural population into urban way of life. So much more will have to be achieved to make India a success.
As people watch parades and other celebrations on TV along with their families, their faith in the Indian nation is rejuvenated.There is renewed hope that future will be bright in the hands of the new generation.
Ideals of families and sense of belonging are foundations for the ideals of nationhood. Those who love their families,and their culture love their country and are themselves ideal citizens.When there is unity in 'will', there will be unity in action and we will overcome all hurdles and bring prosperity to all.

   

We are the Best

While professionals like dedicated doctors intelligent engineers and sincere government officials caring teachers constructively spend an eight hour working day, scheming lawyers, theorizing economists,arm-chair sociologists and conniving journalists try to stop progress of the hardworking  people. And they hence invent ‘red tapism’ and bureaucratic incompetence as excuses for stagnancy in our heavy work loads. Overly critical media shaping public opinion makes a stereo-type of the Indian bureaucracy as a slow, corrupt and malfunctioning organisation. The job of media is to create stories and they give all a sense of apathy.

There is an active self-regulatory system noting down actions of all government officials. With technology as an aid to investigations, government officials cannot make any moves which can jeopardise their positions. They have to account for every action. There is CCTV cameras;all persons with doubts can record in his/her cameras in their mobiles which can reveal every wrong move. There is office automation and computerisation which tracks all office operations and delays can be traced. There is no room for inefficiencies that government officials are accused of.

Since Independence 65 years ago, government has been making constant progress. We got inputs from Block Development authorities and Community Development centres from all over the country. And we are aware of their needs. We know each and every natural resource that India has because we know Indian geography very well. Plans have been made to link 'Panchayats' through video-conferencing. The proceedings will be recorded by taping them and telecasting. We will be watching what goes on in these village courts, and therefore will be aware of exact situation directly.

Once upon a time, India used to import food grains, we are not only self sufficient but also exporting. Finest ‘basmati’ rice is sought after world over,best tea is made in India. Our education systems have produced the best engineers and doctors sufficient for India and the world. All these are the achievements of our government also. Our manpower is the most skilled amongst all nations around the world. Who can out do India? No one.
Criticism of government's officials is groundless. Since last 22 years, new recruits for the position of the retiring officials have been reduced drastically,one thirds less. That means one third people to man the large and ever increasing workloads, we manage the situation by increased computerisation. Our achievements are many. We know we are the best, do not ever under rate us.

Our Elections : Issues and non-issues

Speeches continue as five states are going to the polls. Economic policies have failed, energy policy is absent, land reforms are pending, taxation is unclear, protests of civil society are unheard, social welfare schemes are not working, mining policies are ineffective and all these issues are never talked about.
Elections are here to express citizens’ wishes or is it political elite’s wishes. What the government has achieved is shown as the achievements of the party.(We have a coalition government when all partied united to make government policies)
Election motivated action of the state include notifying a controversial writer(Salman Rushdie) that he should not come to India at this period. He is a Muslim writer who is hated by Muslims. And Muslims are a minority whose votes would tilt the delicate balance of voting pattern and give a decisive victory for a contesting party.Political scene dictates who comes to India. Symbols of a ruling party were made in stone to decorate a park. This was a political move to immortalise the party. At present the Election Commission has ordered covering the stone symbols with sheets in order to give the other parties “a level playing field” All party symbols cannot be covered up, Some parties have the bicycle as symbol, all bicycles cannot be covered up to give “a level playing field” Another party has human ‘hand’ as party symbol, all hands cannot be covered up. This is absurd as it goes on. Election driven political elite is making a comical outcry about impertinent issues. So, election is a game and parties want fields?
To woo the voters, laptops are being promised to students by a contesting party. And another would criticise this move as if it is an issue to talk about. Promises of elected are made to win only, they do not last longer than the election. Here in India, sisters of politicians would come to campaign for their siblings. This would make us unique among all elected elite around the world—adopting the tactic of culture driven relationships in electioneering. This happens only in India...

Policy for Progress

Speeches of our leaders are just words dressed up to hide the incompetence of the government to address today’s economic crisis in the very difficult times we live in. They are irrelevant to the tough conditions we live in; it is a big show of hollow commitments and pretence of effective governance. When energy crisis, fuel price rise, unemployment figures, arrested industrial growth and failed welfare schemes are unaddressed, they are making trivial speeches. Our national leaders have failed us. The Nuclear Liability bill has not been passed; the instability in coal industry has come because in changing coal policies; the Land policy is left to the states to frame; FDI has been left midway; lack of uniformity in sales tax for goods and services hampers speed of production processes; an investment a policy for insurance is not dealt with properly; welfare schemes which do not work;and mining policy is most ineffective.  

Those states which are far from New Delhi (which have received very little attention from the central government) are doing very well; these states have learnt to help themselves and not depend on the central government for aid/ instructions/approvals. State government leaders have commitment to their people and make effective policies for themselves for making progress possible. In some states, programmes like MGREGA are working out well; in some it has failed. Even if some schemes are national (applying to all states) the actual implementation is up to the state governments. So the success of each programme depends on how well it is implemented by dedicated state governments officers and its elected elite.This is because political will is the main driving force in the success of policies.If central government just gives funds and allows states to use it as per the needs of its people, some progress is possible.

People are having same problems everywhere like poverty, lack of educational institutions, lack of infrastructures, lack of industries, lack of agricultural technology, lack of livelihoods etc. This list is too big to write. If central government, which has much better resources (funds), takes the important matters in its hands we can do better. More over the central government is more updated, in access to modern technology (computerisation) and highly educated knowledgeable elite as staff and has the power to make more effective implementation of policies.

 The main aim of all governments is to alleviate poverty. A criterion to declare “who is poor” is often controversial. National census gives its own statistics. If educational qualifications are low, then that indicates poverty; but highly educated can be poor too. Ownership of land could be used as criterion, but then poor farmers cannot be helped by welfare schemes. If central government makes allocation of funds to individual states, what criterion should be used for different states? Is it population, is it poverty line, or is it development of industries? How to determine which state will get how much? The correct line of action would be to make room for better ways to use resources.

Federal expenditure should be made for better implementation of technology transfers  rather than welfare schemes. Technology up gradation will remove poverty by making to people accept new ways to perform agriculture.Such technology schemes will end after a given period of time where as welfare schemes will make the people depend on the government completely and will not end. People will become more and more dependent on government.Irrigation innovations could be invested upon rather than poverty reduction schemes. There are other schemes which would result in effective resource utilisation and make people independent of government subsidies. Long term stable policies would give good environment for development of industries. For example, mining policy would have to give exploration rights and give incentives to explore; exploration industry is different from mine’s operation industry. Before coal/fuel is over, we will have to switch over to other sources of energy; economy needs to be given direction to develop, if not given, it would exhaust resource instantly and we would land in a crisis (coming out of which would be costlier than planning for change now). Thus stability could be brought by long term futuristic policies. Supporting only private industries and PPP(Private Public Partnership) would result in complete exploitation of people and a quick exhaustion of natural resources. We have to examine the real needs of the people and address them by making effective policy decisions. However different people’s attitudes are, if correct policies are implemented successfully, progress will result. 

Coming of Spring in Mid-Winter

Today festival of 'Lohari' is being celebrated as it commences the change in the Sun's ascendancy in the sky; from now on the Sun will be progressively be higher in the sky, and its direct, stronger rays will warm the Earth.End of Winter is being celebrated.People are happy that cold nights will be over and days will be getting longer.All over North India,people lit a bon-fires at their neighbourhoods,shared sweets and sang songs to celebrate the festival. To welcome coming of Spring(time of Makar Sankranti),some took a holy dip in the rivers and streams on the festival.Also,in Punjab 'Baisaki' is also being celebrated as a harvest festival.Here, harvested wheat will be husked and dried, in the Sun. Farmers will then  store this wheat for use for the whole year.

Those farmers who were agitating for non-demolition of their dam were able to save it. They even worship the British engineer,Benny Quick,who had built the dam from which they get water; and they sing ballads and folk songs praising him.People are very grateful;his 117th birthday was being celebrated well by prayers and sharing of sweet rice near his dam by those who worship him. Indian culture incorporates all those who provide for the simple folks! Many people will be celebrating their 'Pongal' festival and worshipping the Sun; they are thankful for their harvests.They are thankful to their cows and bulls which help to power their plough;and they worship the cattle which help them in their livelihoods.

Until people come out of insecurity of poverty, the expressions of culture, the merits of festivals seem meaningless. The people should be alive and well to celebrate their culture. So it is up to the policy makers to bring progress to the people which will preserve their culture and traditions forever and ever.

Success of Retail Shops

Retail shops are a rarity, and small grocers sell the daily food items in corner stores everywhere in India. Small businessmen and grocers are opposed to coming of retail shops as they were worried that their livelihoods would be at stake. So the law makers shifted their views to suit these shop keepers(potential voters).Due to an uproar (by small-scale trading people) coming of foreign companies in multi-retail brands is being kept on hold, but single brand retail has been implemented. Previously, Indian retailers were keeping chain stores which sometimes had worked out well, sometimes had not fare well. Effective marketing has to be practised for it to succeed. Moreover, Indian buyers have unique needs; for example, some want 100 grams of a spice needed for a pickle, and 500 gram packets will not be cut open for selling as per individual needs. Some buyers like to taste rice before buying; in packaged rice, this is not possible. In buying artistic items, buyers like buy from the artisans themselves. Sometimes bargaining takes place. This bargaining gives advantage to the buyer and the artisan had to lower the price to sell his wares. This will be corrected, when there is price standardisation in a retail shop. And apprentice artisans who did not get paid well previously by their bosses will get paid correctly and regularly while they work in a factory.As regular employees, they will get monthly incomes;their earnings are seasonal, unpredictable.Buyers like fruits and vegetables fresh which their green grocer will provide, retail shops give old vegetables which buyers do not like.There is fear that buying and selling which is livelihood of many will be erased by coming of foreign retail shops.People's protests were are not heard but the Reserve Bank of India has sent objections and it will be heard.

How the people take to retail market depends on our attitudes in shopping also. And we Indians are always conserving our resources and trying to spend less while limiting our needs. And a consumer based market may not work out here, as we will not give in to temptation of spending more and more. Consumerism may or may not flourish in India. The Indian buyer economises and controls his daily requirements. In India, conserving resources is the dominant way of thinking. But advertising can influence our attitudes and it can mould our opinions and thus create a need to spend. Ways of spending can change. To buy or not to buy is up to us now

New Plans for Farmers

We must realise that the real wealth creators of the nation are the farmers; they put together the power of the sun, the fertility of the earth, the pure water, and their hard labour to produce food for all. Their produce is procured, stored and kept as the wealth and security of the nation. Head of the finance ministry met a group of farmers today, to discuss their problems and issues. What are the hindrances that the farmers face in today’s turbulent economic climate? This is the true concern for the meeting with the farmers. When the major part of the Indian population is working in the farm, giving attention to these people will create a good impression that government cares for them.

The 12^th Planning Commission’s working group for disadvantaged farmers has come up with modern plans for creating better organisational makeover for the farming industry.  Insecurity of the farming tenants is due to land laws, due to lack of records, lack of institutional loans suiting their farming cycles, etc. The programme seeks to create ‘public land banks’ for marginal farmers, women, ‘dalits’, tribals etc. This might work out initially. These are weak individual people.Their attempts to farm would not enable them to survive in global markets. These programmes can help for a short period with subsidies; ultimately, the individual small farmer will have to face enormous problems. So big changes are needed; these small makeovers cannot yield large results on the long run. The farming community would be perpetually sunk in losses as yields would be subsistence. If the farmers could make a team or if they bond together and make big farms and modernise, then surviving in the world economy is possible.

In these plans, there is no provision for making of large cooperative farms. Unless farmers bind together and make big farms, and adopt modern machines for farming they will be held back in a ‘techno-cultural lag’ and will be left far behind farming people around the world. Small time farming  by peasants India has ended and the planners have to accept this fact. New efforts to revive the small-scale farming industry will be fruitless. It is a waste of time of government, of our resources and waste of energy and efforts of so many farmers. This political plan has to make economic sense to succeed. We will be creating new lower levels of existence by encouraging small scale farming.

Ruthless rulers freeze the helpless to death

In North India, the winters are very severe, poor homeless people have no where to go; their march towards the city was made so that they can get jobs which government had never provided for its people. Homeless people are dying in cold each night. Every morning a worker from the JP hospital in New Delhi finds the bodies of the dead who did not survive the coldness of the night. Of the survivors of cold nights, many hurdle in pavements waiting for the night to end and the sun to rise and give warmth.

 Hitler had committed crimes against humanity by killing many while conducting experiments while testing the limits of extremes that human body can take--in Winter freezing Jews to death. In India the ruling elite kill people without creating jobs, without effective food schemes, without proper shelters for the poor without access to basic needs. Here the experiments are not noted down in details as Hitler had. Hitler was a single man committing crimes against humanity, but here the whole political system ignores the needs of the poor people and allows them to die in the streets. Killing people or allowing people to freeze to death by not providing basic needs are both murders.
In rural India, workers without homes, seek temples, ghats or chaupals where they may shelter for the cold nights. Without proper food and blankets they do not stand a chance to survive terribly cold Winters here.Where will the poor people--laborers, farm hands go?This is a way of eliminating the very very poor who form the bottom layer of pyramid of economy.

Migrant labourers are given no shelter to live nor even allowed to make tents in Delhi. The few shelters that are here are hell holes of crime. Some homeless were able to find shelters or ‘rain basera’ where they were robbed of the little money they had. Many have ended up in the streets because they had been robbed of their earnings and pushed out for not paying rent. Some who had been working as tailors or as labour carting commodities as coolies have lost their jobs and have been robbed within these shelters. In these homes young boys were assaulted by destitute men. Women are pounced upon by other men in the shelters. Homeless were hurt more in these shelters and they are willing to brave the cold. If they had complained, the police had taken no action as they only cared for rich people. Poor have no rights in India.
In this freezing cold, stone elephants and statues were covered with sheets as per government's orders to block election symbols. Crores of Ruppees were spent on covering the stones;and these sheets could have been used to make tents for the homeless. Indian leaders have failed their own people and froze the helpless homeless poors. 

The land of five rivers

Himalayan Rivers flow through the state of Punjab—land of five rivers.It  was always green, beautiful and pristine.  People of Punjab state are very hardworking farmers who had modernised (at super speed) their modes of production. The Green Revolution came very early to Punjab with record high bumper crops year, year after year; for more than 3 decades they have been at the top. They have the highest GDP, the incomes of the people has increased several times. They had also constructed the first planned city- Chandigarh. They had made it their state capital and shared this city with neighbouring state of Haryana. They loved their livelihood –farming and they farmed devotedly modernising the modes of production— a tractor, motors, seeders, ploughs huskers etc

Political system was beset by rivalry between two feuding clans (in shape of two parties), who did not think about further development. They did not think about education for the next generation who had very high aspirations. The number of engineering colleges was few; other technical colleges were limited too.Farmer’s children do not want to continue farming and want to study more and more. Non availability of avenues of study reduced their hopes. This greatly limited the opportunities for the aspiring younger generation. Many did not go for higher education as they had wished. For a people who are forward looking, progressive, intelligent and enthusiastic about future, this phenomenon is a very big set-back. Political system had hampered the development of educational institutes. Cost of progress is very high for the proud people of Punjab, even after working hard they could not give the next generation what they had wanted. The new election (upcoming election) will bring out the new issues. There is hope that the ruling elite will overcome differences and think about progress of the people. A positive change by the political system on line with the people’s aspirations is mandatory for true progress of the people.

Strong views on land acquisition blocked development resulting in problems for the people. Unfortunately, using organic manure which (considered old-fashioned) was discarded; and farmers had started using subsidised chemical fertilisers. The devoted farmers were misinformed an extensively used poisonous chemicals as pesticides and strong chemicals as fertilisers. The pesticides and inorganic fertilisers had leached into the soil, contaminating the ground water with cancerous chemicals; and the incidence of cancer amongst the people has increased substantially. Every day, an overcrowded train carries cancer patients goes to the neighbouring state of Rajasthan where there is a cancer hospital. Rustic overzealous farmers did not want to give any land for construction of hospitals, and had blocked land acquisition processes vehemently. People should become more flexible and see the importance in making hospitals which will benefit all just as farming benefits all. In future, new farming practises like organic farming will eliminate the use of chemicals resulting in favourable harvests. The land will recuperate and eliminate the poisonous chemicals in it. Creating riparian zones will change the chemicals in soil into biomass.

Farming is very dear to the people of Punjab and farmers would not sell their farms at any price. The high spirited enthusiastic entrepreneurs of Punjab were determined to construct industries even if no land was available in Punjab. Even when industries were not given any space here, Punjab’s industrialists made factories in other states like Madhya Pradesh or Bihar where land was available at cheap rates and workers were available locally. They have become very rich because of their sheer hard work, diligence, management skills and ability to work under adverse environments. They have fine business acumen and are successful entrepreneurs.

Many highly educated people of Punjab have migrated to foreign countries seeking fortune elsewhere as there is little scope for appropriate jobs within the state. No ‘IT’ industry was developed by the feuding politicians. No techno hubs were made here. Failed political system has not dampened the ever vibrant

spirit of the Punjab people. They were successful wherever they went and in all professions they had pursued. The cultural aspirations of the people are beyond the political systems of the state of Punjab. The Punjab people and their strong and noble spirit are a great source of inspiration for all Indians. Despite adversities, they have become highly successful; they had overcome hurdles because of their indomitable spirit and soul. They are ever vibrant just like the drum beats of their “Bhangra” songs—ever young, ever jubilant and ever inspiring.

Repercussions of a faulty policy

Before rushing in and passing bills, repercussions of the legislation should be studied properly. By the Food Security Bill of 2011, government would be spending60,000 crore a year for providing food for the poor of India.63% of India’s population will be provided by subsidised grains of rice, wheat and coarse grains. The fair-price shops or government’s ration stores would take this opportunity to distort the implementation. The cunning shop owner would sell this grain at higher price (open market price) and give to the ration card holder inferior quality food grains. The receiver will not complain for he is getting grains at nominal rate and the shop owner would make big big profits. Government has to give what it has promised and would buy half of what the country produces for the implementation of the food bill. This would distort the agricultural economy—government also gives subsidised seeds, subsidised fertilisers, subsidised pesticides, and subsidised diesel for motors and tractors. It is a loss, loss situation for the government. Roads, electricity, drinking water, housing, sanitation, hospitals, medicines, and livelihoods are all basic urgent needs just as important as food. No policies are made for making of these infrastructures quickly for the betterment of the people. Why?

India is a living laboratory for experiments on “what if everything goes wrong” state. Government is entirely responsible for letting down its people. Government makes policies for the cunning capitalist to prosper; and to make-up, it is doling out subsidised food grains to the poor as namesake reforms. The right aim should be to provide proper livelihoods, so that the poor can buy their own food. Farmers would see their produce given away at lesser price than it was taken from them. With costlier inputs and fixation of price of their produce, they are working at a loss.People survive by going through everyday struggles to meet daily requirements of food, requirements for shelter from cold, to live in a place to identify themselves in and a way to live within their cultural norms. Can they? It is as if they are stuck in middle of nowhere-but they are in the midst of civilisation or in an urban concrete jungle. How to rescue these poverty stricken people? The Indian people are exceptionally brilliant and their culture is unique and exquisite and they are worthy of survival on the planet. But we cannot showcase culture without revealing the open poverty of India. In the midst of humanity, Indians are lost and isolated in a sea of poverty.Nor 1000 year old temple, nor ‘puja’ or prayers, nor nice celebrations/ festivals can help overcome poverty, but appropriate legislation on time can.

Why Indians had not industrialized earlier?

To us, it is normal to use man-carts or rickshaws to ride to markets close by. But we do not know how much pain, it would cause the puller. So that is why we never invented the car or other motorised vehicle in India. We did not “industrialize” mentally; we do not see how much effort can be mechanised and that its pain can be alleviated because we had never felt the pain. It is normal for us to extract labour from a living man for getting us comfort and we had never known the exact value of his labors’ cost. So it is difficult for us to understand the concept of mechanisation which would have alleviated the pain of work.

This mindset affects our socio-political life too.We had always taken the help of the poor people for granted. When we have a government for the people, we had failed to understand why the poor people are central to development of the nation. At present we just want to adopt the concepts of economy from the West and apply it here. Liberalisation and adoption of “laissez-faire” is not wise  for the Indian environment, but we have done that. The consumption based economy of the West did not fair well on the long run;and because of it the West has attained decadence. They have now set a bad example. We can learn from that and avoid those policies. We are a selfish lot and want comfort at the cost of the poor persons and we accordingly adopt policies which would benefit us only.

If we industrialise very fast without caring for the environment, we would have lost everything—fresh air, fresh water and our home environs. If we make plans to industrialise for just generating wealth for benefit of few and without caring for the health and welfare of the people who live in the locality of industries, we are making big mistakes. Ultimately the poor people will ask for their rights and revolt.

So we have to create an environment for progress by adopting technology of the west but not the exploitative policies. The setting-up of industries should keep the environment clean and benefit the people (economically). This would empower them and they would not revolt. In other words, people should be the main stakeholders of the farms and industries of their lands. This is how we should industrialise--giving power to decide on industrialisation to the people of the local lands.They will devotedly work for their own betterment, by adopting the Western technology themselves. By this further impoverishment of people would not occur.