India Growth Story - Strategic Evaluation Of Planning & Implementation Landscape towards Sustainable Development & Growth-PART 2

 Building Sensitivity and Sense of Ownership is Essential

Indian Human Capital

When we are eyeing the goal of making India a developed nation by 2047, there is an important dimension pertaining to quality of human capital that needs to be worked upon. It is just apt to emphasize that this dimension has a remarkable depth but the underdeveloped portion needs to be addressed effectively. The critical requirement is to 

make development of this important component an integral part of the planning process at the national level. We need to focus on a three pronged strategy aimed at education, law and public life. 

There must be greater focus on education concerned moral values and laws around them. There must be a focused attempt to spread awareness about the duties and the rights. Building higher levels of transparency by incorporating checks & balances for developing  transparency and accountability into the functioning. This must be a zero tolerance affair. Putting an inter ministerial accountability portfolio could be an important step in that direction. Education policy must be embedded with optimum exposure to training and development programs focused on building an ecosystem towards achieving this end. Law enforcement machinery must be made fool proof by upgrading outdated provisions of law for improving its effectiveness. 

Critical areas that need to be addressed include

1. Traffic safety
2. Healthcare
3. Crime against women
4. Ease of doing business
5. Education 
6. Entertainment
7. Patriotism
8. Innovation
9. Infrastructure
10. Society
11. Environment
12. Long term strategic plan overarching domestic and international landscape
13. Governance
14. Politics
15. Accountability
16. Social Media
17. Compliance and Audit Systems
18. Vigilance & Integrity
19. Code of conduct for political parties, their leaders & members 
20. Efficiency rating of government departments
21. Regulator for social media
22. Compliance systems, process , efficiency and effectiveness audits by qualified auditors of high integrity.
23. Vigilance commission and confidential integrity ratings of ministries and govt departments (to the level of ministers, officers and support staff)

I invite you to share your thoughts, comments and feedback for a healthy discussion. There cannot be a more opportune time for constructive action , where a lot of work is to be done towards building a stronger Bharat. And more importantly these are critical areas, needing immediate attention, having far reaching impact.