Sunday, December 13, 2009

28 and counting...

I have been repressing this bubble bust for quite some time now but today I couldn't resist the inner turbulence and resorted to nothing but to write (freedom of expression..),what better way do I have..? hope someone is there to read it..

Before I delve further, Lets try to ponder over a few points -
I mentioned 28 - Do these numbers really have some standing..? Does the increase in the count always aimed towards betterment(I don't want the politically correct answer..)?

Well, from governance and demographic point of view, its good to divide the larger chunk into smaller ones for the ease of governance. Now, what should have been the basis of this divison..? We chose it to be linguistic commonality. Fair enough, I pretty much agree with this presumption. But, in the present scenarios, we have deliberately misunderstood it leaps and bounds - here the precursor has to be lack of better governance due to larger land/population size of the province/state, if this test passes then only we seek for the second step.
In the contrary what seems to be happening is that, a couple of media/voter hungry political parties who have long lost their eminence or who are in the fear of losing, are just trying to gain some mileage out of such feckless demands. I don't know, how do they cajole common masses to support them..? Who is going to suffer..?
Ultimately, it's the common mass who has to suffer. I have witnessed the post divison socio-politico-economic condition of jharkhand.The condition even worsened with day-to-day calls for strike, rampant corruption, unstable government and the likes.
Not to forget, a separate state comes with an additional price to run government machinery, common welfare, conducting elections, feed money hungry politicians etc. Even if a little good is being done(which I really doubt..), that is certainly not good enough for separate statehood keeping in view the amount of dirt that is brought into the system.

If your civil rights are being compromised then you can very well resort to the judiciary, but certainly the statehood is not the solution for that.

Now, why the goverment fails squarely to deal with such frivolous demands..? Is fast-unto-death the necessary and sufficient condition to get the government's nod.
If yes, then we have to have necessary law in place to thwart any such disturbing attempt. Remember, euthanasia is termed a criminal offence and we have a law in place to back it up..? If a common man suffering from some form of terminal illnes tries to liberate his life in a painless manner without inflicting damage to any one else, then why the hell in this world this "fast-unto-death" has not been termed criminal..? That too, when it results in severe chaos followed by a bunch of suicides.

All in all, what I feel is that the increasing count only have some meaning if it is well thought out and delivered on a strict need-to-need basis. Also, the divison is only good till the point it doesn't become a overhead(with the additional cost to support this..). Failing which, the counter would be mighty uncontrolled and what would result is the complete chaos!!

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