Arthur Clough wrote this poem , more than
150 years ago
But it resonates with the Ministers and the Bureaucrats of the current
NDA government
They seem to be saying :
"
Never give up , no matter what the odds and the obstructions . Never stop
walking "
While speaking at the India Economic Summit , this "
Never Say Die
" attitude , was echoed by Shri Amitabh Kant { CEO , NITI Aayog } , when he said :
# Small
retailers must embrace technology and ecommerce alongside brick and mortar
stores
#
E-Commerce cannot be stopped and is only going to grow stronger
#
Start ups can benefit from foreign direct investment inflows
# Start ups do not need any
protectionist policies and since the government has opened up almost every
sector in
the last two years, it cannot backtrack now
#
Indian Start ups have the ability to take on the Amazons of the World
through their understanding of the Indian
market
# Technology
will have to transform manufacturing from a dark , dirty and dangerous activity
to something more
glamorous . It may lead to some loss of jobs of a particular kind but we
have to, therefore , invest in skilling
people accordingly
#
Government has to spearhead change for India's transformation into a
cashless society . By 2025, every person
will become a walking ATM . Indians are moving to mobile payments, use
of biometrics at a very fast pace
#
India cannot imitate its neighbor's policies but it must tap into the
huge market potential of the country
For ordinary citizens of India ( rendered
cynical over the past 60 years ) , these words are a proof that ,
finally we have in NDA
, a government whose Ministers
and Officers listen
to their suggestions - and
implement if found good
If you have any doubt , just glance through following
list of my E Mails sent to them, over the past 2 years :
{ http://www.hemenparekh.in/2015/11/agenda-for-reforms_76.html#.V_h-B_l94ok }
True , the terrible legacy of the past 60 years , so ingrained
in the psyche of 32 lakh
Government Employees ,
cannot be changed overnight
But , what so far looks like a gradual
change , can be vastly accelerated if millions of citizens send in their
suggestions to the following Policy Makers , instead
of holding demonstrations in the streets :
narendramodi1234@gmail.com;
38ashokroad@gmail.com;ajaitley@del5.vsnl.net.in;
jayant.sinha19@sansad.nic.in;piyush.goyal@gov.in;nitin.gadkari@nic.in;
spprabhu1@rediffmail.com;bandaru@sansad.nic.in;smritizirani@nic.in;nsitharaman@nic.in;
ravis@sansad.nic.in;sureshprabhu@irctc.co.in;prakash.j@sansad.nic.in;secy-ipp@nic.in;
amitabh.kant@nic.in; shaktikanta.das@nic.in; rsecy@nic.in; adhia1981@gmail.com;
ceo-niti@nic.in; atul-chaturvedi@nic.in; uma.bharati@sansad.nic.in;
d.pradhan@sansad.nic.in; rprudy.office@gmail.com; rudypr@rediffmail.com;
eam@mea.gov.in; mosvks@mea.gov.in; mvnaidu@sansad.nic.in; mnaqvi@sansad.nic.in;
rao.inderjit@sansad.nic.in; mljoffice@gov.in; sadananda.gowda@sansad.nic.in;
ministerminority@gov.in; najmah@sansad.nic.in; minister-ca@nic.in;
ramvilas.paswan@sansad.nic.in; gandhim@sansad.nic.in;
akumar-alpha@sansad.nic.in; jpnadda@sansad.nic.in; hm.moca@nic.in;
geete@sansad.nic.in; simratbadal@yahoo.com; ns.tomar@nic.in;
rmsingh@sansad.nic.in; tc.gehlot@sansad.nic.in;
dr.harshvardhan@sansad.nic.in
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08 Oct 2016
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