Most Important Difference: Present Indian Governance and Governance in Progressive Nations

[If you've been a thoughtful Indian citizen, you might have asked this question yourself and tried to find out your own answer. This has come to my mind as well. Let me share my thoughts on it with those who might be interested!]

Let us analyse it this way.

What is the most important thing for a normal person living on earth?

The usual answer would be Roti, Kapda aur Makan which translates as food, clothing and shelter.

Perhaps that might be right fundamentally when we consider human beings as simple animals.

Sustaining life is and getting essentials such as food, shelter, clothing and other essentials of biological life sustenance are no doubt, important.

Nevertheless, humans are animals with a mind that is creative, inquisitive and curious.

So, humans need inputs that are essential for maintaining the health of both body and mind.

For modern day man who has the means of satisfying the essential demands of the body, satisfying the demands of the mind becomes very important for a happy life.

It is not difficult to find that man needs to do some vocation or engagement that satisfy his body and mind in a balanced manner.

Man or woman without any work engagement or employment or job is perhaps one who is very unhappy with life.

Hence, in my opinion the most important requirement of modern man is his engagement in some vocation that takes care of both body and mind in some appreciable manner either directly or indirectly.

Imagine the situation wherein all persons are provided with food, clothing and shelter without doing any work. Will they be happy? I doubt. Had it been so, those in solitary jails would have been the most happy!

Going with that logic, it is not difficult to find that man with lot of money and wealth without a worthwhile vocation would become unhappy and dejected with life.

But how could we keep all engaged in some work? In other words, how could be sustain money and wealth and at the same time employment for all?

Perhaps the work of ten percent of the populace in the fields would yield all the food that the entire people need. Then what the rest of the people would do? Had it been the way that existed in the primitive world, there would not have been this problem. In the primitive society every one had to work to fetch food. That is the law of the jungles. All animals have to fetch their own food!

But progressive evolution of human kind has reduced the physical efforts for generating food, shelter and clothing to a great extent.

Thus in the modern world, finding employment or engaging all in some vocation is indeed a big task.

In other words, the most important single task of any modern day government should be generation of employment to its people. 

For any right thinking person with average wisdom, this is nothing big to deduce.

For all modern day progressive governments in the world, generation of employment to its citizens is the prime responsibility and concern. In reality, they keep thinking of ways to enhance employment. Unemployment, therefore, is the direct measure of non-governance or poor governance for all progressive modern day governments.

Unfortunately, in my considered opinion, this is one thing that makes India different.

For Indian governments and Indian politicians, employment generation is not the first concern!

It may be one of the agenda in the list of several agendas.

And that makes the whole difference in India.

India keep lagging behind the rest of the world in human development index and human happiness index because unemployment in this most populous country is very high and it keep increasing.

With such high unemployment rates, India cannot boast of any good governance at any time.

If the situation has to change, Indian governments and the political systems that culminates to democratic governments in India should keep employment generation as their first priority. 

In my considered opinion, all other factors of good governance would naturally fall in line automatically.

All rules and regulations and policies should be made keeping employment generation as the first priority.

Policies that eliminates employment and employment potential should be reviewed several times before it is adopted.

Business and businessmen who keep generating employment should be honored. They should not be treated as anti-nationals so long as they do not violate any law purposefully. They should be honored citizens.

Politicians and the people should not be worried when corporate entities make profits by doing legal business operations.

Governments and bureaucracy should not treat business houses as exploiters. Instead they should be honored as wealth and employment generators of the nation.

The company that creates maximum satisfied employees should be the Bharat Ratna company!

Contribution of a company should be measured in terms of the total income and other taxes that company paid to the government. Total income tax should include the taxes paid by the employees as well as the company itself.

Yes, in my opinion, it is time that India and Indians change their perceptions and attitudes!

If it does not, Indian governance would always remain as a pathetic residue of experimental development lagging behind several nations in the world! 

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Why Do these Mobile Phone Companies Market SIM cards that are Impossible to Handle?

Yesterday someone known to me told me his difficulty in changing his smart phone. His phone uses a SIM card that is bigger in size. When he purchased a new one, he found that he cannot use his old SIM because the new phone has a slot which can use only a nano SIM. As a layman, he could not understand the differences in the smart phones that are marketed now-a-days. And not all are tech savvy youngsters!

Yet another one told another story. When he tried to insert his miniature SIM with another phone, the latter got fire! Thankfully, it did not explode! 

And I my self have been thinking of this for quite some time. I too do have problems with this SIM handling in my phones.

Mobile and tablet phones are the craze of today's world. They all have a small key electronic embedded circuit marketed separately called the SIM. This part called the SIM stands for Subscriber Identification Module. It is the one that makes the telephone network companies market their telephone services separately from that of the phone manufacturers.

So this SIM is an electronic circuit embedded within a plastic strip with some metallic ends making contact with those of the mobile phone or tablet phone circuits.

For getting to know more about this you may search the internet or click here to read one good article. For more authentic information refer Wikipedia article on SIM.

SIM cards come in three different sizes commonly called the standard SIM, micro SIM and the nano SIM. I simply do not understand why these mobile phone designers thought it necessary to have these three different physical dimensions for this embedded electronic part. Why do they have to market the same circuit in three different sizes by cutting off the plastic that surrounds the metallic circuitry that remains with the same kind of size and architecture?

More interestingly why do they have to market it by telling us those exotic names that sound pretty hi-tech! 

As a customer using cell (mobile) phone, I am quite annoyed by this liberty taken by the mobile phone designers and their regulatory authorities world wide. As such, originally appearing SIM called the standard SIM in itself is so small to be handled properly due to its small size. Yet it was comparatively easier for even old people like me to get them inserted or removed from the phone modules.

As the phones started coming with smaller slots for SIM insertion, the mobile phone handling has become a nightmare for many users.

To make the things worse, the latest smart phones now come only with nano SIM slots. If you had your earlier SIM that is bigger in size, you probably cannot use it in your new phone unless you get your extra plastic of your earlier SIM cut precisely. Of course, they have come up with new SIM plastic resizing cutters to solve this problem. However, you need to have experts to do it. 

And once cut to small mini or nano size, using your SIM in a phone that has a bigger slot would be impossible. Of course, some fellows have come up with solutions for this problem too. There are precisely cut SIM holders that are plastics for making up the lost sizes of the SIMs.

Yet I consider this phone design strategy used by cell phone manufacturers a kind of user unfriendly tactics which is ridiculous and unjustified.

As a matter of principle, it is better to reject all smart phones that come only with mini, micro or nano slots only.

The smart phone market is already sinking due to high competition. Perhaps the high competition is forcing the manufacturers to come up with various kinds of gimmicks that are making the whole smartphone evolution so complex for the common people.

When such things keep happening, it will soon loose its charm. Once the charm is gone, smart phones may not charm the customers.

And that is not good for the phone companies. It will be better for them to make and market smart phones that are durable, safe and easier for their customers to take care by themselves.

Smart phones are not inexpensive items. They are definitely expensive. True, their prices are not as high as the ones that came in the past when compared to the technological advancements that they offer now. They have also become a necessary evil for all now-a-days. But that necessity of the common man should not become a lure for exploitation. The smart phone companies should not make and market so many models in succession without ensuring their long term servicing requirements.

High competition is forcing these companies to ignore such basic factors. They come up with different models every now and then because today's young and affluent generation consider cell phones as a personal status projection gadget rather than a functional gadget. Hardly few use all the technological things packed in a smart phone. But for status, all need all technology, style and brand.

But any thing in excess and without moderation would soon become a thing of rejection or allergy later. Smart phones are no exception. High marketing strategies in a technology advancing scene might bring utter failures. 

Incidences of some reputed smart phone batteries catching fire or exploding  in the recent past are examples that only indicate the pressure under which smart phone technology designers are working. Perhaps their top management brass might be pushing them to the wall that they forget even basic common sense.

I think the top management people of all cell phone companies need to come out of their corporate pseudo shells and think and act like humans. 

Will they listen to this small piece of advice from an ordinary user?

Only time would tell.