NO MIRACLE IN SIGHT
During middle of the 20th century many countries could become free in Asia, Africa and Latin America. After long years of their independence some of them have shown remarkable progress although most are still struggling for having stable governance. If we focus our attention to Asia we see after the 2nd World War map of Asia changed a lot in all directions and some of the countries which managed to move upward are India, China, South East Asia, South Korea and Japan. Middle East is another story. And Bangladesh is a new entrant. But if we compare India with China, Japan, South Korea, South East Asia and Bangladesh we find we are the last although in the beginning we were the brightest hope. If we try to discern one important factor among many important ones I conclude India was the single country among them which passed through the age of ideological crisis during her period of Independence. We started with socialist economy and ended with market economy but at no point of time we were either socialist or market capitalist. And in both the poorly designed models two sectors have been constantly and systematically ignored , which are education and health. You may have any type of economic model but each and every model requires two things, one is healthy and educated skilled labour and the other is motivated labour. For making labour healthy , educated and skilled and motivated we needed all affordable health services, network of affordable quality education and continuous effort to keep inequality at the base. But all sorts of governments from the very beginning to today have been consciously ignoring these indices. At least we could expect from Pt. Nehru and Dr . Manmohan Singh as both were originally giant thinkers . But both missed these points. Pt Nehru could do wonder . He adopted mixed system which was heavily title to Soviet plan model but he failed to comprehend that Soviets during reconstruction of their society launched massive attack on illiteracy, health condition and inequality. When Dr Singh changed the entire plot he went for market but he also failed to remember that a technocratic market system could be survived only if it was backed by well structured affordable health and education services along with the efforts to contain the resentment by keeping inequality at the lowest. Dr.Singh though had immense experience of the developed nations failed to remember these lessons. Or both the great personalities might be contained by the politics of their respective time. Unfortunately Indira Gandhi, Morarji , Rajiv Gandhi, Vajpayee and Narendra Modi all failed to complete the incomplete task of creating quality and affordable health and education services and of addressing inequality.
So in near future we can't hope any miraculous change. We need a government which can understands how the pillars of development are erected to creat a balanced top.