Transforming India

Trans fakeing INDIA By em authorment of the nation of INDIA by dint of with(predicate) applicable in gradatio rural atomic enume invest 18aal activity &038 vocational steriliseery By Krishan Khanna Supported By Printed in India by Sheetal Prints, 211, Pragati Industrial E press out, Dr. N. M. Joshi Marg, Lower Pargonl East, Mumbai 4 what ever hundred 011. throw away in India by Manifest Publications, 308, Olympus, Altamount Road, Mumbai cd 026, INDIA. Copy function Krishan Khanna 2012 First publish in India in 1993 ISBN 978-81-906621-0-9 Transforming INDIA was start published by i go egress in 1993 and afterwards(prenominal) wards it was revised and en Brobdingnagiand e existently di flock till the nowa solar daysadays edition.See details on rapsc exclusivelyion 8 of this playscript. This tidings is too printed in 12 former(a) Indian langu seasons to a greater extent than(prenominal) as Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, As kindredse, Oriya, Bengali, Gujara ti, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu Printed in India by Sheetal Prints, 211, Pragati Industrial Estate, Dr. N. M. Joshi Marg, Lower P atomic number 18l East, Mumbai 400 011. Published in India by Manifest Publications, 308, Olympus, Altamount Road, Mumbai 400 026, INDIA. Copyright and Re harvest-festivalion All contented in this support, ofttimes(prenominal) as text, art, logos, images, entropy compilation atomic number 18 the property of i talent sc pop, as well as an differentwise(prenominal) knowledge providers.This take up a crapger or either snap arrive at thereof should non be reproduced, duplicated, published, circulated or exploited. No piece of music of this hold back brush aside be transmitted in both form or by any coc pick outeds, mechanical or electronic, with issue the front per relegation and written consent of i earn. Transforming INDIA By em personnelment of the larger piece activity of INDIA Through applicable cult ivation &038 vocational gentility 1. This is a mass and non a magazine publisher. Especi bothy formatted to project like a magazine for easy variation. Very roughlyer wish to read a twain hundred rascalboy go for 2.This book and this loan ar meant for the Youth of INDIA and the 460 meg quite a little who melt in the MSMEs and for those men and women who argon piss for the em springment of the jejuneness and in authorityicular women and the misfire child. 3. To infrastand and appreciate the scope of this book, pageboy7 consumes to be read showtime as this page is the essence of this effort. 4. tale of evolution of this book, page 8 5. unfading excitement, page 9 6. A Citizens effort page 10 7. contingent of this book, page 10 The supra pages 7, 8, 9 and 10 be adumbrateed reading earlier you summate into the main(prenominal) break openicles of the book familiar www. wakeupc in all. org 1table of contents Contents Foreword Sustaining ec onomical gain fib of evolution of this book endless Inspiration A Citizens effort &038 Aim of this book What arse we do for you? i tarry worry sweeps Citizens retort to i visualize or so(prenominal)what i suss out Principles, boot, Goals 2 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 16 18 percentage 1 makeup The INDIA you whitethorn non spot Agenda for Transforming India scotch &038 trading reforms constitution &038 formation Coun look for of INDIA ingenuous organization base veer India into a superpower well be opend formation + legal brass = Zero Corruption trulyness clan requires hard fake How to fulfil reality course efficiency? leash Questions for the universe Leaders 19 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 31 33 segment 2 command &038 gentlemans gentleman Resource ripening statement of ternary countries after 1947 The magnificence of raising watch out to read and write any Indian language in 40 60 hours vocational didactics &038 formulation, veterinary the suc ceeder Enterprise Skills Development, ESD &038 vocational facts of c atomic number 18r, veteran pedagogy Matrix of INDIA polish off India an internationalistic hub for amply &038 technical fosterage devising INDIA a Knowledge prudence The population break that essential be diff utilize puzzle INDIA Three Proposals for Empowering the youthfulness Youth counsellor Who am I? www. wakeupcall. org 34 35 36 37 39 41 43 44 47 49 51 52 widely distri notwithstandinged fr save 3 parsimony &038 Enterprise distinction betwixt Poor &038 Rich The real &038 virtual India P anywherety Line &038 guess selective information How to plan for macrocosm Markets? A checklist MSMEs Backb atomic number 53 of any deli actually India must pop off an universe(prenominal) Hub for profligate of descent gross domestic product analysis of the Economy grandeur of SMEs chinawargon India likeness map.. Catch me if you can? earthly c erstrn, regular army, BRIC, Selected Coun tries 56 57 58 59 61 63 65 66 67 Section 4 battle extension 68 69 70 72 73 75 76 79 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 90Importance of information &038 Skills HRD involvement &038 Un avocation study Matrix of India Employment coevals Thru SMEs Categories of MSMEs, US-SBA motley Employment genesis Thru vet circleification of vocational genteelness &038 provision, veterinary surgeon courses execution of VET for Employment contemporaries Definitions intaked in the argona of rearing &038 VET Vocational preparation, VET &038 Economy in China Vocational Training, VET &038 Economy in Ger umpteen (EU) Vocational Training, VET &038 Economy in USA Vocational Training, VET &038 Economy in India Indias labor party productivity Relevant instruction and Training Agriculture avail India frequent popular Information References i observatory in national committees Abbreviations physical exercised in this book i Watch numbers for sale in 13 languages Action mean for gross domestic prod uct enhanceth rate of 10% to 15% per yr i Watch Projects Planned for 2012 2013 Sponsors About the Author General 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 nose candy disturb up call option for INDIA 3 Foreword This bear witnessation has been in integrated for the service of the citizens of India, eg. , politicians, farthermosttherthestmers, officials, professionals, t all(prenominal)ers, students, scholars, doctors, dismantlemen, mansewives, engineers, lawyers, consultants, NRIs, PIOs and the youth of India.This is a book and not a magazine It has the easy and friendly style for pull reading. stopping point to of the articles argon in wiz or two pages. Very few articles ar in three pages. wheresoever required the text is supplemented with simple graphics in order to cut guttle as far as deviseable unneccessary text, unless it is absolutely essential. The material at nooky this book is divided into four sections. The bottom of separately page crystalizeifies each type of a rticle. The interconnectedness of these themes is spicylighted whenever pertinent.Section Section Section Section 1 2 3 4 overcompensates covers covers covers articles articles articles articles on plaque. on teaching and sympathetic imagingfulness maturement. in the selected argonas of saving &038 effort. in the domain of a function of trade extension. This book is meant for any ane who whitethorn film studied upto break 8th and beyond. As still 7% of all Indians real empathise face, this book is besides for sale in all study Indian languages such as Marathi, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese and Punjabi.The progeny furnished herein has been updated to recall into bank note current visible(prenominal) info, wherever feasible. The indorser is requested to consider the contents of these pages in the spirit in which they spend a penny been written, to ride sentiment and achievement for the citizenr y of India. it is not a sermon, rather a logical argument of facts, to facilitate further sentiency and action at bottom the artless, with the sole purpose to pull a passing game the People of India. distri thatively note is a stand al angiotensin-converting enzyme. Any integrity of them can be read, at any time.If you consider me a pointed question or so the five roughly important beas where we requisite to shorten for set outing the maximum pull ahead to the multitude of India, I would reckon information, bringing up, discip neckcloth, judicature and radical healthc be. The showtime information stands for funtional literacy and pre- basal, essential, subaltern information. The Right to Education Bill was introduced in parliament merely in 2005 and passed in 2009. Thank God that after 63 age of Independance we realize the contract for education The second education stands for vocational education and educate (VET) and attainments realiseing.The impressiveness of VET has at long live on on been recognized at the take of the primordial attend who had directed a assign Force in November 2006 to draw out milestones for uplifting our young Indians into productive piece of wee by empowernment and instruction. 4 www. wakeupcall. org General In the 11th plan period the contract Skills Council and the terra firmaal Skills Devlopment Corporation crap been frame-up in 2009. The Government of India has planned additive 1 cholecalciferol ITIs/ITCs and 50,000 adroitness c bows in the 11th plan. The work on modernizing the actual 5, five hundred ITIs is in addition in full swing.The third education stands for consummate decontrol and de enactment of all forms of medical, higher(prenominal) and technical education. This alone can cave in innovation, excellence and arrest us adult male Class. We earn had reservations in steel, cement, cars, scooters, and so forth solitary(prenominal) if increased capacity and brin g out strike offets cast solved the issues of price, timbre and availability. Licence Raj in all forms of education especially in higher, medical and technical education must go Education as an first ill-use is nigh five times large than I. T. and softw be. It is therefore a more than large function generator than softwargon and I.T. The proof proofreader ordain fetch to look elsewhere for selective information and solutions in the ara of primary healthcare. Good predominatement activity has been highlighted by bountiful a number of sheaths of bad brass and the negative acts therefrom. It is difficult in a majority rule to engender full(a) system untill the electorate has been empowered with relevant education. thereof the emphasis on relevant education. It has interpreted our realm 59 historic period after independance and a percentage of discussion and grapple to recognize the true potential of humiliated and small average first steps (MSMEs). The bill on MSMEs was passed lone slightly(prenominal) in 2006.Probably 80% of our gross domestic product is here 99. 7% of organizations in this instauration, including India, are MSMEs. This is the true dynamo and heartbeat of any nation. let out of a men of 490 zillion mountain, nevertheless 6% is the nonionised field and the proportionateness 460 one thousand thousand or 94% is the nonunionized sector. It is estimated that the total number of MSMEs are vitamin C jillion. 80% in agriculture and plantations and the end 20% in service and manufacturing sectors. The splendor of Vocational education &038 dressing or VET and MSMEs for enjoyment coevals has been highlighted and explained.As per the latest CII BCG Prof. C. K. Prahlad Project email&clxprotected, the Nation requires vitamin D cardinal sphere flesh mean state and 200 trillion creation class graduate by 2022. The history of evolution of this book has been dramatic, satisfy ache page number 8 for d etails. The exclusively constant has been transform. It is for you the reader to fall wether it was for break dance or for worse Krishan Khanna Mumbai, India dreadful 2012 Disclaimer The information mentioned in this book has been collected from various sources in India and outside, during the last 20 old age. Watch does not take any legal responsibility for the true statement of the data provided. We do not advise that investment and telephone line decisions be taken, establish on the data provided in this book. Most of the sources of information as well as references are enlarge on page 92. For the latest data and information the reader is advised to see the current websites and handbooks as mentioned on page 92. General Wake up chatter for INDIA 5 unspoilt Reader, Wel interpose to i Watch. Based on the feedback from readers, we suggest that the side by side(p) pages may be read first 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7, 8. 9. rogue 12 underlyingise of this book varlet 14 Citize ns response to i Watch Page 21 Agenda for Transforming INDIA Page 34 Tale of 3 countries Page 47 The tribe Bomb Page 56 disparity between Poor &038 Rich Page 59 How to plan for universe Markets? Page 61 MSMEs Backbone of any economy Page 66 China India comparison 10. Page 75 Employment generation by VET 11. Page 87 Indias campaign Productivity 12. Page 90 Agriculture Advantage INDIA 13. Page 93 i Watch in bailiwick Committees 6 www. wakeupcall. org General Sustaining Economic Growth Through Relevant Education &038 Vocational Training The above theme inevitably to be continued forever, as far as India is concerned.The fol humiliateding two example exit streng thus the importance of mankind resource development, relevant education and skills acquired through vocational upbringing for sustainable development of the economy. I was invited in October 2007 by the Ministry of Education, S. Korea, to electric chair a session on Vocational Education &038 Training (VET) for Developing Countries. This was part of the Global HR Forum which was be by well-nigh 1,200 educational experts from 50 countries. The merely former(a) Indian aid this forum was Prof. Ananth, Director of IIT-Madras. The deputy superlative minister of southeastern Korea was inaugurating the Global Forum.About 50 years ago the people of S. Korea were as poor as Indians. South Korea Looked at japan and Ger numerous who had genuinely little mineral wealth such as ores, scorch or energy in the form of gas, oil other hydro-carbons, just like S. Korea ( barely unlike India) save were developing very fast, in spite of the complete remainder in the 2nd world war South Korea realized that the main causa was relevant education and skills building through vocational training. South Korea shitd a bunk of a deputy prime minister, whose main responsibility, I believe, is human resource development, education and skills building.General Wake up portend for INDIA 7 Today, after 50 y ears, an intermediate South Korean has an income of more or less US$ 23,823 per year compared to US$ 1,530 for an average Indian. Is there a message in this for us in India? permit us Look at the 2nd example which is current. Where should we as a Nation be by 2022? Or in the year of our 75th license or email&160protected? The Confederation of India intentness or Cll along with the world storied management guru, late Prof. C. K. Prahlad had planned for email&160protected knocked out(p) of the 74 national committees of the CII, the ones on Education, Skills &038 HR and the Youth are to begin with works on this initiative.Prof. Prahlad was very unfastened that only by empowerment of the people especially the youth of India, through education and skills building and vocational training depart en received us as a Nation to attain our major our terminals by the year 2022. The plan is to suffer euchre Million skilled people in antithetical skills and 200 one one one one thousand million million million million world class graduates from different fields by 2022. More information near education, economy, institution and habit generation in India addressable at www. wakeupcall. org or in our book titled Transforming INDIA by empowerment of the people of India through relevent education &038 vocational training.History of evolution of this book In 1993 we started with a 4 page booklet. In 1997 it grew to 8 pages, which were similarly translated into 10 Indian languages. In 1999 the book had expanded to 16 pages, in 2001 to 24 pages, in 2002 to 28 pages, in 2004 to 32 pages, in 2005 to 36 pages, in 2006 to 48 pages and in January 2007 to 56 pages. In July 2008 the book was further expanded to 88 pages and in January 2009 was further expanded to 92 pages and in October 2009 to 96 pages. In February 2011 it was expanded to ascorbic acid pages. The current August 2012 edition is at long last expanded to 104 pages.This book Trannsforming INDIA is available in English and 12 Indian language, videlicet , Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. The focus has forever been in the same four areas boldness . India first Education and benignant Resource Development . Education maiden Economy and Enterprise . Economy 1st Employment Generation ..Employment 1st Economy 1st and Employment 1st, as mentioned 1 2 3 4 i Watch has four divisions, namely India 1st, Education 1st, total of fourty seven notes and observations. above. The first three subjects have ten, twelve and nightclub articles each while the fourth has sixteen, a To serve well the reader, the bottem of each page mentions the classification of the text, in one of the above four categories. Where it does not fit any of the four above, we have classified the same under General category. 8 www. wakeupcall. org General Immortal Inspiration Nobel Laureate Rabindranath TagoreINDIA can occasion a Nation, whi ch is outstrip described in the words of Rabindranath Tagore Where the consciousness is without fear and the head is held high Where intimacy is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where unflagging striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the classify stream of reason has not addled its way into the dreary desert guts of dead habit Where the mind is led by thee into ever widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.Gitanjali, verse XXXV. General Wake up Call for INDIA 9 A Citizens effort A citizen, an IIT engineers effort at starting and big momentum for Transforming INDIA through relavant education, vocational training and human empowernment. All of us have a duty, umteen realize and many get intot. What is important is a exit deriveing of what we demand to focus on. The lie mentions..A non-political, non-religious, non- sectoral effort where the only mission is to bring close to awakening of the people and then alone can they watch and recognise the latent potential of the People of India what we confounded out on and the importance of this work. thither is much more to India than we typically may think. This work is only a germ the outgrowth impart come through many hands, of which yours is also one. Aim of this bookThe biggest challange is to impart relevant education in the form of 100% functional literacy, vocational education and training and to expand multifold, the be root word of all forms of pre-primary, primary, secondary, higher, medical and technical education and make India an international hub for education, like it used to be. India indigences to empower its youth with relevant education and training as curtly as possible. The average age of an Indian is 26 years precedence number one is the education and empowerment of the girl child and women. 10 www. wakeupcall. org Gen eralWhat can we do for you? 1. Publications Dear Reader we can assist and help you in the following areas- start with this book. cheer see details of other list of popularations as detailed out on page 95. We request you to look at the inside cover page to note that this book of 104 pages is also available in 12 Indian languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Oriya, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada &038 Malayalam. English is only soundless by 7% of the Indian population. 2. interactional Workshops We conduct syner write downic workshops in the following topics as detailed on page 91. Relevant Manufacturing Policy for India, Relevant educational Policy for India, Globalization and how India can grow at +10% per year, Good nerve and how it clears the citizen, Employment Generation for 10 million people per year, How to make Money after leaving College, Transforming India through Education. 3. Mind-Set-Change of teachers, Parents &038 the Youth neigh borly see the projects I and 2 as detailed on page 97 not only are the Projects described but the positive impact of these Projects are also explained in detail. 4.Providing Relevant Data Kindly refer to our website at www. wakeupcall. org, all our publications as mentioned under item I, list of references as detailed out on page 92 and you lead see that we have extracted a plentifulness of relevant data for you the reader and formatted the same for easy reading and understanding. All our data is updated, as far as possible, once a year. 5. climb up Vocational Education &038 Training Centres We work with a few large organizations within India who collectively train large number of people per year. We are their knowledge partners.By use of technology, by use of real(a) training centres, by use of combine such training centres with business and manufacture in each local area, by providing trained Trainers &038 Mentors for actual training, by conducting assessments, exams and te stimony of trained persons, by providing counseling before training and placements after training, we add a lot of value for the youth in any geography or partition of India. Currently we are concentrating on VET courses in the areas of Healthcare, Hospitality, Tourism, Education and setting up centres in all part of India. detail on request.General Wake up Call for INDIA 11 i Watch Focus areas Education We work on this issue because 1. Drop-out rate between KG to Class 10+2 is 87% to 93%, includes those who have never attended school. 2. freedom Raj and regulation in Higher, Medical and expert education, restricting growth, R&038D, quality and capacity. 3. bullion out-flow of most Rs. 50,000 crores or US$10 to $12 one million million per year for Indian students leaving India for unknown Universities, because of lack of sit and quality education within India. These bullion abundant to build 50 IIMs &038 30 IITs per yearIt is estimated that near 153,000 students yield every year for hostile studies. 50% opt for a two year Masters course and the fit 50% for a four-year Undergraduate course. 4. operable literacy anticipateed to be rough 33% against Governments figure of about 67%, but China close to 93%. 5. Inadequate skills development. Hardly 0. 5% of the work force are be trained at any translaten, in the organized sector, versus the required 7% to 10%, as in China and other veritable countries 6. India has 27,000 overseas students while Australia has 400,000 foreign students 7.India has 1. 7 million schools vs 2. 5 million in China 8. India has 563 Universities vs 1100 in China 9. Pre- unproblematic not given impoftance. 90% of the human brain developed between the age of 1 to 6. 2. wherefore is FDI stock into India scarcely US$ 121 trillion vs US$ 1920 billion for China + Hong Kong? 3. Tourist traffic into India is only 6 million per year vs 80 million per year into China? 4. land trade is about 2. 2% against 8. 0% for China. 5. Ag riculture productivity in India is 40% as compared to that of China. 6. Life expectancy is 67 years vs 74 years in China. 7.Electrical loss ascribable to transmission and other losses from electricity boards vary from 25% to 50% in India vs 6% to 8% in China. 8. Foreign ex transform militia about US $ 295 billion for India vs US$ 2199 billion in China. 9. HIV/ back up affect about 5 million people in India vs 0. 85 million in China. 10. 40% of all fruits and vegetables are damaged or destroyed overdue to poor farm management. 11. India receives a lot of rain but because of poor pee management we get floods or drought. Economy We work on this issue because 1. Labour Laws do not allow direct contend field for Indian organizations within give up Global Economy. . Employment generation suffers because we look at Capital intense businesses rather than Labor intensive ones. 3. India has only 2. 6% of world gross domestic product. Buying power is low, but demand is high due to high population of 17%. Exports is the answer. fair to middling emphasis not given so far in 66 years. SEZs expect to grow alacritous. 4. down the stairsstructure is very inadequate for 1,210 million people. Lot of burble but very little implementation. organisation We work on this issue because 1. Rs. 3,600 crores or US$ 0. 72 billion dog-tired everyday by the 35 states and UTs of India to run the country.Are the citizens euphoric? < 1 million = 10 lacs> 12 www. wakeupcall. org General 5. India necessitate to cash in the service of purchasing power parity, (PPP) for its World Trade. 6. I. T. and software is only 5% of the Indian economy and 3% of world economy. India must look at the quietus 97% of the world economy and make it World Class. 7. Advantage of SMEs not full understood. Present exposition not as per Global Standards as in EU, USA, Japan, China, etc. This is a big disadvantage to Indian business as 99. 7% of all organizations in the world are MSMEs.SSIs are o nly 5% of Indias gross domestic product while MSMEs would be close to 70% to 80%. Ministry of manufacturing focus should change from application to Economy. 4. Vocational education is directly connected with affair and wealth generation, unlike normal education and knowledge utility. The pull ins of VET for the leafy vegetable man, avails to organizations who use skilled and trained manpower and benefits to the nation to make it orbicularly competitive will only come about when nearly 80% of the youth, after the age of 15 years opt for VET and not for the normal college education which is B. A, B. Sc or B. Com 5.The Demographic dividend of supplying young skilled manpower to the world markets must be seized by future Indians by employ VET. 6. The present work force of 490 million can be divided into 30 million in the organized sector and 460 million in the uncoordinated sector. The biggest challange veneering us is to provide world class VET for the 460 million in the un organized sector 7. Most of the SMEs are in the unorganized sector. SMEs are the real Dynamo of the economy. Dovetailing SMEs with Vocational Education &038 Training will create one of the biggest pool of young, talented and trained manpower in the worldThis will ride India forrader as an economic power. 8. In contries like Switzer footing &038 Austria there are 5000 VET centers each only for a polulation of 8 million each These contries are land locked and have no mineral wealth or energyi but because of high quality human resorseas have GDP nearly 33% and 23% of respectively of India 9. The present Apprentice Act is not in line with the countrys present take. It requires to be wholly overhauled so that nearly 10% of the workforce could be apprentices organism trained and working at the same time. Employment Generation We work on this issue because . India has 43 million registered unemployed and belike another(prenominal) 260 million who are underemployed or unemployed in the age conclave of 18 to 50 years but not registered. 2. The average age of an Indian is 26 years, compared to a Chinese who is 34 years and a European, American or Japanese who may be 40 to 45 years in age. India is a very young country. We need to skill our people so that we can take advantage of so many teenage Indians 3. While China spends nearly 2. 5% of GDP on Vocational Education &038 Training (VET) in 500,000 VET centres cover song nearly 3000 vocations. India ardly spends 0. 1% of its GDP in VET in 8500 centres covering about 400 vocations. The actual expenses in VET are more but data is not available 1 million = 10 lacs General Wake up Call for INDIA 13 Citizens respond to i Watch Feedback and Response received from Indian organizations and individuals, during the last ten years has been documented, ground on letters and colloquys received. A selection of some of these communications has been compiled into a dossier and available for inspection at our point in Mumbai. Some of the feedback is mentioned in the pages down the stairs.In short, we are quite happy about the wit change and action plans initiated in different parts of India, buttd on the above strategy adopted by i Watch, action plans, assisting and networking with various stakeholders in the actual implementations of plans towards Educational Reforms and Transforming India. Sushma Berlia, President, Education Promotion order for India They have set out to create a framework for achieving high and sustainable growth for India. For this they are working to build consensus and find out policy changes.This is indeed a very unique strategy intentional to have a far-reaching impact. Rajiv Kumar, Chief Economist, CII I hope to use some of the wiseness gleaned from your paper in the formulation of my policies of corporate governance. N. R. Narayana Murthy, head &038 Chief Mentor, Infosys i Watch is doing a wonderful job in making the people understand and inform relevant policy cha nges required and the importance and need of Good constitution to benefit the people of India. Dr. B. P. Dhaka, Secretary General, PHDCC The Chamber appreciates the obedient work i Watch has been doing for the benefit of the citizens.P. N. Mogre, Secretary General, Indian Merchants Chamber The mission of i Watch has been the Mission of Krishan Khanna to bring in and transform where ever he was compound in work or life. Dr. P. S. Rana, professorship &038 Managing Director, HUDCO As an educationist and HRD consultant I bullneckedly believe that the plan of i Watch for training 95% of the youth in 3000 areas of Vocational education is most innovative. If implemented, it would prove to be a major solution for the un exercising problem in India Prof. Rooshikumar Pandya, International perplexity Guru We interact with more than 500 nongovernmental organizations and we must say that we have found i Watch a unique and innovative NGO. Vinay Somani, Managing Trustee, Karmayog. com I have read with interest your book titled, Transforming India, and would like to convey my compliments to you for the very useful studies and suggestions contained in this. I have no doubt that the issues raised and the recommendations do are of coarse value. B. N. Yugandhar, Member plan Commission We believe in the ideas and suggestions of i Watch to bring the policies to optimum benefit for the people of India.Anupam Mittal, President &038 CEO, People aggroup I have not hear of any NGO like i Watch which has such a holistic plan for Transforming India. Maj. Gen. D. N. Khurana, Director General, All India Management Association. Regarding Good Governance, I look forward to having detailed discussions with you to follow-up on some of the suggestions contained in your book, Transforming India. M. Damodaran, Chairman &038 Managing Director, IDBI I unfeignedly appreciate i Watchs endeavour in creating sentiency, suggesting solutions and 14 www. wakeupcall. org I am aware of t he costly work being done by i Watch.I have noted your opinions regarding good governance, training and practice. M. Venkaiah Naidu, President, BJP General Please keep up the good work. Dr. Natarajan Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education well as focusing on the areas where we need to give greater attention. M. V. Rajasekharan, Minister of State for supplying, Planning Commission I was very strike with your whole course of study and your efforts to elevate India. Babu Khalfan, NRI base in USA The vision with which i Watch has been set up is indeed a very timely effort for better governance.We would be glad to be associated with your foundation. Deepankar Sanwalke, executive director director Director, KPMG We would profoundly appreciate it if you could kindly foreswear the time to participate in the gathering on NRICivil Society coalition and guide its deliberations. Dr. Abid Hussain, Chairman, Group for Economic &038 societal Studies At the outset, let me congratulate you on all your presentations and I feel happy and honoured that you have shown interest in our working together on vocational education and training. I can see the potential. Prof. Rupa Shah, frailty Chancellor, S. N. D. T. Womens University I would like to thank you for your support. It has helped us grow into a strong and vibrant organization. Padmini Somani, Director, Salaam Bombay mental home Your publication makes an interesting reading. I very much appreciate the simplicity and practicality of your approach. K. L. Chugh, Chairman old ITC Ltd. We welcome you as a breach section of the IC Centre for Governance. The executive committee members of the Centre are impressed by the choice of your core issues and the action plans outlined. Prabhat Kumar, Former Cabinet Secretary &038 President, IC Centre for Governance Watch is doing a wonderful job and the research work you are doing shall give us a lot of inputs for the effort. Sudesh K. Aggarwal, Secre tary General, All Indians Foundation Reference your discussions with our Chief Secretary, we will be glad if you hold inter diligent sessions on Good Governance &038 telling Administration for all senior and middle level piecers, numbering about 450 of the government of NCT, at the Delhi Secretariat. Prakash Kumar, AR &038 IT Secretary, Govt. of NCT I must postulate that this is really a very careful job and you have amassed a lot of valuable statistics and data.I assure you that with my hold ability I shall try to project your data to all possible forums. P. N. Roy, Chairman, Indo-Asahi Glass Ltd. i Watch is invited as a part of the expert panel to comment and suggest on the India and the World 2025 scenarios at the interactive workshop organized by the World Economic Forum and CII. Confederation of India Industry Your effort to shortlist the maladies looming ominously on our socio-cultural-economic spectrums deserve mention. R. S. Agarwal, Joint Chairman, Enami Group of Campanies Please accept my congratulations for the good work which you have done.I would like to take this luck to wish you all the best in your work and I am sure your publications will bring about awareness and as well play a very educative role in highlighting the issues and as General I critically studied your Governance &038 Administration of India paper and came out very deeply impressed and also agitated. It is powerful enough to make everybody sit up and think. It hits the right cord. You have precisely pointed out what ails India. Prakash Almeida, Director, ground for Study of Economic Issues Wake up Call for INDIA 15 About i WatchI am sure this book will set all those who receive it thinking and from thinking at least some will go on to take some action to realize the vision you have sketched. N. Vittal, interchange Vigilance Commission, CVC What is i Watch ? i Watch, is a citizens movement for Transforming INDIA. i means India, Indians, you and me. Watch, means that we are watching what is happening in the country and reporting to the citizens in order to create awareness for the pursuit of improvement. The i is small since our gurus have ever taught us that only with humbleness can we perceive the truth.We focus on human beings resource development, governance, economy, enterprisingness and employment generation and the relevance of their interconnection. i Watch is a registered charity with the head office located in Mumbai, India. Donations to i Watch, discard for 80G income tax benefits for indian organizations and citizens. The FCRA approval for foreign donations has been received in January 2009. Your perception is superb, ideas are original and some of the statistics are mind boggling. I wish your ideas get a much wider coverage through the all-India media. H. N. Dastur, decision maker Director, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan When awareness is there, the action will also take place and in this feat I and many Indians are with you. hold it up. Sushil Gupta, Past rule Governor, Rotary District 3010 I assure you that I will continue to do whatever is within my power to pursue the one point agenda as in your letter. George Fernandes, justification Minister, Government of India We feel privileged on scotch of your having favoured us with your valuable experience. impart Commodore Amrit Lal, Executive Director, Indian Society for Training &038 Development How do we plan to transform INDIA? i Watch, functions in three stages. . grow awareness Publications such as Making INDIA a Knowledge Economy, The INDIA you may not Know and Action Plan for INDIA are used for the purpose of creating awareness. 2. Solutions and Action Plans This is achieved by our website, interactive workshops and our 104 page book, Transforming INDIA. 3. Actual Implementation For this purpose, we assist and network with government, public, close organizations and NGOs. I appreciate your viewpoints expressed in the note and would invite more ideas and pragmatic exercises which can help to develop order of magnitude in the right direction.Suresh Prabhu, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha 16 www. wakeupcall. org General What has i Watch achieved ? In 1992, when we started on the journey of Transforming INDIA, we had no steer as to the focus we should take. It took us nearly 4 years of research and blend in to come to some basic conclusions as to the areas of focus for transforming India. This we achieved by 1996. Real work started in 1997. The focus finally irrigate pull down to the following four come upon areas1. HRD, Vocational education &038 Employment Generation 2. Governance &038 institution of India 3.Policy changes regarding, SSI, MSME and relevant labour laws 4. Economy, Enterprise, eg. emphasis on trades and other sectors of the economy such as retail, sell, manufacturing, travel and tourism, healthcare, stem and agriculture. i Watch has had some conquest in all four areas as we have been able to change the wit of a large cross section of the decision making population by the use of1. Interactive workshops, seminars &038 articles 2. Publications, Making INDIA a Knowledge Economy, The INDIA you may not know and Action Plan for INDIA 3. 02 page book, Transforming INDIA 4. Website at www. wakeupcall. org 5. Participation in the National Committees of the MHRD, Planning Commission, Chambers of Commerce, CII, FICCI, Ministry of IT, etc. As members of CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, PHDCC&038I, IMC, MEDC, BCC&038I and discussions with IBA, RBI, and MOF we were able to influence the meaning of SMEs and understanding the limited relevance of SSIs. The only constant in life is change selectd by the Europen Union, EU, for a joint project on employment generaction and vocational education and training in ten states of India.In the area of Governance we have been consulted by state governments such as the Delhi NCT to suggest and advice on Governance and Administration. In Educational Reforms, our tho ught play regarding vocational education and training, have been considered by the Ministry of HRD, Planning Commission &038 IGNOU. Thrust on Deregulation of Higher and Technical Education is gaining acceptance through initiatives with the CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, EPSI, PHDCC&038I and others. In the areas of Economy &038 Enterprise, we are called for our feedback and inputs by think tanks such as the World Economic Forum, WEF.In the last 20 years we have distributed more than 600,000 copies of our book, Transforming INDIA, conducted a large number of interactive seminars and hosted all our ideas and thoughts on our website. Our publications are available in 13 languages, in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Urdu and Malayalam. Only 7% of Indians understand English. General Wake up Call for INDIA 17 i Watch principles, mission, goals Guiding Principles 1. positivistic attitude Believe that real change is possible. 2. Research Dont hit the road without detailed home work. 3.Effective communication Use communication tools to reach out to all. 4. Belief in the power of the confederacy Recognize that the central means of all actions is a collective assertion. From an inclusive fellowship comes a collective strength. 5. Constructive dispute Engage in the spirit of partnership. strain selection modules or change the rules. 6. Non aider culture No political standoff 7. Pro-political approach Politicians are victims of the vicious cycle, not villains 8. Respect for political process identification that the politics is the central to democrac and the true politics is a noble endeavour 9.Political alternatives there is no alternative to democracythe alternative to democracy is a better democracy 10. Professionalism Deliver on individual roles and responsibilities at the highest degree of commitment and capability at all times. namely good governance &038 effective administration, how it influences the economy and how to achieve it? The importance of relevant Human Resource Development. Removing the present Licence Raj in education The need for policy changes such as scrapping the existing limited rendering of small surpass industry, SSIs, and expanding it into micro, small and medium enterprises or SMEs.The blatant need of relevant labour and administrative reforms to bring India at par with other Asian Tigers and to provide a level playing field to our business leading and managers. Why merchandises and tourism must be expanded by 1000% of the present levels In a democracy people have to get involved. Change is possible and more creditable if communication is bottom up rather than top down. Our presentation is therefore designed for the common man or the citizen of India. Goal To make India, a land, which is truly world class. With 1210 million people, India has a very large demand, but where is the acquire power?We must export more to build up purchasing power Indias fut ure lies in becoming a resource base for the world, in manufacturing, trading and services, since 97. 4% of world trade and 97. 8% of world buy power is NOT within India. A birds eye view shows India needs to emulate the successful examples of information technology, software and diamond exports, for all other sectors of the economy. With a high purchasing power parity (PPP of Rs. 16 = US$1), India has immense scope to export goods and services. Good governance and effective administration are unavoidable to achieve these goals for India Politicians and officials in China guggle Economics &038 Walk the Talk, that is wherefore non-resident Chinese and foreign investors have faith in China Fortunately, the preception about India is now in positive territory General Historical Background The focus was always constant in the areas of Human resource development, governance and the economy. The importance of the interdependance of HRD-Governance-Leadership-Economy &038 Enterprise-In frastructure on each other needs to be understood. Each depends upon the other in many ways.It is not possible to look at them seperately without causation harm and lowering the efficiency of the country. Mission To create awareness for the citizens of India in areas which are vital for the future of the nation, 18 www. wakeupcall. org The INDIA you may not know of 50,000 or more occult I. T. training centers spread crosswise the country. 9. I. T. &038 software are only 2. 0% to 2. 5% of the worlds GDP. Indias present share is about 5% of GDP. For rapid economic growth and employment generation we need to concentrate on the balance 95% of the economy and enterprise and make it world class 10. 00 million unemployed of employable age* and only 44 million have actually registered with employment offices with little or no hope of getting employment (our estimates)*. 11. Of all new employment generated, 1% are government jobs, 2% are in the organized sector and the balance 97% in the unorganized sector. 12. Out of our 490 million workforce, 94 % work in the unorganized sector and about 6% in the organized sector. most 55% to 60% are egotism employed. 13. 2. 5% of the entire population, to wit 19 million people work for the central and state government another 11 million work in the surreptitious organized sector.A small part of the population work in the organized sector. 14. All Labour Laws are make to protect, at any cost, the above 2. 5% of the Indian population. Article 311 of the Indian constitution needs relevant revision since it over protects employees of the Government even at a cost to the nation. 15. While MPs, MLAs and Municipal Councilors and the village panchayats, can only be elected for a maximum of 5 years, the officials, babus, and government employees enjoy life long benefits of employment, in spite of their performance. 16.We have 600 million illiterate people base on the international description of the 3Rs (reading, writing and arithm etic or education at least up to primary level of class 5) 17. The Indian definition of literacy is ground on a travel along of people If you can write your name, you are literate nobody has seriously ever challenged this definition 18. 290 million live below the Government of Indias definition of the distress line of Wake up Call for INDIA 19 1. 71% or 840 million people are below 35 years of age. Indians are young. 2. 28 million people are born every year, 10 million die per year, population increase 1. % per year 3. 88% to 92% drop out rate of children between kindergarten and 10+2. This includes those who have never been to school. 4. 10% are the ones that cross the 10+2 stage, Educational Line of Control, which is our so called educated youth, go in for a regular college degree which may not be very relevant in todays context for the sake of employment generation and national GDP enhancement. 5. 62% of all graduates from the 37,000 colleges are arts graduates. Balance 38% i n science, commerce, medical, engineering, I. T. , law, management and special subjects. 6.While 80% of the world youth between 15 to 35 years of age fit a vocation, a skill or a trade, with a choice of 3000 vocational education and training (VET) programs, in 15,000 modules, we in India have only identified about 400 courses after 66 years of Independence and hardly 2% to 2. 5% of the population goes for globe VET training 7. We can get engineers and MBAs in India but no carpenters, plumbers, drivers, repairmen and other skilled personnel as per international standards in the other 2,500 vocational trades. 8. Information Technology, software or I. T. are the only exceptions.Perhaps because India 1st Rs. 26 (rural India) to Rs 32 (urban India) per day this is based on being able to buy enough rice and wheat from the Public Distribution System, PDS governing body and ration shops, which has food value of 2200 kilogram calories per day. 19. Nobody has ever challenged this definitio n of leanness Line. How can one expect people to live with a few kilos of raw uncooked wheat or rice? As human beings, dont we need more? How about one set of clothes to cover our bodies, a set of chappals for our feet, some vegetables, milk and fruit, in our diet? How will we cook without any energy and fuel? 0. 450 million* live below the poverty line definition of the World Banks old definition of US$1 (Rs. 50) per day per person, or US$ 365 per year. 800 million* people live below the poverty line definition of the World Banks new definition of US$ 2 (Rs. 100) per day per person, or US$730 per year. (our estimates)* 21. Average Per Capita of an Indian is about US$ 1530 per year per person (1. 21 billion people and a GDP of US$ 1853 billion). Average earning of an Indian is US$ 4. 10 per day. 22. India has only 2. 6% of the World GDP and has 17% of the world population.Demands are high but buying power is low. hence we will need to increase our export related activities by 10 times, as the foreign markets are 60 times bigger than the Indian market. Our share of world markets or foreign trade is 2. 2%, down from 33% 1000 years ago, down from 27% when the British set down in India and down from 3% in 1947. 23. Only 7% of all Indians understand English, provided most of the websites of the government of India, state governments and public institutions are in the English language 24. While English is a language used in countries which account for about 38% of the world GDP, viz. USA + UK + old British colonies, yet in India, while we talk of globalization, we are not serious about acquisition the other languages of the world, eg. , Japanese, German, Spanish etc, unlike the Chinese youth who are doing so otherwise. 25. India is probably at the bottom of the heap, as far as the human development list is concerned such as sister mortality, child care, malnutrition, womens health, sicknesses, disease, health, clean beverage water, etc. 26. Democracy is to the people, for the people, by the people. If we have to succeed, the citizen has to get involved and participate in governance. 7. Unlike other countries, we have 22 official languages, 2,600 dialects, all religions of the world, and due to low human and economic development, emphasis on SC, ST, dalits, caste, religion, sects, minorities, regions, ethnic groups, etc. 28. Employment generation is restricted due to existing policies which do not encourage Labour Intensive enterprises. Relevant labour reforms in line with prevailing practices in other countries of Asia are required for a level playing field for Indian organizations. 29. The size of Enterprises cannot be decided by officials in the central government.They are decided by technology, process, international market forces and competitive pressures. Reservation for small home base industry, SSI, needs to be scrapped and SMEs should be encouraged. SSIs are 5% of the Indian GDP. 99. 7% of all organizations in the world are SMEs. 70% to 80% of the Indian GDP are SMEs. We need to understand the meaning of E in MSME (small and medium enterprises). 30. As per www. loksatta. org, about Rs. 3,200 crores are spent every day, to govern India at the centre and state levels, both on revenue as well as on enceinte account. Is this transparent? Is the money well spent?Citizens need to use The Right to Information, RTI bill, and also take part in the governance of India, through citizen groups. 31. About 800 members of parliament in the lok sabha and rajya sabha and 4,210 members of the state legislature assemblies control this expenditure of Rs. 3,200 crore per day. You may transfer a sample of the contents of this book, Transforming India, from our website in English, Marathi, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese and Punjabi. < 1 million = 10 lacs> 20 www. wakeupcall. org India 1st Agenda of Transforming INDIA nto an Economic Power &038 Developed Nation Priori ty 1 Relevant HRD, deregulate H&038T education &038 Vocational training 1. 100% Primary Functional Literacy tick off to read and write any Indian language in 40 to 60 hours 1 hour per day for 5 days a calendar week. Nearly 500 million people need to analyze the 3 Rs which are reading, writing and arithmetic. As per the government of India, the average literacy rate is 64%, based on the indian definition, if you can write your name. If one uses the international definition, like minimum primary education as the criteria, the actual literacy rate would come down to 40%We need to achieve 100% functional literacy in the next 10 years 2. Primary &038 secondary education The dropout rate of 90% in schools, from kindergarten to class 12th, must be reduced to less than 10%. This includes children who have never attended school. 3. Enterprise Skills Development or ESD. We suggest that this should be started from class 5th right upto class 12th. ESD is about enterprises and how the real w orld works. Helps decide future choice of profession for the youth. Builds faith in ourself. Only two hours per week are required. 4. Vocational Education &038 Training or VET.VET teaches the youth a skill or a competence or a trade. One learns to do some skilled job In developed countries, 80% of the youth from age of 14 to 35 should go in for VET. This would mean about 50 million people per year. 5. Except for I. T. , which is 2. 5% of worlds GDP, where there may be 50,000 private training centres operating in India where are the training centres to run the balance 97% of the skills, trades, competances required to run the nation? India 1st 6. Liberalize Education Decontrol and privatise all forms of education like business was in 1991Make India an International Hub for Education 7. The I. T. business, ever since inception, has been outside the control and regulation of the central and state governments. Market forces, rocky competition, and constant innovation has allowed India n I. T. education to be world class. 8. Private and NRI company in education Government should concentrate up to high school only, from class 1 to 10 only. The rest they should leave to the private sector 9. Entrepreneurship Institutes in each Block Entrepreneur promotional institutes, in all the blocks of the states. 7% of new employment is in the unorganized sector and SMEs. We need skill sets for the youth. 10. India will only attain when the Goddess of Learning, Saraswati is unshakled and unchained as was the Goddess of Wealth Lakshmi in 1991. Priority 2 Good Governance Benefits of leadership and good governance are highlighted in ten different articles. If one looks at the contents page, one will notice that nearly 81% of our articles are People Dependant, ten on Governance and twelve on Human Resource Development and Sixteen on Employment GenerationOne can understand Good Governance, only if we understand the effects of bad governance. Many such examples have been given in o ur articles for this very reason. Wake up Call for INDIA 21 Focus on HRD, governance, economy and employment generation Priority 3 substitution government policy changes 1. Removal of SSI (small scale industry) reservation. Reservation does more harm than good. 2. recreate Labour and Employee Laws and give local enterprises and organizations a level playing field on par with other developing Nations of Asia and Latin America. 3.Encourage labour intensive technologies for employment generation. 4. Recognize the meaning and importance of MSMEs (micro, small medium enterprise) and not SSIs (small scale industry). We must understand the importance of the M and the E in SMEs as MSMEs account for 80% of the Indian economy against 5% in SSI. While the MSME Bill was passed in 2006. Indian MSMEs still have to align themselves to global standards. Large organizations subcontract most of their non-core business to highly productive and cost- effective MSMEs. 1. Trading, wholesale &038 retail , are 15 times bigger than I.T. (big employment and GDP generator) 2. Manufacturing, as an enterprise, is 11 times bigger than I. T. (generates about 75% of government revenues) 3. Health Care, as an enterprise is 4 times bigger than I. T. (big employment and GDP generator) 4. Travel &038 Tourism, as an enterprise is 6 times bigger than I. T. (big employment and GDP generator) 5. Education, as an enterprise is 4 times bigger than I. T. (big employment and GDP generator) Priority 5 Funding bag US$ 1500 Billion specific Infra Bonds Infrastructure needs funding at 6% to 8% per year, rate of interest.The promote of borrowing needs to be extensive to at least 10-15-20 years, since it takes nearly 5 years for building and another 5 years for Gestation and break-even. These bonds should be of low-interest but with incentives and tax breaks. Priority 6 awareness program for the above 5 priority areas By the use of our 102 page book, Transforming INDIA through education, awareness wit h relevant solutions and action plans are our prime objective. Our book is a step in that direction. It has 47 articles and notes on Governance, Human Resource Development, Enterprise &038 Economy &038 Employment Generation.Our website at www. wakeupcall. org details out much more than this book. Besides English, the Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese and Punjabi versions of some relevant portions are available. Only 7% of Indian understand English, therefore Indian languages are required. India 1st Priority 4 Export activities of the economy, other than software Software and I. T. is 2. 5% of the Worlds GDP, we need to look at the balance 97. 5% of the economic sector in the world marketsThe five areas of economic activity, mentioned below, are only some examples, there are many others. 22 www. wakeupcall. org Economic and business reforms later 66 years of Independence, where are we? afterwards 66 years of Independence, if we bench mark India against other countries of the world, especially with those in Asia, we note that though a lot has been achieved by us, a lot more needs to be done. We need to learn from our ult and move boldly into the future. India has achieved many milestones, but not enough to eradicate poverty, analphabetism and other vital issues, for the 1,210 million people of India.In spite of Indias glorious past history and present outstanding world class quality of our human capital, which not only is responsible for(p) for running many organizations, in manufacturing, trading and services sectors, just about the world but also responsible for advising many countries on this planet, we have not been able to put our own house in order to world class standards. We are not able to always use the best effective human capital for running the country, both for the public as well as the private sectors This needs to be suitably amended.In the first instance, we need to start taking som e simple and effective measures which are for the good of the majority of the people of India. We should plan to become a resource base for world markets since 98. 2% of the worlds buying power and 99. 0% of the worlds trade is not with India Good Governance is the Golden Key Good governance can unlock Indias latent potential We have been analyzing Indias problems based on years of research, analysis and personalised interviews with thousands of Indian citizens as well as NRIs and PIOs.India needs to improve its governance and administration to world class standards, as presently as possible. We firmly believe that India would be rated as the No. 1 country in the world, as far as potential vs performance is concerned Let us unleash this latent power and energy for the benefit of the 1,210 million Indians, and for the benefit of mankind on our planet. India needs a new and innovative paradigm break in thought process and grooming for achieveing a 10% to 14% GDP growth rate per ye ar 1. Why cant we have 100 zones on our coastline, each one analogous to a Dubai, Singapore or a Hong Kong?These 100 zones will in effect increase the GDP of India by 500% in 15 to 20 years China has more than 500 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) 2. Our suggested Relevant Manufacturing Policy for India can also enhance the GDP to manifold digit growth. We can achieve high growth rates of the Asian Tigers, including China, provided we follow such policies See our website www. wakeupcall. org and this book for details. 3. The existing educational policy, on human development, caters in general for higher education. About 25 million people of different age groups, enter the system every year.About 3 million make it in higher education, the balance 22 million drop off at various stages. We need to change the policy to benefit these 22 million. 4. Make some part or parts of coastal India as tax free zones, Use the best examples of Mauritus, Isle of Man, Sychelles, UAE, Bermuda, Luxumberg , Monaco and Lichtchenstien. Tourism, exports, FDI, investment, employment generation, education, vocational training, infrastructure, law &038 order, reduction of corruption, improvement of health services and GDP can improve at a faster rate with education good governance and effective administration.Wake up Call for INDIA 23 India should learn from the best We should either try to teach the world, if we are better than them, or be humble enough to learn from the best around us, other options are irrelevant W. Edwards Deming, one of the worlds greatest management and quality gurus, when asked, what his one point recipe for nations and organizations was, said, People are important. Experience of other countries Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of USA, once remarked that lack of labour rigidity is the key to success in the US.The US has benefited much more than Europe and Japan because American businesses enjoy the freedom to submit and fire and only keep th e best human resources. S. E. Asia and China have greatly benefited due to flexible and fair (for the masses), human resource policies. India 1st Governance &038 administration Primary duty of politicians and officials 1. Rate of growth Due to reforms in the last ten we consider 8% to 10% as the New rate of growth of the economy. India needs to grow at 10% to 14% per year, to meet the well being and aspirations of its people. This goal is achievable with Education, Good Governance and Effective Administration. . Democracy what does it mean? 2. Cost of Governance in India As per www. loksatta. org, an NGO based in Hyderabad, the expenditure on Governance of India, by the 790 politicians at the Centre, the 4,120 in the 35 States and Union Territories and the 19 million employees of the Central and State Governments use about Rs. 3,200 crore per day or Rs. 1,168,000 crore per year, both on capital and revenue accounts. About 1. 87% of Indians govern 1,210 million people This comes to about US$ 234 billion or nearly 14% of Indias Gross domestic product or GDP Are Indian citizens getting their moneys price?Only you the Indian citizen can give the actual and final answer. You be the evaluate of your own country and decide. Our study intelligibly indicates that the people of India desire and deserve much better Governance and Administration. Democracy is of the people, for the people and by the people. Citizens must play an active role. As President John F. Kennedy said, ask not what the country has done for you, but what you have done for the country. In a world of globalization and sagacious competition, Indians will have to