Indian state is as much a natural conception as it is a political planned fertilization of the diverse linguistically different regions of an area whose only common identity before the unification by the British was the same racial and religious identity. India as a unified state never existed in history, and it never had a common binding factor that unites all its populace regardless of race, cast religion or linguistic identity. The British unification of India not only united the geographical region, but, for the first time in history, it provided them a reason to unite, against the common enemy, the foreign invaders. However, as soon as it was clear that the fight was won, the leaders now had to provide a separate reason for which the state must continue its unified existence, and bar the Muslim League, nobody could propose a clear and distinct definition of what India was going to be like. The Muslim league wanted a state based on religion that could unite the mass after the departure of British, their movement got a great support, and they were able to form their state, an Islamic republic, through the partition of India. Nevertheless, the non-viability of that identity in the sub-continent was proven by the partition of Pakistan, in a linguistic basis, though the inhabitants of both the countries were Muslims predominantly, and had taken part in the earlier partition enthusiastically.
India was born with a nation identity which was conceived in negation to these historical occurrences, India was a sovereign country, which wanted to protect itself from being occupied by foreign force, India was a secular country, unlike Pakistan, and this “unlike Pakistan” part was very important to Indian people, who failing to understand the proper meaning of secularism interpreted it as religious tolerance. India was not going to be divided by the linguistic biases, so, states were created out of linguistically distinct areas. Hence most of Indian identities established at the point of independence were rather reflection to past and present occurrences, rather than being a conception of conceived and new ideas. As time has progressed, the state of world around has changed, but the principal denominator of Indian National Identity has not changed, and deemed extremists demanding independence on mostly ethnic, religious or linguistic grounds have emerged. Thus, the first conceived identity has failed somewhat, as it was precisely against these very ideas.
To add to this has been the indecisiveness over the government form, India, conceived by Gandhi Ji was a state whose power rose from the Panchayeti Raj, that conceived by Jinnah gave states almost full autonomy, and that conceived by Nehru-Gandhi rulers was centrally dominant. As such, states have felt exploited sometimes or the other during history, as most of the states of India have linguistically and culturally distinct people, who do not necessarily identify with the great Indian cause unless their cause has been properly addressed. Furthermore, the government has given some states more power and autonomy than others (e.g. Kashmir) though declaring it to be a special circumstance, the people of other state have not stopped short of creating special circumstances for their own states. The India government has been blackmailed so many times at gun point, that every other ethnic group now has one or two extremist factions.
The failed idea to promote one national identity through one national language during the 60s have been forgotten by the Saffron Brigade who are promoting it in a new pack of triple Indianism (Hindi, Hindu, Hindutwa) with poster boys like Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, and incidents like the demolition of Babri Masjid. It has quite often published in the media that Dr. Kalam starts his days by reading a verse or two from the Geeta, which according to the saffron brigade, is what an ideal secular Indian would do. Dr. Kalam has been exploited till he could yield no more, he has been used to prove that Muslims can be patriotic, that being a Muslim does not necessarily mean having a soft corner for Pakistan. The saffron brigade in last 20 years has created amidst the majority that they have been wronged time and again throughout history, and then by their very own government. Now, the majority resents having to share a state with Muslims, who were given a separate state — Pakistan.
To add to this feeling have been the introduction of various reservations. India, a country where being of higher caste meant you were worshipped as God once is now seeing various groups demanding that they must be bracketed with the Scheduled classes and tribes. And these demands are often turning violent, and in some extreme cases, given rise to terrorist organization. The introduction of reservation, which it was thought that would get rid of discrimination have divided the Indian populace like none other, and it has involved the educated elite too, who previously did not care about castism. Rather than getting rid of caste differences and making people forget it as a shameful part of history, the government has taken it out and put it before everyone and made it something which everyone must be aware of.
The political parties of India show how far India really is from achieving a true national identity. Most parties are conceived in racial, linguistic or religious circumstances, and barring the communists, no party has a clear economic stand point, forget about individualism. Even the communist, who come from a strong economic and philosophical ideology has been found confused and reacting in a knee-jerk manner. Their acceptance by the educated once showed that India once was prepared to move beyond the politics of cast and religion, but now, communists are mostly seen waving their secular flag rather than using their true red flag of equality and social justice. Hence, they have been rejected by the educated people, and now are in dangerous of being wiped out of a state which they have ruled for 27 years, and that too to a lady whose political agenda is solely based on objecting to the communists and nothing more. Such a shame.

I, a libertine, was very much interested in the communist politics in my young adulthood, as that appeared to be the only party which was addressing the real issues and moving away from cast and religion. Many of our friends came to join the party, but soon became disillusioned not because the party was proposing communism, which we did not like, rather because, it was going in the same direction as the others. But all those people from the previous generation, who wanted to vote on economic basis, had no option but to vote for them, and it is sad, for their demise proves that the field for true libertine philosophies is almost non-existent and is violently opposed by the present parties.
Now, the Indian Nation identity is very much limited to that of being born in this country to a mother and father who are Indians. And hence, the rate of emergence of separatist movement is increasing every year, and the government has to bribe to keep the nation integrated. Perhaps, someday, the identity shall be established on economic and philosophical terms, and citizenship by birth be abolished in favour of citizenship by choice. But then, what would limit the boundaries of such a state? A global mega state brought about without the use of arms, perhaps!

So, it has come. Many have been awaiting it, to rejoice, a few, thought, it shall never come. Fewer never bothered. However, it is going to affect them all.
I am speaking about the new education bill proposed. The first remark to it is, it is not a novel idea, in no way it is. It is the result of all the small ideas, the small steps taken. Now, with one sweep, it will be established, no one will oppose, no one will see what’s going wrong, no one will say anything against, and no one will hear about the wrong.

What is the name of this idea?

“Free and compulsory education for children”

Yes, free, and compulsory. Through the 86th amendment, the children got the right. The children are human beings, from age 6-14.
If we dissect this idea a bit, we shall see that through this right, we are also introducing compulsory education. What does that mean? If you do not want to study, you shall be forced to study. You shall be educated, with or without your consent. You are not grown up enough to give consent. Who decides? The state, of course.

Now, the child, who worked hard in the tea shop shall go to school, his standard of living shall improve. The dream that he had, to work and open his own shop after a few years shall be erased. It is not right to have such dream for him. All men must have high ambitions. The child who worked, because there was nobody earning in his home, shall go to school. We must feel for those poor children. They work when ours go to school. They are earning, when ours are learning. What shall happen to his family? Who shall feed him? That shall be dealt when we bring a new law, making food a basic human right.

Now, when this bill is passed, all our children shall be educated. All shall be able to solve algebra, when they are lying hungry, because he does not have any money to buy food. He shall accept this philosophically, as he is educated now. Education is a virtue, it required sacrifices. He has sacrificed. He has been made to sacrifice.

There shall be a vast number of children going to school. Are there enough schools for these children? Oh yes, we have. We shall make the privet ones share the burden. Education is not a commodity. It must not be sold. It is a virtue. It must be given free. Then how shall the private schools exist? Well, it shall take money from the wealthy children. Why? Because they can afford to buy it, so they MUST buy it. Nevertheless, does not this kid have a right to free education? Well, he may come to government ones.
The schools shall not choose the student. They shall not screen. Some people are good students because of their genetic make-up, they have no right to be given preference. No body has any right to discriminate. Those who are not good enough shall have everything equal to the good ones.
“THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE WORLD”

There shall be no exams. Nobody has the right to decide whether one has learned or not. Nobody has the right to award the working, the studious. The studious has no right to celebrate his victory. He shall not be given a battle to have a victory. All shall be equal.
When they will come out of school, all will be equal, the good brought to the label of the inferior, through years where every single occasion when he proved to be better than others were erased. The good shall come out not knowing he is good. Thus, there shall not be anybody who is better than the rest. This is equality.

It has been six years since the 86th amendment was made. Why haven’t it been passed? Because, the bill did not mention the funds required, or was very vague about it. Now it is clear, it requires minimum of Rs 3, 21,196 crore to a maximum Rs 4,36,458.5 crore over six years. Not a small price to pay, but, when there are so many good things about to happen, the price shall be paid. By whom? Those who would not be benefited by it. Now, we should not oppose it. We are not.
Through out ages, mediocre have ate out of the hand of the creator. Now, India seems to feel that it can do away with creators’ altogether.

Why this idea is being criticized has been discussed in this site. The reader is being requested here to think, why the government never privatizes health and education.

“Education is one of men’s greatest achievements; it is the road to further achievement. Every man must be educated.”
Indeed, no doubts. All men must have access to education, IF THEY CAN AFFORD IT. Provision of education requires three resources, the human resource, the teachers, who are providers, and have spent considerable amount of time while developing and preparing for the job, 2) the material resources, the books, pens and pencils, the school-building etc. The third and most important part is the literature, which of course does not may or may not require direct investment.
As can be seen, all the three parts require investment, direct investment from a party, which is going to provide education. Therefore, there can be no right to education, for it requires somebody else to provide it. However, there is a different kind of right associated with education, the right to educate oneself with any method or material, without having to follow a pre-defined path.
When general public/government speak about education and its right, they stress up on the first kind of right, which is to educate the mass in a fixed, predefined path, without taking the child’s interest or talents or situation in to consideration. There is no aim to this education, other than this belief that learning writing or being able to do addition or subtraction help everybody.
Nevertheless, both these subjects are neither informative, nor a school topic. These are tools that most illiterate people learn, without ever going to school, if they are interested. Especially, arithmetic, as writing is not a part of village living until today.
Then, people may argue, being able to write and read enables one to express himself better, or to read about expressions of others in books. However, that can not be the criterion for a right. Then, dancing classes, drawing classes must be basic human rights too as they enable one express even better.
The Indian society or for that matter most society in the world wants to make the wealthy feel guilty for their wealth. The difference in earlier generation people were enormous as education was limited then, and the learned knew much more than the common people knew, and were able to fool people whenever they wanted. Perhaps, that made people to classify wealth as evil. On the other hand, it may “Sour grape” reaction too.
As has been written in a previous article here, complete education is a myth, and I am not going to stress up on that. Rather, my concern is to provide universal education, of course, to a certain level, so as to enable humanitarian expressions better, and the artistic expression in society more profound.
For that, the proper understanding of education is required, and even though it may appear as preaching, I cannot refrain from adding that the mass knows nothing about education. It is possible to find economics graduates in India who either does not bother about understanding Inflation, or can give an hour long lecture with quotes without any view-points what-so-ever. Moreover, we all have seen both kinds.
The education that we ignore is the education of the mind, the liberty that we suppress is the liberty of our mind. In short, we ignore our mind. In Holy books, the mind is almost portrayed as Evil, ever falling from standards, ever failing to remain pure. Does this not make one wonder, if it is right to name the mind evil, and let one become the servant of the almighty. What do we have, other than our mind?
The fact that we ignore is that, we can not teach our mind in schools, we can not teach it to be moral. We can not teach it to ignore interests and focus on things, which bore us to death. However, we can induce fear in it, so as it resorts to following the path prescribed, how dull or unforgiving it be.
The morality must arise within oneself. In addition, the purpose of education is not to induce it, but to build a ground for it. How? By providing all sorts of literature, all sorts of view-point. By encouraging debates, by letting it forms a view, and not imposing one on it. Moreover, as you might have felt, we have been doing quite the opposite to it. How many times your dad has asked you not to lie, and has slapped you for lying. You lie, I lie, and we all lie. The education is a failure, it is a fashion.
We discussed over the viability of educating all here also and the common problems on real ground about providing education for a child is not so easy.
We want this fashion to reach to everybody, to the poor, to the rich. Whatever they learn, we do not bother. However, if hundred percent of our kids are going schools, we would be able to boast. Boasting, in public or private is the one single most reason behind charity.
We are bigots. We are nationalists. When we are in power, we preach our ideology. In addition, with time, it has become redundant, and we do not care. We do not feel the need to change. We do not want to grow tall, but we all want to grow fat.
There is no right to education, there can never be any such right, rationally speaking. Nevertheless, there is right to educate oneself, which is often discouraged, by mass and individuals. We must fight for that right, and implementation of that education. Otherwise, we are rich kids or pseudo-intellects crying “This must happen” or “This is not right” without knowing what is right and what must happen.

P.S. Sometimes Arundhati Roy says the same thing that a free man would want to say. That does not mean they speak for the same cause. And the ability to find the root cause behind either’s opinion is education.”

In a pole conducted by CNN-IBN today, the people of India, if I may say so, have agreed to decreased human rights in the country for a stronger anti-terrorism law. The UPA government in the centre has played to the popular demand and has passed a new law today, the much anticipated “Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment“ bill.
The government, in order to hide its intelligence and military failures have added a legal modification which will be much published in newspapers and broadcasted in TV channels, but will not help in capturing any terrorist(For law never catches any criminals, enforcers do), but may result in harassment of many people.
Indian population can be divided broadly in three classes, the lower class who is bothered with local issues and food and cloth prices, a middle class that is bothered with the job sector and the tax-rate along with food and cloth price, the price of cars and computers and an upper class, which is mostly concerned with economic reforms. All three vote for the same candidate in the election although their expectations from the legislator grossly vary.
Yet all three classes are grossly unaware of their rights as citizen, as a human being, as a part of the state.
The lower class is the most ignorant of all, and a daily labor from Assam does not bother about the incident of Mumbai, but he would just add that the Muslims must be exterminated. The middle class feel that they are the most aware of all the three classes and the moral burden of the country rests upon them, and they are the defining and the determining factors in government policy. Mostly their reaction has been almost the same as that of the daily labor, though they have presented it in a more coherent manner. They have demanded extermination of Pakistanis. The upper class, as always has remained aloof, and I could not contact any for comments, though it seems they are more worried about the stock slump then anything else.
In such a democratic country where legislators are elected on various bases ranging from cast to free gifts, it is not unexpected that government will be devoid of vision. In addition, the subjects of the government are yet to understand what human right is.
A representative from BJP who was speaking in the said broadcast commented,” terrorists are not human, and hence, are devoid of any rights”. It appears that all have forgotten that principle that unless convicted, all are innocent, and the burden of proof lies with prosecutor. The government, through this act, has reversed it, and now, you or me, who ever is framed by a terror charge will have to prove our innocence, rather than the state proving us guilty. So it is quite possible that number of fake encounters and ill-informed police assaults will go high.
The act also increases the days that police can keep one in custody without filing a charge sheet has been doubled, and as can clearly be seen is a clear infringement on human right. We all know how the police works, isn’t the police itself is not a terrorizing force? Nevertheless, the people of India are happy to cheer such a law because the government has proved to them that the country is on war, and war requires drastic measures. The problem I face here is that, we are facing an enemy without a face, and the war may last for a generation. It has lasted almost throughout my life. What am I being asked to sacrifice?
The response of the mass shows near resemblance to jingoism or unawareness to what it is cheering. The cause of terrorism is being forgotten, and the people are praying for a stronger state, a dominant military, restricting laws. Indian populace already has a curtailed horizon; it is prepared to sacrifice the little it has.
The cause of this reaction lies in the fact that Indians, mostly are unaware of the system they are in. They do not understand neither do they think about what is next.
A knee-jerk response is the only sort they are capable of. The commoner thinks the strategies are best left to experts, economics to economists, thinking to philosophers. In addition, philosophy is a much ridiculed subject today. The Indian education system is still producing one-dimensional professional, like the days of British-raj, who are not thinkers, or reformers. The entire country lacks education and character.
To add something different, as reported in a Bengali daily, one man was waiting under trial for murder for seven or so years, because there was lack of magistrates in the court where he was to be tried. Therefore, now this man demands that he be either tried or set free, as he as effectively served many years without trial. To this, a magistrate replies, he must submit a petition before the court for acquittal. The man gets mad and begins to slam his head on the bars. Sadly, the magistrate did not file a case for attempted suicide.
In a country with such a judicial history, along with the history of Emergency, imagine what laws like POTA and UAPA can do.
Suppose, you own a licensed gun and you are a Muslim, and there is a terror attack like Mumbai. You take out your gun for self-defense, and now police catches you with it. Now, you are caught at the scene of crime with a weapon in hand, and you are Muslim. Therefore, you spend six months in custody, and are subjected to torture, and after all this, you have to prove you were taking this action as self defense. In POTA, if the police after subjecting you to third degree framed a statement of confession, than it could have been used against you. That is what BJP wants. The UPA has given you some liberty, but in a backhand, it admits, its police are worthless, and can not carry out a proper investigation, so, you end up proving your innocence.
The government intends to use this law during riots too. In an occasion like Gujarat, where the whole state machinery was involved in destroying a particular community, this law can be used and the entire process can be legalized by police and the state. The Indian citizen was vulnerable to terrorism from groups before, now he is vulnerable to state terrorism too. Liberty lies outraged, and the citizens of world’s largest democracy cheer the act.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. ~~Ayn Rand

Man is alone, and that is his identity. A man is the centre of universe, and that is reality. A man, when he thinks, walks, or eats, he is alone though he might have company or might be having a conversation. Man has this world inside is head as much as it is on outside.
The world outside exists as a reflection inside a man’s mind, and a man has no prove to the existence of world or anything else, except when is trying to contradict it. Man knows by negation, and not by affirmation. Man’s reasons are good to rule out things to arrive at judgments, and his imagination is the tool used to propagate from judgments.

Imagination is very powerful indeed, and it is one talent which is an absolute must for creation of any kind. Many would argue that it is the most important attribute required to create, but introspection would reveal that a man must be rational first, to be able to create anything that would exist in this world. We might say that imagination gives us directions, but, it is in fact reason that leads us to having such sort of imagination.
Reason is dogmatic. Yes. Its existence requires it to be so. If there is nothing better than this place, then, I am staying here. most often mystiques have argued that the rational lack imagination, that is, they fail to notice anything new, because they have limited imagination.
It is totally baseless assertion, and it will be found through out religious scriptures when they are trying to tackle the atheistic belief.
The necessity of a God in society and the origin of him, has been expressed in many books and articles. We would just try to discuss the relation of Monotheistic God and an individual.
There are some attributes of animals which still exist with human, and one of the most potent one of them is man’s fascination with groups. Men like to form groups, like to discuss groups interests, like to serve the group, and sometimes, would give up his life for the glory of the group. Now, this has human part in it to. Man would give up his life or belongings for a group he totally identifies with, such as religion or language without much requirement of an uprising. National groupism is a refined form of this, but a man can not naturally identify with such a big and diverse group without presence of a provoking factor. This can be seen in cases of war and natural disaster.
But, as the man becomes more and more refined, he goes on understanding that he is different, different from all the rest. That everything else exists to him just because he exists. And he feels alone.
One attribute of man is that he is happy to serve. He is happy to belong, he is happy to be a part of something. Awakening leads to discovery of the fact that he, in this world is alone. And nobody likes it when it suddenly strikes them. This is what Mayavadis told everyone. That the world outside is a hoax. But that is only a part of it. No matter how much awakened one is, he can not negate the presence of himself, and that of the world. But he can say that he is free from all the rest.
How free is a man? The world is a process of rewarding and punishing. A man is accountable for his actions. So will he be free if there is no action from his side? No again, for the world has some pre-requisites for life, and everyone must fulfil them. Hence, men’s heaven dreams are always an inconsequential world and an eternal life. Man has tried, tried to negate the very requirement, the basic truth of his living.
Man serves God. Man found God in his hour of loneliness’, when he found that all of his actions were directed to nobody’s gain, he tried to find an identity by asserting, he is doing God’s work. Finding flaws in everything, he tried to find a flawless love in God. Finding his ego not letting him submit to any earthly flawed thing, he submitted to God. Submission is an essential human trait.
Man loves. Most of his loves stem from him being with things or people for a long time. The love of man is most often a consequence, rather than a decision, or submission. But, man does submit. Man submits to his fellow man when he finds those godly traits in another. When the word love stems without the proverb “despite of”. When man can search and find nothing he can criticise, he says, I am fulfilled.
But it is true that human have faults discovered sometimes or the other. And then, the temporal factor becomes the deciding one. Does a man move on fro his beloved? Should he move on from his beloved? These questions storm his mind, and he becomes lost. Most often, he makes a compromise.
But how it should be? Should a man not proceed from a place the ends of which he has found, and found them to be inferior to what he seeks for himself? Can a man not proceed to a higher goal? You would often hear this question, “Would you leave me if you found somebody better?” What do you say when asked so?
Sometimes, we find some people who would choose to walk with us, and we would agree despite knowing that he deserves better than me, or despite finding out he would soon overshadow me. Many people have jealously tried to guard such man and stagnate them to themselves, but, that bird which has found freedom, and knows the fruitless existence of a cage would be hard to tame. The cage must go. A better self must emerge. It is through journeys such, that we find movement points; we have our own search of God.
One thing to remember is God loves you. God cares for you. God that you may find and you may please will always be satisfied by what you offer and not whatever you offer.
coming back to submissive nature of human, his desires to find somebody to whom he can submit would never go away. Otherwise, he would be tormented to decay. The pleasure that submission is overshadows the pleasure of owning, pleasure of saying I am yours is much more than you are mine. To say I am yours, a man requires to own himself. To own something, he does not.
Again, love follows reason. Love would check out all the despite off features. You might ask, why there is so much of falling of there then? And the answer would be, the word eternal stinks, and your traits change and so does your demands. You would say, to find a God do we wait a lifetime?
Let me answer it. Most people exist to do things in life. They never understand what life is or what its capacities are. They die as good as any man. A few though exist, to do things with life. And finding a God and being good enough may be one of it.
Submission is bliss.

Indian health minister Anbumani Ramadoss recently said,

“The government has subsidized medical education in India. While studying in private colleges may cost Rs 4 lakh, the annual tuition fee of a medical student in a government college is just Rs 4,000 in Tamil Nadu. In AIIMS, it is just Rs 210 while in JIPMER it is Rs 125. So by asking them to serve India’s poor for just a year, we aren’t asking too much. Moreover, the stint will help them gain experience.”

According to the officials, MBBS doctors will have to spend four months each in a primary health center, community health center and district hospital. They will be paid a monthly stipend of Rs 10,000.

The World Health Organization(WHO) recognizes health as a basic human right. That means, every individual, irrespective of their caste, creed, religion, social and financial status, has a right to good health care. The WHO defines health as “the state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely an absence of disease and infirmity. [1948]”

From this definition, it can be clearly understood that, health is not a natural phenomenon, that is the health of a person is almost always in deteriorating condition until and unless proper action is taken to maintain it. Furthermore, to convert the diseased society into a healthy one, a large amount of money and human resources are required.

To realize the right to health, in Alma Ata declaration, the concept of primary health care was introduced. Primary Health care is defined as “the essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and the country can afford to maintain at every stage of development in the spirit of self-determination. [Declaration of Alma Ata, USSR, 1978.]”

So, the liability of providing the health care for the community lies with the community itself.

Indian Government introduced National rural health Mission[NRHM] in 2004 to realize the unfulfilled aspects of primary health care.

Let us look in to this matter a bit.

The concept of primary health care introduced so as to realize the right to health. But, health care is a service which requires service providers such as Doctors, nurses, laboratory-technicians, health workers and lastly, the research scholars.

From time immemorial , the physicians has always belonged to the strata of the most knowledgeable men in society. Physicians were great philosophers, mathematicians, and often social pioneers. In classical age, there were no distinction between a philosopher scholar or a physician. Society trusted its brightest and most enlightened men to serve as doctors. With the advent of modern technologies, the earlier philosopher physician, to whom medicine was just another way of understanding the world was replaced by a more dedicated and specialized physician. The result was an increase in the health expenditure. Today with the latest technology at disposal we have come to an age where there are specialists for almost every organ and every disease They devote almost half of their life in learning the process. And hence, the cost of health services has touched the sky.

But the government regards its subjects as resources, the human resources. The output from these resources is directly related to the health and happiness of their subjects. Health is an important deciding factor of citizen mood. So maintaining a healthy society is one of the most important objectives of the government. The government does this by categorizing health as one of the human rights.

How can a government force the service providers to serve in realizing this right? The service providers are, by the virtue of human nature, more prone to be profit oriented than to try to help the society into becoming a healthy society. Though the division between profit and common goal is non-existent, it is created by the government to assert its importance in providing the essential human requirements. Government proclaims that no provider will willingly provide health care to the poor.

In its effort to control the providers, it controls their education, i.e, it controls the service which they utilize. The government is the sole provider of training for the health professionals, and it controls them by giving this training at a subsidized cost. The government has not allowed a private boom in the medical education sector through the guidelines and actions of Medical Council of India(MCI), its working hand. The government argues that the quality of education will be degraded if it allows a boom in this sector. So what is the result?

Almost all the competent doctors are produced from a government institution, and they have made a bond of five years of service in government run health centers. Thus the government is controlling the health care providers.

Why is the government interested in adopting this new policy of appointing fresh graduates as trainees without actually employing them despite of the fact that it has a five year bond with every graduate?

The government clearly understands that it is beyond its payable capacity to employ doctors to fill up all the positions and improve the quality of health care provided. So, the government of India is handing the life and death matters of its beloved citizens to the under-trained graduates from its sub-standard medical institutions, and all that at a price of Rs 10,000($250) per doctor per month.

Even the junior most employee working at a Business Process Outsourcing(BPO) Office in Bangalore or Hyderabad earns more than this trainee. So, its clear the doctors are not willing to go for such a deal. Therefore the health minister of India cites humanitarian grounds to solve this issue and he makes it mandatory for the doctors who are willing to go for higher studies to serve in his rural PHCs for peanuts.

The important point is that the medical graduates from a foreign university would not need this rural stint to practice in India. This discrimination illustrates the government’s desire to eat the cake without having it.

Lets see what opening up of sector can do for us.

A privatized medical education system would result in opening of a number of private medical schools, and therefore the number of MBBS graduates graduating every year will increase thousandfold. Liberalizing the medical education system will also decrease the cost of medical education in addition to increasing the quality of the service provided.

In the present scenario those who can afford better quality health care almost always prefer private hospitals to government hospitals. Unfortunately, these are the same people paying the tax money used to subsidize the health care. It means that, the honest taxpayers paying for the subsidized health care are have to again buy it from private providers. The government argues that it is not forcing them to seek private health care, but they are choosing themselves to go to private health care. Unfortunately because of the high rush at the government hospitals, the low quality of service, and the huge back log of patients forces them to seek private health care. So, although the government is not encouraging the taxpayers to opt for private providers, they are discouraged by the condition of public providers.

A doctor working in a out patient department of a government hospital is examining almost 70 patients per hour. This rate of work will invariably result into mistakes on the part of the doctor. In additin to that the consumer is under the security of a consumer protection act which holds the doctor responsible for mistakes committed by him. The doctor is in a no win situation and hence has a little interest in a government job.

Under “Janani Suraksha Yojana” the government has decided to pay the BPL over 19 mothers according to the following scheme:

In Low performing states,

• Mother: Rs. 700 Accredited Health Worker( ASHA) Rs. 600 in rural areas and
• Mother: Rs. 600 Accredited Health Worker( ASHA) Rs. 200 in Urban areas,

up to 3 deliveries and another Rs. 1500 would be provided in case of a Cesarean section.

In High performing areas,

• Mother: Rs. 700/-

All this in a country that is facing population problems
The Indian government has been messing up the Indian health care system for a long time, and it can be clearly demonstrated by an assessment of failures of every health policies of the government. these policies failed due to unrealistic goals, faulty planning and uncoordinated use of available resources. Just when you thought that people might be now fed up of the government, or at least the government has finally realized its mistake, it comes with a brave savior’s face, its socialist health minister is trying to do what socialists have been trying to do for centuries, that is sacrificing the capable for the incapable.

India is now spending millions of rupees on the development of a dead rural health care system and on building up the infrastructure, without paying the producers.

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