But instead of using our tax money wisely, the govt is spending it on countries that openly insult us. In the eyes of the world and those countries we look like total push overs without a backbone. We may like to pacify ourselves saying we are doing it becasue China or we have a large heart and let bygones be bygones but the only message it sends across is, if you want money, insult India and get more in return. We are ultuimately the losers here because that money could have been invested in our infra or education or healthcare but we chose to give it to some trash countries just becasue they are our neighbours. Why don't they go to IMF or other loan giving institutions but come directly to India? Because of our pushover attitude.
that's international politics for you, if we dont give them aid, they'll get it from China/ other countries, and I think you have already seen the consequences of India not doing more in making sure Sheikh Hasina remains in power, Bangladesh is moving towards Pakistan/China, and I wont even delve into the religious ramifications of it, since that in of itself will need a new thread, and as a commenter pointed out, with Bhutan too taking China's aid, we are going to be pincered in if we dont do something to win those countries over. Regimes change everyday, and you just gotta play well with any regime, this is the reason why that idiot Trump was invited by Queen Elizabeth to Buckingham Palace despite it being her choice and she only inviting exceptional presidents to the palace (not sure about this, but it definitely was something about Elizabeth only chose exceptional people for the honor and Trump making a fool of himself there), last being Obama.
This is just how it is, this is also why we are again leasing land from Maldives to build a naval base, as we need one there to react to China's movements.
Like it or not, its as simple as that.
There's been power cuts almost daily for 4 hours from last week in my area. Seems like Indian govt is shit in running business and tanks everything it lays its hands upon.
This I can answer, govt is indeed shit at running any business because its hands are tied, there's a lot of bullshit/protection that govt employees get such that as long as they just show up to the job, they are essentially impossible to fire, and are just re-assigned, any bill that govt brings to regulate this, the opposition will cry foul. There's no way out of this aside from semi-privatisation of govt holdings, which is where PSUs come in. This is the reason why BSNL is shit, no consipiracy theory about how govt intentionally made it, just good old stupidity at the play.
Look up "waaris pratha" and its modern equivalent, where if someone dies on the job, there dependent, be it spouse or child, is enititled to get a job from govt under quota. How do you think you'll get competent people to work for critical jobs when such idiocy exists?
Forget all of this, what do you think the consequences of the current reservation system are? Let me give you an example from my relative, you can choose to believe it or not (I'll indeed be fudging some facts to maintain anonymity but idea remains the same. My relative works in a pretty high postion in a govt office, they get a assistant for their basic administrative work, like maintaining schedule, drafting letters, and what not and the servant got in through reservation, and guess what? he cant even write anything in Hindi, my relative had to draft their own letters and what not because he was incompetent and if my relative dared say anything, a discrimination case would have been filed against them and this happened some 7-8 years ago, and guess what? that same idiot assistant is now at a higher position than them.
Do you know that in JEE Mains, the cut-off for SC/ST cat is some negative marks? like if they literally show up for the exam, sleep through it, they'll literally pass the Mains and even score admission in some lower tier NITs/IIITs?
How do you expect your workforce to work when majority of it comprises of incompetent morons who get everything handed to them on a platter?
Reservation is a good idea in of itself, but the way its implemented is an atrocity. We give reservation in undergrad, which is perfectly fine, minor communities get education, but
then you give them reservation for post-grad, which again you can kinda stomach, but
then you again give them reservation for even group A govt jobs, and while you can cry about it, you just make do with it, but
then you again give them reservation for ****ing
PROMOTIONS , where exactly does this make sense? you have medicority right from the very bottom levels of babus to govt officers at the top level, how do you think govt is gonna work?
and this ties into corruption too, this again is a real life example with details fudged, a barely above poverty line guy qualifies the exam for CTET, UPTET, UGC or whatever,
but since he was unfortunate enough to belong to a general category, he wont get a job, and the only way he can get one is, if he bribes the principal of some govt school and gets them to process his application first. I think the current going rate is some 7-10 lacs? do remember he's barely above poverty line, how do you think he's gonna recover the money spent? I think you'll have your answer.
even for lowly positions, like that of a chaprasi (I'm not insulting them, its just the lingo that is used to refer to this position by govt officers), you need to pay a bribe of atleast 2-3lacs to get it for a general category Indian. So people right from the very beginning of their career are forced into corruption because of events out of their control, how do you think the govt will do anything?
and then, you have political parties playing the religious angle in reservation, like Congress in Karnataka (not sure which state, need to look it up), where they have made every muslim subgroup an OBC, thus giving them reservation quota.
EDIT: I was wrong about the current congress govt doing it, Muslims have been under OBC quota since JDS govt, but BJP did try to move them under EWS quota where the matter is pending in Supreme Court
You are joking right? That problem was solved more than a few decades ago by transporting electricity at high voltages (+25kV) through power lines. Indian railways already has that in place from a decade back. Don't tell me the national power grid is run on lower voltages. It isn't cheap but all this tech has been there from ages. If it isn't cheap here, it should be considerably costlier in USA where the distances are larger and houses are further apart. Their per KW rate is much much cheaper than India's. All these are just random excuses you're trying to justify an incompetent govt agency. I don't know what you get by doing that, but it's hurting Indians in the long run. The longer we justify such crap, the longer such crap will be put in our face as good service. And if I don't compare with developed nations, should we start comparing with undeveloped nations like some random country in africa or somewhere? Do we grow by comparing with a developed world and copy their good infra or compare with some beat down country and feel good looking at their broken down infra? We'll never grow if we keep comparing India with pakistan, bangladesh, sri lanka, nepal, bhutan. These are just poor beggar countries with bad govts running on borrowed funds. Why would i compare india to them?
