Why should a leader or few persons "Rule" a country in form of political party? This is not the old ages of kings & subjects.Ours is a representative democracy, 540 MPs represent 126Crore people. Can each MP know about problems or well beings of atleast most of people they represent? Very difficult...Thus it's the time to involve general public in power & end monopoly of neta in decision making..Power in few hands has been a problem in any society , any civilization during various periods of time the world over. Switzerland follows this "Direct Democracy" & hence is the third least corrupt & developed nation.Even USA follows it in form of Town halls.
Swaraj or decentralization of political power to people ensures
checking of power concentration in
few hands & its misuse.Gandhiji envisiond it as Gram sabha- One of four of anna's demand for reforms - Swaraj apart from lokpal,Right to reject & recall. Current society is educated enough to be decentralized. Infact in Hiware bazar village of Maharashtra, Swaraj has changed a drought affected poor village to self sufficient, facilities equipped modernized village with per capita income which was 900 per month to 30000Rs per month without any state or central govt help. All decisions are taken collectively by people & all government servants are accountable to people not few sarpanch, hence scope of corruption is nil.The details of expenses,income & surplus is presented to the Gram sabha (Meeting of all villagers) at regular intervals.There, people decide whether to use funds, for which purposes & not few leaders who for looting give contracts for crores & milk out their & bureaucrats' share. Infact village is united as a whole for example there is only one Muslim family in village, so gram sabha on its own decided to build Masjid for them from gram sabha's funds & all villagers' help. Where parties divide in name of religion, caste etc ,people are uniting themselves because of their collective power. The elections have stopped as there is no need in hivare bazar for another convenor.
In case of cities; for instance in delhi Mohalla-sabha were formed & similar decision making was given to them. One road which MCD was offering to make in 12 crores was made in just 10lakhs (with good quality). You can imagine the corruption & consequent money that will be saved which will result in less inflation, low taxes,good facilities & overall long term prosperity that will be achieved without any party's help.For example total annual direct tax collection is 5.5 Lakh crore Rs & Coal scam is of 1.8 Lakh crore Rs..so if you pay 10000 as Income tax, 4000 Rs has gone to corrupts...and this is just ONE scam, there are thousands others...imagine the amount of corruption & welfare denied due to open loot by people in power.
Finally as was witnessed, people demanded anti rape law at Indiagate by protesting,begging but only got water cannons, tear gas...This unresponsiveness of govt to the people will be taken care of Swaraj will ensure people's say in law making through Initiative, referendums or Gram sabhas, hence law will be truly made for, by & of the people.
This will be a true Participative Democracy which Gandhiji had envisioned for India- Swaraj
Watch Hiware bazar documentary on youtube: "Hiware bazar Swaraj".
Read "Swaraj" book for detailed analysis & its impact where it was conducted.
Monday, 11 March 2013
Decentralization of power to gram sabha,the people : Swaraj
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