This post is my attempt to trace the root cause of all the problems that is there in INDIA.

For doing this, in my opinion ,there are two methods-
1.I put forward my view and try to defend it in rest of article. Or

2.I analyse all the problems and trace them to the root problem.I am taking the latter.I welcome you to counter rationally.

First the problems.Yes, we are lagging a little in quality of education. People at large don't really have affordable access to health care.Unclean surrounding;lack of civic sense;lack of quality domestic manufacturing sector;lack of skilled workforce for industries;lack of good quality research institutions;lack of funding for research  by pvt sector;lack of irrigation;farmer-scientist disconnect.The list is endless and many other problems-which  are less appealing to me - might be more appealing to you.
I assure you with the huge number of talented people in government, many stones are being turned the  solve these problems.In the coming years,we are hopeful of solving a few of them.

But just stop there and reflect a little.We have come a long way since independence.we are now talking about quality of research and their funding by pvt sector.We are not just talking of enrolment but also quality of education.We have come a long way and with the current efforts may be these problems will less severe in given time.But this is a point of view that asks me to be happy with underperformance.May be by 2030 there will be better education quality;may be.But why 2030? why not 2020?

The nation has come a long way but was this the best pace at which we could have progressed.Is the current growth the best or we are heavily underperforming.The  growth we have seen till now or are seeing now is either because of heavy expenditure of govt.-in fields of health,education,public sector industries,R&D; or despite government-in fields of education(pvt sector),service sector-. I allow you to disagree on my choice of examples.The point i am getting to is that
1. if it(the growth) happended because of government then it is lot less than what could have happened,as only a fraction of money spent by govt ever reached the people or desired end
2.Or if it happended despite the governement then the governement was too much intrusive and demanded too much of share of money-bribe.
So i m coming to the point that govt has been a major player in our nation and it has -unequivocally i dare to say- has been far less effective in supporting and far more obstructive in impeding the progress nation.the result being India has been underperforming.

there are many schemes being lauched these days but i fear the problems i highlighted in the last para will remain and we will continue to underperform.

but what is this problem other than stealing money from public funds where available and extracting money from pvt. pocket where unavailable.corruption.this money which would have supported growth is just not there for growth.

As long as this happens,we will progress .We will certainly progress.BUT AT A FAR LOWER PACE THAN WE CAN.
P S i m not against the governance,but i m for good governance.

(the root cause,you may be wondering(though i believe you might not have come this down reading),is not corruption.IT is just the root symptom.I will discuss the cause for this symptom in next blog to avoid making this one too long)

This blog is dedicated to put forward just one idea at a time.The ideas are not original.The only verifiable link that will connect all these ideas is that they all aim toward one goal.
I am taking up just one idea per post because too many ideas in a post mean effectively nothing is left on the mind of reader.

For this post the idea is "out of any group, at max 10 % can be expected to be self-motivated honest.i.e. honest even without any external agent to monitor them.Similarily at max 10 % can be incorrigibly corrupt .They will remain corrupt despite the best of laws.The rest min 80 % would behave as honest or corrupt depending on the laws, boss, work environment etc".period.

what is said of honesty equally applies to many other behavioural features like punctuality, social empathy, optimism etc..

While you are free to object to the numerics of 10,10.,80..but I plead that the world's majority cannot be expected to be honest  or punctual or clean on its own.Also world's majority is not too bad either. Most of the people behave as per external environment.What I have said for world hold true for india too.

Just to drive the idea deeper, I will take up a few examples.We, indian are said to be lacking punctuality. But it is a open secret that people working in pvt sector are at least more punctual than those  working in govt sector.why? Its all abt environment.a office where the top level boss reports on time it is seen the staff is more punctual too. Again environment.Here environment is a broad term encompassing the rules of office, the ethics of individuals, work ethics, motivational level of staff and many other factors.
So the point I m trying to come to is Indians lack punctuality not because there is something wrong in genes .it is also not a hopeless fight to improve punctuality.also IT IS NOT BECAUSE WE ARE NOT TRULY LITERATE. We are literate enough.we need not believe that with improved standards of education in future people will automatically become honest.we can do it now if we just change things for the 80%.

This becomes even more clear as we see most of the Indians going to Japan or US become punctual.Most of rural-so called rustic- after a few journeys in delhi metro learn to maintain hygiene. Most of the people travelling in Delhi metro are most happy to leave their seats to those who need more and that too instinctively.
When an environment is created then except the bottom, @max10%  every one else starts conforming to desirable behaviour.

If after reading till this point, you have started to see people in your surrounding not just as honest or lazy, but in totality along with the environment which explains their behaviour, I would deem it success.If you have started to see through the minor changes which will change the environment altering the behaviour of majority,it is success.
If we start to see the change happening around us by creating better environment, triggering better desirable behaviour, then the purpose of putting this idea is served.