Month: May 2014

#MODIfyingIndia: Day 3 – The 10 Commandments of #PMNaMo

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#MODIfyingIndia Day 3: The 10 Commandments of #PMNaMo

 

Its only been a few days but the mountain of expectations is growing higher and higher. The last Congress/ UPA government left the country in such a bad shape that everybody is hoping that some kind of miracle will start happening as soon as the new government comes in. The pressure is from all direction, the supporters have high expectations from BJP/ NDA Government and more specifically from PM Modi, the detractor too know the shortcomings of the last govermnet and do not want to give even a few days to the new government to settle in.

I personally believe that it is a extremely good thing, there are expectations because there is a hope that things will get better. It is a very positive sign. People of India had given up hope in the last one decade, we had actually stopped expecting anything positive from the Government, thats why we are so excited to either cheer for PM Modi or rile him for not doing enough. This burden of expectations, if managed carefully, would be the motivating factor for the Team #PMNaMo, it would keep everyone on their toes to perform to the best of their abilities.

NaMoat work

It was only his 3rd day as Prime Minister, and PM Modi spelled out his roadmap to his Council of Ministers, a 10-point agenda to steer the economy out of a slumber, place an increased focus on infra and revive the overall confidence in bureaucracy. There is nothing new in what is being referred to as the 10 commandment of #PMNaMo, all these issues were mentioend in BJP’s Election Manifesto, both the supporter as well as critic of PM Modi and BJP would agree that all of these are fair as priority areas.

  1. Reforms in infrastructure and investment areas
  2. Addressing concerns relating to the economy
  3. Promoting e-auction to push transparency
  4. Reviving confidence in bureaucracy
  5. Focusing on innovative ideas in the government and work freedom for officials
  6. Bringing a people-oriented system in government machinery
  7. Health, water, education, roads, energy priority areas
  8. Sorting inter-ministerial issues through efficient system
  9. Bringing stability and sustainability in govt policy
  10. Executing policies in a time-bound manner

NaMoMantra

 

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#MODIfyingIndia : Day1 – The Art of Hitting the Ground Running

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#MODIfyingIndia : Day1 – The Art of Hitting the Ground Running 

It must have been the most eventful 1st day at India’s Prime Minister’s office for a new PM since 1947…

What really demonstrated a changing India was the presence of a number of Heads of states from all SAARC countries and Mauritius, to meet the #PMNaMo and the new Minister for External Affairs Ms. Sushma Swaraj in Delhi. The event was highlighted and praised by the media world over. It was a wonderful initiative by the new Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi and it shows that he is well prepared to take on the responsibility upfront, no learning curve is required. http://freepressjournal.in/on%E2%80%88pm%E2%80%88modis-day-1-indo-pak-ice-melts/

PM Modi - Prez Karzai

Prime Minister’s brand new website was up and running within a few hours of PM Narendra Modi’s Swearing-in ceremony http://www.pmindia.nic.in/. Most of the members of PM Narendra Modi’s cabinet hit the ground running on the very first day. It was proved by a major decision taken in the Cabinet Meeting on Day one itself to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former Supreme Court of India Justice Mr. M B Shah,  and will include Revenue Secretary, CBI and IB directors. http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=vign&nid=8144

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#MODIfyingIndia: The D Day – #TeamPMNaMo all set to take charge in few hours…

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#MODIfyingIndia: The D Day – #TeamPMNaMo all set to take charge in few hours…

 

Even though Mr. Narendra Modi is yet to take charge of the India‘s Prime Ministers office, there are significant changes which are already visible very clearly.

  • First major step by Mr. Narendra Modi, after receiving the letter of invitation from the President of India to form the new Government, was to invite all the Government Heads of neighboring South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldive, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka ) as well as some other friendly countries (Mauritius) for his Swearing-in ceremony on 26th May 2014. Its a part of old Indian tradition to invite not just the family members, but also neighbors whenever some events are organized at home.  Happy events are supposed to be celebrated with all. There is a saying in India Happiness increases when it is shared, Sadness is greatly reduced when it is shared . Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the ancient Sanskrit mantra explains the whole world to be one single family, each individual may have their own worldview, quite often different from person to person, but it means respecting this difference. Contrary to a single window world view and superiority of a particular race, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam says that all Animals, Birds, Plants, Trees and other Organisms in the Earth’s ecosystem have similar soul (atma) they all are part of one big family, our family.
  • The celebration of Swearing-in ceremony will be followed by a gala Dinner for the visiting dignitaries at the Rashtrapati Bhawan – the grand  Viceroy Palace build by Britishers which is now serves as home for President of India. Tomorrow morning the new Prime Minister #PMNaMo will have short one-to-one meetings with all the Heads of states.
  • Secondly, Mr. Narendra Modi has given clear indication that he is going to act on what he has been saying all through his election journey – Less Government and More Governance. Ministries are being reorganized in a logical manner to facilitate Good Governance, after a very long time. The number of ministers in Mr. Narendra Modi’s government is going to be much lesser than the previous one – its going to be almost half of what it is today. First time in the history of India close to to 25% of the minister will be females. There is also a marked difference in the way government is going to function – while during the last government formation 5 years back, Media/ journalist were working as middlemen trying to fix/ lobby for various government position – this time they are totally out of the ring – till this morning no-one in the media had any clue as to the number of Minister or who is going be appointed minister or which ministry is going to be headed by whom.

PMNaMo swearingin ceremony

#TeamPMNaMo will comprise of following:

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    Prime Minister:  

Narendra Modi: Also in-charge of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister.

  • Cabinet Minister:

1) Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs

2) Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

3) Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence

4) M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs

5) Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

6) D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Railways

7) Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

8) Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs

9) Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

10) Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

11) Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

12) Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development

13) Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers

14) Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice

15) Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation

16) Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

17) Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries

18) Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

19) Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs

20) Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

21) Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment

22) Smriti Irani: Human Resource Development

23) Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare

  • Minister of States:

1) V.K. Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

2) Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics & Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence

3) Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

4) Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)

5) Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

6) Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

7) Prakash Javadekar: Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs

8) Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

9) Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space

10) Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs

11) G.M. Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation

12) Manoj Sinha: Railways

13) Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers

14) Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

15) P. Radhakrishnan: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

16) Kiren Rijiju, Home Affairs

17) Krishan Pal: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

18) Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture, Food Processing Industries

19) Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs

20) Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

21) Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

22) Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment

  • Mr. Ajit Kumar Doval will be the National Security Adviser
  • Mr. Nripender Misra will be the Principal Secretary in Prime Minister Office
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Lets #MODIfyIndia

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Lets #MODIfyIndia

Its time for change, its time to MODIfy India.

The general election 2014 may prove to be a historical movement for India. The results, though in line with the expectations of most of those who are connected with the masses, were still a big surprise for the mainstream media (TV, Newspapers, Websites) and specially for the global media which is finding it hard to come to terms with the fact that they are not aligned to the thought process of majority of Indians.

Most of the English Media tribe in India, based in few metro cities, mainly in New Delhi and few at Mumbai,  Chennai & Kolkata – is generally disconnected from the masses, live an extremely contradictory life – travelling around the world in comfort, living a luxurious elite life themselves but preaching socialism to others; selling the Utopian dream to the masses by promising subsidized food, education, electricity, water, health, even entertainment; while drinking premium scotch and  chilling out in their private swimming pools, these guys rant and rave about the need to give Rights to Food, Rights to Job, Right to Education, etc. etc.  to the masses, and are blindly in love the Nehru Gandhi Dynasty leadership of Congress Party. Mind you they only wish to give Right, just give them leftover fish, they are not interested in teaching the masses how to fish.

16th of May will be marked as the historical day when India gained real freedom – it became Congress-Mukt – free from the clutches of Congress Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. When the finally tally of the votes was counted, it was clear that Indian population is overwhelmingly in support of Narendra Modi and BJP. First time in 30 years a single party has been able to get majority in the lower house of parliament (Lok Sabha) on its own. Its also first time in the history of independent India that any single party other than Congress has got the fully majority on its own. Its a huge achievement and it bodes well for Indian politics. Congress party, which ruled India through Nehru-Gandhi dynasty for more than 5 decade out of the 6 decades of Independence in 1947, is now reduced to a meager 44 numbers in the Lok Sabha – less than even 10% the strength of the lower house of Parliament, which means Congress does not even deserve to have the status of Leader of Opposition in the house.  BPJ led National Democratic Alliance has got 336 seats, BJP itself has got 282 seats, well over the half way mark of 272, which gives them the right to nominate their leader to stake claim as the Prime Minister of India for the next 5 years.

India Election Results 2014

The huge margin of victory for BJP also indicated that people want a stable government which can deliver on its promises, no one want to hear excuses anymore. The parliament is saffronized, now the India is waiting to be MODIfied. Mr. Narendra Modi was the unanimous choice of NDA and BJP, being the leader who was in the forefront of the fierce campaign which saw then achieve such a handsome win. The President of India Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has now officially invited #PMNaMo to form the next government. On 26th May 2014, Mr. Narendra Modi will official become the 14th Prime Minister of India (excluding Mr. Gulzarilal Nanda who held the position of acting Prime Minister twice, for 13 days each time).

The Economist of the world are eating their own words now, look what they said before the election http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21600106-he-will-probably-become-indias-next-prime-minister-does-not-mean-he-should-be-can-anyone and after the election http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21602683-narendra-modis-amazing-victory-gives-india-its-best-chance-ever-prosperity-indias-strongman .

In the end they are the biggest losers, I stopped my subscription of The Economist because I found their sermon to Indian voters totally uncalled for. Their love for Congress and Nehru Gandhy Dynasty was just too much for me. The Economist is not alone actually, when it comes to journalists from global media covering India now we know that they only speak English and just regurgitate whatever they gather from India’s English media. India is a vast country and to really feel the pulse of the nation they will have to get out of their luxurious hotels in New Delhi, travel in the heat and dust, meet with the uncleaned masses and at least make some effort to understand the meaning of what they are saying without the using some biased left-leaning psuedo secular interlocutor. I know it is too much to expect from the #LazyJouros, let me give them a more convenient option, tract the Indian Social Media, try to hear the alternate voice where you may find the conversation going in the opposite direction from what would be the discourse of the Indian English Media (mainly the TV News Channels) – give some respect to the voices of dissent, try and understand the point of view of the people from small towns, various regions of India. These are the people who have roots in real India, they are the one connected with the real India.

Now that the new government is taking charge, we all expect things to start moving swiftly. BJP under the leadership of Mr. Narendra Modi had put down a good vision document in the shape of their election manifesto http://wp.me/pnx59-1FJ and I am sure the new government will start picking up the areas where it needs to move swiftly and the action on the ground will start as soon as the new government takes in New Delhi next week.

I am planning to add my two bit into the information ocean of the world wide web, attempting to inform the world about the changes as they happen in India and as I see the things changing around me. From 26th May 2014, the day Mr. Narendra Modi takes charge as Prime  Minister of India, I will regularly update the world about changes sweeping across India.

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