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IPI_Marker

The report mentions the word government a lot, what
is this mysterious entity called government?

Try answering these questions........

Who gives the money to run the political parties in India?

Is it the private sector or public?

Who gives the *tickets* for candidates in elections?
political parties isn't it? who gives the money to the
candidates to spend for the election expenses, political
parties isn't it?

In a democratic setup, the local unit of the political
party should decide the candidate isn't it? if it is not
so, think why?

Now tell us who governs india, private sector or public?

The above system works since whole lot of illiterate
people vote, those votes can be influenced with various
emotional issues rather than real issues that affect
the prosperity of the villages and the nation.

Understanding the above equation will give more insight
into why the so called govt is not interested in providing
proper education in the rural heart land of india, combine
this with the caste prejudices of the middle class which
gets reflected in the education system with different caste
of schools. That completes the equation of real factors
affecting the development/prosperity of India. With the
recent IT bust when 1000's of middle class youth lost jobs,
slowly they are waking up to the reality that service class
can prosper only if there is prosperity in the villages.
Let us hope this awakening translates to removal of caste
system in education.

There are umpteen govt *clearances* required to start a
primary school (they are all for maintaining the quality of
the primary education) where as only a shop and establishment
registration is required to start computer teaching school!

If the so called govt removes the clearances required
to start a primary school, all that is needed is few
unemployed graduates, a thatched roof, few black boards
and choke pieces to start a primary school, if our
middle class can overcome the caste prejudices, they can
prosper further only if they do, else prosperity they
acquired riding the "public sector wave" will not sustain,
that is the reality.

Read the report enjoy the nice pictures.....

MV.



> From: "Rohit Sharma" <r_j_sharma@yahoo.com>
>
> What does that mean.
> Are you saying that this report is wrong?
> In what regards it is wrong?
>
> Do you disagree with this:
> <quote>
> But research by the McKinsey Global Institute has
> uncovered three barriers preventing the country's GDP
> from growing even faster: myriad regulations governing
> products and markets, distortions in the market for
> land, and widespread government ownership of business
> </quote>
>
> Did you read the whole report?

Nice pictures ;-)

>
> The point I would like to make is that it is time for
> the government to "get the hell out of my way".
> And the report gives very good reasons as to why that
> should happen.
>
> What is your argument against the report.
>
> Rohit
>
>
> --- MV <maxv@vsnl.com> wrote:
> >
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> > Please help make the Manifesto better, or accept it,
> > and propagate it!
> >
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> > IPI_Marker
> >
> > Remember the famous McKinsey IT report!
> >
> > Instead of doing 16 month research, if McKinsey guys
> > will do a 30 day trip around India, going to some
> > smaller
> > towns and villages and then write the report, they
> > may
> > get it right.......
> >
> > MV.
> >
> >
> > > From: <prabhu.guptara@ubs.com>
> > >
> > > IN CASE, our participants are unaware of the
> > following....
> > >
> > > Of course, the main impediment is still our
> > culture and our politics
> > >
> > > prabhu guptara
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > India--From emerging to surging
> > > India's economy could be the fastest growing in
> > the world--and the
> > > country's citizens twice as well off as they are
> > now--if its policy
> > > makers
> > > embraced a deeper, faster process of economic
> > reform. So concludes the
> >
> > > latest country report from the McKinsey Global
> > Institute, which spent
> > > the
> > > past 16 months studying 13 sectors of the Indian
> > economy. Also be sure
> >
> > > to
> > > check out the accompanying images by award-winning
> > photographer Swapan
> >
> > > Parekh.
> > >
> >
> http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/ab_g.asp?ar=1117&nlink=32
> > >
> >
> http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/ab_g.asp?ar=1116&nlink=33
>


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