The question now is what do you call it as progress ?
Biological, Intellectual, Social, Educational, Financial, Mental progress? It is natural that everyone has a different meaning for it. At this juncture people of our country feel that, increasing number of hospitals, ventilators, oxygen, beds, number of doctors is a sign of development. On the other hand some politicians who build Ram Mandirs, think that Ram Rajya will come in the country, and they succeed in befooling the country by giving such advises.
The fundamental thing is whether people are able to realize the signs of impending recession and the great crisis. All this is painful and angering. May be the country has become independent since last 75 years, but government does not even have emergency facilities, leave alone basic facilities.
Since last few days we are experiencing some incidences and looking at the performance of the government and seeing that the government is playing with people's health by trying to build up it's global image as a "vaccine exporter".
A few and handful of honest specialists all over the whole of the world are saying that, vaccination is a grave error. Just the other day, the Nobel Prize winner from France Luc Montegnear , said that the number of deaths among vaccinated people is increasing. But then only when the number of deaths of vaccinated people reach it's peak, our eye's will open up, but then it will be too late.
If the people of our country come to feel that the Government has setup hospitals, increased the number of beds, set up oxygen plants and if this is what development then it means, then we have not understand the definition of development. Certainly does setting up hospitals mean that we are healthy, can we say that ? Instead we should think of developing the resisting power and should try to work in that dimension.
Is increasing the number of police stations and number of courts is a sign of development? Coming up of new courts means the crimes in the country have increased. Better thing would be to ensure that no one thinks of committing a crime, and make a permanent solution of it and implement . This then alone is an indication of development.
Now as many people are creating a commotion in the name of hospitals and asking the government to open up medical shops, can we term this as a path to development.
Prakash Gopalrao Pohare is the editor-in-chief of popular Marathi language daily newspaper Deshonnati. He lives in Akola, where the headquarters for Deshonnati are located. Prakash Pohare is also a social activist, who is trying to gain welfare for farmers in Vidarbha
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