citizen

We are like the blind men we are in any case from Hindustan.


When I wrote the article on media boogie my point was to make us aware that we have abdicated responsibility as citizens. Somehow the point seems to have lost. I have interesting responses to how the media has not:

• Hauled the govt for lack of development activities.

• Ill equipped hospitals

• Bad roads

• Quality TV products—how TV is the outlet for loneliness or a mode of relaxation.

• Corruption

• Crime rates

My point still remains the same; we need to take responsibility as citizens. If you are worried about the development activities. Let’s look at this honestly.

How many of us have exercised our franchise?

Do we really know the manifesto of the candidate who volunteers to represent us? Do we know his antecedents? His capabilities. These information are available if not RTI can be used.

Every locality is assigned a municipality or a grama sabha; these grama sabha’s have 8 meetings. Of which 4 are fixed april-july-sept and the other I am not sure. 4 are announced. These are the meetings of the voters which mean you and me. Have we ever attended this? Do we even know that this exists?

The attendances at these meetings are something like 4 to 8 individual on a very enterprising day it is 10.

These meetings discuss

• Issues related to the Gram

• The Budget,

• The audits are presented.

Every village has to have a health a centre, but most of them get closed for if a facility is not used it gets shut down the budget gets either relocated after a stipulated period or goes missing from action into someone’s kitty.

About Media, the TV there is a panel that has been set for TV broadcast guidelines have we lodged our displeasure there? How many PIL’s are registered against offensive televisions shows?

Think about it Gandhi had to plead the case of India to the Indian!

With great power comes great responsibilities.