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Articles: Development | India -Sixty years
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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White Revolution
Coming from a generation that experienced an acute shortage of milk, it is unimaginable that, today, we have become the largest producer of milk in the world. The credit goes to the extraordinary vision of one person, Dr.Verghese Kurien. In a nation where children are malnourished, such abundance
of milk has offered us the opportunity to fight malnutrition with the means produced in India.
The economic reforms of 1991--initiated by the late Narasimha Rao, Dr.Manmohan Singh, Shri P. Chidambaram and Dr. Montek Singh
Ahluwalia--opened up the minds of Indian corporate leaders to the power of global markets,helped them accept competition at home and abroad, and raised the confidence of consumers. Our hard currency reserves have gone up from a mere $1.5
billion in 1991 to over $220 billion today. The reforms encouraged entrepreneurship and gave confidence to businessmen and entrepreneurs to dream big, create jobs, enhance exports, acquire companies abroad and follow the finest principles of corporate governance.
Independent Media, Brave Journalists The success of a democracy depends upon certain important values of governance: fairness, transparency and accountability. The freeing of media,
particularly television, has laid the foundation for improving these values in our governments. The courage, enthusiasm and zeal to seek truth of scores of idealistic journalists like N. Ram, Arun Shourie, Sekhar Gupta, Sucheta Dalal, Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai are what make us feel confident that
the future of this country is safe.
Telecom Revolution
No other technology has brought India--the urban and the
rural--together so effectively as the 500-line EPABX designed and implemented by the Center for Development of Telematics under the leadership of Sam Pitroda. This program brought fresh confidence to the people, as they could reach out, in a
jiffy,to their loved ones, officials and doctors, just to name a few. People no longer feel that they live in isolation.
Space Technology
Yash Pal's Satellite Instructional Television Experiment blossomed into a full-scale television facility connecting millions of villages of India. Television has made our political masters realize that their actions and inactions will be seen and judged by every citizen--from the forgotten villages of Assam to the activist villages of Kerala. This technology has given voice to the opinions of a billion people--the rich and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, and the powerful and the disfranchised.
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