One should remember Rajiv Gandhi in the wake of CAG report

The Parliament has been witnessing stormy scenes in the wake of recent CAG report on coal block allocations. India’s Comptroller and Audit General (CAG) Vinod Rai in his report has noted in his report “The government and auditors are not adversaries but are on the same table since the objective is to upgrade governance and to ensure a totally leakage-free delivery system of government projects, schemes and practices to ensure there are no loopholes and lacunae”. By this what he meant was that the benefit of the schemes and policies meant for the people should reach them without any lapses, transparently.

Here we should recall what our former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had said. The creator of modern India had said that 85 paise per rupee allocated for development got siphoned off before reaching the intended beneficiaries. On many occasions he expressed his concern that the poor are unable to avail the benefits of the welfare funds sent for them by the government the way it should have been.

His son and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi also has been quoting his father’s statement that when centre sanctions one rupee for the poor only 15 paisa reaches them. The young Congress MP from Amethi also has his own idea to ensure transparency in administration and he wants further upliftment of the downtrodden. Rahul Gandhi is having the opinion that Aadhar UID card will ensure more transparency in the safe passage of the central funds to the poor without any hindrance. "Every citizen of this country will have an identity card as a proof of their existence by the Aadhar scheme. Further the card will include the Bank account number along with the Aadhar Card Number so as to ensure connectivity and transparency and with this the Central funds will directly reach the account holder," argues Rahul Gandhi.

The recent CAG findings clearly underline the need for ensuring transparency in public administration. If the government sends any amount of money for the welfare of the poor, it is also necessary that it makes sure that the entire funds reach the beneficiaries. The development of our nation will be possible only if we ensure this fact.. That is what Rajiv Gandhi wanted, Rahul Gandhi argues for and the people have been eagerly waiting for.

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Rajiv Gandhi put India on the top of the fast moving countries

Today India has a strong standing in the field of Information Technology throughout the globe and the credit goes to Rajiv Gandhi.

Rajiv Gandhi had said “We need to ensure that newest of technology is utilized and used at the rural level. We need to befriend Science and technology to jump to higher notches.”

“He raised the confidence of the nation. He emphasized on the role of technology, Information Technology in particular. I think he showed to the world that he had a dream, he ‘too had a dream’ as he said. We all got enthused by seeing a young, idealistic and dynamic person. Rajiv Gandhi was one of the two people whose death invoked great sentiments in me because he was Young, dynamic and he had a vision for India for the future. He was an extraordinary leader and I think we all are going to miss him. I wish he had lived longer, says Narayan Moorti, founder , Infosys.

Decades before, Rajiv Gandhi had imagined the world of today. During his tenure he initiated a lot of programmes for the progress of technology. He laid stress on the development of fields like Space research , Nuclear research , Genetic Engineering , Genetic Biology and Computer software development.

Rajiv Gandhi had the conviction to change his dreams into reality. He wanted to development initiatives to be treated like a mission and so all his targets were his missions rather.

Rajiv Gandhi’s emphasis on Panchayti Raj explains the fact that he believed that in a country like India or for that matter any country the real power ,be it political or administrative, cannot be fully tapped and democratized without women. Rajiv Gandhi was not only interested in the technological development of the country but he had equal interest in maintaining the national culture. He wanted the structure of development to be uniform and in sync with the national culture.

Today on his Martyrdom day, Nation salutes the visionary.

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