Nature has endowed man with the power to dream. A dream enables a man to foresee his desires and strive to make them a reality. Today India stands at a juncture of yet another general election and like the erstwhile elections this time too new hopes shine in our hearts.

 The India of my dream is a developed, puissant and thriving nation. I perceive each Indian working towards the amelioration of the society, rising above the social stigmas and earnestly extracting the maximum out of the unpropitious circumstances. The foundation stones are to be laid down by students who are expected to conquer the knowledge imparted to them. They should challenge the existing theories and acknowledge the facts. They should bolster the scientific, economic, mathematical, and commercial community.

 The future of the nation lies with these young minds. The task of their development is in the hands of their teachers, who mold this soft clay into shining ceramic pots. A teacher should be exuberant about his subjects. They should patronise classroom discoveries and discussions. They should possess mental keenness for the intellectual salvos fired at them. The micro-alterations in the society should be perceptible to them. Thus, selection of an erudite teacher is an exigency.

 A teacher should be subjected to quinquennial knowledge checks. They should be sent on delegations to foreign universities to understand the methodology of teaching. A teacher should be exempted from the routine work and be free from the notion of rote learning. Procuring teachers of such calibre is the onus of a university. The university administration should conduct a rigorous, unbiased and fruitful selection. The directorate should construct capacious and interactive milieus for the students. Students should be entrusted with classroom amenities such as computers, projectors, video-conferencing and Wi-Fi connectivity. The university should act as a benefactor for the student exchange programs and industrial trainings. There is a need for re-structuring the course according to the industrial sine qua non.

 The initiation of universities surpassing global yardsticks ought to be a top priority of the Indian government. India is entitled to have a government, which operates above caste, creed and religion. The government should emphasise on egalitarianism of knowledge and on emancipation of the commoners. No tainted man should retain a ministerial post. Each statesman’s incumbency should be restricted to ten years. Stringent measures such as hefty fines and life-imprisonment should be adjudged to zero down corruption. Any swindling of public money should be answered by seizure of property.

 Each minister is followed by the masses and thus he should maintain certain decorum. They should not indulge in hate speeches that arouse the fervor of the nation. There is a need for a special monitoring committee that keeps a hawk eye on the public meetings and speeches.

 Any nation’s stronghold is its defence. The government should carefully plan to expand the in-house defence sector. The need of the hour is burgeoning new factories and workhouses for the bulk production of artilleries, submarines, tanks and combat aircraft. Specialised defense training institutes need to be commenced to bestow the young minds with self-defense strategies. Such training should be requisite for each denizen.

  A viable method to bolster the aplomb of law and lawmen is to raise their pay. The emolument of the men associated with the prominent sectors such as defense, police and law should be hiked substantially. This would also deter the instances of corruption, anti-nationalism and neo-Nazism. All the internal defense sectors such as ATS, police, CRPF and CBI, and border security forces such as BSF, coast guard should be brought under single head – the Indian armed forces. A single authority will facilitate easier interaction and swift synchronisation. Each city will also require a central police headquarter which has its own set of professional hackers, spies, snipers, anti-terrorist and bomb disposal squads.

 There is also a need for a state-of-the-art judiciary. The long trail of pending cases needs to be cut down. Depending on the population of an Indian state the count of high courts needs to be increased. States like UP, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh warrant the right to five high courts each. To abate the onus on the Supreme Court of India, there is also a need to amplify its count from one to five. The details concerning a judge and his family should be kept under veils. A judge should be seated in a black box, who can see the whole trial (through an one-sided video-conferencing) and the others can only hear his verdicts. This would ensure a sense of security and an unbiased trial. The laws should be stringent enough to curb the crime.

 That health is wealth is an old adage and a healthy nation is a striving nation. Thus, there is a need to curtail the cost of medical facilities and to increase the number of hospitals while preserving the standards. The government should finance the poor for the highest level of medications. Another target for the government would be the reduction of food prices and inflation. Horse-trading and middlemen-brokerage need to cease. Each agriculturalist should desert the competitive price for his crops and each consumer should have a right for the finest quality of organic crops.

 Another problem that encompasses India is electricity. This concern can be resolved by strategic utilisation of India’s geographical location. The gigantic East and West coastlines should be brought to use to set up an array of windmills. Also the tidal energy at shores could be captured to generate energy. The government should aim at setting up artificial landmasses in our neighboring seas, for establishing powerful nuclear reactors for electricity generation. Separate landmasses shall ensure a plant failure not affecting the mainland. We should also tap the power stored within the Thar Desert, which can be used to lay down a whole grid of solar energy cells – to generate solar energy.

But the most important task is in the hands of the parents, it is the development of the kids mentally and physically with the aim of imparting moral values.

Author: Suyash Gupta, MS Scholar, Computer Science and Engineering.