Dear
Mr. Raj,
You say that you are an optimist but
you sound like a pessimist. I stay
in Bangalore and believe me even in
Bangalore you can see buffaloes on
the road and people attending to
natures call in open. How about
Bombay? Haven't you traveled by
local trains. Bangalore roads are on
of the worst in India. Patna is on
the level of India cities. At least
it's much better that other north
and east Indian cities sans
Bhubaneshwar and Jamshedpur.
Yeah, I would agree with you when it
comes to manpower but we don't need
superior manpower for opening a
call-center. That much of talent is
available locally.
And for god's sake don't compare
Nitish with Lalu. Lalu was more of a
joker who had adopted a garb of a
serious person for some time but
then he showed his true colors.
Nobody knew Lalu before he became CM
but we have seen the work of Nitish
in railways and we have been seeing
him since past 10 years. Believe me
this man has potential he would
definitely make a turnaround.
Please don't be discouraging,
investment is not only in IT and
ITES alone. Bihar has a huge
potential in agro-based industries
and I think the focus should be on
that. Later on we can divert to
other areas. The most important
investment area would be education
as we need a lot more quality
technical and business schools.
Nitish Kumar is making a step in the
right
direction and I am sure he would be
bale to make some kind of change. -
Ratan Jha - Jan. 5, 2006
Based on last two topics and related
comment I am writing this.
I will be very straightforward. it
is not the roads, resources,
electricity or crime that matters
for any investors. It is the
attitude of people that matters.
Corruption and undisciplined
attitude is very much integral to
Bihari mentality. Cheating is habit
and any habit is very difficult to
get rid of.
Even the most respected person in a
town does not want to pay
electricity bill honestly. Just very
casual look will tell you that not
many people take pride in honesty
and integrity. Engineers, doctors,
teachers, clerk at all levels, peons
- how many of them you have seen
doing his duty? Basically it was
never taught to us in our school,
though it was available in our
books. Because teachers were / are
never honest. If you contemplate
some of the past incidents, it will
be very obvious. I am not telling
corruption is not at other places.
It is, but it has not still
penetrated the skin and got into the
blood.
I sound cynic. Yes, but what I am
saying is truth.
Am I optimistic? Yes, I am.
When will the situation change? Only
time will tell.
It took centuries for Pataliputra to
turn to Patna. Vice versa will take
at least few decades. Hope I will be
alive to see. - Om Kumar - Jan.
6, 2006
Mr. Ratan Jha
My message is other states also
had/has their share of problems. I
am seeing the approach of 'saying
again and again bad things about
Patna and Bihar' a lot. All I am
hoping for is for a few people from
Bihar who have the influence in
different fields to not lose heart.
They need to do the same hard work,
ground work that happened in other
states for infrastructure.
And my suggestion for a way out of
this is hope that those with power
in Bihar will look beyond Patna for
a moment and look to develop many
small industrial cities in Bihar
like a Vizag, a Surat, a Coimbatore,
a Mysore in Bihar. These smaller
cities if developed, will be the
backbone of Bihar. Use any words
like optimist or pessimist etc, but
the backbone network of smaller
cities I suggested is one of the
ways many states developed.
If the order to stop the practice of
caste based separate kitchens in
police quarters is not followed to
its logical conclusion, then all new
uniforms and guns are a waste. Home
Minister has to realise that just an
order won't change that, constant
follow ups, punishments to higher
officers if this happens again and a
career betting commitment has to be
shown. That is the ground work I am
hoping for. I neither care about
Lalu nor about Nitish. It is the
entire council of ministers that has
to do ground work. Like Mr. Om Kumar
hopes, the state education network
need to be fixed from ground level
by education minister. Time to move
on and fix many many smaller things
all over Bihar. - T ShivRaj -
Jan. 6, 2006
I do not know the reason for Mr.
Ratan's first paragraph. But by
co-relating similar situations in
other cities, Bihar's condition
can't be justified.
And this very attitude needs to be
changed.
I believe Mr. Ratan is a Bihari, and
so am I.
When somebody gives an advise, in
general we Biharis first try to
refute by trying to find the same
shortcomings in others than heeding
to accept the suggestion. In no
sentence of Mr. ShivRaj it appeared
that he commented on buffaloes,
roads etc.
The attitude gentlemen... this very
attitude of getting defensive...
when somebody points out your core
shortcomings... as Mr. Ratan appears
to have, needs to be routed out from
Biharis, "the chalta hai attitude"
......!!
And now do not site some more bad
examples of some other state/city to
justify Bihar's situation...this is
not the solution. Better try to
improve and be an example for others
to follow.
I hope Mr. Ratan one day could say
to Bangaloreans see how it is in
Bihar!!!... but if, and only if, he
sheds his attitude of justifying
Bihar's situation by equalizing to
similar few situations in other
cities/states.
CHANGE ATTITUDE is the key word for
Bihar's seeing light at the end of
the tunnel. - Abhishek Kumar -
Jan. 6, 2006 |
