Doctors, Traffic, Solar Electricty, Tigers & the Government!

 

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“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” … Alan Moore

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” …  James Bovard

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” …  Margaret Thatcher

“For me Govt is like God, I haven’t seen it yet I believe in it & it's everywhere & controls everything”… Me.

Moore & Bovard comes from USA which is (was) supposedly considered as land of opportunities & freedom of thought while The Iron Lady represents world’s most open & free democracy which at the same time has a King/ Queen as a Supreme ruler & I derived my views from the wise words they all shared & my experiences about life! Well, from the quotes you must have guessed the subject & I don’t know why I felt like penning down my thoughts about this subject but then that’s one good way of letting out frustration (read as warning people who still reads) & its safer (read as easier) than the path of protest which Dipke, Wangchuk in recent & many others in the past have chosen, so be it! Ok subject is our govt (Mai Baap) & though its most commonly discussed as fortunately in our country (till now at least) anybody can condemn (in private) the govt & its policies & that’s a boon as well sign of democracy, point is what govt thinks about such discussion & answer is, nothing! All these “Chay pe Charcha” (nothing to do with Hon PMs Chay) in the end just vaporize the way vapours of tea get merged in the surrounding & people start their routine for charchas on new topics or policy & that’s ok. Problem starts when more & more people (read as common man) over such Charchas’ starts naming/ doubting/ condemning the actions of the govt, that’s first sign of cracks in the wall, which is happening around is my subject of sharing. And then when the govt starts making wrong policies on one front then sooner or later this attitude is going to hit my profession/ business/ earning & even at home also & next direct victim of wrongness of govt’s act can be me or my company or family, is the main reason of my such sharing!

Here I will share a story from Panchatantra, where a pair of sparrows lived on a tree which was in the midst of a farm. The crop ploughing was due & before that the dry grass as well unwanted creepers needed to be removed from the farm & best way is controlled fire which needs more hands than just the owner couples! So, one morning the farmer couple was discussing burning the weed in the farm & listening to that, the she sparrow says to her husband, let's move from here as this owner couple will be bringing some help from villagers to burn the weed in the farm & the smoke will affect our chicks. The male sparrow hays don’t worry nothing will happen & next day nothing happens. Few days later the female sparrow again tells to her husband, lets’ move from here as today the farmer was telling to his wife that let’s call our relatives to help us to burn the weed so we can start ploughing, I think we must leave the nest tonight. Again, the male sparrow assures, nothing will happen let’s stay & nothing happens. Again, after a few days the female sparrow says, I heard today the farmer was telling to his wife, two of us should burn the weed tomorrow. Hearing this, the male sparrow tells his wife, let’s move toady & they flew away from the nest with their chicks. The female sparrow asks to her husband, when I told you the farmer was going to call his villagers or relatives, you said nothing will happen & but when I told you that they two only are going to burn the weed, you immediately agreed to move from the nest. The male sparrow smiled & said, this time they were not going to be dependent on others but going to do the job by themselves!

This story I have read in my school days & yet it has stuck deep within & always keeps me on my toes & this is the reason as the way now govt has started behaving, its time to make people aware as well brace myself as a person & as a professional, is my thinking, so the sharing! *Disclaimer at start, if by reading this story you think this is criticism against any party or govt then it's not, I am just sharing what’s going on & the way things are heading, right or wrong to decide it or conclude is readers’ choice & right, lol!

Cut1; To start with there was a news of Doctor’s in our State are going on or decided to go on strike as govt has come up with a policy where Homeopathy (a line of medicine which uses herbs or say natural ways of treatment) doctors to prescribe allopathy medicines (Crocin, Combiflam types) to their patients which earlier was allowed only for doctors with MBBS & such degree i.e. practicing allopathy. Though for doing this, they will have to do a one year course & they can’t treat certain diseases or patients, is the condition. And the reason for such a policy is given, as the lack of doctors in rural areas. Now, in the last month only the very same State govt has come up with another policy under which they have removed conditions for fresh MBBS doctors to serve for minimum one year for public hospitals or such establishments before starting their practice or further education. This bond condition was there for the last six decades & suddenly now the govt removed it saying they can’t risk the lives of people by getting treatment from fresh doctors, wow just wow! Means these doctors can practice on their own, that’s allowed but bond is removed & the very same govt can allow a totally different branch’s doctors to treat with something they are not trained, that’s not threat to public health, this way of working or say attitude of govt is my subject of sharing. I am no authority to comment on allopathy or homeopathy or medicine but what I am putting forward is the sheer illogical approach of govt towards a subject as sensitive as public health!

Cut 2; Every day our govt announces new highways, expressways, fly-overs, building Missing (or connecting, what matters) links & boast themselves as a Govt of development & no wrong in it. At the same time today, I read a news about Automobile sales (cars, commercial vehicles) crossing 26-lakhs vehicles in the month of July 26 alone, which is a record till today. Well, on one side this is great as road networks & flyovers are a must for connectivity & if the sale of vehicles is increasing that’s also a good sign for the production industry, but! But, on the other side our Hon Road Minister himself has shown concern over nearly 1.80 lakh people dying  in road accidents in the last year & a guess (as data isn’t available) is, nearly thrice of this number means, 5 lakhs people must have got injured in these accidents. And most of these accidents are due to private vehicles, domestic & commercial & at the same time in the major ten Metro cities of the country, traffic congestion is increasing everyday because of the inability of the road network to accommodate these vehicles! Don’t you see the controversy or say ill effect of the policies which you call development as just building roads & flyovers, the problem is not going to get resolved, what we (common people) need is strong & safe public transport & that front is very weak, may be deliberately! Right from PMPML (PMT) which is local Pune city public bus system to ST i.e. State Transport, the infrastructure for the public transport is very poor & govt doesn’t do anything about it, neither govt is forming any central public transport body nor its increasing numbers of railways or busses at local or central level, making people surrender to buy & use private vehicles, which not only chokes the roads but is main cause of accidents also! Again, policies which are creating doubts in the minds of the common man, that for whom this so-called development is intended, actually!

Cut 3; Recently I read (one more) news, which was about Solar farm companies suffering great losses because of policy change by the State govt. For those who are unaware of these terminologies, Solar Farming means building (and investing) solar electricity generation plants & we all know this solar electricity is way lot cheaper than conventional electricity which is generated by burning coal (plz google for more info)! So the govt decided to urge people to invest in solar electricity production which many people did but now the govt says this solar electricity govt (Electricity boards) will buy only for night consumption not online i.e. when its produced which is in day time! Well, if this is a joke then it’s a very cruel joke because solar electricity is produced only in day time this even a 5^th standard student can tell & to use this electricity at night means it is needed to be stored means huge batteries & who will spend for it & then why such foolish (sorry but that’s the only word come to my mind) condition as what govt wants in the first place, reduce use of conventional electricity or demoralise use of it, or else how can you say something in public & come up with exactly opposite policy of what you say, is my subject of sharing!

Cut 4; One more news (I am sorry but can’t help) though very local & went unnoticed by the most was about allowing some mine (of some mineral) in remote parts of State in Chandrapur district by the State govt backed up by Central govt. Nothing wrong in mining as we need minerals for our life but the problem is with the location, as this mine comes right in the track of an important wildlife corridor which could displace tigers & many animals. I am not an expert or researcher on this subject but I know this part of the State & I am a civil engg, so I can definitely say the mine is going to damage in some way the wildlife over here as a mine doesn’t mean just a hole in the earth. Along with mine comes tons of debris, dust, tree cutting & people & their machinery & their movement & homes & commercial establishment, & all this combinedly destroying tigers & wildlife & yet govt is hell-bent on going ahead with the mine plan! Again, on one side govt gives full page advertise on World Tiger Day, Hon CM & Central ministers attends seminars on this day & pat their own backs for calling Nagpur as Tiger Capital of World & on other side right under their nose they permit such destructive developments or doesn’t give a clear logical idea how these mines won't harm wildlife. Again, policy making, creating doubts in the minds of common man (few of them) for whose benefits these policies are being made, is my subject of sharing!

There are many more ‘Cuts” I can list, right from urban planning & scrapping of TP schemes in Pune to prolonged Pay & park policies allowing free parking on roads everywhere to basic things like clean & useable public toilets for women in city or villages, but neither a policy is being made nor it implemented rightly is there is right policy, such is the scene of govt making us think what govt wants actually! This is why I am worried as today its mines, public toilets & highways & solar electricity, tomorrow (there already is tomorrow) there will be homes & real estate which is my bread & butter, is my reason for thinking & sharing this piece! And, not all of these issues or demands of public needs some extraordinary technical competency, some common sense & a will to do right things, is required which govt doesn’t has; why, is what Desh Janana Chahta Hai (plz google), do it Mai-Bapp govt until there is too late, adios with this warning!

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Sanjay Deshpande

smd156812@gmail.com

Sanjeevani Dev.

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Fate of Pune Region Vs UDCPR, PMRDA & PMC!

 

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“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” … Edward Abbey

“Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.” … Henry David Thoreau

“You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.” … Gordon B. Hinckley

“Any sport is fun only if it has the right rules & is played by them” … Me

After a long time I am back to my most favourite (read as disliked) subject & that is Urban Planning & that too about our beloved Pune region. I know, many will say then why we also are wasting our time by reading ahead as you have already done that, well I forgive you for not understanding sarcasm!  I keep writing because I am of the old school which grew up reading Vikram & Vetal stories from Chanda mama (Plz google Gen Z), where Vikram was persistent to drag the Vetal even though the Vetal keeps eluding him by making him to break his promise of not to talk! Those stories have very deep impact on me as well I am sure on that entire genre (who read in the first place, more sarcasm) as it's not about just making us know about right & wrong via the riddles which vetal throws on Vikram but its about not giving up the task also, so be it! Ok, urban planning & that too of Pune region, so let's first get some introduction to this Pune region thingy which is In thing for our Hon CM & his deputies’! Long back (read as just three decades back) when there was no Pune region term existed & there were three very clear division of urban planning i.e. there was Pune which included old PMC limit means from Peth Area to Kothrud/ Aundh on west side, Hadapsar on east side, Bibwewadi on South side & Yeravda on East side, that’s all. On west side after Aundh, there was Bopodi which many thought not part of Pune but it was & after that PCMC started which most knew as Telco & Bajaj factory’s home town, nobody thinks PCMC is a city for living (I am not joking), Hinjewadi didn’t exists then, means as IT park, this was PCMC. And rest anything was part of Pune District which was governed by town planning. And yes, there were pockets in between named as Cantonment, which nobody knew means what & who controls & frankly nobody cares. If you think this is absurd & is a joke then, it is not a joke but a cruel reality & is a main reason of my frustration as this nobody cared was & is the main problem of today’s Pune region’s degradation! I know, many wont like the word I used as how can I write negative about my own profession (read as real estate), but please know that my sharing is not about real estate but about urban planning & if we don’t accept the facts & correct ourselves then definitely it is going to damage the real estate which happened to be my profession, so the sharing (and frustration too)!

So, now you know there have been nearly four or five governing authorities who were supposed to control urban planning & they all have separate set of rules for doing so, which popularly is called as DC (Development Control rules). These rules decide how much buildings can be built on the lands & height, tenement density (numbers of units), margins & many such, in short its like Bible, Gita & Kuran (I have used all three religious books names to make readers know it’s not about abusing or praising some religion but to state importance of DC rules for city, disclaimer). And the local body keeps control on any new project (which comes for sanction, sarcasm) via these DC rules. Now, PMC, PCMC, Cantonment (I presume) & Town Planning all were having separate such rules & nobody complained because physical as well even social boundaries of these bodies were very clear. But in the last two decades the entire Pune & PCMC & areas beyond them started developing faster than the imagination of our urban planners & result was the age-old physical & social boundaries between all these local bodies started dissolving. Though for governing revenue they remained different yet now you can differentiate by address or even distance where you are residing & the concept named Pune region or Greater Pune (I derived it as it sounds nice, lol) evolved. Now just by calling Pune region if you think things would have been fine then it's as childish a thought that if we merge Palestine & Israel   all will be well, unless there have been the same rules for every local body, right? So, the Mai Baap govt came up with a unique idea of UDCPR (plz google), in nutshell same building rules for entire Maharashtra, except Mumbai (obviously, sarcasm) & where planning authority is there. Here is the real game (read as foolishness) as for controlling growth (read as swelling, sarcasm) beyond limits of PMC & PCMC & Cantonment (one more joke) govt has formed PMRDA, a planning authority with separate identity. Now real joke started, this planning authority neither has own DC rules nor has got DP, oh yes before you go ahead there is a catch with DC rules. There has to be (at least I think so) a Development Plan i.e. DP in place to apply the DC rules. In short, you want to play Tennis, you have racket, ball, players & you know rules of tennis but where will you play the game, right? That’s where, answer lies in DP as it’s the plan of the land which decides where I can build what or say it’s a plan of the entire city which decides the land use where the DC rules can be applied, hussshhh!

Now, the problem with this PMRDA named child (read as orphan) was it neither has DC rules nor DP in place & yet the planning authority was in place for nearly a decade, this itself must be Urban Joke of the Century but wait, more jokes are still to come! Somehow the planning authority continued with the hope of making DP of its own which is a big job especially for a govt body which wants to make everybody associated happy (read as financially) & in such case planning land use of area of nearly 7000 plus sq kms was a huge task & it took years. Finally, the DP was drafted by PMRDA & as DP was not in place there were no separate DC rules but whatsoever the Town planning dept was using before formation of PMRDA, the same rules were being used for sanctioning the projects, just the name of the authority has changed! Now, as this PMRDA’s DP took nearly four years & suggestions objections also were conducted, & everybody thought things will be smooth finally, one more twist came. Out of the PMRDA land major development was obviously in the fringe area of PMC limit & nearly 33 villages on the fringes of PMC were merged in PMC of which DP has been already prepared by PMRDA. Now if these villages which already are suburbs of PMC & hereafter the sanctioning authority will be PMC, how can they accept (and why would they) DP made by PMRDA is the question which authorities started asking. And on top of it few wise citizens (in Pune there are many, sarcasm) challenged the legal proceedings itself of the PMRDA’s DP in high court & Maai Baap govt for their own reason squashed the DP for the reasons known to them only! I am not an expert but PMRDA’s constitutional chief is Chief Minister of State & PMRDA’s governing State dept is Urban Development which is headed by Dy CM of the State & these two represents different political parties, if I am needed to explain further, then you can stop reading right here as you are too blessed (read as lucky to be ignorant) on this front!

Come today i.e. Aug 2026, situation is, there is no DP in place in PMRDA, so you don’t know where to build what. Nearly 100 plus sq km area of PMRDA where maximum development is happening has been attached to PMC where UDCPR (DC rules for entire State) are already applicable but here also there is no DP in place & bigger joke is plans are being sanctioned from the worst of two plans i.e. existing town planning plan & cancelled PMRDA’s DP, have you ever come across bigger urban planning joke ever, well more are coming, keep patience!  If you are confused what it's to do with you then look at this scenario, if unfortunately, you are a developer asking for sanction of a project in these merged villages, then PMC will sanction your plan with all permissible potential & DC rules but! But, your plans will be assessed depending on what’s its land use in town planning DP, one which has been made nearly thirty years back & one which doesn’t exist! Take a small example, there is a ring road which was proposed by PMRDA (there is one already in building, this is its step brother, sarcasm) which was shown earlier with a width of 110 m. Later on, PMRDA’s DP was reduced to a width of 65 m. Now this ring road goes through PMC limits also & out of the 33 villages the 11 one which PMC has made DP for, there the width of this road has shown & sanctioned as 65 m. Till here it's fair enough, but today if your land is in the rest of 22 villages which were earlier in PMRDA & now are in PMC and if your land is abutting this ring road then you will have to accept the road width as 110 m, why? Because though PMC is sanctioning your plan still as they don’t have DP, they have to consider PMRDA DP & if you say PMRDA DP shows road widths as 65 m then that DP is cancelled & before that the ring road width by notification was 110 m, so we may not be building the ring road of 110 m wide yet as today no DP says so, legally you will have to leave the ring road as 110 m width only. And the very same PMC sanctions plans in other suburbs, the very same ring road going by width of 65 m, now this is the real biggest urban planning joke I have come across in my thirty years of urban planning!

And the joke series goes on as leave road widths, nobody is clear about any infra growth in PMRDA region leave apart the blessed 33 villages which at least have PMC in control. And on top of it now the govt announced UDCPR as DC rules for entire PMRDA means now you have rules for how much sq ft & in which way you can build your project without having clarity of where you should build it & who will be making roads for it, how the residents will get water, where will be electricity sub stations & so many how & where but, you can build for sure! And both authorities PMC as well PMRDA has conveniently freed their hands from taking any responsibility than sanctioning the plans & collecting development charges because you have to give undertaking for water, drainage, road & anything related to infra provision for these projects to PMRDA/ PMC if you want to get a sanction, thanks god at least Oxygen supply they are not taking undertaking for (sarcasm) from the builders! I am not against UDCPR or any rules, I am just pointing out the problems which we will bring in & govt not taking responsibility of any such problems, leaving the occupants of all these so-called growth or developments (whatever) named structures on their own!  How can we apply some det of rules when we don’t have a development plan on ground, have we all forgotten basic urban planning? And that too with no execution authority in place, do mind PMRDA is planning authority not a governing body like PMC or PCMC which has at least some set up to execute the DP & they too lack on making DP! Here, we are giving responsibility to PMRDA of some thousands of sq kms area to manage & with no DP, no infrastructure making authority or power & no set up, what are we making of Pune region, is my question to all concerned!

I know the outcome, as with UDCPR is place & no DP to define land use, there will be flood of illegal constructions which by the time when DP will be on paper (some day) will be declared legal under the provision as the FSI allowed as per UDCPR, which they will be building today only. Look back at past at look what happened to Dhankawdi (plz goggle) & all the then illegal buildings which all are still there even after getting merged in PMC, here it will be PMRDA but the fate of the Pune region is at stake this time! Instead, what govt should focus is, make Fast Track (sorry, it’s a joke actually, yet) DP making task force & implementing & for that the most important thing is setting up a Secretary ranked officer for Pune region in UD dept at Mantralay. And give them targets as well team & authority to execute their planning & if right power is given what can be done, we are witnessing at Food & Public Health dept. right now (Courtesy Mr Tukaram Mundhe)! Because, the UDCPR is applicable to the entire Maharashtra but still the major growth is in Pune region & the area along with infrastructure needed here is hundred times more than the entire remaining State which must have a separate desk or else the priority is lost. Look at the mess we are creating with so called TP schemes. First we declare them & then one fine morning we say they are time consuming & we will squash them & buy land needed for infrastructure & then we don’t do also that infrastructure neither we make TP schemes & still we think the growth of Pune region will be planned, well whom we are fooling! And for that first keep our rulers must keep their political differences aside & focus on proper development (one more joke) as at present three different parties which are in ruling have a say in Pune regions; Hon CM, who is constitutional head of PMRDA & then he is CM also. One DCM is head of Urban Development dept & another DCM is our district’s guardian minister & despite that citizens of Pune have to beg for water tankers, take help of social media for their road pot-holes issue, spend hours in crazy traffic jams, has to travel for miles to send their kids to some good school & forced to buy flats in illegal buildings which nobody asks how they came in existence; Daya, jarur kuch gadbad hai!! Guys, Pune region is blessed by culture, nature, heritage & has perfect potential for growth, it's up to MaiBapp govt whether we convert this potential into a healthy body or allow it to become a cancer patient by uncontrolled growth, adios with this warning!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

smd156812@gmail.com

Sanjeevani Dev.

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CJP, Subah Ho Gayi Mamu..??

 

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“The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality” ... Fredrich Nietzsche.

“Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”, Joe Abercrombie

“Believe the best about the young people you lead, and offer direction to them out of wisdom, not fear.” … Tim Elmore

"The biggest mistake a leader can do, is taking the followers granted"… Me.

Well, I need not have to explain the subject of sharing as most of you must have got the flair from the quotes, though no one can beat Nietzsche when it comes to be bang on target about human behaviour, Abercrombie & Elmore tells us about handling the youth & my words just sum up the outcome. Yes, it’s about CJP (no need to google also) & it is about the present scenario of the society of our country & it is more about the take away for me (on personal front) as well for the society or say Boomers (you can google this)! First and foremost (disclaimer one), I neither propagate nor condemn Mr Abhijit Dipke & not necessarily I am in sync with his or CJP’s demands as philosophy yet they have to format. At the same time, I am not speaking for the present rulers or opposition or say any political party because “Muze to sabhi political logoki shakle sariki dikhti hai” (courtesy Salim Javed & Bachchan, check Sholay)!  I am just sharing as my understanding of the whole episode (yes as its first episode as Mr Dipke has said, and many more to follow) & what I myself need to learn from it as well what we can as a society, so its readers choice to make their own conclusions!

Exactly on 16^th May, a twit (X platform) came from a young man who was in USA then & it says we have formed CJP i.e. Cockroach Janta Party & it’s in response to comment from Hon Supreme Court’s Chief Justice where he termed jobless youths of our country as Cockroaches! In one day, there were more followers to this account than most of the celebrities in the world & the country, which is normal because that’s how this new generation or today’s world is. Just like in Pune, any new restaurant or eating joint draws a huge crowd, some social media accounts also follow the trend! What was uncommon is what happened post that as our MaiBapp govt got agitated with this social media party & tried to block its accounts & just the name suggests the CJP accounts kept popping with different identities! And then the NEET paper leaked (plz google about NEET) & Dipke used CJP social media, to demand resignation of the Central Education Minister itself over this paper leak, agitating Mai Baap govt further more. In the month of June Mr Dipke declared that he is returning to his home country & will start a protest in real world on behalf of CJP, demanding resignation of union Edu minister, in Delhi at JantarMantar which is activists/ protesters hotspot! This too was slightly abnormal but in a country which has been formed on protests from the common men, is still normal! In the meantime NEET paper leak crime’s inquiry was on, many people got arrested, a new date for NEET was declared, again lakhs of students appeared & cleared, so the govt as well as the media thought the resignation issue is finished as the cause itself has been gone. Dipke & his, some hundred odd buddies kept on protesting for resignation as well compensation for the lost lives of students because of cancelled NEET exam, & slowly even the media’s interest faded. Then one Mr Wangchuk, a simple common man turned activist from Ladakh joined the protest of these youths declaring Hunger strike till death unless these youths's demands are not met! This too is common, as in recent times there have also been men & women going for hunger strike for their respective demands from govt, so the hunger strike went on. When the health of Mr Wangchuk deteriorated, court intervened, and govt decided to step in & stop this hunger strike as after all Mr Wangchuk has international identity & govt can’t accept its defamation right or wrong from such single person’s hunger strike, especially when our Hon PM is busy in portraying country’s image across the globe as best society & country leading the world on right path of life! And the govt decided to stop Mr Wangchuk’s hunger strike by any means & even changed the bureaucracy which was responsible for handling this, and this too is normal as that’s how govts’ act!

So, the police reached at Janta Mantar, lifted up (literally) Mr. Wangchuk, put him in a van & took to a hospital to break his hunger strike & got thought the job is done in normal way! And what happened after this is not just abnormal but a tsunami, which is the subject of my sharing! As this action by govt was like throwing a burning matchstick in a store, full of firecrackers & within no time the firework started, which no body expected! Have you ever witnessed any such fire where a shop or storage of firecrackers starts bursting as here, there is no set pattern of firework, any type of fire crackers takes any path & bursts in its own way. If you think this is a weird analogy then check Insta or any social media & look what happened during last week at not just Jantar Mantar but the fire spread all across the cities & towns as every youth was on road to protest, demanding release of Wangchuk & resignation of education Minister. This is the generation which we have discarded as useless, lazy, lost in the virtual world, not keeping in tune with reality, (nikamme in Hindi) & what not! No-body believed, definitely not the govt, that these youths can actually hit the road & protest without fear, more furiously than any political or social party! And do mind, none of them were associated with any political party, many of them even didn't know what a Union Minister is & might of the Central govt, rather they cared a damn about it & this is what the govt failed to understand. Sometimes, when you don’t know your enemy’s power & yet go all guns to fight with him, it's good as then you fight without fear while the enemy is caught surprised & in any war surprises can be the most lethal weapon which happened at Jantar Mantar, is my subject of sharing!

The tactics such as using police force, jamming the internet, even blocking roads & closing public transport & such, which the govt used were age old & this generation didn’t bother & found a way to beat govt on every front. Most importantly, the govt till the end didn’t understand with whom they are actually fighting as Wangchuk represents Hoopers (plz google) while those who were fighting for him are of his grandchildren’s age. Actually, this class’s parents are mostly supporters of the ruling govt, these all were educated kids (mostly) & yet they showed their displeasure (not anger) towards govt not because they support or oppose any party but they are tired of the system which they think just doesn’t care about their future! This is something the govt in ruling & the govt’s in future must take note of, as when the unrest surfaced in our neighbouring countries like Nepal, Bangladesh or SriLanka, our leaders & even the seniors in the society said, it’s because of the small size of these countries, it happened. Such kind of protests are not possible in a country where the population of youth is nearly fifty crores plus! But, this is where we fail to understand the basics of nature as we can’t take anybody or anything granted especially categorizing on things like numbers, age, wealth or education! Many of these protesters don't even think that what difference resignation of some minister can make as that wasn’t the issue anymore, they just wanted the govt named system to listen to their cry & the only way this cry can stop was resignation! It’s just the way when a small kid demands something & doesn’t stop till it gets that thing & whatever you do wont buzz that kid from giving away his demand, this is something the govt failed to understand as it has never encountered such an opponent!

Though this is an alarm sign, as the protest & successful end of it by making the minister resign is now the kid knows if it cries with full guns then the parents (MaiBaap govt) gives up & fulfils kid’s demand, however absurd it may be! I am not judging whether resignation was right or wrong though one thing is sure, our education system needs to be reformed as on one side there are millions of jobs vacant & on other side there are billions of youths are unemployed, means something is seriously wrong! The job seeker thinks he is being offered very less & the job giver thinks the candidate is not worth of what he or she is expecting as salary, is the scene! At the same time govt schools are struggling for getting enough numbers of students & on other side every day some new private school with fat fee packages are opening, even in small towns! Here if the private medical colleges are calling students with fee structure going beyond budget of even high-income parents, then on other hand NEET giving numbers are crossing seven-digit figures. And even if you become a doctor, decent earning seems a faraway sight! The same story is about every trade & with Western countries tightening their noose for jobs for outsiders (especially Indians) that option is also not easy now & all this frustration rather fear, got reflected at Jantar Mantar, & that is outcome of the present & past govt’s ignorance towards the education system at large, is what I feel! On personal front, I also learned my lesson (at govt’s cost), & that is, never be ignorant however the comfort zone you are in & never take any segment of your business garnets, may it be client, market or luck, always be vigilant & don’t let your ego clash with your profession! Though the journey ahead will be more difficult because of one main characteristics of Gen Z that is, lack of consistency & its because lack of focus or patience, which doesn’t even wait for twenty seconds on the social media! To keep this force engaged & on right track for long isn’t an easy job & that’s not possible without some organized structure in place, is what I feel, which will be the real challenge for CJP!

Coming to the hero ( or villain, whatever you may call) of the script Abhijit Dipke, who himself may not be a GenZ guy but if you ask me what’s special about him ,well my answer is, do you know Bhagirath, Gautam Buddha, Sir Isac Newton, Shivaji Maharaj, Savarkar & Mahatma Gandhi & what's common thing in all these/ They dared to take on the system, to challenge the belief of the society & they  didn’t wait for someone else to take the lead but came forward & stood in front by themselves, this is what twenty nine year old Abhijit Dipke did & that’s why for me, he is special. I may not agree to all his statements or views but I can’t stop respecting his courage as how many people would have gaveup comforts of USA & dared to sit on streets of Delhi (literally) without any support & demand resignation of a union minister, none, take my word none, that’s why he is special! And if you disagree with me, then look what Abhijit & his Bros’ did, apart from taking resignation of some minister, they made every opposition party in the country to declare support to CJP because CJP did which none of them combined could do, & that is, to unite the youths & make them hit the streets without any paid benefits! In today’s world even for campaigning of Lok Sabha seats with an in-power party’s ticket, also requires money to gather karyakartas’ & here, millions protested for no reward, not even demanding any in any form, that’s what Dipke did & that’s why he is special! For his & CJP, the journey ahead will be more interesting as today its education system’s some part like NEET but its tip of the iceberg, there is a lot to be improved & for that just protests won’t be enough. Abhijit, if you ever read this piece then do mind, even your idol, Babasaheb could change the fate of Dalits only by joining the govt & not by just protests, as to change the system you have to become the system, is the right way! Last but not least, all kudos to Abhijit’s parents because imagine their young son alone taking on the entire Indian govt, what they must have gone through! Today, all those who raise banners of Shivaji Maharaj & Shri Ram & Ambedkar, but how many of them can see their own son or daughter living by the path which these people have walked on, can any of us do that, ask this question to ourselves & may there be many more Abhijits’ in this country in every field, as then only there is some still hope, adios with this note!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

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