INDIA ASPIRES TO BE A SUPERPOWER, BUT WHY NOT ? (PART -7) – ARE THE CITIZENS RESPONSIBLE AND ENLIGHTENED ENOUGH TO ATTAIN AND SUSTAIN THE SUPERPOWER STATUS ?

To become a super-power nation, and to sustain this status, the QUALITY OF HER CITIZNS matter more than the QUALITY OF THE GOVERNACE. it’s most important and abolutely necessery, that her CITIZENS ARE HIGHLY SELF-DISCIPLINED, RESPONSIBLE WITH A HIGHLY DEVELOPED CIVIC SENSE AND A HIGHTEND SENSE OF DUTY, BE EDUCATED AND ENLIGHTENED MATERIALLY AND MORE SO SPRITUALLY.

THE STATUS OF EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD DOES NOT REMAIN THE SAME AND UNCHANGED. IT ALTERNATES BETWEEN THE FOLLOWING TWO STAGES:
1. A PEACEFULL AND RELAXED STATUS:
                 (A). DURING THIS PERIOD, CITIZENS MUST INVOLVE THEMSELVES SERIOUSLY IN STRENGTHENING AND UPLIFTING THE NATION MATERIALLY, SOCIALLY, INTERNATIONALLY AND MAKE HER SELF-SUFFICIENT, SELF-RELIENT AND POWERFULL. THIS ALSO DONE BY DEMOCRATICALLY  COOSING THE RIGHT GOVERNMENT TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS THROUGH RIGHT GOVERNACE AND AN ABLE  OPPOSITION. CITIZENS  HAVE TO BE VIGILANT AND MAINTAIN THE PRESSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT TO ACHIEVE THE ABOVE MENTIONED NATIONAL GOALS IN TIME-BOUND MANNER THROUGH APPROPRIATE DEMOCRATIC MEANS. THIS STEP WILL ENSURE THE SMOOTH SURFING OF THE NATION OVER DIFFICULT TIMES. FOR INDIA, PARTICULARLY, SOME GOALS OF BAIC IMPORTANCE ARE MENTIONED IN THE PART 1- 6 OF PRESENT SERIES OF THE POSTS, MAY BE OF SOME HELP.
                       (B). A MULTIFACETED FIFTH COULUMN IS ALWAYS INBUILT IN THE VERY STRUCTURE EVERY NATION BY DEFAULT. CITIZENS ARE ALWAYS DUTY-BOUND TO BE VIGILANT TO IDENTIFY, ISOLATE, EXPOSE, CONDEMN AND MAKE SUCH UNWANTED BUT NECESSARY EVILS REDUNDANT FROM TIME TO TIME.
2. A CHALLENGED STATUS:
                         (A) IN A SITUATION LIKE TERRORISM, AGRESSION AND WAR, A COUNTRY IS ADDITIONALLY BURDENED BY THE INCREASED EXPENDITURES ON; (1) DEVELOPING NEW DEFENCE INFRASTRUCTURE AND ITS REPLACEMENT, (2) RECRUITING MORE MAN POWER FOR DEFENCE, AND TO LOOK AFTER THE FAMILIES OF MARTYRS IN AS A LONG TERM STRATEGY.
                                THE GOVERNMENT MUST DEVISE A PERMANENT MECHANISM (A PERMANENT SPECIFIC DEFENCE FUND) IN WHICH WILLING CITIZENS COULD VOLENTIERILY CONTRIBUTE A SMALL FIXED AMOUNT( DEPENDING ON INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY) ON MONTHLY OR YEARLY BASIS THROUGH THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS INTO A SPECIFIC  PERMANENT DEFENCE FUND OF THE GOVERNMENT, AS AN ADDITIONAL SOURCE TO MEET THE ABOVE MENTIONED TWO SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURES UNDER UNFORESEEN CHALLENGED STATUS . THIS STEP IS JUSTIFIED IN VIEW OF TWO WELL KNOWN THREATS ON OUR WESTERN AND NOTHERN BORDERS.
                             LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE CHALLENGED STATUS PROVIDES A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY IN UNLEASHING AN UNTAPPED HUGE SOURCE OF CITIZEN’S HUMAN POTENTIAL ENERGY IN THE FORM OF NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION AND UNITY. GOVERNMENT MUST ACT QUICKLY TO TAP, TRANSFORM AND USE IT IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST, UNDER THE EXISTING CIRCUMSTANCES, WHEN INDIA IS FACING THREATS FROM THE SLEEPING CELLS OF TERRORISTS AND A SOPHISTICATED ILLUSIVE, ENIGMATIC FIFTH COULUMN IN THE COUNTRY.