Towards a better India/Objectives of a Modern India
Requirements of a modern state varies from culture to culture. However, by commonly accepted world standards and principles of the Human Development Index, we would like to state the minimum achievement required for a Better India to be:
- Complete literacy (everyone should be able to read and write) and every adult should have completed high school
- Poverty Eradication - every Indian should be able to earn above the bare minimum of $3/day
- Eradication of major communicable diseases including but not limited to Polio, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Typhoid
- Eradication of child labor (no child should be forced to work, at the cost of his/her education)
- Removal of social bias and untouchability (no person should be judged based on his/her birth)
- Eradication of gender bias and crimes against women (rape, sexual harassment, dowry)
- Promotion of communal harmony to eradicate religion-based violence (inter-faith acrimony should stop)
- Corruption at all levels of governance should get closer to nil
- Cross-border terrorism, sectarianism, separationism, and naxalitism should come to an end
- Promotion of harmony with all neighbors including Pakistan
- Increasing the use of alternative fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel