Weak Bridges, Dying Patients, Falling Economies...!!!!

Well at last I am back to blogging regularly...hope this time at least it is regular :)

Weak Bridges, Dying Patients, Falling Economies - these three signify the failing infrastructure, medical and financial systems across the world...and India is not far behind. Actually India leads the world in the first two - third we have been saved by sound economic policies, credit to Dr. Manmohan Singh ( will he ever get his due? Another person sailing in the same boat - one Mr. Rahul Dravid..this topic deserves a separate blog).

Now coming to this blog - why do bridges fall or why patients die or why economies fall? Lets take the India case. One of the primary reasons - is incompetent engineers, doctors and financial advisors. The govt. is ridden with incomptent and corrupt officials. Now consider the case where the govt civil engineers have to come up with a new layout. They put up a nice visual showcasing a layout with plots, parks and nice crisscrossing roads. Well the visual looks great- the plan is over and work begins. 3 years down the lane, rains lead to heavy flooding, failing electricity, choked drainage lines, damaged telephone lines. Well someone who designed the layout 3 years back, forgot to consider the 'minor' underlying details - the drainage connections, the water supply, electricity lines. Well as the layout looked nice on the visual - guess the layout was considered done then and approved.

Most of the deaths in India are due to medical negligence. I would attribute wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine prescription also to medical negligence. Recently, there has been a spate of increase in such cases. Is the new doctor uncle down the road not competent enough to understand the symptoms of measles and not just treat high fever as a seasonal change (true case)?

The falling economies, rising rates (read inflation - well inflation is supposed to be below 5% but interest rates are still high and more importantly the price of a kilogram of Onion is still 25-30Rs) can be attributed to economic policies which were not sound or false demand. All the so called smart chaps from the best B schools around the world could not see it coming ( or were they responsible for it). Why would anyone give loans to people with bad credit history ( and that too at higher rates :)) is one funda which I am yet to understand? Thanks again Manmohan Singhji for saving India from the subprime clutches.

Well you may argue some of the above may have happened because of human errors - nobody is perfect and some of them maybe genuine mistakes. Some of it can also be attributed to corruption. But now coming to the main point - is the government adding a timebomb to the already existing ammunition (read corruption, problems, etc) out there? Now you maybe thinking what timebomb is being talked about here. Well here it is - RESERVATIONS for the minority.

Now, 30-35% of the next generation smart chaps from the top institutes across the country - the IITs, IIMS, AIIMS - will be the one who got admission because of "what their caste is" and not because of what they are capable of. Some of them maybe genuinely smart and brilliant and would have got in without reservation also. But majority of them are not. Thats the first reason why most of them could not get through and then started fighting for reservations.

Now imagine, if that new bridge being constructed across the river in your city, the next economic stimulus package being designed is by one of these graduates, who passed out from the IIMs/IITs and landed a coveted govt job (again because of reservation). But the most scary situation - imagine you taking your 3 month old daughter to a doctor who got into a premier medial institute through the reservation quota and somehow managed to pass the exams. Well all I have to say is - ALL THE BEST.