THE ULTIMATE GOAL
I have been shouting at the top of my lungs that Lokpal act (in any form) is not going to help us in completely eradicating corruption. Neither is it going to help in developing our country. We need to demand for reforms and policies, elect the person whose election manifesto is to provide those reforms and track if he or she is delivering on it.
As daunting as this task looks, I have found great heart in the way the common man has taken to the streets for the right cause. This was not possible earlier. Earlier information was not so easy to find. One would have to find the right piece of paper copies of which were rare. Even if someone did come across the information, there was no way to disseminate this news and his views. There was no forum for him to discuss. This has quickly changed in the last five years or so. Information flows freely through TV, radio, print-media and most importantly over the internet. If you have the right cause, you can spread the word through social networks in a matter of days across tens of millions of people.
Earlier reforms and policies where left to the echelons of the intellectual elite. I want to aid in the growth of a critical mass of common people who understand through common knowledge what is best for them and the country and then press for it.
THE FIRST STEP
A critical aspect of raising awareness is letting the youth read worthwhile news. How many of you give a damn to what Amitabh Bachchan tweeted about his pregnant daughter in law or whether Deepika Padukone is uncomfortable with her tattoo. Yet every morning you have to rummage through news channels, news papers and e-portals for morsels of information that you really care about. I am not saying entertainment is not important, but that is not supposed to litter 50% of the real estate of a news medium.
I am trying to build a portal where there would be sections like "national", "international", "sports", "business", education", "entertainment" etc. Any member of the portal can add a link to a news under the suitable section. The forum will be moderated by the members on the forum. However, no member can alter the post of another member. If a member finds that a piece of crap or advertisement has been put up by some member, he can report it to the forum-moderators. The forum-moderators will take suitable action. If required, the poster of a "non-news" may be warned by the moderators. The membership would be terminated if a member receives more than 3 warnings within a space of 3 months. The same rules apply for false reporting.
The portal will also have a discussion forum. The discussion forum will have sections for discussing pertinent topics.
Please let me know what you feel about this idea.
I already came in contact with a guy who has the domain space for this and is willing to do some development. Is there anybody else interested in providing an helping hand?
As an example of this portal have a look at a similar defense: http://www.bharatrakshak.com/
JAI HIND!
your first para is very disheartening... NOTHING is going to help us in completely eradicating corruption. Dont you think that even if ONE of the scams we've seen recently (to the tune of lakh crores!) could've been prevented, all that money would have gone a long way in the development of our country?
ReplyDeletehave we not been demanding reforms and policies all these years? every party has an election manifesto which speaks of providing those reforms and nothing gets done. your individual vote DOES NOT make a difference... the votes of the masses, who are NOT looking at manifestoes but tvs and mixer, heck, even free booze, does!