Democracy is Hampering India's Progress

Democracy is for the people, of the people and by the people, and democracy is not hampering us cause the free flow of information is vital to democracy I think that the internet does in fact encourage democracy, because the free flow of information helps people communicate, organize and disseminate a wide range of information. The internet, primarily social media websites, were instrumental in recent pushes around the world to overthrow oppressive governments in favor of democracies, such as in Syria and Egypt.

I agree that democracy is hampering the progress of the nation as if we see the whole election system which is the most fundamental part of a democratic system is full of corrupt and misleading practices.

As a majority of educated people does not cast their vote and the major chunk of voters are uneducated and cast their vote on the basis of religion, cast, creed, language etc. A capable Government does come up. The whole reservation system, which was started taking the vision to decrease it in the future has on the contrary increased to many folds.

Secondly due to a democratic government rules and regulations made are not strong for e.g. In China in the late 1970's they introduced 1 child policy to control their increasing population this step is helping them now. These hard policies can't be introduced in India because the next day the government Will fall.

India is the seventh largest (by area) and the second most populous country in the world, with roughly one-sixth of its population, of about a billion and a quarter. India is one of the world's oldest civilizations, yet a very young nation.

Under Mughal control for much of its history until its colonization by European powers in the mid-eighteenth century. The world's largest democracy by electorate was created after independence in 1947 under the leadership of its nationalist movement, the Indian National Congress.

Elections to its Parliament are held once every 5 years. Currently, Prime minister Narendra Modi is the head of the government, enjoying a majority in the Parliament, while President Pranab Mukherjee, is the head of state. India is a constitutional republic governed under the world's longest written constitution, federally consisting of 29 states and seven centrally administered union territories, with New Delhi as the nation's capital.

The country has six main national parties: the Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP), Indian National Congress(INC), Communist Party of India(CPI), the Communist Party of India(Marxist)(CPI(M)), Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) and the Nationalist Congress Party(NCP). At the level of its states, many regional parties stand for elections to state legislatures, every five years. The Rajya Sabha elections are held every 6 years. This is just a small detail.

But Indian democracy is weak. There is no denying that. Corruption has a stronghold on our politicians and that, too, is because the we have failed to educate our entire population in terms of government responsibility. By definition, a democracy can only work well if people, armed with information and self-interest, participate.

You all have told the entire issue outstandingly. There is nothing left for me but I think democracy is hampering the progress of India and also not too.

First of all I would like you to stop being emotional about democracy. The fact is if it weren't for the democracy, we'd not have wasted the huge amount of money and time invested in elections every term from past 70 years of India's freedom. Instead the elections would have been carried peacefully and in a much more economical way.

If it weren't for the democratic government that we have, political and economical decisions of the country would have been taken with much ease and better expertise. For every decision on a policy or bill in the parliament, there wouldn't have been so long and unfruitful results. There wouldn't be bills pending for decades.

We are not educated enough to decide what's good for us. Years of discussion on FDI, Jan lokpal bill, Telangana issue, etc has worsen our economy in the recent years. Its a total failure of the democratic system not the government or the elected party members. It will remain the same even if next party comes to power. This has to change.

I don't think democracy is hampering India's growth. Democracy is, in fact, necessary for sustained economic growth and progress. It provides the conducive business environment and a level playing field to the new firms. Openness and liberal business policies are what a nation need to grow and prosper, which is not what we see in Russia or 1980s China or even post-independent India. We could only imagine how difficult was it to start a new business before LPG reforms. Could India be what we see it today, without democracy? I don't think so.

Research says that at the current pace of growth, India would surpass China in a decade or so. China, no doubt has been a strong economy for so long but would it continue to be so under a tyrant leader? Only as long as it has visionary leaders like today.

If we talk about India where we believe "UNITY WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL", democracy play a mandatory role for the development of the country. Unless and until we are democratic, the progress of the nation will not be possible. India where different races answer species of people take breath in this country, must follow a government which is for the people, by the people and of the people. It is essential that for every decision there must be people's views behind in it.

No, democracy is not hampering the progress of India. India is a democratic country and indians have right to elect the right person as their representative. Its all depends on the people to choose the right person who is not corrupt or less corrupt than any other candidate which leads our country. The democracy is necessary to leads the nation.

In my opinion Democracy has hampered india's developmental progress. Because the majority party holds the reign of Government Inefficient and corrupt persons get themselves elected. They don't even have vision and intelligence.

Democracy has its faults, because people have their faults. Like owner, like store. Believe me or not but corruption creeds through our blood. In our country people are very conserved and optimistic. Democracy is for people not for money, land and religion, which were are always bounded to.