Democracy is Hampering India's Progress

Neither democracy nor dictatorship can hamper a country from progress if there is a reliable and faithful leader and people too support and understand their responsibility towards the country. People take democracy in very wrong way they give bribe, they don't give income tax, they don't pay bills and all blame goes to the govt. So I think there must be a strong hold on people like in dictatorship with hard and fast rules.

Indians are and were a bunch of uneducated lot and if they got any education it was sub standard. They have been superstitious and cast ridden since ages, now over populated with all nonsense beliefs, surely democracy cannot function in its true sense in such a society and that's what we see today corruption and mismanagement, rich are exploiting the poor and getting corrupted ideas to keep them poor. Religion is also a hamper as it gives strange ideas to increase population. Strangely there's no party to speak on population control as it affects their vote bank hence we will see people voting and problems escalating.

I would like to highlight some of the points here-.

1. Democracy is a form of govt in which mass of India participates and elect their leaders. So I don't find anything wrong in it.

2. The cause which are hampering India's development are the people who are running the government after being elected. So it becomes a individual matter of politician that how he/she is leading government It has nothing to do with democracy.

3. Yes! I do agree that democracy has a lot of steps performing it. These steps are for the betterment and is of getting assured that not a single decision go wrong. This is not meant for hampering country's development.

4. Corruption, inflation, mismanagement, growing differences between rich and poor are the main which are hampering country's development. It is these things which are to be corrected not the democracy itself!

As per my perception democracy is not at all hamper in the progress of country. We Indian are lucky to be a part of such great democratic country. As we all know democracy is only way which give us right to elect the right government in every five year that can run the country in well manner, right speak against wrongdoing by politician and also right get education.

We always blame to govt for everything instead of focusing on our responsibility towards country like not paying income tax, bill and giving bribe.

Only one thing can help country to achieve progress rapidly is education. Educate all the Indians properly so that they could aware about their duty for the country, towards democracy and select correct person to lead the nation ahead in suitable way.

So take democracy as boon for country and contribute to grow the nation further.

The long and tiring, Law making processes make it difficult for any beneficial law to come up early. It has to be passed from both the Houses of the Parliament and then needs to be cleared by the President. Such a long procedure takes a lot of time as there is a lot of discrepancy in the Parliament. For e.g. 33 % reservation of women in parliament could not be approved for so long.

The constantly changing government due to regular elections makes it very difficult for every government to leave a worthy impact on the people. Many of the projects are in the development phase when the government is removed by elections. Hence it makes the development process quite sluggish and unstable.

In democracy, a large number of persons or ministers need to be consulted. Majority has to be acquired or common consent has to be worked out before approval of any bill, which at times leads to delay or rejection of the proposal. For example- negotiations over 100% FDI in retail has never reached the common consent in the parliamentary, thus it has been emasculated.

Democracy has distributed power under various hierarchies, which in turn instigates corruption and scams, be it Commonwealth Scam, Coal scam, Adarsh colony scam or 2G scam.

Corruption and non- judicious use of available funds by the concerned authority leads to poor quality of health & education infrastructure. For example large proportion of allotted funds in budget every year for education, nutrition, health facilities, mid-day meal scheme, gramin sadak yojna and other welfare schemes is absorbed by the middle men, authorities in power and this leads to sub-standard development.

Democracy has provided freedom of speech & expression to every citizen of the country which is often misused by some groups of people to divide the country into regional blocks on the grounds of caste, religion, culture, language or creed.

Democracy has provided certain privileges to certain sections of the society which are often seen as a highly critical. For example reservation for dalits, SC, OBC ST etc.

Democracy has also sown the seeds of economic inequality in our society. Richer are getting more richer and poorer are getting more poorer.

Democracy doesn't allow you to correct your decision. For example- The ruling party in power or the elected ministers by the Indian people cannot be removed till their term ends. And as per the present scenario the elected ministers are turning out to be a great mess as they are consuming and accumulating national treasure in their name to fulfill their personal desires and are thus hampering the development of the nation.

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.

Democracy can never hamper any country's development. Democracy gives freedom to people to choose representatives who work for their development, if they don't then people will definitely dispose them for sure. But democracy demands sincerity and right vision.

If democracy is hampering India's growth then we would not have SAIL, BHEL, IOCL, DELHI METRO various private sector etc, all this happened because of democracy and this development is not confined to specific area, development has happened in every corner of this country. We are atomic power, space technology powerhouse and we run the cheapest railway in the world. People from corner of this country contributing to its economy. All this happened because we still have people who vote for the development of this country.

Who can forget the landslide victory of Janta party in 1977 which reminded the strongest PM in our country Indira Gandhi that we people own the real power and it should be run according the people and for the people.

No, democracy is not hamper the India progress. In fact it give a chance to every person to choose their representative. If they are satisfied with the elected candidate they preferred them else they also eliminate. All this privilege exist due to democracy, only their is requirement that every person must provide the appropriate education, so that they choose the right candidate by giving their valuable vote.

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.

Democracy? What is democracy? Is democracy hampering India's progress? Well so many questions with just a simple answer.

Had democracy being hampering a country's progress I don't think other democratic countries will be developed eg. USA. It is not democracy but the delay in the system, the lack of morale, the greed for corruption, the lack of education and awareness of one's right, the whole process of election are some of the many factors that have hamper the growth of India.

It is not that we are not developing instead we are among the top developing countries of the world but we are slow in our progress. We are no less than other countries but we sold our morale to corruption, bribe and social evils. It is not the government to be blamed completely but every individual is to be blamed.

Its not democracy or the government but India as a whole is responsible for its slow development.