26-january, INDIAN Republic Day

26th January  is one of the most important days in Indian history as it was on this day the constitution of India came into force and India became a truly sovereign state. In this day India became a totally republican unit. The country finally realized the dream of Mahatma Gandhi and the numerous freedom fighters who, fought for and sacrificed their lives for the Independence of their country. So, the 26th of January was decreed a national holiday and has been recognized and celebrated as the Republic Day of India, ever since.

Well material like this on 26th january can only be found only in books,newspaper or on internet but for people of our country its just another day.  They don't f****** care about what this day is for and they don't want to know that too, they are just satisfied with the holiday they get on republic day. And to prove this fact a survey was conducted in metro cities in which the question related to republic day were asked, but Less than 50% of the INDIANs were able to give the correct answer. Even the basic question like In which year our constitution came into existence?? Less than 50% Indians were able to give the correct answer. Some said it was in 1951 while some said it was 1953. Its a shame on aur country that its citizens doesn't know anything about the place where they live. Its a shame on our education system too.

But why do we bother to know this, its not gonna help us in anyway naa. Its just a waste of time trying to know these things. Trying to copy west we are just loosing ourself. Its really sad to see our country in that situation, where in one way we are talking about the progress and the development our country is doing but in other way we are forgetting for whom we are doing this work. We are just following others, because others are doing this thats why we will also do things like that. It doesn't feel good when you encounter such kind of things but sad part of the story is We all say "I am proud to be an Indian." but when asked why you are proud to be an Indian no one is able to give a reply to this question.

Well Indian don't feel shy to questions like why you feel proud to be an Indian because now you got so many things like this to proud of.

It sucks to see our country's condition like this. 

"Proud to be an Indian." Jai HIND.

Happy Republic day to all...........

Help Improve India - New Feedback System direct to the Indian Government

Hello fellow Indians, expats, and visitors to our country,

This is the url for an excellent new initiative which directs public grievances and feedback straight to Indian government ministries in New Delhi, or to relevant state governments: http://pgportal.gov.in/index.html

The fantastic thing is that it seems to work (see the excerpt below from a friend of a friend who recently used it).

I would strongly urge every Indian - resident or not - and every expat who lives here, or visitor who visits - to spend just a few minutes and make use of this at some stage in the near future. 

We’re probably not going to rid our country of kickbacks or vote bank politics through this, but we can start with the little things that make an impactful difference to us all such as traffic issues, public works, cleanliness of public spaces, efficiency of key ministries/ departments/ institutions, and so on. 

Please also spread the word about this site or send an invitation to this group to every Indian/ expat/ visitor to the country that you can from your FB friends list.

On a personal basis, as a very time poor person, I would not expend the effort in using and publicising this unless I believed it could make a difference.

So please do your bit if you feel it could be of meaningful impact and bug the s""t out of them using this site, on any issue important to you, until someone listens.

Thank you and very best,

Abhaey.

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An expert from someone who recently used the new system:

Can you imagine this is happening in INDIA? 

The govt. wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government officials or departments like Passport Office, Electricity board, BSNL/MTNL, Railways etc. 

I know many people will say that these things don't work in India, but this actually works as one of our colleague in CSC found. The guy I'm talking about lives in Faridabad. Couple of months back, the Faridabad Municipal Corporation laid new roads in his area and the residents were very happy about it. 

But 2 weeks later, BSNL dug up the newly laid roads to install new cables which annoyed all the residents including this guy. But it was only this guy! Who used the above listed grievance forum to highlight his concern. And to his surprise, BSNL and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad were served a show cause notice and the guy received a copy of the notice in one week. Government has asked the MC and BSNL about the goof up as it's clear that both the government departments were not in sync at all. 

So use this grievance forum and educate others who don't know about this facility. This way we can at least raise our concerns instead of just talking about the ' System ' in India.