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One can sympathise at a human level. However:
India is the world’s most populous nation with no population control measures whatsoever; heavily deforested, environmentally degraded, severely polluted (Delhi the most polluted city in the world); we are a nation of scofflaws and jugaad in the negative sense of the word, inching towards the limits of non governance.
Unless we at individual level make concentrated effort to be law abiding and the govt enforces law impartially, we are enroute to becoming what a US Ambassador to India once famously described India as – a functioning anarchy.
Govt land, illegal construction encroaching onto adjacent railway tracks etc. If people are going to exchange their votes for squatter rights and then use jugaad to game the system to make pukka houses and obtain documents, the underlying premise is malafide.
There is a saying – In a democracy people get the govt they elect and they deserve.
One can sympathise at a human level. However:
India is the world’s most populous nation with no population control measures whatsoever; heavily deforested, environmentally degraded, severely polluted (Delhi the most polluted city in the world); we are a nation of scofflaws and jugaad in the negative sense of the word, inching towards the limits of non governance.
Unless we at individual level make concentrated effort to be law abiding and the govt enforces law impartially, we are enroute to becoming what a US Ambassador to India once famously described India as – a functioning anarchy.
Govt land, illegal construction encroaching onto adjacent railway tracks etc. If people are going to exchange their votes for squatter rights and then use jugaad to game the system to make pukka houses and obtain documents, the underlying premise is malafide.
There is a saying – In a democracy people get the govt they elect and they deserve.