“Transform India With Narendra Modi”
Executive Summary
Over 30,000 citizens in one online COMMUNITY
Exchanging views and together developing constructive inputs
on how to improve governance, kick start development and
transform India.
Over 35,000 posts and comments from citizens with various
backgrounds.
First of its kind exercise of Engaging Citizens with the
Government and implementing “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas”
The “Transform India with Narendra Modi” circle was started recently as an
online community by the BJP Communication Cell to enable citizens of India to
provide inputs to Hon’ble Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi and his
leadership team on what they should focus on in the immediate term and long
term with the objective of transforming India.
This online citizen community will help the Hon’ble Prime Minister and the
new Government to stay connected with the Citizens of India, seek inputs and
engage Indians into India going forward. All citizen inputs would be collated,
consolidated and submitted to the office of the Hon’ble Prime Minister at
regular intervals.
In a short span of two weeks, this community has been joined by over 30,000
Indian citizens across India and overseas including people from various
backgrounds like business, employed professionals, investors, farmers, social
activists, students, home makers, academicians, bureaucrats, senior citizens
and many others.
Over 35,000+ posts and comments have been received from citizens, many of
them being high quality interactions between citizens. While it is not possible
to include every input as a priority, the areas identified repeatedly are outlined
below for the Prime Minister and his leadership team.
Suggested Long Term Priorities:
1) Improving Accountability, Transparency and Fighting Corruption:
It is suggested by many citizens that e-Governance/technology needs to
be implemented to eliminate the human interface in all possible CitizenGovernment
transactions. Processes/Systems should be implemented to
enable citizens to report corrupt practices easily and introduce laws that
punish the corrupt in a fast track way. Government websites need to be
made responsive to citizens and a performance management system be
implemented to track departmental and individual performance. It is
also absolutely critical to ensure the independence of investigation
agencies in India.
2) Making Doing Business in India Easy:
Small/Large businesses of India or multinational companies operating
here are all are mired by labyrinth like licenses and tax regimes making it
extremely hard to set up, operate and close a business in India. This
process needs to be simplified at the earliest and ideally provided with a
single clearance window. A simplified tax structure like GST is past due
and must be implemented at the earliest.
3) Strong Anti-Terrorism/National Security Framework
It is very important that citizens feel safe in their own country. India
must not tolerate infiltrators and swift action must be taken against any
acts of terrorism (small or big, home grown or international). Investment
in defence must be made to better secure our borders, rail networks, all
national heritage sites and public places. Up-keep of armed forces is key.
4) Women and Child Safety and Empowerment
It is suggested that we in India must adopt a zero tolerance policy
against women and child abuse and crime. Fast track processing of such
cases in court and severe punishment for anyone proven guilty must be
implemented. We must also look at establishing Government and
Volunteer Women Support Networks in both urban and rural India.
5) Drinking Water and Food for all: The Government should look at
enabling supply of clean drinking water to each and every house hold
including villages. Promotion of water conservation and deployment of
rain water harvesting can be of significant value. We must strive towards
keeping check on inflation, price of commodities. Also, adoption of
better food storage that minimizes food loss in the food supply chain
must be done.
6) Staying Connected with Citizens: A large number of citizens have
appreciated this Community Social Media initiative and asked that this
circle continues through the entire term. Also, members have requested
that such social media communities be created for every constituency in
India connecting citizens and elected representatives of the
constituency. A suggestion has also been made to create a community
for every Government Department like Municipality, Water, Women
Affairs etc. The key requirement is Government staying connected in a
two way dialogue with Citizens through its entire term.
7) Establish legitimate electoral fund raise mechanisms: A mechanism
needs to be established to set a realistic threshold for electoral spend
and then enable contestants to legitimately raise electoral funding.
Electoral Funding is one of the root causes of corruption in India and the
need to recover the undeclared capital spent to contest elections
manifests into various forms of corruption at all levels affecting citizens
and businesses.
8) Spur Jobs Growth: The Government should look at working closely with
industry in a partnership to spur industrial growth through incentives
and faster clearances. Also, a vibrant start up eco system is missing in
India and entrepreneurs have very few avenues for capital leading to
very limited innovation by Indian companies. A much needed boost in
the industrial and start up eco system will lead to new jobs and
economic growth.
9) Create Hygiene/Sanitation Infrastructure and Civic Awareness drive:
Creation of public toilets, waste and garbage management infrastructure
is key to better hygiene and sanitation. This combined with large scale
civic awareness drives, engaging citizens in the process can help clean up
India. A cleaner country would lead to increased tourism revenues,
healthier and happier daily life.
10) Education Reforms: It is suggested that the age for free and compulsory
education be increased to 18 years (10+2). Such a move will provide a large
number of students with access to diploma programs or skilled jobs. It is
also suggested that efficiency of education delivery in Government schools
be improved through an accountable pay for performance program for
teachers.
For accessing the citizen community and having live access, please visit
http://www.localcircles.com, invite code – EKBHARAT and join the circle
“Transform India with Narendra Modi”
A few of the over 27,000 citizens and their inputs on Immediate Priorities
for the next Government are highlighted below:
A few CITIZEN QUOTES for the priorities identified:
Fast Track Clearance of Cases – “Implement more frequent Lok Adalats and
similar models to clear Civil and Criminal cases. Criminal cases should be closed
in a maximum time of 6 months and Civil cases in a maximum time of 1 year”.
– KG Somani
Transparency and Governance - “Bring transparency by e-governance. Let
people know their rights. Strengthen Lopkpals with power to punish corrupt
officers and politicians” – Jagdish Chandra Kuntukudu
Time Bound Resolution to Corruption– “Setup body on handling Corruption
institutionalizing the same with separate courts /tribunals with tight time
bound resolution to cases” – Subrata De
Reporting Corruption –“ The Government must urgently address the prevailing
culture of corruption. Citizens should have a means to report about corrupt
and inefficient officials through easy electronic channels. Complaints must be
followed promptly and judiciously” - Vinay Prithiani
Making Doing Business Easy – “Small/Large businesses are all are mired by
labyrinth like tax regimes, ball should be set rolling to ease this all out, and a
single point tax like GST should be implemented ASAP” – Sanjay Gulati
Single Window Clearance – “Make one window for all business related
clearances” Sreevidya Balasubramaniam
Strong Anti-terrorism/Security action plan – “India wont' tolerate infiltrators
and will take swift action against any acts of terrorism” – Aditya Goyal
Women/Child Safety- “Zero tolerance towards crime against women “- Sanjay
Gupta
Performance management of Government employees – “Linking Government
employees’ salaries to their performance for increasing efficiency”– Shweta Rai
Drinking Water & Food for all - "Supply of clean drinking water to each and
every house hold including villages should be the first priority, keeping in view
the water shortage as well”. – Brij Gupta
Staying Connected with Citizens: ”This is superb idea and great effort. Let me
congratulate Rajendra Ji and members joining this group and taking out some
time to share view/ideas for country” – Manish Shandilya
Response centre for government departments –“My very first suggestion is to
make the communication a two way process. This will go in ling way to bring
people together to the Party and the Govt. Pl see this is taken up as a policy.” –
S S Sharma
Education Reform - Currently, the government guarantees free and
compulsory education till the age of 14. I suggest that this should be increased
to 17 years. If they have a secondary school diploma, the variety of jobs they
qualify for is vastly different. They can even think of doing a graduation while
working part time and hence create a much better future – Murthy Adivi
Hygiene/Sanitation/Clean Up Drive - Major thrust to bring about civic sense
among the public through advertisements and award for the best maintained
city on annual basis can be implemented. States are to implement hefty fine
for non-compliance by citizens – Venkatesh Ramasubramanian
As a next step, the collective 30,000+ strong citizen community will take a deep
dive into each one of these priority areas highlighted in the document. A review
of the challenges, root cause analysis and solution development would be done
and submitted to the Government for action. PMO and Government leaders are
most welcome to join the circle.
