Bharat Ratna PV Narsimha Rao, 103. Was Prime Minister; of India’s Economic Reforms; Minister of Defence, Home, External Affairs, and HRD; Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Polyglot, 17 languages. Implementer of land reforms, and land ceilings. Founded: Gurukulams, starting with residential schools in Sarvail, Tadikonda, Kodigenahalli, residential colleges in Nagarjuna Sagar, and Navodaya schools in the country. And more kinds of them. Now, these schools and colleges number in thousands. The first school, Sarvail, and the first residential college at Sagar are my Gurukulams. These Gurukulams as a whole have been my Gurus. They made a huge difference in our lives. Can we pay forward?
50% of adults are inactive – not having 20-30 minutes of physical activity or 10-15 minutes of intense activity. Can we do at least 10-15 minutes of intense physical activity daily?
NEET crisis calls for having multiple exams at various levels to come with a rank/mark.
We in India are struggling to create jobs. When we are an enterprise country, do we need to create jobs, or do we need to support enterprises, at pico, nano, micro levels, and beyond? When we say natural living, don’t we mean more small enterprises at local levels? If we want decarbonization, aren’t we not saying ‘no’ to big industry? 60% to 70% of Indians are in the working age group. This translates as 100 Crore. How do we engage, employ, and make their livelihoods decent, and lives comfortable? Natural living, farming, and livelihoods are the ways forward. Green jobs, green enterprises. Climate change and climate resilience are linked. Renewable energy. Sustainability. Farming, Fodder-Fibre-Food Systems based enterprises. Local value-chains. Support services for them. Augmentation of the current services sector in a huge way. Can we get ready to make this happen? Can we see the current formal sector shrinking, and the current informal sector transiting to formal? Can we see most of us taking up a portfolio of activities for a living? Can the formal sector academic institutions, skill centres, financiers, insurers et al move in to support these current informal sector enterprises, freelancers, etc.? Can we also see reduced work hours a day so that work can be shared for more jobs and enterprises taking the ‘slots’? Can we go to 4-4.5 day workdays? Can we go to 30-35 work hours a week? More people may be working. With good leisure breaks.
Can we see all 1000+ million farm families making decent net incomes per month, at least 10 times the current farm income levels, maybe via natural farming, living, and enterprises? Can another 1000+ million families support them with decent incomes living naturally? Dignified, inclusive, equitable, sustainable, local. In the next 1-2 decades. Can the governments, markets, civil society, and communities respond to this need and direction? Samaaj, Baazaar, sarkaar. Education, health, and financial systems. Policy changes. Can political discourse change? Can our leaders lead this change? Can bureaucracy centrality change? Can civil society show more and more ways, examples, and models? Can communities change and make demands in this direction? Can the marginalized have the agency for this? On their bodies, diets, consumption-nutrition, families, farms, groups, teams, villages, habitats, organizations, local governments, governments on the ground, value-chains, markets, and governments. Can they show collective action and agency for the same?
Can we source, and multiply more leaders, from followers, across diverse sections, and levels, for this?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we care to co-flow. In N? sakritiyoga for 7L.
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