Twenty20

Remember, In early years of the first decade of millenium, their was a vision generated among us(we Bharatvasi) of India becoming the superpower(developed) by 2020. and by the end of NDA regime the vision became a very familiar affair to the people & people started believing about being developed by 2020. With winning of commonwealth games bid, mega golden quadrilateral, east-west & north-south corridor project, ambitious river joining project, ease of tax structure & reduction of surcharges on basic commodities, Sarva siksha abhiyan, growing foreign currency deposit, high speed expressways, strong presence of India in UN and among top nations of the planet, creation and transformation of educational institute for center of excellence etc. were seemingly very strong reason to believe in vision 2020 for enormous potential young people's country. the river joining project have done a lot for states suffering the yearly floods and could have proved boon to the drought ridden states. water treaties and water related issued might have vanished. the mega highway project was quiet able to reduce the consumption of liquid gold and hence lots money. in addition it could have created a lakhs of jobs(hence fulfilling the objective of MNREGA which is consuming 44000 crores of INR yearly for nothing). atleast india could have made a good position in infrastructural terms. the easing of tax structure could have lessen the pain of current inflation. the valuation of the brands in education certainly more easier and less dearer. the nuclear treaty made us to accept all the terms & conditions of associate countries for investment in India, letting domestic companies to fight for their space. still 25% of population is illiterate & less than 40% people continue higher studies. more than 30% people are still finding it difficult to earn a two time meal. the 2G spectrum scam, Commonwealth games corruption, adarsh scam are making the scenario even worse. altogether the vision 2020 seems blurred and at that this point impossible to achieve.i can't say all of sudden we have lost the hope of vision 2020 but its now seems to be a distant dream. if somebody says that still we have eight years left, then the point is where is the base for the development. we don't have good road networks, railways is performing mind-blowing, never you can assume to reach a destination safely and on time. still most of tier 2 cities or emerging cities don't have good air connectivity and their is no near future master plan. the education institutes have shown degradation in recent years. even IISc bangalore our top institute for research isn't able to stand-up the expectation of 1.21 billions people nation. than it sounds next to impossible for us to become a develop nation by 2020. sorry our than prime minister & president, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and APJ Abdul Kalam. we couldn't keep up your expectation...