India at 75: A Nation Marching towards Atma Nirbhar Bharat

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For many people, COVID - 19 was a bit of a shock, especially for the unskilled laborers, as we saw them migrating from their workplace to their homes in the middle of a pandemic. But for the ordinary man, and the skilled laborers, it was more of an eye-opener and not much of a shock. The main reason for this was, indeed, the inauguration of Digital India as a scheme in 2014, and the digital revolution caused by Jio in 2015-16. People did not have to transit much, they already were doing their every day or monthly things from their homes, paying electricity bills, shopping online, playing online while shopping offline, everything was already being done, and so the common man did not realize the impact in the scale as the world did.

This has led to many realizations, biggest of them being, that despite it being the 75th Anniversary, we are still dependent on foreign powers, like America and China, and this also led to the realization that we need to fill this gap between skilled and unskilled laborers, because both of them were indeed troubled in this hour of crisis, and both of them could have been better and would have been able to boost the nation a lot more than it did. 

Now, these are not two separate problems, they can be handled as they were handled by our competition China, only better because we have an example of America too, which China did not have. China has today become the World's Factory and America is the World's Designer and Innovator. We have a Population of approximately 1.3B and we can be both.

The problems of India are unique, they always have been, and we should thank them for being unique because if they hadn't been unique, we would have already been overpowered by yet another trading company. Now, these problems, the Indian ones can be mostly understood by Indians only, and if the need arises we innovate or in Hindi: we use जुगाड़.  This Jugaad or Desi innovation helps us keep to ourselves. Instead of foreign machines, many in rural India still believe in desi solutions to their problems, Nationalism runs through our veins, we feel proud in getting difficult things accomplished in an affordable method unique to us.


The population we hold with us is an advantage, The NEP will ensure that both skilled and unskilled laborers can actually do both, hence increasing employment severalfold. We should now start utilizing our 1B manpower to the fullest, with everyone employed in one thing or the other. What we should realize from COVID is that when the World got disconnected from us, even then we were able to sustain ourselves finely, Masks and sanitizers were manufactured at home, and the import-export market collapse did not make that much of a difference.

Now, In the post-COVID period, we need to realize that India as a country and India as a World can be utilized. We can manufacture anything and everything, and we have a population that will utilize everything and anything that we make, nothing homegrown is a loss, or should be taken as a loss because even if anything does not do good in its home turf, We as expert managers can successfully and profitably export it too.


We need to, now more than ever, merge all the government portfolios under one umbrella and slowly and steadily begin privatizing these things to ensure that the money is spent and utilized properly by that masses, The Education Ministry, Digital India, Start-Up India, and AYUSH schemes should be privatized and grown under a single parent, to help in seamlessness and convenience for the masses, 

This would help the masses in confidence towards the government, which would help in the long term with the people working in aid with the government hand to hand, towards a stable, more powerful and united India. 


Ultimately, in the end, the crux of this is that we need to remove the divide between skilled\unskilled laborers and focus on ideas and how to bring them on the ground, fast. Then the privatized government should help in a seamless and professional manner to do this. We need to realize that our population is our strength and we don't need to rely on anything outside the country in the future.

And here is me hoping that India, marching towards self-reliance, is a 100% Self-reliant nation well before the 100th year of our Independence.

~HarshVS
17 year old from Kanpur, Believe in Knowing something about Everything rather than Everything about Something. and 'Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.' Has interest in Virtually anything under the sun.

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