Examine a new kind of thinking for ruling political party in India

Asim Boral — What is wrong if a political party starts political business in true spirit of a business house with registration with the appropriate authority? This will create funds for the party instead of taking political donations from Industry houses and flooding of all illegal money coming to the party and used for party’s function on day-to-day basis.

The Indian national Congress (INC) should take the following rural business model as a means of generating employment in rural India and work as catalyst between people and government bodies including banks. We have to change the mindset of a political party only working during election time. We can dig a goldmine in the villages of India if we properly dug. So many village industries can generate millions of jobs without migrating to cities. Some of the notable potential opportunities include:

• Village tourism


• Gas from waste


• Solar /wind power


• Inclusive farming


• Mobile school vans in remote villages


• Mobile hospitals in remote villages


• Village security forces trained in disaster management


• Black top roads connecting main highways


• Channels for over-flooding rivers


• Small check dams and generating small-scale hydropower of 25KVA


• One community hall in each village with rooftop gardening and rainwater harvesting for need of water in times of crisis and acting as shelter also, possibly rented for advertisement


• Proper solid steel and brick storage system in each village for storing food grains in times of calamities, by 0.8 mm galvanized steel and 5 mm steel plate, or simply using PVC 1000 liter capacity tank fitted on Iron stand of 8 ft high

I am sure if INC takes up the issue of political business in true spirit then Party need not worry about fund in future nor required illegal money for funding and thus can remove corruption from the system.



About the Author

Asim Boral, a science graduate from Calcutta University of West Bengal, India, is a retired Senior Marketing Manager of the largest Steel Company in India. After retirement, he joined the Indian National Congress and started writing regular articles in Times of India, a national English daily, on various issues from politics to social causes. He is now engaged for service to a big NGO – Bharat Sevashram Sangha – which serves worldwide, from USA to Fiji. Now 64, he lives in a Mega city Ahmedabad, Gujarat state of India and enjoys practicing his expertise in rain water harvesting and biodynamic farming system.