Click to play videoNew Delhi: The UPA government's ministers have a chalked out agenda for the next 100-days.
Kapil Sibal has an ambitious plan to scrap Class 10 board exams, Ghulam Nabi Azad dreams of sending doctors to the countryside and Kumari Selja plans to make Indian cities free of slums.
These agendas seem tall as the truth is that nothing on similar lines has been achieved in the last sixty years since independence.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said, "The examination for Class 10 should be kept optional."
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "(Offering) Almost double the pay they (the doctors) would normally get in city areas, is the only way to push the doctors to the difficult areas."
Similarly, the Union Minister for Tourism, Kumari Selja dreams of low cost homes for the underprivileged and cities free of slums.
"The Rajeev Awaas Yojana will be unveiled. This will tackle the problem of the poor people living in urban areas and are marginalised," Selja.
Now every minister has come up with a hundred day plan. Some like Veerappa Moily have made their pledges with much fanfare, Others like the north-east affairs minister BK Handique have just distributed a press release but everybody has made a grand and eloquent declaration of the schemes they propose to implement.
Opposition BJP member Prakash Javadekar warned against the schemes not being implemented as proposed.
"Every Minister is in a hurry to impress the High Command. Coming up with ideas is not bad per se, but unless that is a government's resolve, it has no meaning," Javadekar said.
It has been observed that projects in the country seldom get implemented on time. The Bandra Worli sea link for example took several years longer than the original planned schedule, cost escalation making the total expense on the bridge to up to Rs 1300 crore.
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