Honorable Prime Minister Modiji,
My warm greetings and
high regard to your honor.
I am writing this letter as a part of my
privilege and responsibility to apprise you about some heartrending fact of our
nation. I hope my endeavor will receive an appreciation from your end for the
interest of the people of our country. I am highly enchanted by your
declaration for Clean India movement and Home for Every Homeless people by the
year 2019. Clean India movement is so important in our cherished dream of
making India a most successful country of the world. A successful nation can
only dream for a clean nation and therefore, this movement needs to be a
priority movement for every Indian. I hope the dream you have visualized for
clean nation today will be taken to a level of mass movement and translated to
a reality within short span of time.
Sir,
in 2013 I got the privilege to visit Mahua part of Gujarat and I was amazed by
the natural beauty, social structure, peace and tranquility prevailed in that
part of the state. An organization namely Sadbhavana Forum invited me to speak
on the ethnic problem of Assam where I got opportunity to interact with various
sections of people. As I had seen the coastal town there I think that part of
the Gujarat is still neglected, not much has been done yet. Cleanliness is
still a distant dream in some parts of the town, people are living is totally
unhygienic and grubby condition where drainage system is totally
non-functional. Quality of life is not
yet up to the satisfactory mark and standard of living is at the mercy of hard
work and luck. If Gujarat is model of developed India then I think before the
fact goes outside world some hard initiative has to be taken to improve the
lives in the towns like Mahua. I hope there are several such towns like Mahua in
the Gujarat where cleanliness is only a tale, not the duty just because of poor
economic condition of the people. Like the poor and weak nation cannot dream
for clean nation, a hungry and ever challenged people also cannot think of
clean and hygienic life.
Sir,
in this year itself I was encountered by an agonizing experience in the
national capital New Delhi itself which may send a shameful message to outside
world. In one pleasant morning of September I was around Connaught Place for
morning walk along with my friend. Suddenly I got a nature’s call and had to go
one Public Toilet. What I found there the door was closed from inside and I was
thinking about who could be inside the toilet. I called to open the door and after
a few second the door was opened. What I saw inside was some five/six boys were
sleeping inside there and passed the night. I asked them out of great eagerness
- “why are you sleeping inside the toilet, don’t you have house to sleep?” then a boy replied ‘Sahab, every night we
sleep in the toilets, in entire Delhi you will find people like us using most
of the toilets for sleeping in nights because we have no house to sleep.”
Answer was so shocking for me that if it is the condition of the place like
Connaught Place in national capital Delhi then what about the other cities like
Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Guwahati, Bangalore etc? Forget about famous Jugi Jhopri on the banks of Jomuna River
or countless street population who use to sleep on the foot paths of Delhi,
Kolkata, and Mumbai like cities. If you open the window of any star hotel in
the Kolkata or any big cities at mid night it would be seen that after a
daylong hard work thousands of people sleeping over the foot paths along with family and in the
morning they are again on the roads for begging or in search of work. Until and
unless these hopeless populations are given hopes in lives India’s success as
the nation will be only a big question mark. Would it be possible to provide
house to each and every homeless people by the year 2019 as you promised? We have the substantially Asia’s largest Slum
Area in Mumbai, ever growing homeless people along the every length and breadth
of railway tracks of the country in the towns like Guwahati, Patna, Katihar,
Mughalsarai, Lucknow, Bhopal and etc. In the country of second largest
population of the world we have the millions of homeless population and crores are
poverty. Modiji, nothing is impossible
in this world only thing is that we need commitments and dedications towards
our mission and countrymen are happy to see those dreams in your eyes and ready
to go by it if your Government is really
translating the same into reality. When
a vision is converted to a mission it
becomes a responsibility of a Government as well as the countrymen. Our greatest
weakness is lack of sincerity and sense of responsibility that we need to re-cultivate
a fresh. Lack of responsibility degenerate the civic sense and generate the
corrupt culture. Yes, fighting against corruption and to instill sense of
responsibility is a gargantuan task but by emboldening nationalism it can be
over powered by the positive attitude. Clean India movement can never be a
successful unless it is turned to a mass movement and sense of belongingness to
everything of our nation. I hope before
we move forward the concept and motive of Clean India should be understood
thoroughly by every Indian because in our present context cleanliness need to embrace
not only clean of places or things but also the purifying our morality and
integrity.
Modiji, a person
like me can only wish for success in good things but a person in the position
of Prime Minister like you can turn many dreams of the people into reality. The
will power, faithfulness to your own commitments and articulated vision you
have demonstrated so far, have already generated powerful dreams of being citizen
of a successful nation in days to come. Now I hope you will leave no stone
unturned to keep your commitments and materialize the visions so that history
can note this time with great pride. Once again I convey my best wishes for all
the success in your lives, which you have dedicated already to the nation.
With
high regard
