Recommended Agenda for Political Parties of India

Soon after the marathon national elections and getting feed back from the voters, it is the right time for the political parties to analyze and introspect. How have voters reacted to their policies, programs, promises, and performances? What should they do to retain or improve their mandate? How they can converge on solving the burning needs of the masses? What will be their targets to achieve in the next 100, 500 and 1000 days? These targets will give them valuable feed backs for possible mid-course corrections. They can evaluate the acceptance of their ideology, and the effectiveness of their methodology of growing their following. To get them started on the path of growing acceptance by the future voters, given below are a few illustrative recommendations.

1. Vision for all round development starting from the most backward regions, by schemes involving local people in,
   
   a. Rain water harvesting,
   b. Increasing access by roads, mobile phones, community broadcasting using FM,
   c. Setting up multi- purpose community centers for primary health care, skill imparting
   schools for all age groups, trading facilities, ware housing, banking, local cultural
   entertainment, and sports,
   
   
2. Growing Leaders and Leadership for and by promoting such activities as listed above,
   
   
3. Goverments at the Center, States and Local Self to sponsor these activities through budgetary allocations, and tax concessions,
   
   
4. Community minded corporates to train leadership aspirants, and
   
   
5. Community minded corporates, and academic institutions to identify area specific needs,
   likely schemes to meet the needs, funding requirements, sources of funds, mechanisms to monitor implementation and overcome bottlenecks.
   
   
   
   In future posts, there will be recommendations to the just elected persons, regarding how they can draw on the budgetary resources of the Central government to serve their constituency.