Honesty ki Zappi - Opportunity for India's Social Entrepreneurship

Abstract

The Central Government's debt waiver and debt relief scheme-2008 for farmer though well intentional but ill targeted and half heartedly managed, is going to encourage dishonest people to remain dishonest and honest people to become dishonest. This way it is going to harm more to the society in long run and in end there is almost no motivation for Social Entrepreneurship culture. Given the historical trend in India, particularly in social sector and overall in general our all policies are more targeted to discourage dishonesty and never been to encourage honesty. In the process our social structure and nation as whole shows the characteristics of low productivity, low innovations, and abysmal level of efficient use of resources like men, machine, money and land. Right from Bombay club to farmer clubs all are heavily depend on Government aids, tax concessions, waivers, subsidies etc. Highly influential industry bodies like FICCI, Chambers of commerce, Kisan Sangh, Various farmers organizations at different level waste there lot of time, energy and money to get favourable policy, which is mostly lacking in area of vision to build social entrepreneur culture amongst all the people and sectors. As a result, We as a society, never, encourage long term social entrepreneurship methods, by having right policies at right time. It is very difficult to unlearn and learn new things, particularly when financial stacks are involved. However, country like India where literacy, poverty, unemployment and empowerment of people is very low in rural area, we required to take some long term policy initiation so the coming generation must not blame us for not trying best things like honesty. This will not only help Government to deal with bad debts but it has also potential to bring in social revolution. We as nation will also able to change our perception as proactive nation in promoting its human values through such steps.