We compelte seventy-five years of the formation of the our state. It is time we sit back and think what we have achieved and what we have left behind. Odisha as a state has lost much of its glory in the past few years. We do not have any say in the running of our Country. Trains does not ply in our state in night, because we are coward. There are no precedence for such stoppage of trains even in North East, Punjab, J&K during the period our country faced most of the terrorism. The Government has regularly ignored plea of the people, as probably these are not sufficiently backed by the state Government, for Odisha begins and ends with Bhubaneswar. We as a state have failed. Apart from Bhubaneswar, there are absolutely no development. The state capital ranks after 125 in India in the cleanliness as per one of the recent reports. All the large MOU signed for setting up large scale plants have failed to materialise.
Be it education, health care, public transport system or any other infrastructure, the state has failed on development and again failed on equal distribution of the little development that has taken place amongst its geographical area. Corruption in the state government offices including police is at a scale never thought of. We do not have any University worth its name in the State. Utkal University has not been able to keep the development going in sync with other state agencies, and now have lost its glory to new university and education center. Sambalpur university is offering courses the way private university does in South probably to get some additional resources. Making few colleges autonomous has not helped them to develop themselves. The policy probably needs to be revisited.
There are record number of malpractices cases in the recently concluded Matriculation examination.
All health care facility are being created at Bhubaneswar only. Even ESI hospital is coming up at Bhubaneswar despite the fact that Rourkela host most of its beneficiary.
We do not have a single multi screen cinema hall even in the State Capital due to possible State policies.
Our public transport are in mess. We do not have enough buses and the few one that we have are in dilapilidated condition.
We have frequent and irregular interruptions in the power supply although the rates are at par with other state. The quality of power, the problem of low voltage are never taken care of.
We as a State have failed to encourage private business and encourage them to develop the new infrastructure. Our mining resources are being looted by few who ranks amongst the top individual tax payers in the country but do very little as social responsibility. Because of the state policies and the scale of corruptions, the State is loosing its most valuable human resources to Hyderabad and Bangalore. As soon as a student completes the academics, he takes next available train to Bangalore or hyderabad., Why such business can not be set up in the State with local pool of human resources ?? State Policies ?? We speak about the migration from rural area to cities. Who will take care of migration of such educated masses from our State to others.
As a blogger, and the internet being a global media, I had a policy of not writing negative things about our State. But possibly I was wrong. Someday we have to leave behind our emotions and face the realistic world.
CA Natwar Lath, Rourkela
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