If we think about problems of India in 21st
century many aspects come in mind such as economical, social, and political
problems. But I would like to focus on the two main social problems in India of
21st century but that are actually centuries old problems but still
we did not overcome from it.
Those two social problems are superstition and casteism.
First of all if we talk about the superstition it is not only in illiterate
peoples but also in well educated people. If educated people will be in the
trap of superstition then it will be not fair to expect reforms in illiterate
people. Though this problem came in light 200 years ago and then social
reformer tried their best to vanish it from peoples mind but still we did not
get success to achieve it in full manner. And we are getting into new class of
this kind and I will call it educated superstitious class. It really hurts when
any professional talks about superstitious things and it is more difficult to
make them aware about it , as far as my attempt concerns most of time there
answer is that you are not mature enough and it questions out me that, is this
shows maturity? Then I don’t want to be mature. Many such incidences you will
find in your day to day life.
So it is important to reform the educated superstitious class,
only then we can vanish the superstition in our society.
Second problem is casteism it is also our one of the
century’s old problem but it is taking another form. In this first aspect is
that still in some villages people faces the problems like caste abuse,
boycott, etc. it is really dangerous and problematic that we still did not come
out of mentality of casteism. And peoples start calculation of caste after
hearing surname of any person.
Now another aspect of this is reservation which is really
debating issue in our country and particularly about fees. The weapon of
government to determine the class of reservation is caste certificate. It is
fine and appreciating that government encouraging weaker section to participate
in development of country. But question is that, are they confirming about it
that they are going in right direction? Let’s not go in deep, just we will
think about fees concession. Is it really fair that one person’s family income
is 1 lac per year and another person’s family income 6 lac per year and latter
have to pay nil and first one has to pay full fees for any government forms,
etc. so question arises about solution for this problem one immediate solution
is to apply non-creamy layer certificate to every class and immediate question
arises about its credibility because of many fraud income certificate or say
not showing real income. But this problem too have solution if we do full use
of technology, for example if all government employees data brought on one
software which will give all details about employee with just entering their
some details like name, DOB, etc. and if we use it at the time of giving
non-creamy layer certificate so at least we will get off with some problem.
Another solution which should be aim of India is to ban on
caste certificate and there should be no caste identity. Because I think
problem lies with caste which we legalized it with document. It shows that how
we fond of caste system that we give proof of it by legal document. It
questions out that did we really now have need of it? It is also right that it
will take time to abolish caste system but one day we will achieve it. Which
was dream of many social reformers of India.
