What I would like the Government of India do in 2017 - 2

Continued from Part 1..................

1. Free the Hindu Religious Places from Government control. Unfortunately Hindus get the rough end of the stick when the pseudo secular parties like Congress are in Governance. They hardly go anything during the Vajpayee NDA Tenure, and they haven't got much during the Modi NDA Tenure so far. The least this Government can do is to give the same rights to Hindus to manage their Religious places, as has been given to other religions.
2. With cultivable land shrinking, it is high time we adopted innovate methods of farming. Modi is an unabashed believer of Israeli type of farming, and a new Green revolution is the need of the hour. We need to move away from water intensive crops to more cash generating crops, that take a less toll on the soil and water, while bringing more benefit to the farmer. Modern farming methods that increases productivity 2-3 times, which is available is to be adopted.
3. Farmers should be encouraged to go for integrated farming, that includes value added production facility. It is a known economic fact that basic farming is not likely to produce high returns. Milk fetches Rs 30 for the farmer, but the products processed from milk fetches him 3-4 times the revenue for a little additional cost. Turnkey SME projects can be offered to farmers at reasonable rates and these units can be integrated with a regional, national agro products/ value added agro products marketing network and/or in a e-marketing platform, which is already in place. Retraining and re-orientation of farmers is the need of the hour.
4. Considerable exploitation of fresh graduates, Engineering or otherwise, occurs in our Manufacturing sector. These graduates are taken in as trainees and asked to do the job of a factory worker for wages less than minimum wages, and discarded at the end of the year. I have no objection to them doing the blue collared work. In fact, I encourage it, and will be a good learning experience for them. But they need to be paid fair wages. Government can agree with Employers and ensure fair wages, and longer tenure with Government bearing a portion of their salary for a period of two years.
5. There is a privileged class of professionals in India, mostly Metro based, who are working in good companies. These people have lost connect with the other India, the rural Bharath. The rural Bharath's children lack exposure, and are at a disadvantage. The professionals can be asked to dedicate X hours of rural/social work with youngsters in rural areas in a year and they could be allowed a rebate on Income Tax for fulfilling their Social Obligation, while the rural children benefit by gaining the much needed exposure.
6. A simple tweaking of School Kids time table, with only three subjects/languages taken per day, instead of all the six, as is vogue now will reduce the weight of the school bag by half. The number of periods per subject per day can be doubled, on those days the subjects are taught. For example, Maths, Science and English can be taken on Mondays, Wednesdays, two periods each. Social, Hindi, and Third language can be taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Friday can be kept flexible to accommodate subjects/languages based on syllabus requirements. Teachers work load wont increase, and children will get an extra day between classes to internalize what was taught in the Classroom. I had forwarded this suggestion to PMO, who in turn forwarded it to Ministry of Education.