Economic Times Column demands Binayak’s Release while suggesting Policies
excerpts from Time for the big leap by T.K Arun
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Announce the appointment of 10,000 judges at all levels over the next three years, as part of a time-bound plan resolve all legal disputes beyond the final appeal in less than two years. Cases must be heard continuously and justice delivered with dispatch. Absence of a functional legal system is a prime reason for the growth of religious and political extremism in the country.
Tackle the Maoist challenge. The Planning Commission has produced a decent report on how to go about this. The Forest Dwellers’ Act, Employment Guarantee schemes and the Right to Information Act have to be used to mobilise the people to secure their rights and livelihoods. Once this is done, the Maoist project would lose legitimacy.
Policing can take over thereafter. Release Binayak Sen, as a first step. Innovate policy on releasing land for non-farm use. Land-losers must have a stake in what comes up on the land they lose. Otherwise, we’ll have more Nandigrams and Singurs, not industrial progress. Initiate aggressive urbanisation, building modern, vertical towns for prospering, interdependent communities. Plan and build energy efficiency in transport, lighting and climate control, making it part of city design and building codes. Build a new city of at least 500 sq km to boost domestic demand and meet the shortage of office and residential space.
Withdraw the army from civilian Kashmir, give a boost to the peace process and remove the Pakistan army’s alibi for not focusing its forces on the Taliban. Scrap the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, make the political process in the Northeast more participative, and tighten local policing.
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