Atmanirbhar Bharat

ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT- A BEQUEST TO MAKE A SELF RELIANT NATION

 

While I exercise my rights I must not forget to undertake my duties to

usher in an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. 

                                                                                                                                  -Aditi Verma 

 India is striving forward towards  achieving greater heights and this time with a motto to become a self reliant nation, an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. As envisioned by our honorable prime minister Mr. Narendra Modi, we aim to transform our nation to a country with a strong foundation and proper development in terms of economy, infrastructure, technological system and proper lifestyle for the citizens, having the tendency to become vocal for the local products and transforming them into global. It can be defined as an opportunity for us to become largest producer of goods than being the main consumers. 

The campaign of Aatmanirbhar Bharat emphasizes to use our self esteem and intent to make an innovation to develop a proper framework and infrastructure to reduce the foreign dominance in our country and reemerge as one of the strongest nations. 

And the campaign of Aatmanirbhar Bharat can only be engineered with the active involvement and inclusion of citizens of nation to put these policies into action and work towards the successful development of the country.  Afterall it is us, the citizens who can bring the change with our strong national character, intellect, and qualities like honesty, 

truthfulness, courage, perseverance and the spirit to make our nation self reliant.  

As the citizens of the largest democracy in the world, the constitution allows us to enjoy the prerogative of certain rights which gives us an opportunity to take part in national development. But besides these rights, we also have some duties which allow us to take the responsibility to serve the nation. We always harp on our rights but always ignore our duties. We ask for an assistance from the government without making a contribution, we always make protests for the negligence of our personal interest but never raise our concern over the issues of national interests. . 

Example we have the duty to protect the public property but we always end up damaging it for the protection of our rights. We complain for the lack of basic amenities but once provided we only are the ones deteriorating them for no reasons. We often get annoyed for getting late salaries but never pay the taxes or bills on time. We get worried for loss of our Indian culture but never make an effort to preserve it. All these incidents show how careless we are as citizens. We exercise all the rights but hardly follow our duties.  

If we want to become responsible citizens, we need to understand that citizenship is not all about enjoying rights but also about performing duties. It is the time for us to exercise our rights while performing duties. 

These duties include the legal duties which allow us to stay within the law and follow all the rules and regulations for the peace and harmony of the nation, the social duties which allow us to be loyal not only to the country but also to the fellow countrymen by encompassing things such as volunteering, donations etc., the environmental duties which allow us 

take measures like afforestation, proper garbage recycling, sustainable development to maintain healthy surroundings and the moral duties which allow us to respect all the people who are living with us irrespective of their cast, age, gender or religion, to respect our nation and the national symbols, to stand for the right and to root out the evil practices. 

Great power brings great responsibilities. The need of the hour is to adopt an approach that can encourage people to foster a greater level of active citizenship. It can be achieved by making citizenship education and life skills a mandatory  subject to be taught in all educational institutes to increase the awareness among the youth and children and give them a better understanding of democracy. Local governments can also support the idea by organizing events like awareness drives, charity functions etc. allowing more children to volunteer and inculcate in them the feelings of helpfulness and integrity for the nation. 

The perfect delineation of Aatmanirbhar Bharat would be a country where people take responsibility not only for their actions but for the whole nation. It can be envisaged as a country where people would be integrating personal goals with national goals, where different talents and career would unite together for a single goal of national development. 

Let’s come together and make small contributions on our part to turn it into a big difference. Let’s make correct choices than chances, get motivated than manipulated, make changes than excuses, excel with the nation than to compete with each other, search for solutions than making strikes to turn our dream into reality and see our nation’s flag soaring high and high. 

That's how I think on one of the perspectives of Aatmanirbhar Bharat. 

What do you envision of a self reliant INDIA? 

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