Since the current NDA government has taken
over the reign, the PM is putting a lot of emphasis on Skill Development. There
have been so many schemes launched, Skill Development, Stand up India etc. and
surprisingly not a single scheme is named after any of his family members. What
Mr Modi has observed with his experience, his Vishwa Darshan and through the
suggestions he is receiving on NaMo app and portal, that every Indian possesses
one very good skill, “Giving Advice/Suggestion or Gyaan”. Unfortunately, nobody
has ever noticed that we Indians just love advising, irrespective of caste,
religion, gender, age and region. This is one skill which we get with our
birth, get perfection by the time we start speaking and we further hone it
throughout our lives. There are people who can give you tips on anything and
everything under the sun, be it bigger issues like space sciences to Indo – Pak
relations, refugee crisis of middle east, global economic slowdown or may be
some miniscule issues such as which route to take to go to office everyday, how
to make round rotis or how can you temper the electricity meter to save your
electricity bill (if you are a UP resident, to get a bill you need a
continuous supply of electricity).
Initially, the PM planned to bring a
legislation to implement this but considering the fate of some important
legislations in the upper house he has formed a committee of experts called, “Gangs
Group of Gyaanis” (GoG). This committed
will have some esteemed names in giving suggestions to others, namely, Chetan
Bhagat, Suhel Seth, Shobha De, Manish Tiwari, Kailash Vijaywargiya and will be
headed by Justice Markendya Katju.
Ministry of Skill Development has finalized
the scheme and named it AB BAS (Akhil Bhartiya Bank for Advices and
Suggestions)
The objective of this scheme is to develop
a bank or database, where people can submit their suggestions for different
situations, so even if there is no one to listen your advice, you can just
login and give digital advice, those who need it, they can take suggestions by
logging in to their Aadhar linked account. Going by the Digital India theme, an
app is also developed so that you can use your mobile phones too.
As we said earlier, we cover each and every
topic for suggestions, but for the launch phase some special categories are
created where people can submit their suggestions, basis the responses later
more categories will be added, people can also advice to expand this list:
1.
People living in nuclear
families advising on benefits of joint family
2.
People with no kids advising on
parenting
3.
NRI / OCI / Green Card Holder
living abroad and not planning to comeback advising on benefits of staying in
India
4.
People visiting doctors with
their google based gyaan
5.
Women Empowerment - Special
sections for bachelor girls advising on how to handle Saas/Nanad (Mother and
Sister in Law)
6.
Science students advising on
career options in Arts/Commerce stream and vice versa
7.
Suggestions on superstitions
socio-religious matters and rituals
8.
Obese people advising on losing
weight and vice versa
9.
General section on suggestions
for Indian Cricket Team, other sport persons, Politicians, Indo – Pak
relations, global warming, US politics etc.
The punchline of this scheme is “सबका ज्ञान, सबका उत्थान”
(Everybody’s knowledge, everybody’s upliftment)
