Objects and Necessity of the Project
In the present mode of “ parliament” it is only for the big people - big in terms of money, power, status or what not –who can talk .The bigger the forum you have, you need a big voice to get across. The present parliamentary constituencies are too big. Unless you are big enough to be seen and heard in that big constituency you are simply out,. As such the parliament is for the big, by the big and of the big.
The same thing applies to the state assemblies. Even the third tier of the parliament that is now being promoted as per constitutional amendments 73 and 74 is not yet providing talking forums for the poor. The panchayat makes it a game of the middle class, that may be even lower middle class-but not yet of the poor. We need a kind of small forum in addition to the present third tier i.e. panchayats .The proposed small forum will be of about 40 families or so with its governing structure linked through representative structures at the level of village, panchayat, panchayat samiti, district, state, and the nation.
This small forum would be called “NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY”. When the entire nation is linked in this way, any small person he or she having a grievance, can solve the problem through this small forum. He/she will know where and whom to approach. The basic community being small can listen to him/her . If the problem could not be solved by the “neighborhood sabha”, then it can be referred to a village sabha , panchayat sabha or so on. Not as the problem of one helpless individual but with the weight of the entire structure at a given level that refers the problem to a higher level. When the people have such healthy structures –where they can talk in such a way that they talk matters-the press too will talk in a different language-i.e. with some possibility for responding to the problem of the poor.
Like this we can make children also in small groups as “BAL SABHAS” for self empowering to steer themselves in the fields of health, educations and especially character building. This stem indirectly develop the leadership qualities among the children.
The above system can eliminate the following feelings in the society:
1. A Sense of helplessness among people:
2. A Sense of alienation:
3. A Sense of depersonalization:
4. Growing loss of credibility of political parties:
5. Loss of control over market forces:
6. Loss of faith in democracy itself:
7. Inadequacy of panchayat structures:
8. Lack of adequate channels to ensure:
9. Disorientation among NGHOs:
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