HONEST INTROSPECTION AND BACK TO BASICS REQUIRED
The many problems of schools/ teachers/students attempting online education
during lockdown should be a factual eye opener after the migrants/ transport
messup, that rushing into reliance on the digital world, cashless society etc
without reliable infrastructure and people first considerations is only going
to get us all into further suffering and mess! The Banks/ Post Offices did not
have the gumption to tell the government that unreliable power and
servers/internet unreliability was making their job slower than when it was
manual! Yes I witnessedthe frustrated staff boldly confessing this to the
fuming public standing waiting in social distance lines ! Not everyone can
afford smart phones and there are millions besides some senior citizens who
find it difficult to operate the equipment/procedures and have no one to help.
The "all routes on this line are busy" and "customer care executive will attend
to you shortly" is really frustrating when it becomes perrenial wait at our
cost and one cannot even get through leave alone transact! So let us please get
back to basic reliable infrastructure first and stop grandoise plans and dirty
electoral politics even before we have conquered Corona. Why cater to a
comparatively few priveledged people and their welfare and dreams at the cost
of further damaging nature and the toiling masses who are merely demanding
their basic human rights, respect and freedom and that as apparent now, were
actually carrying the nation on their shoulders!
