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 complete reliance on the digital world, cashless society etc without ground realities and reliable infrastructure considerations is only going to get us all into further suffering and mess! Unreliable power and servers/internet need upgrade. 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. It is really frustrating when one cannot even get through leave alone transact! So let us please get back to reliable infrastructure first and stop grandoise plans and dirty electoral politics even before we have the finances and conquered Corona. Frustrated medics in Mumbai and Delhi openly say they do not need clanging of bells or petals showered on them but the basics like their basic salaries, staff and equipment/medecines to treat the hordes of dangerous Corona and Cancer patients left neglected and dying. Looking at the behavior of most of our politicians, it appears that the numbers they are interested in are the votes they can garner which are more important than the number of patients, beds, and give the help our frontline warriors(medics) desperately need. Big talk is the mantra of Niti Aayog in line with PMs grandoise plans of changing the face of India and rehabilitation packages boasted about when basics are not sound and post Corona practical down to earth measures with people first lacking. Do we need Corona,Chinese, Nepal to teach us a much needed lesson?
