Narendra Modi has charmed some of the best brains in the country. Impressed with his “good governance” talk, many IIT, IIM and IISc graduates have taken primary membership of the party.
These highly skilled and motivated people, aged between 30 and 35, are either entrepreneurs or working in private companies. They are mostly based in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida and Gurgaon.
The party is currently using their expertise to prepare a “vision document on IT reforms” — a blueprint for good governance. They have been asked to study the effectiveness of the systems being used at the Centre, various states and in other countries and prepare alternatives using IT as a platform, which could be used when the party comes to power.
Judiciary, education, public distribution system, and technologies are some of the sectors for which the vision document is in the final stages. The group recently met in Delhi.
Sanjib Ghosh, an MTech from IIT-Delhi joined the party following “inner callings” to do something for the country. He is working on an Integrated Public Distribution System, which will reach peoples’ doorstep. Sanjib told dna: “The present public distribution system under the UPA government is in a mess.
“We can reform it by going for computerised procurement with the use of farmer cards, packaging of foodgrain, giving biometric cards to people and including private players in distribution to increase competition and better services,” Ghosh said.
Sachin Shrivastava, a postgraduate from IIT-Kanpur, wants a National Education Grid that would be accessible on the internet. Any student can take self-assessment tests online at any time.
“Currently, a student’s preparedness is known through the 10th or 12th standard exams and hence corrective measures can’t be helpful,” he said. “If the baseline tests are done at the primary and secondary levels, corrective steps can be taken immediately.”
Anil Arya, an MBA from IIM Bangalore and BTech from NIT Trichy, wants Massive Online Open Courses, crowd sourcing and industry participation to improve the employability of graduates in the country. He is studying the use of mobile money transfers in Africa.
Om Kanwar from IIT Delhi has proposed a National Digital Evidence Grid to improve the law and order in our country.
Anurag Jain, a postgrad from IIT-D and Madhur Sharma a postgrad of BITS-Pilani are working on VLSI (very large scale integration) chip which is not only smaller, faster and much cheaper but also requires less power as compared to present day chips.
“My company completed 25 years in India but there is no VLSI semi-conductor fabrication unit in the entire country,” Sharma said. India needs a policy that would generate employment, provide transparent governance and show real growth.
Dr S Lele, PhD from IISc Bangalore and now working with a private firm, is working on a financial inclusion policy.
Vinit Goenka, national co-convenor of the BJP’s IT Cell, said: “Everyone talks about problems in the country. I am happy that at least a handful of people are giving us solutions. This also shows their faith in the party.”
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