“Absolutist tendencies being sold in the name of development”, feels Educationist

Hassan: Director of the Karnataka Higher Education Academy, Dr.  M. Chandrapujari, has said that the government’s capital allocation plans somehow do not seem to reflect the interests or voice of the people.

Speaking on the issue of governance and development, at the Centre for Indian Trade Unions at Ambedkar Bhavan in Hassan on Sunday, he said that by not co-opting the people into its development plan, a crisis is being created by the powers that be, in the democratic system. 

Dr. Chandrapujari expressed concerns over the rise of “absolutist tendencies” across India, and felt that the spirit of diversity was not being practiced in letter.

“The tendency to impose one language and one culture onto the entire Indian landscape, as well as one election and one tax seems to suggest a uniform approach to socio-political and economic policies, shaving away the vast differences that are characteristic of the many peoples that India hosts as its citizens. This monochromatic imposition in the name of “development” is dangerous,” he felt.

He said under this centralized, tightened development model, wealth was sought to be concentrated in the hands of a privileged few, and not distributed over the entire population.