Feel-Good Factor!
The feel good-factor…it’s a feeling. The question is how many of us are experiencing the feeling. The upper class and upper middle class residing in the thick of the urban belt…a meager 10% of the total population. Is it that these 10% represents the face of India?
A question remains unanswered or the government dozing to provide a suitable answer. Perhaps the government has managed to set a direction, a path towards progress and prosperity. 11 kms per day addition of national highway in the last five years as against the 11 kms per year in the last 50 years is a case in the point. Doubling of forex reserves to $100 billion in a span of 5 years. Fiscal deficit in the controlled bracket of 5%. GDP climbing to that of the magical figure of 9 % plus…the economy is on track.
The percolation of benefits down the line into the hinterland of rural belt takes time. The hope of such benefits is perhaps getting reflected as feel-good factor. Those are the days when US felt India to be untouchable and insignificant. Never was India in the radar screen of world politics.
Now almost every now and then we have one diplomat or another senator or a state secretary is in India. The issue of Kashmir a mirage for 50 years is now getting disentangled and the ray of hope is becoming a reality. The position of India in the Southeast region to the Middle East has undergone a metamorphosis.
Inside the country barring those initial hiccups at the communal front to caste front…the internal fabric of the country has netted well over the last 5 years.
It’s only the time, which can demonstrate with certainty whether the feel good factor of minority (10%) would get transferred into the majority (90%)…feeling the benefits.
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