We want freedom from hunger as well as illiteracy

We celebrated our 64th Independence day with great enthusiasm and zeal. This is our national festival and the reason for celebrating this is special too because we got this much awaited independence after century of freedom struggle and innumerous sacrifices. The day begins with the hoisting the national flag at historical Red Fort by the Prime Minister of our nation. The tricolor is hoisted at all the prominent places, schools-colleges, Institutions and all over the India. Our heart fills with joy and pride when we listen to patriotic songs being played all nook and corner of the town and villages. We pay our tribute to our freedom fighters and martyrs who sacrificed their lives to achieve only one goal i.e getting our country free from the British. We garland the statue of ‘Bharat Mata’ the idol of mother nation and give slogans like ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ on this occasion also. This is true that we have done commendable progress since India became free in many areas. But our heart sunk when we think of hunger and illiteracy prevailing in our country. Many poor are still deprived of their square meals and have to sleep with insufficient or no food. This scenario could have improved if proper education has been given to them too. It's sad that even after 63 years of Independence about 40 percent of the child of India is out of school. And what quality of education the rest are getting is also questionable. We still see corruption being the one of the main reason for India's poor performance in overall development. The cases of dowry deaths, caste system, killing of child fetus, regionalism, racist thoughts are still prevalent and prominent. This shows that after completing our education we are landing up just being a literate rather than educated person. This shows that there is some fault in our training system and it's the responsibility of all the people of the society to fight against this ‘Asiksha’ as well as ‘Kusiksha’. Then only our society will be a better place to live in and praising slogans like ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ could make sense.

Students' Oxygen movement view

15/08/2010