Our "Necessity" is Their Capital: The Needs of the Masses and the Profits of the Bureaucracy

In the philosophy of democracy, ensuring access to drinking water, roads, electricity, education, and healthcare is the fundamental duty of the state. However, the great tragedy of modern politics is that these "duties" have been transformed into profitable "capital" for politicians and officials.

Necessity Becomes a Market

Corruption takes its first step exactly where people’s needs are most urgent. When a water shortage occurs, multi-crore projects are drafted under the name of "New Integrated Drinking Water Schemes." Instead of focusing on quenching the people's thirst, the bureaucracy is fixated on the "share" they will receive from the project contracts.

An Administration That Shuns Permanent Solutions

If a road is laid with high quality, it will last for ten years. But for officials, that is a loss. Roads must crumble with every monsoon; only then can funds be re-allocated under the guise of "repair work." The daily misery of the people—the struggle with traffic and broken roads—becomes the annual income for the authorities. Here, the "necessities" of the people are deliberately maintained as unsolved problems.

Politicians Seeking Profit Even in the Sewers

In Ranipet, they brought in bulldozers to "renovate" the Pinji Lake, claiming they would transform it into a tourist spot rivaling Ooty or Kodaikanal. They could have at least achieved the standard of the Kalinjur Lake in Katpadi. Instead, today, only worms crawl in Pinji. Does anyone know exactly how much was siphoned off in the name of this renovation?

Shifting Overpasses

Daily accidents and loss of lives occur where vehicles from Visharam meet the Vellore bypass due to the absence of a flyover. An overpass meant to protect the lives of the public was shifted elsewhere just to accommodate a "V.P. Palace"—a wedding hall belonging to a prominent politician where there is hardly any foot traffic. Here, the necessity of the people was traded for the personal necessity of the powerful.

The Commercialization of Education and Health

A nation grows by strengthening its government schools and hospitals. Instead, by weakening them and pushing people toward privatization, massive "commissions" are earned. For a patient fighting for their life, a hospital is a "necessity." The current administrative practice is to exploit that necessity to profit through private insurance schemes and constructions.

Vote Bank Politics and "Necessity"

Drinking water connections and electricity provided during election time are not treated as rights; they are "tradable commodities." Leaving people to suffer for five years without basic needs, only to dangle those same needs in front of them to gain votes during elections, is a calculated political investment.

Conclusion

For those whose noble aim is to see the "ignorance and helplessness of the people" removed, this situation causes deep mental anguish. As long as the essential needs of citizens remain the capital of those in power, society cannot achieve true growth.

What the people need is not charity; they need moral rights. The militant voices fighting for these rights are the only weapons capable of breaking these chains!

Ooraan