08 August 2013, 05:25 PM IST
There is an agitation going on in Delhi by young doctors, protesting the 2-year compulsory rural service, which is sought to be imposed or re-imposed, depending on how you look at it. There is a vast amount of supporting data on this subject, but almost all of it neglects to address the real issue - that rural areas in India do need medical support.
However, medical services in rural areas can not be a stand-alone, and it does appear to be strange that only doctors are being force marched into this path towards their own progress as well as the Nation's. There is, for example, no similar path set up for para-medics. In some ways, para-medics would be more essential and important, especially for preventive healthcare facilities.
Likewise, there are other professional streams and skillsets that need to be able to devote at least a year if not two of their lives to the rural hinterland that make up most of India, and have been neglected all these years. Why, for example, should engineering students not have a 1 or 2 year stint in the course of their degree course, towards working in rural areas, tasked with amongst other things, audits of rural programmes that require knowledge of basic engineering skillsets?
Likewise, students of law can be asked to improve the legal adherences in rural areas, by going deeper into the masses of documentation that leave even the educated amongst us foxed, leave alone those in rural areas with restricted understanding of paperwork.
Students from humanities streams can also be made to go for a 1-year rural awareness programme, where they work and live with poor people, especially those who hope to become bankers and economists. As of now, it appears that we have great economists deciding what life will be like for rural India without them having the fainest clue on what rural India looks and smells like - rural toilets, for example.
In case it is felt that letting so many young people loose all over the country may not be totally safe, then the obvious solution is that ALL retiring or resigning government officials should be made to go for compulsory rural service on retiring or resigning from government service, as a pre-condition for getting their retirement benefits. This can also be used as a compulsory cooling off period after they retire and before they take up any other employment or occupation.
It should not end here - people standing for elected office must be able to show some rural service for atleast 1 year for State legislature and 2 years for Central. As a condition for filing papers. This way even if politics in India is going dynastic, our future leaders will know something about real India, it is hoped.
Sending young doctors for rural service is a good idea. But why them, only, alone?
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