a bit of common sense ?

India seems to be really fast developing. So, what should be done to further accelerate the pace? Infrastructure, Finance, FII, FDI,...? More than these, what we need is a bit more common sense on what we do now.

Power:
The power sector growth hardly touches 5 %. Government has already tried pulling private sector, giving tax sops and a lot more options. What could be done is,
The T&D losses in some states are around 10% while in other states they are around 50%. T&D has now become a synonym for power theft. If this can be plugged, it would result in
1) 40 % more availability of power at zero financial cost.
2) less subsidy for the discoms as they now get paid for what was lost earlier.
3) less electricity bill as T&D losses are generally added to our elec. bills.

Roads:
NHAI is doing a really good job in building world class roads. At the same pace, it would take decades to bring the same infrastructure everywhere. More important than building the roads is to make people follow some road rules.
1) A through license test before issuing a driving license would reduce the road accidents more than what the traffic signals and the sign boards would do.
2) Enforcing some basics like wearing helmets, seat belts would drastically reduce the no of lives lost in accidents.

Irrigation:
The 600 thousand crore river interlinking project is highly debated and still in proposal stage. Should we spend so much of money in disturbing an ecosystem? Don’t we have a better solution?
We definitely have a lot of implementable better solutions
1) Instead of disturbing the ecosystem to suit our irrigation needs, can't we better change our irrigation needs to suit what our ecosystem supports. What is needed is just a bit of education for the farmers on what their piece of land could support.
2) Gujarat has really demonstrated how better water management could solve the problems of farmers.
3) Dry land farming. With escalating oil prices, Jatropa and other oil seeds could be a better option for dry lands.
4) The thousands of crores could be spent on building cold storage and creating better market for the agricultural produce.

to be continued...