| Mr. K.C. Agrawal, an electrical engineer from IT-BHU and senior member of IEEE, USA, has had more than 33 years of experience in different capacities - in Academics, Public Sector Undertakings, Multinationals like Crompton Greaves and NGEF (a unit of AEG, West Germany) and then running his own industry, ECS (P) Ltd. for 24 years manufacturing switchgears.
He has also authored Shaping India of Our Dreams and books on Electrical Engineering (sort of mini-encyclopedias and greatly acclaimed worldwide) titled Industrial Power Engineering and Applications Handbook published by Butterworth Heinemann (a unit of Elsevier Science, USA/UK) and its enhanced and upgraded edition Electrical Power Engineering Reference & Applications Handbook. |
Some 18 years ago, greatly moved by the country's highly deplorable condition and the sight of poverty stricken people, he pledged to do something for the nation and steer the people out from their present somber plight to a glorious future. Crusade India is a result of his dedication towards this cause and the first step towards realizing these dreams.
Crusade India
(A Mission to prosperity of India and the impoverished masses)
“The roots of our failure lie in the ignorance of our system”, says Mr. Agrawal. He has intensely researched the maladies ailing the nation and has provided thought provoking solutions to the same. According to him, all this is possible, if we are able to make optimum use of our resources and do rural development religiously. All blue prints and road maps to accomplish this are deciphered in his book ‘Crusade India’. For his ideas about Selectorial Democracy, please click here
According to him as the head of the family is responsible to upbring his children and make them worthy human beings, similarly the leader of the nation is responsible to inculcate good traits in the people and make them worthy citizens. A prudent leader according to him shall take care of the last man on the road and provide him means to a dignified living. Snatching bread from one and giving it to another in the name of quotas or reservations is a mean act and a prudent guardian shall never resort to that. To overcome these maladies, he propounds for a Presidential System run through professionals and experts on the basis of selection like a large corporate house. All management charts to govern the nation are provided in the book. His Society also with the name ‘Crusade India’ is planning to move a PIL for the required amendment in the Constitution.
Presently ignorants elect ignorants to run the country ignorantly. Instead of an overall development of the country and creating natural means to dignified earning for its people it has led our guardians resort to different kinds of reliefs, charities and handouts like, mid-day meals and 100 days National Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes (NREGS). Our guardians have also divided the communities and societies on lines of caste, region and religion. This has dragged our large masses (86% or 98.9 crores) to deprivation, illiteracy, ignorance and backwardness. It is a matter of shame for any society or nation.
According to Mr. Agrawal, the present ‘Feel Good’ and ‘India Shining’ scenario is only outside of the balloon and benefits hardly 14% of our society, while the remaining (86% or 98.9 crores) still languish in the same hardship and deprivation. Since bulk of the masses live in villages, he also advocates for the Gandhian philosophy to uplift the rural areas. He has pronounced a unique idea of City Centers by clubbing about 50 to 60 villages into a large city centre to habitat about 10 lac people and to have about 1000 city centers of this kind in the whole country to habitat around 100 crores and remaining living in the cities. The cities shall also be revamped to one day place the whole nation amongst the most prosperous and shining nations in the world. The city centers shall not be ordinary cities but amongst the most advanced cities. They shall be in total conceptual contrast to Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and retail chains, which benefit only the affluent few constituting hardly 9-14% of the population. City Centers shall be constructed with a holistic planning of the nation and will ensure upliftment of the 86% (98.9 crore) under privileged naturally.
Mr. Agrawal has also discussed development of the North–Eastern states and solution to Kashmir problem through unification. For details one can refer the book ‘Crusade India’.
One shall find that Crusade India is a crusade for unlocking rural India’s growth potential, through infrastructure creation and optimum utilization of India’s rich, vast, natural and national resources. According to Mr. Agrawal developing world too is faced with similar problems and this deeply researched Crusade India can prove a great reference for all such societies also. This piece of work has all the ingredients that can mean a lot in alleviating the sufferings of the deprived, disadvantaged and under- privileged multitudes thronging the third world. The book not only India, is relevant to the problems of the developing world in particular and rest of the world in general.
Mr. Agrawal is based at Noida (New Delhi) and is devoting most of his time towards social work and mission to change India.
He can be contacted at: komal[AT]ndb.vsnl.net.in
- Additional Links
- Official website for Shaping of India
- Watch K C Agrawal’s interview on Door Darshan India (10 minutes)
- Crusade India’ Book written by Dr. K C Agrawal
(Download free from the website: www.shapingindia.org)
- Book on Electrical Power Engineering by Dr. K C Agrawal