Apart from politics, trouble for Kerala

Kerala faces a number of serious challenges, which political parties rarely focus on as objects of resolution and are involved in their promotion. Coming together under two alliances in the state – Left Democratic Front and United Democratic Front – these political parties present issues of misrule, financial corruption and nepotism against each other. While the ruling front gives evidence of achievements in development and welfare of the people, the opposition brings allegations of financial corruption and development failures against the ruling front. Investigating, rarely, any of the real challenges (often due to their own conflicting interests and goals within the front), the opposition creates a politically disruptive environment. I would like to briefly focus on some important political challenges awaiting the new government.

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Social security subsistence

Compared to other states, Kerala is concerned about the results of development and is committed to solving them by combining development with equity. Severely affected by severe cyclone Ockhi in 2017, floods in 2018 and 2019, and now the novel coronovirus epidemic lockdown, Kerala’s growth rate which was above national rates is currently under low pressure. Inflation increased by about 8% as the situation worsened. But the state provided commodities at fair prices through cooperatives such as Supplyco (Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation) and ConsumerFed (State Cooperative Consumer Federation). Likewise, it can survive the crisis of epidemic lockdown by ensuring food security through its extensive public distribution system network. With government restructuring of the economy in a similar option for lending goods, services and people, it can reverse capitalist redistribution functions. Similarly, long-term subsistence of the state’s health sector is a major task. It should be noted that the state’s health sector is globally celebrated for maintaining benefits in indices such as high life expectancy, infant mortality, birth rate and death rate for Nippa viral outbreaks and COVID-19 in 2018 and 2019. has gone. Now and already, the Adram Mission, the State Health Insurance Agency 2020, and the Karun Arogya Suraksha Padati 2020 have been replaced through a number of health insurance schemes.

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The creation of an ecologically sustainable and resilient new Kerala is a major problem. Projects like GAIL Pipeline and City Gas are laudable. Transport infrastructure development through construction of roads, bypasses and highways is great. So extends the Kerala Highway Research Institute as a center of excellence for innovation in design, construction, maintenance, quality assurance, and road safety. It is very difficult to make all efforts towards rapid urbanization (including diversion of land, wetland reclamation and deforestation) to be environmentally sustainable. The state’s move to make tremendous investments in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, forestry, and traditional industries must go well. A major linkage is the opening of ecologically sustainable alternative development routes to bring about systemic changes in the economy. Adding to this, climate change-induced disasters (although they rarely spread terror in contrast to epidemics), require special emphasis to ensure that planners do not ignore them in future development.

knowledge economy

With the understanding that investment in knowledge and human capital guarantees long-term growth, Budget 2021-22 makes a leap in the knowledge economy. It is the first time in the country that the state budget has recognized new knowledge, significant non-finite resources and democratization of its benefits, as key drivers of future productivity-growth and equitable social development. It envisages various schemes to promote the accumulation of knowledge-based capital through higher education institutions and provides for the development of high-tech industries, innovative start-ups, service sector expansion and self-employment avenues. is. . Universities are said to fill their curriculum with the latest sci-tech hybrid fields of knowledge as present in the developed world. In fact, it is important that higher education institutions develop the qualifications necessary to create and transact new knowledge for the development of the intellectual property of the state.

However, people who generally glorify the knowledge economy rarely realize the fact that it is techno-capitalism, the latest version of capitalism dependent on technology and science to produce and exchange market knowledge. Organized into corporates, capitalists have established vast research centers globally for the genesis of knowledge in various sci-tech hybrid fields, which are unimaginable rates of exchange value in the form of intellectual property and patents (intangible assets). Deploying thousands of young men, they cleverly destroy their relationship with their author through a phenomenon called paganism, both object and capital. But the struggle lies in gaining precedence of critical knowledge on the production, consumption and exchange of marketing knowledge. An uncontrolled propagation of a knowledge society simply means the advancement of people who acquire knowledge, who buy it rather than just build it. This call should be understood as a political response to a rapidly evolving techno-capitalist global economy, which demands that young people gain innovative expertise and scarce work-space skills in hybrid areas of sci-tech .

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Fall of democracy

The decline of democracy and secularism and the rise of communalism (global and national threat) is a big question for the politics of the state. In India, caste division is embedded in this degenerative process which involves the loss of the basic spirit of the country’s constitution and the political quality of citizenship. Communal beliefs, being traditional knowledge, find a place in all national policy papers including science, technology and innovation policy. Document. Traditional beliefs are being distinguished as indigenous science, without knowing that science is universal as opposed to beliefs, and which always outperforms itself through scientific proof. Beliefs disrupted independent inquiry, undermined the credibility of research establishments, and curbed the curiosity of youth.

Kerala is opposed to communal obscenity and fascism because of secularism and democracy. But in recent times, a game of deadly feelings, false identities and obscenity has come to light, which has damaged humanism and scientific temperament. A state that had recently had terrible demonstrations about the disease in the flooding and the sharing of prayer halls and shrines of religions during the floods soon showed the face of partition as well. A high caste identity crisis and patriarchal prejudices spread obscenity to prevent the entry of women into Sabarimala and the racist organization May misuse sentiments for political gain. Likewise, obscenity of two rival Christian factions may prevent the implementation of a Supreme Court order using the threat of religious conflict. Kerala politicians are facing a loss of democracy and secularism, as it is an ever-more acute threat due to politicians sifting the pulse of votes at religious and caste heads.

Facing the global economy

Like any other state in India, a major political problem before Kerala lies in addressing the local consequences of a global economy that reaches everywhere in search of cheap labor, low taxes and a minimal regulatory environment. Its careless access to natural resources through a network of worldwide communication, decentralized extraction, production and exchange also affects life in village boundaries. Any local situation today is the cause of its tension for the global economy which disintegrates and entangles the national economy in the process of world economic development. Developmental outcomes range from loss of employment and livelihood, forced displacement and relocation, health hazards and disabilities, and even suicides and democracies. The consequences of indirect development through ecological destruction, climate change and natural disasters affect people in the same way.

Forming a government through the process of electoral contests is very costly for the nation and political parties. Most parties, when they are in power, generate income through dubious means, for which they mobilize customers, inadequate in managing voters. An international class that manages the global economy decides which coalition should form a government, be it national or regional, and for which priority. They manage it through a mutual relationship of exchange – the exchange of money for access to natural resources under the control of the power of the state to increase capital gains. It is essentially an exchange at the expense of social justice, democracy and the environment. How to face the global economy through a possible type of upheaval is a major challenge for a genuine democratic government.

Rajan Gurukkal is the Vice President of the Kerala State Higher Education Council