dignity to our own brothers and sisters then we certainly are far from fulfilling the dreams of people who gave their lives so that we can enjoy our freedom yearly rituals of celebrating and paying respect to our freedom fighters and martyrs will be meaninglessso we need to analyse the root cause for this why our farmers are still hand to mouth why they need to commit suicide if indias richest 1 hold more than four times the wealth held by 953 million ie 70 of the countrys population then something is terribly wrong and freedom doesnt mean much for the common man on the streetit is time to assess why this model of democracy has failed to deliver at the bottom level are all successive governments only working in the interest of the rich political parties at the helm keeps on changing at the federal and state levels but what doesnt change is the condition of the people at the bottomwe need to take a look at the level of delivery system the officers running the administrations of various governments and who they are the bureaucrats we are fortunate that we have the most capable people in bureaucracy while their so called political bosses keep on changing they remain constant in the government irrespective of the party in power unlike politicians bureaucrats have no direct responsibility and accountability to the people and as long as they keep their political bosses happy they are fine during nehruji shastrjiera the officers had a strong mind of their own and more often than not they would strongly put forth their view point without fear now the times have changedwe need to develop a system by which the officers have accountability to the people in other words they dont work only for the government they should work for the people and be accountable to them too so the first step towards that is to have a more objective system of evaluation of their work by the public rather than their political bosses alone therefore their annual confidential report acr should not be only given by the minister under whom one is serving but by their performance and after getting the feedback from public in terms of the officers conduct with themsecond most important factor is the first past the post system of electing public representatives which gives a lot of power to local muscle men with the result we have more than 50 lok sabha mps with hard core criminal records no matter who comes to power corruption only goes upto avoid this we should consider the system of proportional representation where people will not vote for political parties with candidates with criminal records and local winability factor for giving tickets to criminals will not workevery crisis should be turned around as an opportunity india at 73 years should take this opportunity to overhaul the system the world is heading for technological competition we have the best talent pool in the