Perfect system

Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar and his team took about 5 years to write the Constitution of India. Dr. Ambedkar had studied about 60 constitutions across the world while writing ours. Notification happened and it became lan in India on 26th Jan 1950. Since then we have made more than 100 amendments to it. Was it not perfect to start with? Should we just throw it as it is not perfect? Nah, we didn't do it as people believed it was all written with good intentions & not everything couldn't be thought off until it is implemented and real life issues starts to come. With time people & societies changes and with them the needs and requirements and the scenarios so we continue to make amendments. 

In 1960s when India was not self sufficient in feeding its increasing population, government did some policy changes, spent more on R&D, gave incentives to farmers to grow particular crops in fields which led to green revolution and today we are not only self sufficient but doing export but it created another problems, problems of excesses. Be is excess production of grains, leading to issues with its storage, exploitation of natural resources(taking out huge amount of underground water leading to its depletion), usage of unprecedented amount of chemical fertilizers & pesticides to increase production which is causing health issue, person consuming the produce, issues with natural fauna and flora, soil degradation etc. Shouldn't this be changed? Shouldn't we change the crop pattern? Shouldn't we be growing more rice and sugarcane in flood prone areas of east India instead of Haryana, Maharashtra where we will see acute water shortages? Shouldn't we stop growing excess cereals which rots in FCI(Food corporation of India) godowns and diversify to other more nutritious and healthier crops. Shouldn't we be using the new technologies to grown and trade our crops. Shouldn't be come out of the existing system if it has outlived itself. Why we wanted to stick to older systems? If we don't change with time and its needs then sooner or later we will be forced. 

We fought tooth and nail for more than year to resist the change and with sheer numbers ensured that no change is done whatever good it might have brought. If there were some  shortcomings we could have fixed in future, just like our constitution, as no system is perfect to start with. Are we ourselves perfect? Don't we continue to learn since we were born(infact we learn things in our mother's womb) and continue to make some changes at individual level then why we resist change at broader level?

One Greek philosopher once said, "Change is the only constant". Lets live with it.

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