66th Independence Day Speech by Santosh Takale

Independence is the basic right understood by Human beings or other way round understanding the importance of Independence for every living being makes us Human. So.Best wishes to all on the 66th Independence Day of India - Our mother land. I am sure that 15th August & 26th January always inspire all of us to contribute even more vigorously, to make this country better place to live. Here betterment, We are expecting in terms of Law & Order, basic infrastructure, Health-hygiene, Safety-Security, Educational facility, Technological growth & off course, more balanced, mature and considerate Mindsets. But then after more than 60 years of being Independent & Republic, in villages women still have to walk long distance for water, which is not always clean, many farmers committee suicide because of debt burden, kids die because of hunger & we dream to be developed country by Year 2020, friends it is impossible without our wholehearted support to Nation building systems & minds. We must realize & concentrate more on our responsibilities & duties than the rights given by our constitution. Do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Many of us know how much efforts & lives have gone in making this country independent. But then, We should not forget, how our nation has progressed after independence, in decade of 1960, 40 lakhs Indian died only because of hunger, then because of success in green revolution & operation flood today we are self reliant in these fields. Hard work of few stalwarts has automatically proved to world that Indian are capable to handle any difficult situation. Hence, as responsible, patriotic citizen there are many tasks we have to do in future, we should stop wide spread abuse of Energy, Water, Natural resources, Environment. Sometime conserving/saving is better option than generating. We should stop threatening mother earth- our own life support system. We should assist mother earth to heal her wounds and in process heal our own-indeed. Though we may not be directly responsible for deforestation, climate change & contamination of soil and water, but we or our generation will be one who is going to be affected terribly by this. Tree plantation and conservation can be simple, attainable and guaranteed solution for any of above or all above problems, this will balance our eco system for sure.

I feel there are only three major problems in front of India or world today. Population, Pollution and Corruption, 1st problem is real source of other two and can be eliminated with united efforts by all of us irrespective of cast, creed, race, religion and age. Already many social reformers are working on these issues & I request you to be part of these movements. As Indian, we should not forget that we had glorious past & its our duty to assure the similar glory to our future generations. Its possible if present generation try to be brave, innovative, curious, open to new ideas of thinking and doing the things, there is technological renaissance taking place all over the world and exciting new opportunities awaits all of Us. Our education, knowledge & skill with layer of creativity can take us to heights of achievements and nation as well. How we can forget this great nation was built by patriot scientists & industrialists like Homi Bhabha, JRD Tata, Homi Sethana, Kirloskars, Walchand bros. & many others. They were confident, bold in their thinking & brave in their actions. They reached out of the world to learn from it, That is why father of Nation, Mahatma Gandhi said & I quote I do not want my house to be walled & windows to be stuffed, I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible, but I refuse to be blown off my feet by Any. In todays world there is growing regard for skills and intellect people, all global organizations are coming to India whole world is investing here, we should must en-cash these opportunities for sake of our great Nation. Lets expect & help each one of us to develop patriotic personality combining of scientific temper with our Indian moral values as its base. Hope all of us reach out to new horizons of selfless thinking and take our country to new heights of prosperity & Progress. Once again I wish you, all Happy Independence Day & Happiness, Success in every aspect of life . JAI HIND.
Regards. Santosh Takale,
Scientific Officer, BARC Ph - 0-9967584554. santoshatbarc@gmail.com
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