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Monsoons in India
Indian agriculture has been described as gamble of monsoons. I would describe our economy also as gamble of monsoons since agriculture has been the backbone of our country right from time immemorial.
Apart from agriculture there are several other beneficiaries. For instance business houses in hill stations and humid places flourish only due to monsoons. Hence there can be no doubt regarding its versatile uses or benefits (other than the ones like agriculture whose basic survival is monsoon). Of late people abroad are attracted to our climate.
Will it not be appropriate to call this as a wealth of our country that will never get depleted? Under such circumstances is it not our bounden duty to make use of this asset, which is as prestigious as our national heritage, and can we say for sure that we have been successfully doing this so far? The answer is obviously negative.
Our monsoon’s primary function is facilitating agriculture and its allied industries while the secondary function is serving business houses in hill stations and humid areas. Let us see how they are not being utilized in these two areas and the reasons for the same.
Right from the time India attained independence agriculture has been given least importance. On the contrary industrial sector always assumes significance. This goes without saying that we are ignoring or rather neglecting agriculture whose root cause is monsoons (both these are the eyes of our nation). The fertile lands and the pleasant monsoons call for more concentration in the agricultural sector than the industrial sector.
People in the agricultural sector keep on lamenting that the monsoons are undependable and so there is a change in their attitude towards agriculture and allied industries. But my argument is why not people make use of modern equipments and stop blaming our precious agriculture. Why are we still sticking to the conventional methods of agriculture (wherein one’s sole dependence was monsoon). I am not of the opinion that monsoons are totally unreliable but I only insist that their failure can be compensated to a considerable extent in this technological era and even in case of their failure the cause is to be estimated and the necessary action is to be taken. We are living in a highly developed and advanced society. Is it sane on our part to complain about monsoons when we fail in agriculture just like “A bad workman blames his tools”?. Thus we Indians fail to make use of our monsoons primary function.
The secondary function of monsoon also faces the same fate. This can be explained with the case of my native place. Courtallam is the spa of south India that boasts of more than 9 waterfalls (the only place in the world where one can have bath in all the falls). Business in this place is absolutely seasonal. Being a tourist center people from all over the country especially tamilnadu (and even foreign tourists) visit this place in the months of June, July and August (when the climate is pleasant).Business houses here and in the neighboring places prosper only in this period. A flood in 1992 created havoc and many catastrophic disasters. Due to these vacant places where water gets stored previously, is completely filled with sand and other organic and inorganic wastes. Hence the rainfalls are an utter failure these days. Constructing a checkdam can easily solve all these problems. But the government is very lethargic and blames the monsoon whenever a proposal is made.
Thus I conclude with a note saying that we are no more bothered about our own monsoons .We are solely responsible for its failure. This nature’s god is blamed for human’s inhuman act.
Indian agriculture has been described as gamble of monsoons. I would describe our economy also as gamble of monsoons since agriculture has been the backbone of our country right from time immemorial.
Apart from agriculture there are several other beneficiaries. For instance business houses in hill stations and humid places flourish only due to monsoons. Hence there can be no doubt regarding its versatile uses or benefits (other than the ones like agriculture whose basic survival is monsoon). Of late people abroad are attracted to our climate.
Will it not be appropriate to call this as a wealth of our country that will never get depleted? Under such circumstances is it not our bounden duty to make use of this asset, which is as prestigious as our national heritage, and can we say for sure that we have been successfully doing this so far? The answer is obviously negative.
Our monsoon’s primary function is facilitating agriculture and its allied industries while the secondary function is serving business houses in hill stations and humid areas. Let us see how they are not being utilized in these two areas and the reasons for the same.
Right from the time India attained independence agriculture has been given least importance. On the contrary industrial sector always assumes significance. This goes without saying that we are ignoring or rather neglecting agriculture whose root cause is monsoons (both these are the eyes of our nation). The fertile lands and the pleasant monsoons call for more concentration in the agricultural sector than the industrial sector.
People in the agricultural sector keep on lamenting that the monsoons are undependable and so there is a change in their attitude towards agriculture and allied industries. But my argument is why not people make use of modern equipments and stop blaming our precious agriculture. Why are we still sticking to the conventional methods of agriculture (wherein one’s sole dependence was monsoon). I am not of the opinion that monsoons are totally unreliable but I only insist that their failure can be compensated to a considerable extent in this technological era and even in case of their failure the cause is to be estimated and the necessary action is to be taken. We are living in a highly developed and advanced society. Is it sane on our part to complain about monsoons when we fail in agriculture just like “A bad workman blames his tools”?. Thus we Indians fail to make use of our monsoons primary function.
The secondary function of monsoon also faces the same fate. This can be explained with the case of my native place. Courtallam is the spa of south India that boasts of more than 9 waterfalls (the only place in the world where one can have bath in all the falls). Business in this place is absolutely seasonal. Being a tourist center people from all over the country especially tamilnadu (and even foreign tourists) visit this place in the months of June, July and August (when the climate is pleasant).Business houses here and in the neighboring places prosper only in this period. A flood in 1992 created havoc and many catastrophic disasters. Due to these vacant places where water gets stored previously, is completely filled with sand and other organic and inorganic wastes. Hence the rainfalls are an utter failure these days. Constructing a checkdam can easily solve all these problems. But the government is very lethargic and blames the monsoon whenever a proposal is made.
Thus I conclude with a note saying that we are no more bothered about our own monsoons .We are solely responsible for its failure. This nature’s god is blamed for human’s inhuman act.
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