Will not Science and Technology help to eradicate most of our woes?

India is passing through an era of newly found awareness in people resulting in  allegations of corruption, mal-practices, systemic deficiency, governance deficit, black money and impropriety in the ways the governments as well as private bodies function in the country. The fact is that most people always look for a scapegoat to blame for all their woes. Governments become the natural target for all. In short every one blame every one else but himself for all the woes in the country.

Many experimentation and efforts Various political and sociological reforms, revamping educational systems, judiciary, and what not, to bring a change in the existing system with little impact.

People have become impatient and take on various means like extremist uprisings, falling behind various activists demanding for setting up of a super power body Lokpal as a parallel mechanism to reign in the rulers and the functionaries in the government, judiciary and law and order authorities and private corporate bodies etc., as a means to overcome their current woes. Like early Communists in Kerala promising the working class that "All agricultural fields, in which the labors work and harvest, will belong to them".

I am of the opinion that these problems can be mostly overcome with the use of modern technology in every sector. 

1, Use of IT in to eradicate systemic deficiencies. 

Every job can be broken down to tasks and sub tasks and its performance can be monitored by properly designed and programmed computer systems in every unit of government departments, judicial systems, educational institutions, hospitals, service provider systems etc. The remuneration of all employees, peons to ministers,  should be based on their performance. ie. 100% pay for 100% performance and lesser pay for lesser performance based on the computer evaluation of their performance. 

Similarly Super computers shall be employed in replacement of the current form of judicial system. A centralized Super computer can be designed and programmed to help the courts to deliver judgments without flaw according to law much faster for all court cases by feeding the facts of the case, the arguments and witness statements into the computer. Super computers shall be employed in every sphere to reduce delay and to  erase corruption, nepotism, systemic failures and inefficiency.

ERP shall be implemented and used in every Ministries and govt; departments and everything being handled by these establishments shall be reviewed and analyzed periodically within the department and at central level.

For example, in PDS, it is necessary to have ready information on how much food grains acquired, how these are store, allocated, transported, restored and distributed. With computerization and with proper ERP system in place it is possible to make available all information on day to day, weekly and monthly basis so as to take remedial and corrective measures quickly and fix responsibilities on erring Ministries, departments, officials and middle men.

2. Use of Bio technology for social change. 

Many criminal offenses, abuses, rapes of women and children, tendency towards corruption, alcoholism and many other social evils happen due to mental deficiencies of individuals that cannot be deterred corrected fully by law and punishment.  The alternative is to find means and methods to change the erring human habit with the help of bio technology such as the usage of effective medicines for schizophrenia etc. now. 

Any amount of agitations, Lokpals and many other reformation plans are not going to make any major impact any soon in this country

Hope Government will pay some attention to such areas.