Global village in Indian perspective (Editorial)
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13/05/2008
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Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
The concept of "global village' refers to the process of transforming the whole world into a small village by integrating different nations. It aimed at making a country economically, technologically sophisticated and socially cohesive and integrated. In India, the concept of "global village' is getting widespread popularity with the introduction of the globalisation process in 1990's. By opening and liberalising the Indian economy, globalisation has aimed at integrating the Indian economy with the world economy. The process of integration involves the reorganisation and reorientation of the entire system which brings structural transformation by removing all the impediments which are rigid in nature. It makes the economy a flexible one by bringing radical changes in institutional, social and administrative structures and popular attitudes. There is a massive flow of foreign capital into the country which can be utilised for further development. Countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore have performed much better as compared to other developing countries by adopting a more open policy. The world Development Report (1991) also advocated certain policies that ensure integration with the global economy. However, there is now great dissatisfaction with the results of the process of integrating India with the world economy. In the Indian context, the present socio-economic scenario of our country becomes inconsistent with the philosophy of global village. In a global village, only rich and powerful are benefitted who have very little concern for development of the poor. Existence of social injustice in an unfortunate reality in a global village, when the process of globalisation was started during the 90's, no one had visualised that there could be any conflict, between globalisation and social justice. Social inequalities have a tendency to rise in a global village and it is the outcome of a globalisation process. No doubt, some enclave type developments have taken place, but they have not able to remove the growing income inequalities, poverty and unemployment. Globalisation makes rich richer and poor poorer. Moreover, there is an excessive material outlook involved with the aims of globalisation. They will turn people into robots. In a global village, the entire economy becomes fully commercialised. Social and other cultural aspects are neglected, in a global village. Industrialisation, urbanisation, modern commercial life style, use of chemicals in all spheres which are ingredients of modern way of living