Originally Posted by
jitender.singh
The feedback from the forum seem to indicate how much these Khap Panchayats represents the community. They are front for few people for political mileage.
As for Jitender's effort to summarize and present in front of all of us, we still need to give our feedback. A lot of people have suggested that only half a point being valid and I stand by them.
Just to counter the issues raised by these Kangaroo (this is a literary phrase, I prefer Monkey) panchayats, I have my own set of 6 issues which I would like to take care first before deciding on whether there should be a law on same gotra marriage or not:
1. Let the rituals and traditions remain private for families to follow/ not follow, as these are pretty much private affairs. We seem to be too much worried about what others do, than what we should do.
2. Work for education in rural Haryana. I really feel depressed with the quality of education being dished out. (This may provoke some people, but I blame teachers in government schools for the situation, who themselves are from us only, they would send their children to private schools and themselves play cards in schools)
3. Work against corruption acceptance in our society. I am not sure about everybody, but for me to there is a big change from the time when people used to hide (they would never accept, even if they had bribed to get a job), to show the ability to bribe as a status symbol.
4. Work against dowry system. Develop a system where children, whether a girl or a boy share rights to inheritance and responsibility to care for parents, rather than pseudo 'honor system', where girls are FORCED to surrender their rights to inherit. I would call the work as gender sensitization.
5. Make village economy stronger. My idea is to do resource pooling and collective farming. I am really not a very good economist, but my analysis says that if we create collective farming clubs or 100 acres each, and share and build resources (tools, labor, land), the cost drops by more than 60% on each acre.
6. Build a political system, where we all take pledge to vote (YES, I am talking of 100% voting as step 1), vote for good candidates only (this is step 2, I am not saying least bad candidate). The system can work if we start from root level. Don't expect miracles in days, but contribute in a system positively.