Essentials of becoming a self reliant country

Self reliance is the ability of being able to rely on oneself for one's needs. A country which is not self reliant is sometimes forced to do certain things against its will and principles simply because the benefactors have said so. Many Asian and African countries normally find it quite difficult being self-reliant. These countries largely rely on foreign donors in order to provide basic needs for their people.  

In order to make India a truly self- reliant and self- confident, public investment in Education, Human capability and Research and Development has to increase. Opportunity for country like India is huge 

in terms of wealth creation. That's the reason India is an attractive economy for investors.

The parameters that convince to be self sufficient in the long term are Raw materials/input materials.

India needs to incentivize its companies to take advantage, both for design and manufacturing. A smooth transition will be difficult in the short run. In the long run, there is a silver lining- its telecom and electronic industry can witness a huge transformation. With China no longer a prominent part 

of supply chain, India has a golden opportunity to transform the industry.   

There are so many ways that a nation can become self reliant.Some of the ways include the  following :

1) Change of the mentality of people - Many non-self reliant countries have leaders having a
    mentality of always looking to other countries for help. This normally comes as a result of lack
   of confidence in themselves. When the leaders change their mentality and start having their
   confidence in their ability to solve their own problems, then country begins to drive on the road
   to self reliant.

2) Corruption should be curbed or completely eradicated. This is one of the major cause of the
    country being non self- reliant. Govt. should fix the responsibility, time frame, fix responsibility
    of the administrators of the schemes floated by the Govt. from time to time. Without proper

    governance country cannot be in a position to become self reliant and all the efforts being made 

    to make the country as self reliant will prove futile. 

3) Encouraging the goods made in the country. It so happens that when the people of a particular
    country decide to ignore locally manufactured goods for foreign goods is that ends up making
    the foreign richer and theirs poorer. This problem can be curbed if the Government educate their
   citizens on the importance of buying locally manufactured goods and also help local industry to
   improve upon the quality of goods they manufacture.

4) Providing quality education and training can be taken up to make a country self reliant.

5) Controlling the rapid growth of population which gives a negative impact of the country and
    its economy.

6) Policies should clearly define the procedure of availing its benefits to the people as to how and 

    to whom to approach to avail of the same. It should set out a time frame so that the people should

    know as to when the decisions will be conveyed to them.   


  

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