The Bharatiya Janata Party IT
cell is ready to include “Freedom of Expression” as poll promises for the
General Election in 2014. With decks clear for Narendra Modi as the PM
candidate for BJP, the party is optimistic of crossing Magic figure of
272+ as well.
Shri Vinit Goenka, National
Co-convenor of IT Cell of BJP is setting up a panel to review the Information
Act, Section 66 A. Social Media is now the only option to face either paid media or yellow
journalism. However, Social Media need
to be protected from time to time. For
example, two girls were arrested over facebook comments, clearly indicating we
don’t have “freedom of expression”.
The controversial Section 66 A
which penalises sending of "false and offensive" messages through a
computer or a communication device was widely debated soon after the girls
arrest and young India took the arrest as a curb on freedom of expression.
Looking after frequent banned on Manipur media by armed rebels and also
the inability of the journalists to exercise “freedom of expression” on many
occasions, he suggest to empower Social
Media activists and also to promote
cyber journalists.
Manipur, though far from National
capital has advanced in social media like facebook, orkut, twitter, blogs and
online news portal like www.imphaltimes.com, www.e-pao.net which are sharing and
informing news and events from the region. In order to protect the young IT
professionals and end users, BJP is always ready to support.
Shri Vineet has said, “The section 66 A of the IT Act is
archaic and needs an amendment. We are setting up a panel to review the IT Act.
We will also engage common man in this consultation process.” The recently
concluded National Executive meet of IT Cell at #BJPITcellNE2013 discussed and
takes a serious note of the continuing retrograde policies and actions of UPA
government which is affecting the ICT sector in India. There has been an
unprecedented loss of jobs under this government and millions of engineers and
professionals stare at a bleak future.
The poll promises will further
include a special policy for setting up of large number of rural BPOs. “This
will help curb migration of rural population towards cities which results in
collapsing of urban infrastructure. A special policy regarding rural BPOs is
being discussed which will change the face of villages and small cities with
employment generation,” said Goenka.
During UPA regime, sector like
telecom which was a sunrise sector under NDA is turning to sickness. 2G scam
has damaged the sector and delivered irretrievable loss to country’s investment
climate, this is a fit case of demonstrating UPA’s specialization in busting a
boom sector which otherwise was a big employment generator and delivering body
blow to aspirations of Lakhs of youth of the nation.
Today we have reached a stage
where each year around a million engineers in India are struggling to get jobs.
Others are taking jobs well below their technical qualifications in a market
where there are few jobs for India's overflowing technical talent pool. India
trains more than 1.5 million engineers, which is more than the US and China
combined. However, two key industries hiring these engineers, information
technology and manufacturing are facing severe crisis and hiring fewer people
than before.
#BJPITcellNE2013 calls upon the
members across the nation and millions of Social Media users, supporters and
volunteers to be ready for a vigorous democratic struggle for bringing a change
of government which the nation urgently needs.
