Do we need a President in India

Today I saw news in various news sites that Maharashtra Government is planning to build a new airport in Amravati so that Madam President of India can fly to her home town easily. Otherwise she has to travel 300 KMs on road from nearest airport. After reading this immediately the thing which came to my mind was that to go to my home town I travel 150 KMs on very bad roads from nearest airport. so to avoid that I should try for presidentship. :)
But in our country what is the role of a president. I really think just cutting ribbons and signing the documents send by cabinet. He/she works on advice of PM and his cabinet colleague (and since congress is in power advice of Sonia ji matters most). So why do we need to maintain a system which is just eating the hard earned tax money of the Indains. In a country where peoples are suiciding because they can not earn enough for their family. and we are spending more than corers of rupees every month in maintaining Raj bhawan. In a country where 30 percent of the people are poor we spend 400 corers of ruppes to build an airport so that so called Head of the country can fly to his home town 5 times in a year. (80 corers for every time she flies to his home town). Its only for the current president. If they start doing for all the future president s I can't imagine what is going to happen.

I think same point applies to governors also. The head of state is chief minister. why do we need governor.

I think we would be a better democracy if we have only one head of country/state. Either call him president or prime minister. And he/she directly elected from people of India. Then make him accountable to the representatives of the peoples which is parliament. So parliament and President both should work together.

I started with a very recent news on president and wants to finish with another recent issue of Nuclear deal with US. If you look at the situation you always wonder what is happening. Mr Prime Minister has signed the deal with US president. and his cabinets also approves that. After that it doesn't matter what is decided in the discussion in parliament deal is should be through. But its not going to happen since one the party (Left parties) who are supporting the government from outside don't like any deeper relations with US. (They want deeper relation with China). Now its very confusing to me what is the drama going on in Delhi related to the Nuclear deal. Every day scene changes.
If we would have an democratic system where president/prime minister should gets an approval of any agreements he/she signs then there was no scope for any chaos or confusion. In in current system small parties like Left and samajwadi party who represents not even 10 percent of total voters are dictating their terms. I don't think this democracy is by people and for people.

We should start thinking about the direction of our democracy, which way its going now. Lets start sharing our views about this topic so that we gets views of others and may try to change this in future.

kabhi Main sochta Hoon (Some times I think)

After spending around a year in US We are going back to Hyderabad in India from where we came. Although I belonged to North India and for last 4-5 years I have been living in Hyderabad and kind of start liking it. I took this decision of going back to India almost 3-4 months back when the company I am currently contracting with open development center in Hyderabad. It’s a big bank in US and it’s their first offshore center.

And since then one question is always going thru my mind is that IS IT A WISE Decision. If I think money wise it may be not. In contracting as an IT consultant I am making around 80-90K in US and compared to that my India salary will be much less. If I do another comparison for saving I would be able to do in India still US scores higher. My calculations say I may be able to save 60-70% of US saving in India.

So my mind immediately says that Mr. Sudhir Singh (my name) you are wrong. Stay in US and make more money. Send money to India, buy property in India and enjoy life in US. Which I think most of the NRI living in US are doing? It’s not a bad thing anyway.

But then I again go back in time think why I took this decision to accept offer to work in Hyderabad.

- Since it’s a new center I will be having more responsibilities.

- I can get good recognition in the company as I will be first few employees to join

- I can be close to my parents who are getting old day-by-day and may need any emergency help

- I will be making good money which is more than enough to live a good life in India.

And then I console myself that probably its good decision. I am sure these thoughts are not going to leave me so easily and even I may be thinking about pros and cons of my decision after reaching India. But at the same time I am sure that I would never regret my decision as one thing is very clear to me that US means Money and nothing else for me. No offense to the peoples who came to US from India and called US as their second home, I feel like outsider here. May be this feeling would go away after staying longer here. It’s just one week left in move I will be busy working on other thing and this thought might go away for sometime. :)