Question

S : Strengths
W : Weaknesses
O : Opportunities
T : Threats

SWOT analysis is a tool used to develop effective strategies and plans for the progress and development of organizations, companies, institutions and even individuals. Working in groups, identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for our country. Present your group’s views to the class. Your brief presentation should conclue with a ‘vision statement’ for India-where you want our country to be, say ten years from now and what we should do to achieve it.

Answer 1

Students to work in groups under the guidance and s upervision of the class teacher. The following information shall enable them to identify and discuss the issues convincingly and appropriately :

Strengths of our country

• consistence in developing stages
• endowed with rich natural resources
• good infrastructure
• industrialized with consistent industrial growth
• self -dependent in all aspects
• steady economic growth
• strategically and geographically located -
• all fields like industry, agriculture, medical, transport. business, defence, communication, information technology etc, progressing as per international standards
• a strong economy equal to that of China or other fast developing countries
• in the footsteps of being a major power in Asia
• youngest population in the world
• knowledge bank
• On the path to become an Asian super power

Weaknesses
• prevalence of corruption
• lack of transparency in administration
• possibility of communal riots due to religious fanaticism, bigotry etc.
• absence of nationalistic feelings among the masses, though utter patriotism during war and humanism during natural calamities
• regionalism, superst it ion. communalism ,lingualism
• terrorism
• lack of accountability
• population, poverty, adulteration
• parochialism in religious matters
• polit ical opportunism and nepot ism
• lack of polit ical willpower to set things right
• bad governance

Opportunities
• stability to be st rengthened more
• strength to be an emerging Asian power
• national unity to be strengthened through music, art, literature, Bollywood etc.
• people hardworking, having the capacity to stand united in the face of threats to the country
• Indian population youngest in the world
• great knowledge and informat ion technology bank
• strong diaspora abroad
• Indians st rategic planners and innovat ive entrepreneurs

Threats
Internal - sabotages through various terror groups

- possibility of communalriots instigated by anti-social elements

- bickerings due to regionalism, lingualism. communalism etc, leading to communal riots

External - neighbour countries due to border disputes and political adventurism

Vision Statement

- to be self -dependent and self -reliant
- 100% literacy
- removal of poverty, ignorance
- getting rid of religious fanaticism, bigotry, religious intolerance and fanaticism
- good transport, all kinds of infrastructure
- exporting of food grains, knowledge, information technology
- food for all, shelter, clothes etc.
- to be equal with developed countries
- to make problem-free country, every Indian to feel proud of

What we should do to achieve it
• ensuring transparency in every work
• eliminat ing corruption
• introducing accountability
• ending nepotism in all fields
• talent recognition and rewarding
• to develop sound work culture
• political interference to end
• identifying problems with an open mind and without bias and solving them
• spreading means to boost and encourage feelings of national integration
• enhancing human values like love, fellow-feeling, honesty, uprightness and righteousnes .