COUPLE CARD MAY BE A BOON FOR NATION BUILDING

India is a land of immense diversities. Unity amidst diversity is the basic essence of democracy in India. Subsequently, attempt at embracing democratic governance for nation-building and national development has been taken and so far it has not been an easy task. The highly diversified multiethnic and multi-linguistic dimensions of the Indian polity have exerted divisive and negative impacts on an emergence of the ideals of democratic governance in the country. Although various governments and leaders have attempted to implement programmes and strategies aimed at instituting and stabilizing democracy in the country, these measure have not been noted firmly into the socio-political and socio-economic psyche of the Indian populace. It is considered and advanced in this exposition that a deliberate and effective embrace of education, through an adoption of the integrated and humanized curriculum offering of social studies in our schools could go a long way in producing large numbers of effective citizens who are needed in the task of bringing about sustainable national development in a democratic India. It is true that all of us realize that today's world is a connected one. Technology and travel have nearly made the world a global village. The world has to become a federation of nations. A nation is a federation of states, social groups, families and individuals. So what is needed is a situation of live and let live. One's needs, aspirations, accomplishments are all important. But there has to be a concept of a noble nation, where the welfare of the whole nation as a whole is ingrained in the thinking and actions of its people. This is the need of the hour. Taking into the account of Democracy one may stimulates the tools. Democracy today is in the hands of the politicians. People do not know what is democracy but saying ?we are living in a democratic country?. Thus, democracy has become an offence rather defensive one.