Bridging the gap between moral values and material progress

We live in a contradictory world where on the one hand some people show a lot of interest in building a value-based society and they talk of strengthening the value system as all of them realise that the present malaise is due to deterioration in the moral standards of society.

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So, there is a section of people who talk of moral development or what is called human resource development. On the other hand, some people talk of scientific and technological development, economic development or rural development.

The paradigm that these people have is more or less often in serious contradiction to the norms of moral development. Not only that, scientific and technological development or economic and industrial development is often in conflict with other parameters of development. For example, industrial development aims at producing and marketing more and more cars, scooters, jeeps, trucks, etc and such other things without caring as to what effect it will have on the environment, the health of the people and their habits and lifestyles, etc.

They don’t realise that a large addition of motor vehicles every year would also add to the smoke that is hazardous for the people and it would badly affect the health of the people. So, this kind of development is, in fact, inimical to the interest of the people. We should hence think of another model of development in which people may be able to travel at a speed and with convenience but the environment also is not spoiled.