Tewari stresses community leadership

The solution to many important problems faced globally can be found at the community-level leadership which is a most vital but neglected area, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said today.
Speaking at an Asian Forum for Global Governance event here, Tewari said it will be the leadership at the community level that will differentiate successful societies from ossified and failed ones.
"We need community leadership because this is probably the most neglected and dying leadership of all. And let me emphasise that lack of leadership at the level of the community, will undo leadership at every other level," he said.

The I&B minister said he thought that it was community leadership where the real solutions lie.
"How you use your water, how you price resources, how you treat women, children, the vulnerable and the weak. These are all answers we need to find at the micro level, at the level of the community, of the town," Tewari said.
He said that in the age of cosmopolitanism and globalisation, communities were dying. The evolution of mankind was supported by strong families and communities, Tewari further said.
He added that "what is unfamiliar, can scare and went on to say that many who are in government, private sector, civil society and the media had never seen vibrancy and diversity of opinion, thought and action like what we see today".

"This is not paralysis, this is a comprehension gap. And the sooner we are able to understand this new operating environment, the sooner we will be able to adjust the form and format of how governments and citizens engage with the emerging realities," he said.