Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Banishing Indian inequality through press conferences

Manmohan Singh on the Maoist threat recognizes that "“Rapid growth will have little meaning, however, unless social and economic inequalities, which still afflict our society, are not eliminated quickly and effectively.” He also urges civil servants to ensure that no area of the country is denied the benefits of the government’s developmental programmes.

Dear Mr.Singh,
Do you believe that
  1. Our existing civil governance infrastructure with a notably specious record
  2. With skewed incentives, rehashed development plans and large implementation gaps
  3. Dealing with the same resource hungry corporate players
will suddenly heed your call and start super-effective/efficient execution of your government's plans just because more people might be watching them?

Do you believe that and do you expect us to seriously believe that? Are these the most concrete plans that the PM and Home Minister (ministers I consider to be of the highest calibre in the current government) have for eliminating social and regional economic inequalities? (after an incident that shows the appalling fallout of not doing so).

2 comments:

Tyler Durden said...

Even today, politicians use "punishment transfer" to get even with the few honest officers that they run into. If only saying the right things was half as good as doing the right things :-(

Ganja Turtle said...

Yeah, I know, the latest example being the transfer of the officer who was probing the 2G spectrum allotment scandal that cost the country 1000s of crores.

Edukashun, edukashun, edukashun for the masses - here's to hoping for a better future!