Wednesday, May 27, 2009

An Indian Government That I Aspire To See...

With elections over, a government formed and ministerial berths allocated....there is an increasing expectation from the people of India that the minsters will walk the talk. There have been some promises (literally weeding out those few out of all that was spoken in electoral rallies and those that can be truly classified as promises) made and targets set (the Indian electorate cannot be considered gullible any more)....it is truly a time for action. What then can possibly drive the ministers and their ministries to fulfill promises and hit targets?
Here is my wish list of what i would want to see....i classify myself as one among the ordinary citizen who is truly appreciative of hard work and will keenly observe progress as and when it becomes visible to the discerning eye.
  1. Can targets be set for each minister which is made transparent over a public website and progress monitored on a quarterly basis
  2. Can there be a report that is published at the end of each quarter on the work done so far with facts and figures which are audited by an independent agency?
  3. Can there be a system where if a minister has not hit his targets for two consecutive quarters, he is taken off his post without worrying which alliance party he comes from?
  4. Can there be a forum on how the MP's budget should be utilised? Can there be a priority set for each constituency to help the citizens in general understand how active is the concerned MP?

Just a few that i could think right away.....but a good bunch of these come out of the closet when there is an impending election......a good part of the development or the lack of it gets lost in the high decibel blame game that become part of every campaign. If a consistent reporting is undertaken, does anyone really have to shout from roof tops?....a point to ponder...

2 comments:

Business Quotient said...

Human capital is the core of intellectual capital. In the knowledge economy, with its flatter and increasingly virtual organizations....the trend is for people to be more related to their projects than their company

Vidyut Kumar Ta

Suresh Ramakrishnan said...

Rightly Said...the 'sum of parts falls far short of the whole' if the organisation and its goals are not kept in view....