Friday 30 March 2012
INDIAN DREAMS Vs REALITY: INDIA CRYING For HONEST And SINCERE CONCERN For IS...
INDIAN DREAMS Vs REALITY: INDIA CRYING For HONEST And SINCERE CONCERN For IS...: Army Chief and Arvind Kejriwal of Anna's team have been hogging the limelight in all national print and TV news media during the last week...
Thursday 22 March 2012
INDIA CRYING FOR SOME HONESTY AND EFFICIENCY IN GOVERNANCE
Governments in India whether at centre or states have set priority of giving doles, freebies and subsidies to the poor. This includes fuel subsidy in kerosene, cooking gas and diesel, food subsidy and payments to pensioners, workers under NREGA. Also a large chunk of money is spent on socio-economic measures like midday meals. All such programmes and measures smack of management inefficiency, pilferages and corrupt practices.
A recent piece of news regarding money paid to 50000 bogus pensioners in 19 districts of Punjab including those who are dead and the reports on frauds being committed in NREGA payments are glaring examples of lack of efficiency and honesty in the governance. Firstly there is something basically wrong with the process of deciding the eligibility of an individual for a particular benefit, and thereafter no subsequent reviews are done to find out whether the eligibility is still valid or not. There is neither an accountability audit nor a financial audit in any of the schemes and whenever one is carried out big discrepancies emerge and make headlines for a few days. Sadly no corrective measures done or punishments meted out to wrong doers. Long live India and keep on crying for some honesty and efficiency in governance.
Wednesday 21 March 2012
SOME FRANK OPINIONS ABOUT POLITICS And POLITICIANS
“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
― H.L. Mencken
“Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises.”
― Jarod Kintz
“What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying.”
― Henry Adams
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
― Plato
“Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the only thing worse than warts are lawyers and lobbyists. ”
― Jarod Kintz
Indian Polity supports criminals and Thugs but has no sympathy for taxpayers.”
_ Unknown
“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”
― Franklin P. Adams
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
― Groucho Marx
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx
“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
― Edward Abbey
― H.L. Mencken
“Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises.”
― Jarod Kintz
“What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying.”
― Henry Adams
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
― Plato
“Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the only thing worse than warts are lawyers and lobbyists. ”
― Jarod Kintz
Indian Polity supports criminals and Thugs but has no sympathy for taxpayers.”
_ Unknown
“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”
― Franklin P. Adams
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
― Groucho Marx
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx
“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
― Edward Abbey
Thursday 8 March 2012
Tuesday 6 March 2012
ELECTION RESULTS OUT: NOW WHAT
Finally the election results of five Indian states are before us and these results have been quite a rude shock to the two main national parties of India, namely the Congress and the BJP and a big surprise for Mulayam Singh's Samajwadi Party. On one side it has brought out the maturity of Indian voter, particularly his intolerance to corruption and high handedness of the mighty and powerful of the ruling polity. At the same time it shows that still the voter is highly gullible and gets fooled by the rhetoric of false promises and paltry doles in the form of free rations, small job reservations etc. The voter is still not fighting for his right to get high quality education, skill enhancement enabling him to increase his earnings and bear the fruits of development and increased GDP.
This will certainly give a wrong message to the polity of all hues and colours and all of them will go all out for selling our national assets to garner more money and wastefully employing the government's budget kitty for distribution of freebies and doles, good politics as per them. Good Governance and Good Economics are definitely going to take the back seat as both attack the problem of corruption, black money, freebies, doles, discretions and discretionary quotas etc and these features are the back bone of getting into power and ensuring it in future. After all it is only a few dozen people who become part of the government who get financial compensation and perks legally. The others i.e. a few lakhs of powerful active cadres of political parties who ensure votes during elections have to be ensured a big chunk of loot through one or more of the methods described above. The commoner is left alone to rot and blame his destiny for his miseries.
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