Wednesday 29 August 2012

What is the reason for the mess?

Divided in different departments, important programs cannot be implemented effectively. Health department has to associate with drinking water and sanitation department. Health department has to interact with laws in drug testing(department of justice) on hazards faced by people. Constantly food ministry has to move with health ministry. For example we have to bring in organic farming and discontinue use of pesticides and fertilisers; health of people consuming food grown with pesticides (like DDT) suffers. Encouraging the plantation of brown rice which is beneficial to the diabetics in Inda--this is an advice health ministry can give to the food ministry for future farming plans. It is with these communications with one another that real progress can take place in India. Emails are an effective way of communication among the various departments of the government. Compartmentalisation has led to ineffective governance. The critical health problems are due to poor housing facilities (poor quality of water and ineffective waste management). But housing and urban development ministry is not associated with health ministry. And how can we allocate for specific development when the concerned department is a different one? Inter ministerial consultations are just a formality and are not effectual in the making or in the implementation of policies.  Even the ‘coal-scam’ which is the highly debated issue today is a result of these inadequacies:- The Power Ministry needed coal  to make more electricity( demand is so high) And coal could not be provided by a single company; diversification was proposed; environmental clearances were rushed(‘go zones’ and ‘no go zones’ were redefined) by Environment  Ministry, and the Coal Ministry did allocate blocks very very fast. All this caused big delays.Now none of the department take responsibility for delays, and they continue playing 'the blame game' They blame each other for all the irregularities in coal block allocations.
Conflict in the state of Assam is a result lack of cooperation among Ministries—Our Foreign department had not taken the issue of immigrant problem seriously enough. The department for Tribal welfare had not made land records properly for the native tribal population of the state. Ration cards were issued without proper birth certificates, only those with Indian nationality can be issued PDS cards, that was department of public distribution. Now,the real natives are refugees in their own homelands. In the end the government gets a bad name (beyond national shame) the people go on suffering for longer time. Development and progress should be visualized as integrated growth affecting all the various spheres--not limited to a specific department.Dispite having immense natural resources and access to technology, we have failed to bring industrilization and development in India.

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