10-May-2020 / Food for Thought:
Please consider
these three things:
(1) We, in our
country, have a so called very efficient system of governance which is
programmed to fail. Some won’t like it, so they are indifferent towards it.
Some will simply reject it. Some work overtime to see it fail, so that they can
blame the govt. There are still some who half-heartedly carry out without any
seriousness. So the result is anybody’s guess.
(2) We are very
proficient in post-event analysis. We do a lot of research why this failed, why
that went wrong. Very rarely we plan for success. And even if we do the above
item no.1 happens.
(3) Convergence: We
never work in unison, or to say for a common goal. All the Govt Departments / independent
entities / groups / bodies have their own set of goals, which rarely converge.
And even at times goals clash with one another. Here’s a classic example: A couple
of years ago, when the GoI decided to launch bank FDs for Senior Citizens with
an RoI @8% pa, no banks came forward. They said it is not viable. Later LIC of
India took up with their own tenets.
If we have
developed since independence, it’s not because of the system but in spite of
it. We have fortunately a select set of individuals who carry forward the
nation against heavy odds.
