GOM - Management by Objectives.

GOM - Management by objectives

 

People of Maharashtra should thank Chief Secretary Johny Joseph (TOI, March 6) for devising a set of five parameters to assess the performance of bureaucrats - disposal of files, utilisation of development funds, filling up vacancies, compliance of assurances made by the ministers in the state legislature and timely response to the audit objections. I am wondring whether we can expect similar parameters for the performance of ministers as well so that people would be able to appreciate the work undertaken by the ministers. This will make the Government of Maharshtra a responsible government and a responsive government.

 

Some time ago the Times of India had published the number of files pending in the various government departments. This should be a periodical exercise. I know of a case of an NGO whose lease renewal which is pending for the last 8 years. It goes from one department to another, from the state government to the BMC, from one secretary to another. The trustee has met many secretaries and ministers but the file does not move. Like a dynamic private sector company, it is high time the Government of Maharashtra adopts MBO - Management by objectives. The GOM can publish the results every three months. If all the ministers fully use development funds and dispose of files quickly, it would get more votes than all the public meetings, hoardings and advertisements.

 

May 2,2008.

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Tibet and Kashmir.

Tibet and Kashmir.

Your edit, 'Spot the difference '(22/4) is on the spot. It is sad to note that in spite of working and benefiting from the democratic framework of our country for 60 long years, CPM has not yet appreciated the value of democracy. As you have pointed out, " While China's belligerent project in Tibet hinges on complete assimilation by the Han Chinese, India can survive difference, and thrives precisely because it allows democratic pluralism." Extermination or assimilation is the solution offered by many societies all over the world and all through the history. Indian way has been one of harmonization. Pluralism of democracy has been a part Indian way of life. That is the reason why democracy has been so successful in India in spite of poverty and illiteracy.

Next is the stance of CPM in particular and leftists in general who seem to be more loyal than the king. We all know what they did during 1942 and 1962. Chinese or Iranian atomic weapons are to be welcomed, India atomic weapons are to be opposed. While the Communists in China have Sinified communism – communism with Chinese characteristics, our communists also write it in Chinese characteristics, not in Indian idiom or democratic idiom. Our communists admire Chinese economic success achieved through liberal economy but they are averse if India follows suit. It is very difficult to fathom the aims and attitudes of our communists – is it subservience or inferiority complex ? I wonder. May be all Indians who observe the current political scene have no clue either.

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