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Sunday, August 2, 2009
When will we get there?
I have put up something different this time.....its the general condition of the country and its administrators. The post is from PPI.....if have not subscribed it then.....plz go on and read it....
July 31 2009
Mr Esko Aho, 55, is now the Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Responsibility at Nokia in Helsinki, Finland.
Before this, he was the Prime Minister of his country.
While comparisons are odious, doesn't this make you wonder? When will we get there?
He would not have got this job due to pull. Because, if that were so, he would have been the Chairman or the President or some such title holder. He is obviously qualified to be an Executive Vice President of one of the world's largest and most successful companies.
What an enlightened nation Finland must be. What a merit driven society. How much professionalism he must have brought to the Prime Minister's role.
When will we get there?
A leading newspaper carried a report on the 20th December 2008 about our ministers who could not read the alphabet in any language. On 2nd of December 2008, there was a report about ministers being gangsters. Recently, it has been reported that the current Parliament has 22% more criminals than the last Lok Sabha. An MP has just been arrested, accused of murder.
On May 31st this year, there was a report which said political clans spell the doom of professionalism. All kinds of children are being thrust upon the nation as ministers. Professional competence is not even on the list of qualifications for the job. Many "leaders" who are required to be pictures of patriotism are believed to have potentially sensitive foreign connections; often through children who live abroad in preference to India, have foreign spouses or work for foreign establishments that might even bring conflicts of interest if the father is in a powerful position in the government.
So when will we get there? We will get there only when our current political paradigm is completely altered. This is an urgent and critical need. To get enlightened governance that will quickly clean up our administrative institutions, we need qualified, honest and patriotic Indians to be in politics. Obviously, for that to happen, we need a system where such qualified, honest and patriotic Indians have a chance to stand for elections, win and reach Parliament.
And to achieve this, the 250 to 300 million middle class of India have to compulsorily participate. They have to, one, be on the electoral list; two, actually be there to vote on the polling day; and three, have someone worth voting for. The first two are in your hands, PPI shall offer the third. We promise.
Let's hurry. We are 62 years behind. Until we get enlightened Parliamentarians, our administrative institutions like the law enforcement machinery, the criminal justice machinery, the public distribution system, the primary health and education machinery, the babudom, are all crumbling. And taking our nation down with it.
July 31 2009
Mr Esko Aho, 55, is now the Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Responsibility at Nokia in Helsinki, Finland.
Before this, he was the Prime Minister of his country.
While comparisons are odious, doesn't this make you wonder? When will we get there?
He would not have got this job due to pull. Because, if that were so, he would have been the Chairman or the President or some such title holder. He is obviously qualified to be an Executive Vice President of one of the world's largest and most successful companies.
What an enlightened nation Finland must be. What a merit driven society. How much professionalism he must have brought to the Prime Minister's role.
When will we get there?
A leading newspaper carried a report on the 20th December 2008 about our ministers who could not read the alphabet in any language. On 2nd of December 2008, there was a report about ministers being gangsters. Recently, it has been reported that the current Parliament has 22% more criminals than the last Lok Sabha. An MP has just been arrested, accused of murder.
On May 31st this year, there was a report which said political clans spell the doom of professionalism. All kinds of children are being thrust upon the nation as ministers. Professional competence is not even on the list of qualifications for the job. Many "leaders" who are required to be pictures of patriotism are believed to have potentially sensitive foreign connections; often through children who live abroad in preference to India, have foreign spouses or work for foreign establishments that might even bring conflicts of interest if the father is in a powerful position in the government.
So when will we get there? We will get there only when our current political paradigm is completely altered. This is an urgent and critical need. To get enlightened governance that will quickly clean up our administrative institutions, we need qualified, honest and patriotic Indians to be in politics. Obviously, for that to happen, we need a system where such qualified, honest and patriotic Indians have a chance to stand for elections, win and reach Parliament.
And to achieve this, the 250 to 300 million middle class of India have to compulsorily participate. They have to, one, be on the electoral list; two, actually be there to vote on the polling day; and three, have someone worth voting for. The first two are in your hands, PPI shall offer the third. We promise.
Let's hurry. We are 62 years behind. Until we get enlightened Parliamentarians, our administrative institutions like the law enforcement machinery, the criminal justice machinery, the public distribution system, the primary health and education machinery, the babudom, are all crumbling. And taking our nation down with it.
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