I was going through the news of Rupert Murdoch's NOTW scandal and it's after effects. The very fact that British PM had left his tour of SA half way and rushed for the problem resolution and also the way the authorities showed the pro active approach to the crime is something that shows the honesty, commitment and transparency in Public Life in UK. I also remember several instances where the same democratic practices and the politicians concerns for their own country men is a significant show of their high standards of ethics and governance. I also remember the Tory MPs scandal of misappropriation and extravagant spending of the "Second Home Allowance" and how local politicians over there apologised to the country ; also went to the extent of repaying the allowances with immediate effect shows the honesty every country will expect it's rulers to have.
Looking at our politicians, who refuse to step down even when found guilty in scams such as 2G, CWG, Adarsh,etc., I always feel that we should call them back and this time should enter into an agreement for our country's governance and development with them where they should be paid a percentage of our GDP to provide us with better standards of governance, honest and committed leadership, security ( our politicians can't even provide that for all the time where they accept a "small " incident in a big city can't be stopped). In the days of British Raj, we had the systems, which we are still using and are still the very foundation of our bureaucracy, legislative and Judicial framework with a bunch of non competent, selfish and greedy politicians who have no commitment towards the people. I feel each of us should think and request them to come back here and provide us with better governance and leadership against the financial benefits for a particular tenure and can be reviewed periodically . Outsourcing of Leadership and Governance will get us far more better benefits than getting the useless politicians that we have today.
When I had given this idea, I had given it only after a due thought . Please have a look at the various imperial and colonial powers and look at their status after they left the respective colonies. The striking contrast between North African Countries , which were French colonies Vs. countries like SA,India, Australia, NZ,Singapore,etc. which were British Colonies. We in India too had French, Dutch and Portuguese colonies which were very low on development but had a lot of atrocities.
That besides the point, let's treat it as a pure "business" decision such as we have a lot of un utilised or misappropriated wealth such as Padmanabh Temple, Sathya Sai Trust, Black money in Swiss Banks, corruption etc. and still a growing economy today. Where as our previous rulers are badly affected by the recession. They have excellent leadership and commitment to their people which we don't have. It can be a special treaty which can add both the parties strengths and a relationship which can be mutually exclusive and collectively Exhaustive. The earlier experience of the rule was different because of the circumstances then. However, this time, we can actually invite them for specific purpose of leadership and governance since we don't have the same or today's leadership is not making way to the ones who are efficient. So they can provide us with strategic leadership, vision, execution and governance with effective supervision under a fix tenure with periodic reviews and then develop a local leadership for a BOT model. Let's think of outsourcing the governance and leadership and be focussed on our core competences of entrepreneurial development and economic strengths. This will be a very good solution if done with periodic reviews as they have been an honest and a fair country by and large and are much better than the present day leaders we have.
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As anyway we are following their systems very religiously. In fact we are quite used to it now. Brilliant idea. Will open up a new business opportunity for both. One can say "win win" situation
ReplyDeleteGood and innovative solution. We need to think on few points though:
ReplyDelete- Policies are not the issue here, execution is: How will be tackle the malpractices as the same machinery will still be required at some point or the other.
- Corruption is caused as well as increased because of the change in the value system and ethical qualities of men who administer. Many new leaders when come into power declare their determination to eradicate corruption but soon they themselves become corrupt and start amassing huge wealth. SAME CAN HAPPEN WITH FOREIGN BODIES AS WELL
- Administrative labyrinth :
The IPC was enacted in 1860
The Indian police act 1861
The Indian evidence act 1872
The British had designed this legal system to strengthen a regulatory Colonial administration. Its provisions are ideally suited to the promotion of corruption at all levels, as graft provides the quickest immunity from delays and punitive action
The issue in this discussion is like diabetes, can only be controlled, but not totally eliminated.
But we do require thought leaders like you to initiate such topics to bring new ideas and awareness in our society.
Hi Anjani,
ReplyDeleteI agree that the objectives of the law creation was much different at the colnial period. However, what I am saying now is something which can be termed as "Outsourcing of governance." Hence we can ask them to get it executed the way we want.
Thanks for your comments