2012 - Just one in 10 toddlers in kindergarten makes it to college. Not more than one 5 % graduates are absorbed in useful jobs. The remaining population of educated and uneducated is engaged in trades like begging, rag picking, robbery, dacoity, paid murderers, laborers, servants, helpers, road side traders, small shop owners, black marketers, paid supporters to some politician's rallies etc. There are many drug addicts who don't have any enthusiasm to do any job but to remain burden to their families. In fact, a negligible population is really engaged in constructive activities. And those working to keep India alive looses many working hours due to small infections. India lost more than twice the amount it set aside for the country's health budget in 2012 to small infections.

Oh my God

10-11-2012: Rs 4,439 crore has literally gone down the drain called the Yamuna. Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have told the Supreme Court that they have spent Rs 4,124 crore on making the rive's water potable, but the Central Pollution Control Board told the Supreme Court -- the entire 22-kilometre stretch of the Yamuna in the Capital is a drain.

Rs 9200 crore spent by UP and Delhi government since 1094. Now Rs 5300 crore are proposed again to try Yamuna Action Plan III.  This information is known to the public only because of a PIL in Supreme Court. A scenario like cleaning of Yamuna River may be going on unnoticed in many departments.

Oh my God

16-11-1012  News: Files of 9 secretaries to PMs destroyed
RTI Plea Prompts PMO Admission - The President secretariat even denied information to Bhattacharya, arguing that such details were not readily available and would require compilation that would disproportionately divert resources of the public authority.

The possible remedy - to save the country

The RTI needs to be strengthen further.
The RTI is the most effective solution. It needs to function flawlessly with the support of modern technology. It should not be limited to Govt departments only.  A real time data base to record the movement of Govt files from one desk to another desk and soft copy of each noting page at the central data storage system is required. The file movement record of each table should be monitored by an independent monitoring authority by the use of specially designed software to check any delay in action and work load at each table. A babu, up to the rank of LDC  should be required to update the data base regarding the following three points on every working day. Public should have access to the data base.

1. When and from whom the file is received.
2. Soft copy of the page of noting.
3. When and to whom the file is dispatched.

In fact, the complete administrative working should be computerized on the line of  banking system. Most of the data, that can be acquired through RTI act, should be freely available on real time basis by the internet facility. It may take more than 100 years for the government to get developed such simple data management system by its own resources like NIC for a simple reason that none of the babu will like to be part of this monitoring system. This type of monitoring system will be very helpful to any working government too as it will reveal several astonishing facts of some dumped files.

To break the unholy nexus between the neta (leader), the lala (businessman) and the babu (bureaucracy) there is a need to have a new independent institution (TPR) to deal with transfer, promotion and recruitment of all government employees. This institute along with all the institutions such as the proposed Lokpal, the Central Vigilance Commission, UPSC and the Central Bureau of Investigation should be made constitutional entities, shielding them from government interference.

We need CAG type independent agencies for continues monitoring of working of all public and government departments. The observation and action part of all departments are required to be split into independent units. For example: FIR recording should not be with the police department. Similarly, the flood forecasting and river gauge observation need to be looked after by independent units. The same principle should be applied to record the success of Moon or Mars missions etc.

Oh my God

18-8-2012: Our legal system has made life too easy for criminals and too difficult for the law abiding citizens, the Supreme Court said on Friday, referring to the “dilatory tactics” of the L N Mishra murder case accused in dragging its trial for the last 37 years.

Who is supposed to improve our legal system?