Good governance

What are the essential elements of good governance?

This is especially vital in a country like India with such diversity and such huge problems.



Ten Commandments of Good Governance

1. Holistic vision of present situation and future needs
Have good assessment of present situation. What are the problems, what are the strengths and weaknesses, what are the available resources, what are the needs etc. Also has good vision of what can be the need of future. How the nation will grow and integrate well with world.

2. Wise planning and policies
Planning and policies must be according to holistic assessment of present and future. These should not prove bad ten or twenty years later. These must have correct priorities and must take into account short, mid and long term needs.Care should be taken not to burden the over burdened especially the lower most in ladder.

3. Strengthen system
Nothing can run without a system. Do not do anything to harm the system. Strengthen it. This includes structural organization and functioning. There should be new laws, update of old laws and proper  implementation of laws.

4. Cut wastage and corruption
No growth can occur if there is wastage and corruption is the single most important factor that damages the system. Eliminate corruption and reduce wastage to best extent possible.

5. Uplift weak and poor
No growth matters if weak and poor do not benefit from it and lifted to higher levels. They must get priority attention. Society must become homogenous in various aspects of development.

6. Take everyone along
Fragmented growth is not possible. It is crucial that everyone is participant of growth and get due attention and benefit.

7. Walk the talk
Do not promise something that can not be fulfilled. Once promised, make it happen. No excuses, no false presentation to cover up.

8. Remain connected with people and ground reality
Everything is 'of the people for the people by the people' so never lose connect with people and ground reality. What people think is more important than what you think.

9. Never hide or justify mistakes and wrongs
Few mistakes and wrongs can be there. Never hide, cover up or justify. Once people lose faith everything will finish.

10. Inspire, not impose
Enhance positivity and affirmative action by inspiring people. You can never impose. People will get angry and will work against.


Any government fulfilling these will remain dear and will bring true welfare.

Honesty for every citizen

Nation has recently seen an uprising against corruption. Rightly so. Everyone demands strict action against corrupt politicians.

To initiate the process the new government has taken two crucial steps:
- SIT to investigate black money sent abroad illegally
- Prime Minister's initiative to make constitutional houses corruption free

But corruption needs holistic treatment. Read for details Corruption can be eliminated

Is it only the politicians who are corrupt? What about everyone else?

The time has come for every citizen of India to raise their level of honesty and commitment towards nation. They too must be under better scrutiny to check corruption at all levels. Just as in cancer, if a small part of it is left it will rise again and more dangerous.

There is a need to have:
- A social security number with complete history of social, financial and legal background of person.
- Every citizen must declare assets and other information through affidavit once every five years.
- There must be a database of all citizens with this information

It is time for citizens must talk about own honesty.

Get united in nation building

India faces huge task and challenges

Every one is aware about the magnitude of task. We all talk so big about how we should work for nation but unfortunately we do not change our attitude.

It is only few days a new government has assumed office and there has already started blame game and name calling. This is not how a nation is built. It requires collective effort. And more important it requires a positive attitude from everyone. Any government needs time to settle, put policies in place and set work going. How can anyone fix problems in days? It is not fair to indulge in criticism even before start of work. Let the government work. Everyone must work hard and support the government.

Do not let party politics spoil the atmosphere. Do not let negativity to take upper hand. We must get out of habit of pulling down others.

A government does not belong to a party, it belongs to entire nation. And the government must not do anything for party ideology, it must work on national ideology.

For Government

Stay away from arrogance, big talk, being defensive on mistakes, tokenism and other non productive activities. Get completely focused on work and talk straight to people of India. People have put their entire faith and high hopes. Do not let them down. Do not surrender to mediocrity or become pliable. Remain firm and work at good pace.

For Opposition

It is not quantity but quality that matters. Stay away from prejudiced opposition. Let the government work, guide them where required, oppose them where required but do not obstruct them. You will not be obstructing government but you will be seen as obstructing nation. If something wrong happens, make people aware about it.

For Citizens

This is not a government of a particular party, this is government of nation. Government alone can not make nation or fulfill aspirations of people. Everyone has to play his or her role effectively. Get united, get passionate about India and work hard. Do not just crib or agitate. Work and work. Nations are built by people's commitment towards nation.

Nation warned. Task is huge. There can be no place for lethargy or conflicts. Do not do anything to pull down nation building effort.

Be a part of nation building - positively and unitedly.

Disasters must be avoided

26 washed away in Himachal ?

Why disasters are allowed to happen? These are in almost all cases due to negligence. It is possible to avoid most of them.

Following must be done immediately to avoid further such disasters:

- There must be a protocol of all occurrences. This must include well defined procedures of do's and don'ts.
- All dangers must be pre-conceived by specialists. Proper warnings and guards must be in place.
- Why in this age of technology it is required to activate hooter manually? All such warnings like hooters, red light blinkers must get activated automatically through computerized system.
- There must be immediate rescue operation. All districts must have disasters management teams with helicopters to reach site in minutes. Search operation must continue during night under floodlights.
- There must be well laid disaster action plan.
- Politicians must avoid visiting disaster site but those in command must supervise the entire operation through tele conferencing. This will avoid undue distraction of attention and effort.
- Disaster management of various countries must be researched and used in creating a good disaster avoidance and management system.

Every life is precious. Death due to negligence is sad and shameful.

Time to create a system.

Welfare should be the key

What should be the mantra for new government ??

Welfare

What is right what is wrong, there can be individual or party opinion. All policies, all actions and everything in the system must move for welfare of the citizens of India. Nation's development must be judged by one and only one index:

Welfare Index

Nation can wait to become a super power. Even high class development can wait. But few things need immediate attention.

- Food, water and shelter for all
- Affordable healthcare and education for all
- Security and Justice for all

These three must form topmost priority of every government. Everything else like corruption elimination, economic policies, national schemes etc must keep these three as core focus. It is shameful for any nation to have more than half the population under severe poverty and people suffering due to homelessness, hunger, thirst, sickness, crimes etc.

Such a state can be achieved only if nation succeeds in following
- Elimination of corruption, losses and wastage
- Freedom from debt and deficit
- Homogenous growth of citizens and development of nation
- Simplify taxes for better compliance
- Increase real earning. For details read   Making India Prosperous

Welfare index is the only index that determines how successful a nation is and how happy its citizens are.