Rule of Law in Punjab?

A 14-year old girl is ill treated and pushed out of the running bus along with her mother. The girl dies and the mother is in a serious condition undergoing treatment. The bus involved belongs to the chief minister P.S Badal and his reaction to the incident appears to be quite irritating and irresponsible. If a mother and a girl are not safe in C.M'bus, where is law and order in Punjab?

Money and muzzle power enable a family to rule the state. Who will have the guts to question the wrongdoings of such a powerful political family there?

Indian democracy seems to have not matured still!

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Monitoring at the apex level!

Status of Executives at the grassroots

A down to earth practical approach  was adopted by PM Narendra Modi by sending top bureaucrats to the places where they initially started their career and worked 30-35 years ago to find out the status of implementation of schemes at the grassroots. A top-down goal fixation and target implementation is normally beset with many teething troubles due to varied assets and capacities enjoyed by the executives in the field. 

The internal report in six pages consolidated and placed before the PM indicates that all is not well in the field despite encouraging aggregate numbers achieved and reported by the bankers at the apex level. No wonder in the last 10-20 years thousand and thousand crores of rupees budgeted, allocated and released from the Centre in the name of several schemes seem to have achieved comparatively little progress when the cost-benefit analysis is attempted and assembled at the end of the day.

Good beginning by the Centre under the leadership of a dynamic PM! But the aspirations and expectations for gainful employment and self employment to the millions of youths are certainly a daunting challenge to the PM and his government. The whole government - top to bottom - has to realise the magnitude, work out a strategy and strive hard to achieve the goals in a definite time-frame.

All the best to one and all in the arena!

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River Pollution

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has noted that the number of polluted river stretches in the country increased from 150 to 302 in the past five years, indicating how rivers other than Ganga too are victims of constant neglect.

A total of 532 towns / cities fall along the polluted stretches of different rivers across the country. In comparison the Ganga river basin states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal have 118 such stretches. 

March 27, 2015
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Modi & his team.

Ratan Tata: (Friday, April 17,2015)
"Don't get disillusioned, support Modi. 

"Let's Bake in India First" says Chetan Bhagat, a columnist-writer by expressing concern over the increasing number of suicides by farmers and makes out a case for opening up the agriculture sector to global players to help our farmers and our economy in contrast to "Make in India" slogan raised for manufacturing sector by the PM (Saturday, April 18,2015 in TOI).

Many promises made to the voters, but the time and the existing human resources for their execution severely limited, PM's and his team of workers are under watch!

Kim Jong-un reinstates ‘pleasure troupe’ harem

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has ordered a new “pleasure troupe” of young women to entertain him. Kim, 32, whose country is notorious for its allegedly widespread and horrific human rights abuses, is reportedly drawing up lists of a new generation of female companions, The Daily Telegraph reports.

The “pleasure troupes” were a practice introduced by Kim’s grandfather, North Korea’s founding father; the ‘Eternal President’ Kim II-sung. Government officials would conduct searches of the countryside for the most attractive young women, typically taking 30 to 40 every year; who would become maids, singers, or dancers following an interview with the leader: The prettiest would be expected to become the leader’s

concubines, eventually passed on – or “retired”- to high ranking military or government officials after they reached their mid-20s.

What a world we live in now in 21st century with the rulers still practising the feudal features like harem in Asia? As reader of India's Mogul history where I learnt the working of harems in the forts of Mogul Emperors like Akbar and Jahangir in 15th and 16th centuries, but shocked to know similar trends in North Korea. The used and enjoyed by the rulers, the ladies in mid 20s were passed on to the officials at the end. What a spoils system in place?

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A struggle within

AAP is undergoing a surgery right now successfully removing the unwanted and overgrown tumours from the body. Right or wrong the purpose behind the campaign launched against Arvind Kejriwal by the duo Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav for sometime now - either due to ego clash or clash of ambitions developed by them on the eve of elections to  Delhi Assembly is well understood.      

It is unfortunate that some of the leading founder members are leaving the party perhaps due to their disappointment with the leadership style of Arvind Kejriwal. No doubt   AAP was formed surely on the persuasion and determination Arvind. Other persons interested in political power joined him. When it fell short of majority it got the support of Congress party and ran the Delhi Government for 49 days and left the scene for a major goal of seizing power in Lok Sabha. The wordy duels between the two warring groups for quite a few weeks now tell tales of what transpired internally and resulted in action against the so called traitors like Yogendra and Prasanth from the party forums. Although it reminds us of a normal adjustment within the party before it starts fulfilling poll promises made to Delhi voters. Arvind is being accused of adopting dictatorial attitude in dealing with party affairs. But where is an exception in any of the political parties functioning and ruling the states in the country at the moment. All is well that ends well.

Let us wait and watch the performance of Arvind in the next five years before we judge him finally.

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