for more enlightened leadership
text of the letter sent to The New Indian Express:
I am intrigued by the news report in your columns on the 28th instant under the caption ‘Couple get jobs, funds’, about a young couple from Bagalkot, both of whom are now employed in the Vidhan Soudha, the husband as a second division clerk, and the wife as a first division assistant. Apparently, this resulted from a Janata Darshan audience with the CM, who showered his benevolence on the couple, moved by their plight, suffering as they were from ill-treatment by their own folk because of their inter-caste marriage.
Now, if you ask any young person in Bagalkot, or for that matter, any where in the state, he/she will have some similar sob story to tell. The questions that arise here are
a) If the CM is going to be giving them all jobs in the government, where is the end to it all?
b) The government is terribly over-staffed as it is. Even as of now, the entire government work can be done by less than a tenth of the existing work force if it withdraws from areas it doesn't need to be in, and by going in for large-scale computerisation. Whereas the government should be looking at such options, these acts of the CM show him up as totally irresponsible.
c) Also, the only attraction that a government job holds for the youth today is the scope for making ‘under the table’ money, that comes along with it. So, in essence, what the government is doing is just corrupting the youth, if they are not already so inclined.
d) It is absolutely dismaying that the CM’s of today should still be going about like feudal lords showering largesse on individuals, rather than working for the common good, whereby many of these people will automatically be absorbed in far better quality employment.
It is time people looked out for more enlightened leadership.
I am intrigued by the news report in your columns on the 28th instant under the caption ‘Couple get jobs, funds’, about a young couple from Bagalkot, both of whom are now employed in the Vidhan Soudha, the husband as a second division clerk, and the wife as a first division assistant. Apparently, this resulted from a Janata Darshan audience with the CM, who showered his benevolence on the couple, moved by their plight, suffering as they were from ill-treatment by their own folk because of their inter-caste marriage.
Now, if you ask any young person in Bagalkot, or for that matter, any where in the state, he/she will have some similar sob story to tell. The questions that arise here are
a) If the CM is going to be giving them all jobs in the government, where is the end to it all?
b) The government is terribly over-staffed as it is. Even as of now, the entire government work can be done by less than a tenth of the existing work force if it withdraws from areas it doesn't need to be in, and by going in for large-scale computerisation. Whereas the government should be looking at such options, these acts of the CM show him up as totally irresponsible.
c) Also, the only attraction that a government job holds for the youth today is the scope for making ‘under the table’ money, that comes along with it. So, in essence, what the government is doing is just corrupting the youth, if they are not already so inclined.
d) It is absolutely dismaying that the CM’s of today should still be going about like feudal lords showering largesse on individuals, rather than working for the common good, whereby many of these people will automatically be absorbed in far better quality employment.
It is time people looked out for more enlightened leadership.
posted by Muralidhar Rao at
11:15 PM
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