Governance
Our TIB is doing some good work quietly in the background. The recent findings in BRTC and BTRC are appalling. Add two more entrenched establishments: Rajuk and DCC, (not to speak of the energy and power sectors. The activities of the ACC became very much visible during the tenure of the caretaker government during the past two years; but the new political regime is bringing about changes in the environment [Medical University, to start with...].
A glaring question arises: whither the quality of the output of the various privatisation efforts: and the improvements in performance standards of the semi-autonomous corporations? Who are reviewing the functions, for BMR or BMRE? There is no report on the impact of digital governance, [note the reactions to digitalised national/voter ID cards; and now the necessity of machine readable passports].
Changes in organograms or flow-charts hardly make any difference, so long the human factors in the chains are suspect of human errors and immoral activities and unethical practices. The tools and the operators have to be examined separately.
This human indoctrination by powerful cartels and syndicates start at high political levels, and filter down in the chain. How to break such chains?
Monitoring suffers from the same symptoms: the system and the human operators. We are not strict about reward and punishment criteria. Honesty is not rewarded, and dishonesty is not detected and/or punished. Add politicisation with change of regime: and the never-ending cycles are recycled. We have to get out of this trap.
The British colonial system worked as the transfer system was strictly enforced. As a student I remembered that my father, an educationist in the civil service, was transferred every second year in former British Bengal. What about Rajuk and DCC today? There is no municipal service: and the non-gazetted staff were also transferred locally [change of post].
Where to start? The political culture has to change--the very approach to beliefs in political philosophy, technology, methodology, and daily routine operation [the winner takes all]. But there is no national consensus yet amongst the political parties, and the parliamentary proceedings are a farce.
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