Budget implementation realities!
Your correspondent's front-page headline report on June 13th about the huge task of budget implementation is a natural forethought that many of us feel! One wonders if the programme is too much for our conservative bureaucratic work mode usually tied up with endless red-tape, which is our norm of work! Side by side, in the next column by Tushir; there is the talk of a "Supervisory Body" being set up. Will it add more red-tape, or curtail it? That is the fundamental issue. It all depends on the determination of our political government, whether they have the will to take pragmatic unpopular decisions when needed, and take it quickly; and hopefully not get mired down with too many "stay orders" and "injunctions" from the courts.
Once greed and subjectivity enter into the process; with political activists and supporters going for a slice of the pie; then the doom begins! It can bring the process of progress to a grinding halt.
It is not wrong to apprehend that the gap between expectation and execution is quite large. Only determined and purposeful political will can transform these good ideas to realities on the ground!
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