Thursday, July 2, 2009

Ministers of and for the nation

B S Raghavan worries that:

"Until about 40 or so years ago, Central ministers used to regard themselves as the servants of the people of the entire nation and visited every part of India to have a personal idea of the prevailing conditions and mingle with the aam aadmis to hear their grievances and profit from their suggestions.

Nowadays, whether it is the central or state minister, either because he lacks self-confidence or because he is uncomfortable with English, Hindi or the local language, he is visible only within the narrow confines of the constituency from which he is elected and rarely, if ever, does he venture into the rest of the country. His obsession is mostly with channeling funds and jobs to his constituency or his native state."

I was told by my friend father who served for long in GOI that in 50s and 60s the ministers had an expert assistance for every thing they involve in office because they were all ignorant of everything even putting signature of their own. All that is not end election after election it is still with us.


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