Re: [HumJanenge] India's Dismal Progress in Infrastructure Development in Last Two Decades - Babudom is Curse for India

We seem to be barking at the wrong tree here. By the way our honorable pm is also an erstwhile babu?
Maybe we are running around circles.
Regards.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Mahesh Khera <mkkhera@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Friends,

Ever wondered why India has lagged in infrastructure development since 1990 ? The real reason is not the politicians and the greedy corporate houses but the Indian babudom.

Latest, Kochi Metro, conceptualized in 2005 costing 2500 Cr has been cleared only now. The cost has escalated to 5100 Cr. The reason, babudom wanted it to be a Public Pvt Partnership PPP project. No private investor would come in any project where the ROI is not reasonable for them. Babus always want projects to come up as PPP as it gives them multiple cash cows to milk. The country can go to dogs. Babudom alone is responsible for India to lag behind China. Imagine, this is just one small tip of the iceberg, a metro project in Kochi delayed by 7 years with cost overrun of 2600 Cr. All infrastructure projects in the country are costing more than double with a delay of 5 to 7 years only due to the incompetence of babudom with no responsibility and accountability enjoying uninterrupted job and perks till 65 years of age. If even 1/100th of such callous performance was demonstrated in a private sector, the guy would be thrown out in less than a year.

Should we file RTIs to get the details of all infrastructure projects in the country like start date, end date, cost and check the status today ? I think, almost all infrastructure projects at the end of this RTI exercise would land up in courts through PILs. I am not sure whether we really have any solution.

Imagine, the honorable PM has enhanced the financial outlay for the current plan to a trllion $ or INR 5,000,000 Cr. Babudom would be responsible, as has been so since 1990, for wasting half of this outlay due to incompetence and very poor decision making and taking double the time to completion. China has hugely accountable babudom and thus is on track to be No 1 economy very soon. 

It is time we found a solution to this babudom becoming the real bane in removing the poverty in the country. Politicians are busy in milking the land and babus are busy in milking the infrastructure projects. The people of the country are taken for a ride. 

Can we the people demand babus in-charge of these projects to come on National DD and give monthly progress of these projects in an hour long program ? Can the cabinet secy voluntarily organize such monthly briefing to the people on TV by his colleagues who are in-charge of various projects ? Really, no answer indeed.

Dear honorable PM Sir, hope you are taking cognizance of these things and would take action to set things right.

 

With warm regards,

Col Mahesh Khera