Friday 17 May 2013

the best laid plans of mice and men

When I was getting my house constructed, the builder, an 'ISO something' certified company, would get my every wish, every window, every plug point, documented and signed in duplicate.
But on the site, the masons/electricians did not get these papers. I would have to go and check every day to see things were where they were supposed to be.
Great planning, zero implementation.
There is the NAC with people  like Aruna Roy and Anu Agha, perceived as honest  people interested in the welfare of the country. We have a big exercise like the MNREGA. Then there was the RTE. There is the RTI.
There have been many good initiatives, but the ideas remained that. Implementation has been very unintelligent.
The massive corruption could not have gone unnoticed. So why wait to do what was inevitable till forced to, and earn a bad name? Why would they be so stupid?
Is the planning is done by a set of intelligent people, good at their jobs, but once a good blueprint is made, the people who implement the ideas are not smart enough to realise the value of long term goodwill?  Carpe Diem perhaps!


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