DEMOCRACY is supposed to be the best form of government, but in India it is becoming the worst in several respects. One such disturbing point is the misuse of government treasuries. Another serious issue is the inefficiency of our government servants. Those who consume a great portion of the government treasuries do not give back sufficient returns to the amount drawn by way of salaries and other benefits. How long can a hose survive if all are only keen on drawing from the common fund as much as possible without correspondingly putting back by fulfilling their duties?
The government employees do often pressurize the government to increase the salary and benefits through unwarranted strikes. They also burden the public by demanding and accepting bribes. Thereby often favouring undeserving seekers of benefits from the government funds. I it not a basic principle in any healthy economy that any spending should have corresponding returns in cash or in kind? This is sadly the grim picture of Indian democracy.
The recent controversy over the self-financing educational institutions in Kerala, for example, would not and could not have arisen but for the inefficient management of the government-run such institutions. If these provide sufficient seats and exhibit high standards and good results, students would flock to them since it would be comparatively much cheaper. If so many self-financing institutions would have had no room to exist.
A great injustice in connection with the spending from the public treasuries is that compared to the income of the general public or of the majority of people, the remuneration of the employed is high. The reason for this is that the politicians in the government are irresponsibly raising salaries to please the employed in order to keep themselves in power. For this they even create new jobs without taking into account workloads.
The politicians in power quite often raise their own remunerations and benefits and those in opposition agree to it wholeheartedly. This is a great anomaly. It is because such decisions or laws are enacted by those themselves who are to enjoy the fruits thereof that such increases are passed unopposed. How right, therefore, is the observation that the limit of authority and advantages like salary should not be decided by those who are to enjoy them.
Slowly but steadily, almost every facility projects like water, electricity, transport, and sanitary etc are handed over in the private hands. When the leaders are finding themselves inefficient to look after all these public welfare projects then as to why they claim so much of amount as salary.
It is high time that different machinery is set up urgently, a body that is independent and judicious that takes into account the capacity of the treasuries and also the income of the majority of the people, while raising salaries and other befits of the governing and of government employees.
A great danger in connection with the unequal distribution of the public treasuries is that those who get more money and that too easy money compared to the hard-working people at large put up unwarranted shows in constructing houses and furnishing them.
The monthly salary is not a healthy thing for our economy. The people who draw monthly salary from public treasuries do not do justice to their duty that is their duty towards the country and to the people. In the name of public service/servant they are snatching money as much as they could in a short span of time.
The government employees do often pressurize the government to increase the salary and benefits through unwarranted strikes. They also burden the public by demanding and accepting bribes. Thereby often favouring undeserving seekers of benefits from the government funds. I it not a basic principle in any healthy economy that any spending should have corresponding returns in cash or in kind? This is sadly the grim picture of Indian democracy.
The recent controversy over the self-financing educational institutions in Kerala, for example, would not and could not have arisen but for the inefficient management of the government-run such institutions. If these provide sufficient seats and exhibit high standards and good results, students would flock to them since it would be comparatively much cheaper. If so many self-financing institutions would have had no room to exist.
A great injustice in connection with the spending from the public treasuries is that compared to the income of the general public or of the majority of people, the remuneration of the employed is high. The reason for this is that the politicians in the government are irresponsibly raising salaries to please the employed in order to keep themselves in power. For this they even create new jobs without taking into account workloads.
The politicians in power quite often raise their own remunerations and benefits and those in opposition agree to it wholeheartedly. This is a great anomaly. It is because such decisions or laws are enacted by those themselves who are to enjoy the fruits thereof that such increases are passed unopposed. How right, therefore, is the observation that the limit of authority and advantages like salary should not be decided by those who are to enjoy them.
Slowly but steadily, almost every facility projects like water, electricity, transport, and sanitary etc are handed over in the private hands. When the leaders are finding themselves inefficient to look after all these public welfare projects then as to why they claim so much of amount as salary.
It is high time that different machinery is set up urgently, a body that is independent and judicious that takes into account the capacity of the treasuries and also the income of the majority of the people, while raising salaries and other befits of the governing and of government employees.
A great danger in connection with the unequal distribution of the public treasuries is that those who get more money and that too easy money compared to the hard-working people at large put up unwarranted shows in constructing houses and furnishing them.
The monthly salary is not a healthy thing for our economy. The people who draw monthly salary from public treasuries do not do justice to their duty that is their duty towards the country and to the people. In the name of public service/servant they are snatching money as much as they could in a short span of time.
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