How to deal with policy paralysis?

SECRETARY GENERAL,CII


Esteemed Mr.Chandrajit Banerjee,

Greetings for New Year 2012 for all of you in CII. As premier Industry Association and top think-tank must have felt the Policy Paralysis in Govt. and Political volatility in the country. As the efficiency in Govt. (faster decision making) has bearing on the productivity of Private sector; CII must draw up a strategy to improve the external environment for the better of business and our economy. Here is my suggestion for your reference.

1. Top Bureaucracy: About 1500 Secretary level officers in Union & State Govt. and 500 district magistrate play key role in policy and execution in the country. If by some method we could influence their behavior with respect to Governance collectively then decision making process and time lag could be improved substantially and could bury the policy paralysis for good and country could return to 9-10% GDP growth sooner than later.

2. This asks for a resetting of bureaucratic mindset with a more open, creative, dynamic and growth oriented mindset that supports collaboration & innovation in Governance.

3. CII could design a program for senior bureaucrats to be able to ventilate their minds and appeal to their sensibilities, National pride, Sense of history, Philosophy of life and Spirituality.

4. For a program like this the location would remain central and the counselors very important.

5. Suggest Ananda Spa in Himalayas as venue and Sri Sri Ravishankar,
Sadhguru Jaggi Basudev and Swami Sukhabodhananda as spiritual counselor
and Mind Guru Ms. Rekha Shetty and corporate trainer Ms. Priya Kumar as organizational counselor with talks by original thinkers like
Mrs. Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo (performance with purpose), Mr. Raghuram Rajan former IMF chief Economist, Mr. Narayana Murthy former chairman of Infosys, Captain Gopinath founder of erstwhile low cost airline Air Deccan and Mr. Kishore Biyani founder of Bigbazar.

6. The program could be of three days with day one dedicated to relations building and relaxation in the spa and spiritual counseling, day two for the core training program and goal setting and day three for sharing of learning and collective commitment for a paradigm shift in Governance to catch up with growth.

7. Intuitively 2012 appears to be a great leap year and such a training program can be completed for entire lot of 2000 officers in 3 months by running two programs in each weekend at two different locations for a group of 100 officers.

8. The Idea behind the exercise is to create a collective mindset in bureaucracy(in shortest period of time) that would support innovation-excellence and enterprise in Governance. If China could grow its GDP 10 times in three decades then India should do the same in a decade or two with equity and openness.
Warm Regards,

Bikash Choudhury
Socio-Economic-Political Activist

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