AGENDA FOR THE NEW PREMIER

Bikash Choudhury

Forty Five days from now a new premier would take office at South block in New Delhi after the election result were public on 16th May 2016 with a complete mandate to lift this country from gross despair and desperation. Country has already found itself an astute and market savvy central bank governor in Raghuram Rajan who has started to put bricks to strengthen our financial system and monetary policy for the larger goal of macro economic stability. But, it would be the call of new premier and his Govt. to set the direction of the economy with their proactive decisions and management of bloated bureaucracy in central govt. to meet the expectation of people. Therefore, it is interesting to speculate about the agenda of the new Prime Minister. For a change the new prime minister could choose to have a principal secretary from industry than from bureaucracy; some body like Indira Nooui, as much for symbol as for the substance. A person of Nooui’s ability could help the new prime minister to execute his agenda oblivious of bureaucratic log-jam if any; further, she has no mean global reputation for performance with purpose which could be her single most contribution to the new govt.

Further, if the new premier wish to recoup the looses of past sixty plus years in sixty plus months; then, he should know that well enough----it is impossible to deliver in such a scale alone; he would need a team of four deputy premier to help him execute his vision while giving the premier the time and space to select the Strategic Direction from time to time. That should also help to evolve a loyal and committed core team while balancing the administrative necessity of large country as ours and political expediency of personal political ambitions of his senior colleagues in the cabinet. It would be also imperative to leave behind the bitterness of hard fought general election campaign and move to build a National Consensus on the Strategic Direction for the country. It is possible to bring about a consensus on “India the Global Economic & Political Power of 21^st Century”. The new govt. and the opposition could break bread while discussing over the finer points of such a proposition. The new Govt. is going to inherit a litany of issues from a virtually defunct, dysfunctional and at times an impotent predecessor govt.; however, the new Govt. could wisely choose five to ten items for a fast drive in 1^st year that would have multiplier effect in other sectors. In my opinion ‘water’ remains central to our life and civilization and therefore it should be on top of our hit list; that should look after the conservation, augmentation and management of water that alone would have a great impact on our Agriculture & Agriculture productivity apart from Dairy, Fishery and Water transportation sectors. The other important issues could be ‘women’, ‘infrastructure’, and ‘ease of doing businesses’ and ‘connectivity in land, air and in the seas’ and ‘policing’ and many others. It is very important for the new Govt. to be straight with its people and communicate regularly what it propose to do and how? This should transform the hopes of millions of young people in India with concrete result on the ground. Hope is in the air for a better time for all of us.

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