GOVERNANCE
AND DEVELOPMENT
DISCUSSION WITH SRI
AUROBINDO BEHERA IAS., Retd.
1- Why in spite of over 60 years of our
independence our Government record is so abysmal?
(a) Need Inspirational Leadership in
Bureaucracy.
(b) Need Human Resources Development Model
in Government like Google for efficiency and effectiveness.
(c) Change the feudalistic culture in
Government and replace with meritocracy. i) - Abolish Class-4 employees, ii) -
Training & Development for managing the skill & knowledge gap in
bureaucracy that would lead to a meritocracy culture.
(d) Empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid in
the bureaucracy that would facilitate emergence of new Ideas, new momentum and
Speed in execution.
(e) Adopt a program titled “Best
Government of the World”: Comparing performance of Bureaucracy against the
best private sector corporation in the World.
(f) 10% improvement in Government efficiency
would translate into 20% growth in ease of doing business/growth in GSDP.
(g) Aesthetic Design and Cleanliness to be
adopted in all Governance model.
(h) District Sachivalaya that looks after
all revenue, security, governance departments in the district with District
Magistrate and Superintendent of Police reporting to the Secretary of District
Sachivalaya who would have 15-20 years of experience in administration. And, do
away with RDC model.
DEVELOPMENT
800 years ago Odisha could construct Konark Temple with 12 years of surplus revenue of the State. Why
our Farmers committee suicide now?
1.800 years ago our
agricultural & agro exports used to be our surplus revenue.
2. We have to adopt
Agricultural Model for growth.
3. We have to return to
Natural/Organic Agriculture.
4. Encourage group of
villages to come together for economic activity by sponsoring
technical/managerial manpower by Government for limited period.
5. Encouraging village level
Agricultural co-operative for farming purpose.
6. Encouraging Corporate
Farming.
7. Target 40% of processing
of Agricultural produce locally to reduce the cost of food mile-logistics cost.
8.
Innovation-Excellence-Enterprise in all walks of life.
9. Adopting
Art-Music-Literature in public policy for economic growth through tourism.
10. Women empowerment through
part time jobs in strategically located production/service centers to use
available skills for economic benefits.
11. Water conservation as
economic policy.
12. Brand New Metro city in
the circumference of Chilika Lake where urban & rural sector would co-exist having
dedicated to Art-Music-Literature and Innovation-Excellence-Enterprise.
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