GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

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.