Thursday, May 29, 2014

CEO of My Nation

The new PM has duly started acting as a responsible CEO within first few days of running this nation:

  • Firstly, he duly created the SIT on black money - fulfilment of one of the poll promises, truly a low hanging fruit in terms of creation of a committee
  • A less publicised but equally potent act was his dictat of asking his ministers not to fill the positions with their cronies / relatives. Only DNA gave it due attention but this is a really important act which promotes meritocracy, accountability and inhibits corruption.
  • Obviously, the CEO has laid out his 10 point agenda and asked his deputies to prepare their 100-day plans. My guess is he will duly evaluate these plans and their implementation. Post the plan period and some leeway (may be 6-12 months), I am sure non-performers will be shunted out and the performers duly rewarded.
  • Education, health and infrastructure have duly got the right importance in his agenda while Mr. Jaitley has rightly started prompt communication with RBI Governor for guiding the nation towards balanced growth and controlled inflation.
Given the sharp acumen of NaMo and his astonishing ability to communicate his achievements directly to masses, I am sure that good deeds of this government will not go unnoticed by public.

I am sure these regular broadcasts are just like quarterly results for a company but the mega event (next elections) would be a well-orchestrated story of transformation for the world to see and appreciate.

I remember participating in a school debate about India becoming the next super power when Atalji had led the nation to become a nuclear power. I had mentioned that we were far from reaching there, I still feel we are far today but have the faith that we have got a leader today for taking us to the right path.

Achche din...

2 comments:

Pranav said...

Very nice piece. In terms of priority, I was impressed by emphasis on "water" (for receding table) and "sanitation" (esp open defecation). This gets lost under the broader word "infra" which we quickly construe as power and roads. The other good thing was combining key ministries where it makes sense.

Unknown said...

@Pranav - so far, quite impressed with the government. Power, coal and renewable - too have been rightly combined.