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OPINION

Operation Clean-up

A Husnain
The DS editorial of April 4 on immediately mounting an operation clean-up campaign in the public sector should be strongly supported. The administration is deliberately going slow in trying to raise the efficiency of the offices and paper work.
There is no visible government action on deterrent punishment to contain, corruption and nepotism and trigger-liappy mastaans terrorising the society. Political mud-slinging will not solve the problems of the country. There is enough scope under the Government Service Conduct Rules and other regulations to weed out dozens of officials who are not working in public interest. Talk to the law breakers in the lan--guage they understand: thus overcoming the communication gap.
What happens is that a new regime, on coming into power, spend a few months or a couple of years in consolidating the gaddi (power base) in party interest. to be able to win the next general election. Only afterwards some though administra-
tive measures are taken to throw out the bad eggs. The present regime is no exception, except for sqqie dubious neutralisation' exercises. Some visible and popular topics are chosen for public display, and continuously blaming the past regime for all the ills of the country.
But the present situation (in fact, crisis) is not rosy for the politicians. The political control may go out of hand at any moment (invisibly, without any coup!), with the alarming break down of the control of the law and order situation (the gunkilling in the PWD office is one danger signal).
Some of the controlling tools and mechanisms have already passed into non-political hands or sectors. This dispersal and dilution of control is already working in an environ-
ment where respect lor authority has been eroded due to recur-.riifg political street, moye-qiehts-,If the politicians are not yet dismayed, let them live in their own paradise!
Look at the bureaucracy or the civil service. It is divided and polarised. Hence the delay in the movement of files, decision-making. nepotism, and passing of the buck; — all these because the loyalty is divided; giving rise to the 'sabotage' syndrome. Reason: polarisation from the traditional neutral stand, the hall mark of the civil service. How the politicians are going to solve this problem, from the bottom upwards (ref. Sharier Khan's commentary. DS April 4)? Alter a 16-year gap. the political leaders have to improve their public image. It does not come easily, based simply on charisma!
The financial and share markets are in a shambles, with the loan-default culture in open defiance. It is hoped that the SEC's tough legal stand will not resemble tourist trips. The financial leak in the SOEs (state-owned enterprises) appears to be beyond solution, due to sensitive human problems of the political kind. Wherp aie the discussions in the JS (there is nothing called mudi®fu-tions')?
The telecom, broadcasting, and the power and natural resources sectors are moving at snail's pace due to human systems loss. New heads have been attached to old bodies (institutions) — a mechanical operation on live organs! The foreign policy is divided, and never debated in the JS. The sub-regional concept is a new concept, but the United States is not going to let India enjoy the cake (the Delta Plan).
Can someone explain that there is a system in the madness. which the man-in-the-street can understand, and explain to other low-brows?