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OPINION

The Level of Governance

Alif Zabr
Till the next general elections. the level of governance will continue to suffer, and remain cribbed, cabined and confined. due to sustained confrontational politics, which is intensifying rather than diminishing. The latest controversial act is the passage of the PSA-2000, which has been condemned. both politically and otherwise. The non-transparency of public representation is an elusive chase, both for the players and the outside observers.
Running the government may be confined to maintenance level, and to some minimum ad hoc actions in the essential services. The civil service will rest on routine chores, and the planning exercises will not rise above the routine reminder and review levels. There may be more opening ceremonies for claiming postmortem credit later. The donor level inputs may not Increase during this transitional period, due to lack of motivation at the other end. The general objective of the governors at this stage would be to keep the system going with minimum expenditure of time, energy- and money. This pattern of sluggishness is universal.
The political parties would be more interested in consoli-
dating their positions for the coming formal onslaught on the right to govern, or be relegated to the level of the official Opposition, which appears to have no social status in this rising society. It is difficult to settle down in a limelight, and pier-form without distraction.
There is a style for doing some specific activities. Propaganda and publicity are required before the decisionmaking stage (for public awareness), and, after the end of the commission. The intervening period is one of silence, and quiet efficiency. Our governance is so noisy, day after day. It is more satanic tugs than divine discontent, emoedded In the human species. One cannot easily escape one's DNA/RNA programming code. Developing countries have a formidable task In hand: how to chance the patterns of thinking and approach. The rest are nuts and bolts — technology.
That is the problem in the LDCs : the lack of respect for assigned public responsibilities. Wielding power,1s a glamourous preoccupation, and overuse of it Is an exciting challenge, defying control at any stage. The victims are the lowly and the honest.
There is a lot of horizontal displacement in a rising and changing society, when the vertical ascension is formally curbed. But there must be movements in a dynamic society. Impatience tempts towards diversionary paths: and intolerance reappears in the form of nagging tongues. The noise level is higher, and the silence of efficiency is disturbed Entropy rises, and remains high for decades, till the growth rate reaches the take-off point. It is an elusive chase of the hare and the hounds
Success attracts the flies of entrepreneurship: and the resulting epidemics are characteristically familiar: leading with the bank-loan-defaulters non-procession. Desires have wants; and the more the desires, the more the want — wanting in moral standard. The syndrome of systems loss is familiar, and the greatest systems loss comes from fissiparous dissipations.
The top leadership has to be flexible This period is extended Indefinitely, during all regimes, to provide walking space for the toddlers of democracy. In the tropics it is hot and humid, hence air-conditioning of polit- I leal stances Is inevitable That Is the problem: where is the natural fresh air and ventila- I tion?