by Manoj Joshi in TOI on October 9, 2015
He talks about the need for the positive and aggressive role of politicians-ministers in effecting reforms in the economy and governance instead of supporting the usual style of bureaucrats in maintaining the status quo.
One should no doubt agree with this suggestion in general although a bit hard in achieving such a goal in entirety. The politicians have a weakness in believing the committed loyalty of some babus and acting on their advice blindly to the detriment of national and public interest invariably - an unfortunate development during and after the days of Indira Gandhi as PM of India.
Centralisation of power in PMO and CMOs is not necessarily a favourable development. What is wrong in decentralisation of actual powers to other elected ministers in the cabinet and taking them to task in case of deliberate mistakes and blunders. PMO is bound to suffer from omissions and commissions knowingly or unknowingly. Better to have a lean secretariat for PM and CMs in the days to come.
One is afraid, the PMO is still not effective in ensuring follow up action on the promises and commitments made by the PM so far!
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