Article - 39 Week 48 Technology vs transaction costs in indian exports:

Article - 39 Week 48 

Technology vs transaction costs in indian exports:

Exports mean a lot to our national economy. Exports too depend on the wisdom of our policies on imports. No rocket science at that. But what amounts more than rocket science is finding a way to make the transaction costs on exports & imports to their pragmatically possible lowest and therefore competitive in the global market - keeping aside the issue of inadequate infrastructure. At this point of time, countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam are ahead in processing & handling information & data on exports & imports more efficiently than India, thereby cutting their transaction costs to very low levels. And we have a system, where trailers with export containers queue up for miles with bunches of documents, cotton rags being pushed out repeatedly as expensive garments to claim duty drawback, a small typo in IGM amounts to thousands of Rupees of fines, expensive metal wastes being imported by being mixed with ordinary scrap, bribes, and inordinate delays, an on-wheel inspection on export containers being used as a ruse to wrench bribe from exports, containers meant for export on a certain vessel are carelessly stranded by JNPT incurring all kinds of penalties & being passed on to the innocent end user, ICD containers are mixed up & left to be manually hunted by the shipping lines or their surveyors, a missing of a stamp of the EGM messing up the duty drawback, a hefty bribe and a days of wait to get a steamer agency license just like the British Raj period, the declaration of cargo by a third unrelated party to the ownership of the goods & persecution of a fourth party for omission of a comma, an obscenely legitimised CHA license holding examination & certification merely to act as a channel for bribery between the holy temple of the government and the general public, and the never-ending list!

It is not that we do not have a solution to them. All we need are simple, fair, pragmatic laws and a simple & robust IT platform. We are hearing about the all glorious EDI system for nearly a decade and what we have got is a patchy ICEGATE which is in suspended slow-motion for what appears to be a perpetuity in the land of technology. If Nandan Nilekani has taken on his shoulder the responsibility of UID, don't we deserve a relatively smaller shoulder to put our house in order?

I'm not sure when we shall have fair & just laws in our shipping industry. But the waves of changes from outside shall change them one day - may be sooner than later. Coming to the question of a government initiated IT platform, that makes our business simple & transparent, is long overdue. It's a shame to see scores of people scurrying around with Floppies to the Customs or Forwarding Notes being submitted to CONCOR or coloured Forms being used for gate entries. The information is same. The same cargo, the same container, the same ship, the same shipper, and the same consignee. And we have an unthinkably complex chain of forms for many departments. If the ever increasing multiplicity and duplicity of such forms are not bad enough, the moral degradation & increase of costs on feeding & greasing along the holly corridors, push our transaction costs on exports to uncompetitive highs. You may think how does a moral degradation push a tangible cost? But the fact is moral degradation infects and clouds our honest business acumen indirectly by eroding trust & dependability from outside buyers. I believe that is a bigger price on our export competitiveness.

All we need is a cloud-platform in a very simple & user friendly interface, where the foreign shipper has to key in all he wants to ship into India before loading of the cargo itself. If the cargo class is the negative list or restricted list, the system should warn the shipper online & prevent it coming in. If accepted by the system,this should create one unique number. Then the shipping line can add further details like container number, or vessel name & voyage etc on the same unique number. The Indian customs and the consignee can start monitoring from that stage. Permission to modify the contents by the shipper and the carrier should be authorised until the landing of the cargo, with a few exceptional field. All these progresses can be extracted in their own formats by the customs, port, terminal, CONCOR, Bank, DGFT, RBI etc without any manual intervention. And all the man-power of the customs department should be put into the acts of physically checking the imported contents before delivery by matching them with the online contents. This calls for no revolutionary technology or changes in policies. All this requires is a pragmatic & simple thinking accompanied by sharp execution. Each of us need to think about this and force this wisdom on our administration.

______________________________________________________________________

Brgds

Capt Rath

Econship Marine

704:5:6 Maithili's Signets 7th Floor,
Sector 30A  Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 703.

Dir No : 6457 2316

Tel : +91 22 6457 2316 Fax: 27814294

Sales : 645723  18 to 19 Trade : 645723 29 to 31

Acc Adm Hr : 645723  20 to 23 IT : 6457 2324 

Export & Customer Service : 645723 25 to 27

www.econshipping.com + www.econarmy.blogspot.com

MSN : psrath@hotmail.com Skype : psrath

Article - 39 Week 48 Technology vs transaction costs in indian exports:

Article - 39 Week 48 

Technology vs transaction costs in indian exports:

Exports mean a lot to our national economy. Exports too depend on the wisdom of our policies on imports. No rocket science at that. But what amounts more than rocket science is finding a way to make the transaction costs on exports & imports to their pragmatically possible lowest and therefore competitive in the global market - keeping aside the issue of inadequate infrastructure. At this point of time, countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam are ahead in processing & handling information & data on exports & imports more efficiently than India, thereby cutting their transaction costs to very low levels. And we have a system, where trailers with export containers queue up for miles with bunches of documents, cotton rags being pushed out repeatedly as expensive garments to claim duty drawback, a small typo in IGM amounts to thousands of Rupees of fines, expensive metal wastes being imported by being mixed with ordinary scrap, bribes, and inordinate delays, an on-wheel inspection on export containers being used as a ruse to wrench bribe from exports, containers meant for export on a certain vessel are carelessly stranded by JNPT incurring all kinds of penalties & being passed on to the innocent end user, ICD containers are mixed up & left to be manually hunted by the shipping lines or their surveyors, a missing of a stamp of the EGM messing up the duty drawback, a hefty bribe and a days of wait to get a steamer agency license just like the British Raj period, the declaration of cargo by a third unrelated party to the ownership of the goods & persecution of a fourth party for omission of a comma, an obscenely legitimised CHA license holding examination & certification merely to act as a channel for bribery between the holy temple of the government and the general public, and the never-ending list!

It is not that we do not have a solution to them. All we need are simple, fair, pragmatic laws and a simple & robust IT platform. We are hearing about the all glorious EDI system for nearly a decade and what we have got is a patchy ICEGATE which is in suspended slow-motion for what appears to be a perpetuity in the land of technology. If Nandan Nilekani has taken on his shoulder the responsibility of UID, don't we deserve a relatively smaller shoulder to put our house in order?

I'm not sure when we shall have fair & just laws in our shipping industry. But the waves of changes from outside shall change them one day - may be sooner than later. Coming to the question of a government initiated IT platform, that makes our business simple & transparent, is long overdue. It's a shame to see scores of people scurrying around with Floppies to the Customs or Forwarding Notes being submitted to CONCOR or coloured Forms being used for gate entries. The information is same. The same cargo, the same container, the same ship, the same shipper, and the same consignee. And we have an unthinkably complex chain of forms for many departments. If the ever increasing multiplicity and duplicity of such forms are not bad enough, the moral degradation & increase of costs on feeding & greasing along the holly corridors, push our transaction costs on exports to uncompetitive highs. You may think how does a moral degradation push a tangible cost? But the fact is moral degradation infects and clouds our honest business acumen indirectly by eroding trust & dependability from outside buyers. I believe that is a bigger price on our export competitiveness.

All we need is a cloud-platform in a very simple & user friendly interface, where the foreign shipper has to key in all he wants to ship into India before loading of the cargo itself. If the cargo class is the negative list or restricted list, the system should warn the shipper online & prevent it coming in. If accepted by the system,this should create one unique number. Then the shipping line can add further details like container number, or vessel name & voyage etc on the same unique number. The Indian customs and the consignee can start monitoring from that stage. Permission to modify the contents by the shipper and the carrier should be authorised until the landing of the cargo, with a few exceptional field. All these progresses can be extracted in their own formats by the customs, port, terminal, CONCOR, Bank, DGFT, RBI etc without any manual intervention. And all the man-power of the customs department should be put into the acts of physically checking the imported contents before delivery by matching them with the online contents. This calls for no revolutionary technology or changes in policies. All this requires is a pragmatic & simple thinking accompanied by sharp execution. Each of us need to think about this and force this wisdom on our administration.

______________________________________________________________________

Brgds

Capt Rath

Econship Marine

704:5:6 Maithili's Signets 7th Floor,
Sector 30A  Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 703.

Dir No : 6457 2316

Tel : +91 22 6457 2316 Fax: 27814294

Sales : 645723  18 to 19 Trade : 645723 29 to 31

Acc Adm Hr : 645723  20 to 23 IT : 6457 2324 

Export & Customer Service : 645723 25 to 27

www.econshipping.com + www.econarmy.blogspot.com

MSN : psrath@hotmail.com Skype : psrath

Article - 39 Week 48 Technology vs transaction costs in indian exports:

Article - 39 Week 48 

Technology vs transaction costs in indian exports:

Exports mean a lot to our national economy. Exports too depend on the wisdom of our policies on imports. No rocket science at that. But what amounts more than rocket science is finding a way to make the transaction costs on exports & imports to their pragmatically possible lowest and therefore competitive in the global market - keeping aside the issue of inadequate infrastructure. At this point of time, countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam are ahead in processing & handling information & data on exports & imports more efficiently than India, thereby cutting their transaction costs to very low levels. And we have a system, where trailers with export containers queue up for miles with bunches of documents, cotton rags being pushed out repeatedly as expensive garments to claim duty drawback, a small typo in IGM amounts to thousands of Rupees of fines, expensive metal wastes being imported by being mixed with ordinary scrap, bribes, and inordinate delays, an on-wheel inspection on export containers being used as a ruse to wrench bribe from exports, containers meant for export on a certain vessel are carelessly stranded by JNPT incurring all kinds of penalties & being passed on to the innocent end user, ICD containers are mixed up & left to be manually hunted by the shipping lines or their surveyors, a missing of a stamp of the EGM messing up the duty drawback, a hefty bribe and a days of wait to get a steamer agency license just like the British Raj period, the declaration of cargo by a third unrelated party to the ownership of the goods & persecution of a fourth party for omission of a comma, an obscenely legitimised CHA license holding examination & certification merely to act as a channel for bribery between the holy temple of the government and the general public, and the never-ending list!

It is not that we do not have a solution to them. All we need are simple, fair, pragmatic laws and a simple & robust IT platform. We are hearing about the all glorious EDI system for nearly a decade and what we have got is a patchy ICEGATE which is in suspended slow-motion for what appears to be a perpetuity in the land of technology. If Nandan Nilekani has taken on his shoulder the responsibility of UID, don't we deserve a relatively smaller shoulder to put our house in order?

I'm not sure when we shall have fair & just laws in our shipping industry. But the waves of changes from outside shall change them one day - may be sooner than later. Coming to the question of a government initiated IT platform, that makes our business simple & transparent, is long overdue. It's a shame to see scores of people scurrying around with Floppies to the Customs or Forwarding Notes being submitted to CONCOR or coloured Forms being used for gate entries. The information is same. The same cargo, the same container, the same ship, the same shipper, and the same consignee. And we have an unthinkably complex chain of forms for many departments. If the ever increasing multiplicity and duplicity of such forms are not bad enough, the moral degradation & increase of costs on feeding & greasing along the holly corridors, push our transaction costs on exports to uncompetitive highs. You may think how does a moral degradation push a tangible cost? But the fact is moral degradation infects and clouds our honest business acumen indirectly by eroding trust & dependability from outside buyers. I believe that is a bigger price on our export competitiveness.

All we need is a cloud-platform in a very simple & user friendly interface, where the foreign shipper has to key in all he wants to ship into India before loading of the cargo itself. If the cargo class is the negative list or restricted list, the system should warn the shipper online & prevent it coming in. If accepted by the system,this should create one unique number. Then the shipping line can add further details like container number, or vessel name & voyage etc on the same unique number. The Indian customs and the consignee can start monitoring from that stage. Permission to modify the contents by the shipper and the carrier should be authorised until the landing of the cargo, with a few exceptional field. All these progresses can be extracted in their own formats by the customs, port, terminal, CONCOR, Bank, DGFT, RBI etc without any manual intervention. And all the man-power of the customs department should be put into the acts of physically checking the imported contents before delivery by matching them with the online contents. This calls for no revolutionary technology or changes in policies. All this requires is a pragmatic & simple thinking accompanied by sharp execution. Each of us need to think about this and force this wisdom on our administration.

______________________________________________________________________

Brgds

Capt Rath

Econship Marine

704:5:6 Maithili's Signets 7th Floor,
Sector 30A  Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 703.

Dir No : 6457 2316

Tel : +91 22 6457 2316 Fax: 27814294

Sales : 645723  18 to 19 Trade : 645723 29 to 31

Acc Adm Hr : 645723  20 to 23 IT : 6457 2324 

Export & Customer Service : 645723 25 to 27

www.econshipping.com + www.econarmy.blogspot.com

MSN : psrath@hotmail.com Skype : psrath

Article - 38 Week 47 Two way ticket to excellence:

Article - 38 Week 47 

Two way ticket to excellence:

My first day in first job. I stutter & fumble in a corner table, not knowing what to do & where to start from. The HR manager's instructions & directives leaves me even more confused & nervous. The air-conditioner growls so loud in the back ground of non-stop chatter, laughters, & crackling jokes that I desperately seek friends to join in the party to get over the tormenting noise. Nothing much happens till 11AM. Then there is sudden silence. The silence is punctuated with hushed voices sharing top secrets. I try to listen in to decipher. "The director has parked his car.", "He is in the lift", "There he comes." & so on. Then I see all stand up & almost shout in disjoined chorus - "Good Morning Sir." The director looks up at the ceiling with a stony face, glancing sideways a few times & murmuring something barely audible to the pretty looking secretary, on his leisured stride to his opulent room.

Every thing has changed in the room. All chatters come to a grinding halt. The faces of the people I share my space with tighten up to seriousness, which I never imagined was possible a few minutes back. I was told in no uncertain terms by the HR manager that I must look myself busy when the director passes by. I was clueless as to how to keep myself busy. I earnestly asked the manager to tell me my job, but to no avail. All that he could explain with any semblance of clarity was that the director would  tell me the details, when the time is right. All day I wait for the director to call me or pass by. I was not supposed to try to meet him, as per the present office protocol. Then the director leaves at 0330 PM, much to the relief of the rest of the people and leaving me more confused & unwanted than in the morning. This was the routine for a week, before I had the good fortune of meeting the director face to face. He never looked up from the pile of files he was working on while telling me what was expected of me. I was already told about this by his secretary. I was impressed with his control & authority over the people and wondered how he managed to get things done without listening to his people!

Many of us might have come across similar daunting encounters in our lives. What is important here is - the boss is bossy and gets things executed. He communicates from top to down and accepts no communication from bottom up. He is a disciplinarian and sets the goals, sets the rules, and punishes severely those who dare to step out. Some of us are used to this in our joint family structures, where the eldest is venerated in front and ridiculed on the back for such acts. The interesting part is that, it works. But in what ways? 

First of all a rigid compliance culture, turns people into acting mechanically just to satisfy the minimum basic criteria laid down. Since productivity or quality is ignored & compliance is glorified, people stop being productive, creative or quality conscious. They stop thinking how to get more things done with lesser time & effort, rather focus on being there physically for the slotted times and abiding by the rules. Have you ever noticed the ubiquitous Indian carpenter, who almost moves in slow-movie-motion in a dream sequence during work and takes times off for tea, cigarettes, or food that stretches elastically as the days pass? You wonder, what a sloth, the guy is! However, when you get inside his head, you notice that he does not get paid for his productivity or quality of his production but for his time by the contractor he works for. He is reprimanded for not being on time or not listening to the specific instructions by the contractor. The filth & shod around him or his work is no concern, as long as he has not been told about it beforehand. He does, what is told to him. Period. He gets paid for that, as others are paid in the same manner.

This is where, creativity dies its natural death. Communication from only top to down surely gets things done in a somewhat mechanical & forced way, but fails in making people think creatively. However, top to down communication is invariably accompanied by an autocratic mode of management that helps blunt the thinking as well. When communication also bubbles from down to top, corrections invariably take place. If the information flows through a chain of hierarchies to the top, it gets distorted beyond sanity, as in most government departments. The channel from bottom needs to be carefully laid & kept unclogged. That is not easy. Gossip or corridor's spicy talks find their flirtatious way up creating mayhem in team work, leading to polarised groups & sub-groups. Such polarisation can result in attrition, conflicts, lower productivity, and many other unwanted consequences. 

Fortune is at the bottom of the pyramid & can only be fished effectively if there is a two-way highway of unfettered freedom - the freedom for the information to flow up & down in the organisation. 

Brgds

Capt Rath

Econship Marine

704:5:6 Maithili's Signets 7th Floor,
Sector 30A  Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 703.

Dir No : 6457 2316

Tel : +91 22 6457 2316 Fax: 27814294

Sales : 645723  18 to 19 Trade : 645723 29 to 31

Acc Adm Hr : 645723  20 to 23 IT : 6457 2324 

Export & Customer Service : 645723 25 to 27

www.econshipping.com + www.econarmy.blogspot.com

MSN : psrath@hotmail.com Skype : psrath

Article - 38 Week 47 Two way ticket to excellence

Article - 38 Week 47 

Two way ticket to excellence:

My first day in first job. I stutter & fumble in a corner table, not knowing what to do & where to start from. The HR manager's instructions & directives leaves me even more confused & nervous. The air-conditioner growls so loud in the back ground of non-stop chatter, laughters, & crackling jokes that I desperately seek friends to join in the party to get over the tormenting noise. Nothing much happens till 11AM. Then there is sudden silence. The silence is punctuated with hushed voices sharing top secrets. I try to listen in to decipher. "The director has parked his car.", "He is in the lift", "There he comes." & so on. Then I see all stand up & almost shout in disjoined chorus - "Good Morning Sir." The director looks up at the ceiling with a stony face, glancing sideways a few times & murmuring something barely audible to the pretty looking secretary, on his leisured stride to his opulent room.

Every thing has changed in the room. All chatters come to a grinding halt. The faces of the people I share my space with tighten up to seriousness, which I never imagined was possible a few minutes back. I was told in no uncertain terms by the HR manager that I must look myself busy when the director passes by. I was clueless as to how to keep myself busy. I earnestly asked the manager to tell me my job, but to no avail. All that he could explain with any semblance of clarity was that the director would  tell me the details, when the time is right. All day I wait for the director to call me or pass by. I was not supposed to try to meet him, as per the present office protocol. Then the director leaves at 0330 PM, much to the relief of the rest of the people and leaving me more confused & unwanted than in the morning. This was the routine for a week, before I had the good fortune of meeting the director face to face. He never looked up from the pile of files he was working on while telling me what was expected of me. I was already told about this by his secretary. I was impressed with his control & authority over the people and wondered how he managed to get things done without listening to his people!

Many of us might have come across similar daunting encounters in our lives. What is important here is - the boss is bossy and gets things executed. He communicates from top to down and accepts no communication from bottom up. He is a disciplinarian and sets the goals, sets the rules, and punishes severely those who dare to step out. Some of us are used to this in our joint family structures, where the eldest is venerated in front and ridiculed on the back for such acts. The interesting part is that, it works. But in what ways? 

First of all a rigid compliance culture, turns people into acting mechanically just to satisfy the minimum basic criteria laid down. Since productivity or quality is ignored & compliance is glorified, people stop being productive, creative or quality conscious. They stop thinking how to get more things done with lesser time & effort, rather focus on being there physically for the slotted times and abiding by the rules. Have you ever noticed the ubiquitous Indian carpenter, who almost moves in slow-movie-motion in a dream sequence during work and takes times off for tea, cigarettes, or food that stretches elastically as the days pass? You wonder, what a sloth, the guy is! However, when you get inside his head, you notice that he does not get paid for his productivity or quality of his production but for his time by the contractor he works for. He is reprimanded for not being on time or not listening to the specific instructions by the contractor. The filth & shod around him or his work is no concern, as long as he has not been told about it beforehand. He does, what is told to him. Period. He gets paid for that, as others are paid in the same manner.

This is where, creativity dies its natural death. Communication from only top to down surely gets things done in a somewhat mechanical & forced way, but fails in making people think creatively. However, top to down communication is invariably accompanied by an autocratic mode of management that helps blunt the thinking as well. When communication also bubbles from down to top, corrections invariably take place. If the information flows through a chain of hierarchies to the top, it gets distorted beyond sanity, as in most government departments. The channel from bottom needs to be carefully laid & kept unclogged. That is not easy. Gossip or corridor's spicy talks find their flirtatious way up creating mayhem in team work, leading to polarised groups & sub-groups. Such polarisation can result in attrition, conflicts, lower productivity, and many other unwanted consequences. 

Fortune is at the bottom of the pyramid & can only be fished effectively if there is a two-way highway of unfettered freedom - the freedom for the information to flow up & down in the organisation. 

Brgds

Capt Rath

Econship Marine

704:5:6 Maithili's Signets 7th Floor,
Sector 30A  Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 703.

Dir No : 6457 2316

Tel : +91 22 6457 2316 Fax: 27814294

Sales : 645723  18 to 19 Trade : 645723 29 to 31

Acc Adm Hr : 645723  20 to 23 IT : 6457 2324 

Export & Customer Service : 645723 25 to 27

www.econshipping.com + www.econarmy.blogspot.com

MSN : psrath@hotmail.com Skype : psrath

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Article - 37 Week 46 Cleansing The Kingdom Of The Devil:

Article - 37 Week 46 

Cleansing The Kingdom Of The Devil:

Man is incurably addicted to the colours of the judgements of others around him. He can fight pain & hunger, but appreciation & validation from outside are some thing he can never forego - even in the most extreme situations. In other words, most of what a man does is just listening to the gallery for that magical 'wah wah', whether loud & verbal or unsaid & subtle. Even self-actualisation is just a higher form of universal comparison, where inner satiation is just a setting up of a wider pedestal of display for the accomplishments of the individual. However, there is a trick here. The man chooses his gallery. A saint wants to be a better saint among saints. A thief wants to be a better accomplished thief among thieves.

Now comes the question of decadent polity & bureaucracy. Generally speaking, from 1970 onwards, bribes & corruption have become more accepted & prevalent from top down. Therefore for the corrupt man in the holy temple of our government offices there is a gallery. The gallery of other corrupt people, who cheer the excellent performers. The gallery is not confined to any strata or class of officials or clerks, as the famous caste system of unequals in our bureaucracy. 

This is a cause, for which class ceases to exist. This is where all differences & inequalities are forgotten. A truly classless bureaucracy succouring itself on the 'gallery & being in the show' syndrome. The people from outside and the the society in general may berate & cry foul, as is happening now. Right down from the ministers of the likes of Raja & his ilk to the lift-man there is no remorse - rather a secret gallery to applaud on the sly.

The way to go forward is not to find lone culprits (Heros in their world) & punish them, symbolically. One Raja replacing another of his brethren. This is not going to work. Culling one Raja will rather martyr their ilk, because deep down they do realise that the probability of getting caught in the net and being severely penalised & defamed is abysmally low. Even after being caught, many close to to the people in power go scot free and their crimes are forgotten. The guys who really are hanged, are those who don't have the power to back them up. In such a state of affairs, the only way to stop this rut is to alter the gallery. In the absence of a gallery to cheer, the tendency to out do each other in corruption would stop. The gallery can be tweaked if the corrupts, not-so-corrupts, straights, and incorruptibles could be precisely mapped & surveyed with as much accuracy as possible. This should be done by an outside agency, having no interest in the outcomes. Then the corrupts should be placed under intensive therapy for periods ranging from 3 months to a year to cleanse their old beliefs. The not-so-corrupts could be under training & orientation programmes. The incorruptible & straights should be put at helm of affairs with new temporary staff. Then the corrupts should join back after their therapies. Even polity & judiciaries too are to be included in this nation building programme.

These may sound outlandish at this point of time and in fact are impractical to implement in all its extremity. But such measures need to be initiated even in very mild & slow evolutions to have the desired effects over a long period of time. This sensitisation & evolution is already on by some RTI activists, NGOs, and a few TRP hungry media companies. This public sensitisation would slowly tweak the gallery. If even 10% of the corrupts in every government abode (Includes bureaucracy, Polity, & Judiciary) are named & the names are put in a public website for the ease of the public , by any of the well meaning organisations - then the gallery would be effectively tweaked to usher in the desired results.

Brgds

Capt Rath

Econship Marine

704:5:6 Maithili's Signets 7th Floor,
Sector 30A  Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 703.

Dir No : 6457 2316

Tel : +91 22 6457 2316 Fax: 27814294

Sales : 645723  18 to 19 Trade : 645723 29 to 31

Acc Adm Hr : 645723  20 to 23 IT : 6457 2324 

Export & Customer Service : 645723 25 to 27

www.econshipping.com + www.econarmy.blogspot.com

MSN : psrath@hotmail.com Skype : psrath

Article - 37 Week 46 Cleansing The Kingdom Of The Devil:

Article - 37 Week 46 

Cleansing The Kingdom Of The Devil:

Man is incurably addicted to the colours of the judgements of others around him. He can fight pain & hunger, but appreciation & validation from outside are some thing he can never forego - even in the most extreme situations. In other words, most of what a man does is just listening to the gallery for that magical 'wah wah', whether loud & verbal or unsaid & subtle. Even self-actualisation is just a higher form of universal comparison, where inner satiation is just a setting up of a wider pedestal of display for the accomplishments of the individual. However, there is a trick here. The man chooses his gallery. A saint wants to be a better saint among saints. A thief wants to be a better accomplished thief among thieves.

Now comes the question of decadent polity & bureaucracy. Generally speaking, from 1970 onwards, bribes & corruption have become more accepted & prevalent from top down. Therefore for the corrupt man in the holy temple of our government offices there is a gallery. The gallery of other corrupt people, who cheer the excellent performers. The gallery is not confined to any strata or class of officials or clerks, as the famous caste system of unequals in our bureaucracy. 

This is a cause, for which class ceases to exist. This is where all differences & inequalities are forgotten. A truly classless bureaucracy succouring itself on the 'gallery & being in the show' syndrome. The people from outside and the the society in general may berate & cry foul, as is happening now. Right down from the ministers of the likes of Raja & his ilk to the lift-man there is no remorse - rather a secret gallery to applaud on the sly.

The way to go forward is not to find lone culprits (Heros in their world) & punish them, symbolically. One Raja replacing another of his brethren. This is not going to work. Culling one Raja will rather martyr their ilk, because deep down they do realise that the probability of getting caught in the net and being severely penalised & defamed is abysmally low. Even after being caught, many close to to the people in power go scot free and their crimes are forgotten. The guys who really are hanged, are those who don't have the power to back them up. In such a state of affairs, the only way to stop this rut is to alter the gallery. In the absence of a gallery to cheer, the tendency to out do each other in corruption would stop. The gallery can be tweaked if the corrupts, not-so-corrupts, straights, and incorruptibles could be precisely mapped & surveyed with as much accuracy as possible. This should be done by an outside agency, having no interest in the outcomes. Then the corrupts should be placed under intensive therapy for periods ranging from 3 months to a year to cleanse their old beliefs. The not-so-corrupts could be under training & orientation programmes. The incorruptible & straights should be put at helm of affairs with new temporary staff. Then the corrupts should join back after their therapies. Even polity & judiciaries too are to be included in this nation building programme.

These may sound outlandish at this point of time and in fact are impractical to implement in all its extremity. But such measures need to be initiated even in very mild & slow evolutions to have the desired effects over a long period of time. This sensitisation & evolution is already on by some RTI activists, NGOs, and a few TRP hungry media companies. This public sensitisation would slowly tweak the gallery. If even 10% of the corrupts in every government abode (Includes bureaucracy, Polity, & Judiciary) are named & the names are put in a public website for the ease of the public , by any of the well meaning organisations - then the gallery would be effectively tweaked to usher in the desired results.

Brgds

Capt Rath

Econship Marine

704:5:6 Maithili's Signets 7th Floor,
Sector 30A  Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 703.

Dir No : 6457 2316

Tel : +91 22 6457 2316 Fax: 27814294

Sales : 645723  18 to 19 Trade : 645723 29 to 31

Acc Adm Hr : 645723  20 to 23 IT : 6457 2324 

Export & Customer Service : 645723 25 to 27

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MSN : psrath@hotmail.com Skype : psrath