12-03-2003, 07:54 PM
This is a thread that will explore the various ways Indian governance can improve so as to provide better value to the people.
In this regard, I propose the following
1. More courts, faster justice
2. Higher pay for Police and Administrative services to discourage corruption. The (initial ) reduction in man-power will have to be supported by more people's involvement in such services.
3. Extremely high pay for the elected politicians.
4. Decentralizing governance, a Zilla/district as a fundamental unit of the Indian federation
5. Central government only handles External security, foriegn policy, common law.
Administration is no different from industry, an efficient administrator must be paid as much as a Industry CEO with similiar responsibility gets paid. The police and judges should be elected by the people. The people should be able to recall them easily if they do not deliver.
As representatives of the people, the elected politicians should be paid by the people who elect them. Obviously the richer the district the more competition for getting elected from there. The poorer the district -> there is an incentive to develop the district and make it richer.
States should not be doled out money on the basis of their populations, instead all money should go to a confederation of central banks of India and should be disbursed as a loan to various entities (state govt., private companies etc etc). The idea is that money put into a state must be returned with interest. obviously then only projects that good return on investment shall pass. The Entities that borrow ,money shall be a state govt. who will be responsible. Inshort there should be no Political parties but political companies.
Of course some of these ideas are not feasible and may create problems. But there is convincing evidence that the current political system of India cannot deliver peace and prosperity to its people.
In this regard, I propose the following
1. More courts, faster justice
2. Higher pay for Police and Administrative services to discourage corruption. The (initial ) reduction in man-power will have to be supported by more people's involvement in such services.
3. Extremely high pay for the elected politicians.
4. Decentralizing governance, a Zilla/district as a fundamental unit of the Indian federation
5. Central government only handles External security, foriegn policy, common law.
Administration is no different from industry, an efficient administrator must be paid as much as a Industry CEO with similiar responsibility gets paid. The police and judges should be elected by the people. The people should be able to recall them easily if they do not deliver.
As representatives of the people, the elected politicians should be paid by the people who elect them. Obviously the richer the district the more competition for getting elected from there. The poorer the district -> there is an incentive to develop the district and make it richer.
States should not be doled out money on the basis of their populations, instead all money should go to a confederation of central banks of India and should be disbursed as a loan to various entities (state govt., private companies etc etc). The idea is that money put into a state must be returned with interest. obviously then only projects that good return on investment shall pass. The Entities that borrow ,money shall be a state govt. who will be responsible. Inshort there should be no Political parties but political companies.
Of course some of these ideas are not feasible and may create problems. But there is convincing evidence that the current political system of India cannot deliver peace and prosperity to its people.