Be it on account of a rapidly approaching general election, strident and vociferous criticism from the opposition benches or then on account of a rapidly growing perception amongst the urban populace about this being the weakest, most ineffectual and corrupt government ever; the Manmohan Singh led government has off late being sending out signals of having gotten it's act right at long last........
The latest in a series of initiatives to make the burgeoning bureaucracy and sarkari babus more responsive and officious towards the plight of the aam aadmi is a bill providing time bound delivery of services such as pensions, passports, caste certificates, death certificates, ration cards, tax refunds and do on and so forth.......
This draft bill which is expected to be placed before parliament later today will also contain provisions of penalising and punishing errant and truant officials with fines ranging from a minimum of Rs.250 per day and a maximum of Rs. 50,000/- in cases of repeated and chronic defaults in the timely delivery of required and necessary services.........
Entitled the "right of citizens for time-bound delivery of goods and redressal of Grievances Bill", the same is slated to be enacted under the concurrent list thereby guaranteeing the fact that the states will have no other choice apart from offering the entire gamut or range of services listed or contained in the centre's citizen charter.....
Highly placed government sources inadvertently let the cat out of the bag by acerbically remarking that this proposed bill is nothing more than a belated effort towards deflating the wind out off the anti corruption crusader Shri Anna Hazare's sails and take credit for passing a citizen friendly bill originally envisaged and drafted by Shri Anna Hazare and his bunch of dedicated followers.......
Certain provisions of the very same bill allow or empower both a state as well as a central government redressal commission to refer or bring forth before the Lokpal a case for criminal investigation or enquiry if the said commission arrives at the conclusion that there is enough evidence of corruption and deliberate delays in the timely dispensation of the above mentioned services........
One only hopes that this long overdue initiative does not go the way of other such citizen friendly initiatives that precluded it, most if not all of us are aware of the undeniable and concrete fact that these very same sarkari babus are a law unto themselves at the best of times and will certainly do their best to scuttle a bill that is likely to hit them where it hurts the most if implemented sagaciously.........
The latest in a series of initiatives to make the burgeoning bureaucracy and sarkari babus more responsive and officious towards the plight of the aam aadmi is a bill providing time bound delivery of services such as pensions, passports, caste certificates, death certificates, ration cards, tax refunds and do on and so forth.......
This draft bill which is expected to be placed before parliament later today will also contain provisions of penalising and punishing errant and truant officials with fines ranging from a minimum of Rs.250 per day and a maximum of Rs. 50,000/- in cases of repeated and chronic defaults in the timely delivery of required and necessary services.........
Entitled the "right of citizens for time-bound delivery of goods and redressal of Grievances Bill", the same is slated to be enacted under the concurrent list thereby guaranteeing the fact that the states will have no other choice apart from offering the entire gamut or range of services listed or contained in the centre's citizen charter.....
Highly placed government sources inadvertently let the cat out of the bag by acerbically remarking that this proposed bill is nothing more than a belated effort towards deflating the wind out off the anti corruption crusader Shri Anna Hazare's sails and take credit for passing a citizen friendly bill originally envisaged and drafted by Shri Anna Hazare and his bunch of dedicated followers.......
Certain provisions of the very same bill allow or empower both a state as well as a central government redressal commission to refer or bring forth before the Lokpal a case for criminal investigation or enquiry if the said commission arrives at the conclusion that there is enough evidence of corruption and deliberate delays in the timely dispensation of the above mentioned services........
One only hopes that this long overdue initiative does not go the way of other such citizen friendly initiatives that precluded it, most if not all of us are aware of the undeniable and concrete fact that these very same sarkari babus are a law unto themselves at the best of times and will certainly do their best to scuttle a bill that is likely to hit them where it hurts the most if implemented sagaciously.........
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