20 September, 2008

Documentation A Casuality In Development Sector

As such documentation of records & happenings is considered to be the last priority item in any development intervention or infrastructure development programme. People are most interested in seeing the results as quickly as possible. The documentation is never considered an output. Which at later stae may prove very costly. The best example is to know how many of us have preserved the electrical drawing/map of your own house where you live or lay out of the pipe lines of the office/ house. Now take the example of a town & country planning of any big town like Bhopal, Indore, Delhi Bombay Ahmedabad Calcutta etc. Ask the Municipal Corporation to prset the map of 60 year old lay out. Chances are there that it is not available. Now you wish to replace the line or renovate the same. You do not know the exact location. You are to dig out & the understand the lay out. This will prove very costly proposition.

The lesson fro this is that the file should not be closed until drawing & lay out are not submitted. The defaulters should be punished.

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