Who is interested in Development?
A learner can be said to be interested in development. Therefore the desire to learn will motivate a person to carry out development interventions. Unfortunately in India the development is assigned to a bureacrat who think that he knows all about development. Particularly those who acquired IAS by promotion from revnue services or other state services. The learning is not there requirement. Even the persons surrounding him all along try to remind him that he knows every thing about development issues because of being / remaining in their good books for personal gains. But at what cost? At the cost of development of the nation. At the cost of the poor? At the cost of new learning. The other day I was thinking why our country is slow in development pace when we have best brains in the world?
If the country could not develop for last sixty years, one can not solely blame the bureacrats. There are intellegent learners of development in the IAS Cadre. I would blame more the persons surrounding the development collectors. These are the persons who always try to shut the doors of new learning to these development collectors. Let us rise togather & take a pledge that I will not shut the doors of larning of the development collectors for the sake of national development. Rather I will devote my enrgy to identify the problems of development make the development professionals use their brains. That will be more permanent ingratiation rather than flattery.

I need comments on this issue to ponder.

Dr S K Trivedi