Enemy of Inclusive Growth is Attitude of Mind

The top proposes & junior disposes in government. The government officers rarely look at the completion date & the available time to complete the job at their disposal. Their sole objective is to complete the job. The job specification or the quality is not assumed as their prime responsibility.They are evaluated by the parameter of deviation from the procedure rather than the outcome. Most of the time government officers are busy in protecting their job than doing some innovative job or following new pattern to do the same job. Innovation therefore can not be expected in government sector. Indirectly innovation is discouraged though drums are beaten for high degree of innovation.

Most of the consultants in Government jobs are retired government employees who were conditioned to follow the rut. After retirement suddenly they start talking of innovation. It is like a hindu talks of rituals of islam or christianity. A hindu priest is hired for the role of baptization of a chriestian. How good he will prove in his role of baptization is left on reader to judge.

Any act you do, unless you internalise the process you can not perfect the job. For 35-40 years a government servant has been busy in following the procedures & conditioning himself to follow the seniors blindly & never apply his brain for change. Suddenly he takes the incarnation of a innovative modern consultant. The result is before you. Once I met the Director General of a School of Good Governance with more than 70 years age & person of excellence  in his subject. But could not create dent in governance what to talk of good governance. For them good governance is sustaining their existance & the facilities they enjoyed earlier. They should get some thing to tell others of their age that they are still wanted in the society. But all this at what cost? We the nation are to pay the price for this attitude of inclusion of  retired knowledge bank for inclusive growth.

A person having full faith in centralised planning & conditioned as centralised planner, suddenly if  asked to get the planning on inclusive growth with participatory planning, he finds confused & tends to follow the rituals. He delays the process to such a level that the time hardly left  for table work what to talk of decentralised participatory planning. We are to face this attitude & motivate a change in attitude.

 S K Trivedi