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| C’wealth Games: chalta-hai culture delays projects |
By:
Hardeep kainth |
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STALWARTS of the organizing committee like Kalmadi and Chauhan were stung by Fennel’s chilling comments on poor preparedness for the next year’s Commonwealth Games and request to see the Prime Minister.
Politicians that they are, one could forgive them for their tongue-in-cheek reaction that all would be hunky dory for the opening.
What should make us all sit up and think is the response of a performing CM like Sheila Dixit: “Last-minute readiness is Indian culture. All will be fine by next October”. Isn’t this our real character?
Kaya-palat promises for Delhi had been made by great Kalmadi and his crew when they went to Sydney to fight our case for hosting the Games. Eleven world-class stadiums with metro-connectivity; phenomenal extension of the metro sprawl and tens of flyovers across Delhi and NOIDA to smoothen traffic; a jazzy games village to house 8,000 athletes in NOIDA and a 1-km covered rail corridor to sound-proof it; 10,000 new hotel rooms for the visitor influx etc.
All those promises had been forgotten by the time they landed back at Palam. Blue-page notes which followed got lost in red files in our easy-going please-all style. Can you believe it, responsibility was finally put in the lap of a 500-member organizing committee.
The task of building seven new stadiums entrusted to the great CPWD which has yet to finalize the design of one. The fate of road-carpeting of and pedestrian walkways along all roads in Delhi and NOIDA, dozens of flyovers etc. is no different.
M.S. Gill, Union Minister for Sports confirmed Fennel’s anguish. A special visit of the PM’s Special Secretary, TKA Nair, to the main sites reflected the Prime Minister’s concern.
Fennel’s remarks hurt the flourish with which we have been flaunting our democracy and the superiority of our growth model in facing the recent global meltdown. But if you look deep, our standard habit of late reaction has helped Dame luck.
It is time we admit that last-minute reaction, over-shot targets and shoddy quality have now become our accepted norms. We love to build fancy edifices, but their maintenance is no one’s cup of tea. Primitive systems dominate objectives. Performance and merit do not matter, seniority dominates rewards.
While skeletons of chalta-hai casualties pile up in our cupboards, we have become experts in finding alibis, excuses and scape-goats.
The monotonous frequency of MIG-21 crashes year after year and loss of their pilots could not shake the decision-makers to the urgency of replacement of obsolete maintenance rigs purchased in the sixties.
What jolted them into action were only incidents like a near-miss collision of a VIP flight at Mumbai and accidental dropping of a bomb by an air force pilot in civilian areas during a peacetime exercise.
Santhanam’s recent revelation of exaggerated claims of our thermo-nuclear capabilities in Pokhran II tests reflects the depth to which the disease has spread.
For the last few years we have been show-casing Delhi Metro as the national epitome of our construction and organizational skills. Two major accidents in quick succession during its extension in Zamroodpur three months ago followed by two derailments have punctured that lone symbol.
We must understand that detailed planning, PERT charts and meticulous execution have become global Standards in the cut-throat competition of today’s Internet-linked and instant-anywhere communication world. Six-Sigma Quality is taken for granted.
Shrinking time between order and delivery is driving the fine-tuning of systems. Delegation down the line to the lowest coupled with accountability is a sequel to shorter lead times. Performance is rewarded and laggards are dumped on the roadside.
In the backdrop of this global trend, the appointment of a Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office for monitoring all projects above Rs. 50 crore comes as a total surprise. Cure lies in correcting the system; not adding another layer of monitors. It only wastes more energy in useless paperwork and adds to costs.
It is time we forgot to live in our world of illusions and overplay our democracy card. What is driving global corporations and capital to India is its billion-strong market at the cusp of better living and lifestyles. Opportunity offered is infinite. But let us not forget that their motive is totally mercenary. What is the RPI? If we fail to add to their profits, they will not blink an eye and shift elsewhere.
But then there could also be no greater opportunity for us to propel us into the club of developed nations.
Whichever system or law which stands in the way must go. The world will not wait; it will only laugh and find a better place. Like Ratan Tata’s ultimatum to the West Bengal government on Nano, Honda’s threat to close their scooter plant in Manesar (near Gurgaon) in the face of persistent labour trouble might not be empty.
Let us go deep and find permanent solutions. The euphoria of large capital inflows should not lull us into creating an “unbalanced, unstable, uncoordinated and unsustainable” economy.
We will have to realize that our current run of welfare measures, howsoever desirable, are only tenable for a rich affluent economy, which we are not.
Cautionary bells of oncoming inflation are already being rung by the RBI Governor. What we must begin is to emulate what Japan did in the fifties and South Korea in the eighties.
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