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| Of Singapore report and JK's bureaucratic inertia | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 19: A recent report released by a Singapore based consulting firm has rated Indian bureaucracy as worst in Asia. It got the rating of 9.21 rating out of 10. India fared worst than Vietnam (rated at 8.54), Indonesia (8.37), Philippines (7.57) and China (7.11), said the report released today by Hong Kong-based Political & Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd.
Singapore remained the best with a rating of 2.25, followed by Hong Kong (3.53), Thailand (5.25) Taiwan (5.57), Japan (5.77), South Korea (5.87) and Malaysia (5.89). The report said India's inefficient bureaucracy was largely responsible for most of the biggest complaints that business executive have about the country.
The complaints included inadequate infrastructure and corruption, where officials were willing to accept under the table payments and companies were tempted to pay to overcome bureaucratic inertia and gain government favours, the report claimed.
While the position in rest of the country is not known fully, the report vindicates the people of Jammu Kashmir who have been accusing bureaucracy of corruption and inefficiency. During Farooq Abdullah's regime the city forest which formed the most important catchment area of Dal Lake was converted into a golf course. A bureaucrat while talking to newsmen during an informal talk admitted that the destruction of the forest would ultimately kill the world famous lake. When asked to do the needful to save the lake, he expressed helplessness. The project, according to him would earn the concerned bureaucrats a considerable amount of money.
Another bureaucrat who headed the administration during his regime responded to a article published in a local English daily said the government always discouraged schemes meant for environmental preservation. The bureaucrat was Dr Farooq's close friend and ran the government on his behalf. But after his retirement, he accused the administration which he headed of sabotaging projects meant for growth of the state.
It was during his tenure as Chief Secretary of the state, that the Home department issued a written order directing the jail superintendents not to honour court orders seeking release of political prisoners. The order passed in July 2000 was withdrawn after fifteen days when the Srinagar Bar Association registered protest. During the agitation the matter was brought to the notice of the bureaucrat but he rebuked the scribe who dared to seek his comment on the issue. |
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