On
one aspect Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's mass contact programme is a welcome
move as the poor and needy people get their requests to Government attended.
Nevertheless, the programme is an obvious example of bureaucratic inefficacy in
the State. If officials were not
unwilling to hear the complaints of the people the paraphernalia of spending
2-3 crores for conducting mass contact programme can be out rightly
avoided. The success of mass contact
program makes officials to keep more and more files ready for the clearance of
the CM when he turns out for the programme.
Interestingly the mass contact
programme is not seen elsewhere in the world as it would send wrong message
regarding bureaucratic failure in that country. So, in other way the Ommen
Chandy government tells the world that the rule under him is topsy-turvy. With mass contact programme the Kerala Government
has turned into a Kangaroo court where the government officials are not accountable to any one.
Doing something for the common man should not be
by mass contact programme but by making
the officials responsible. Chief Minister of a State need not do all the
clerical works.
K A Solaman
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