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Dear
Nitish,
Congratulations for taking the very right step
to appoint Kiran Bedi as DGP, Bihar. I am sure
you shall be giving her the full freedom to
change the perception of extremely poor state of
law and order of the state. Please do also allow
her to pick up her team of officers. I wish you
appeal and request your ministerial colleagues
and administrative officers also for not
interfering with her actions. (I have the story
of Ramashraya babu in mind.) That will be their
greatest service to the state. And without a
changed perception about its law and order
situations, you can’t expect any one to invest
in Bihar.
Nitishji –Go for Some Cutting Edge Action plan.
I have some suggestions for making a faster
improvement in the state:
1. Execute Bharat Nirman: Allocate the tasks of
co-coordinating and facilitating the works under
Central Projects such as ‘BHARAT NIRMAN’, SARV
SHIKSHA AVIYAN, and one for health care to five
of your ministers (NHDP and rural roads, rural
electrification,, irrigation, education and
knowledge center, and healthcare) with you as
chairman. Have a monthly reporting of the
progress, and publish the same on websites and
in media for the general public.
2. Restructure Education: Make English
compulsory from class I. Abolish Bihar education
boards and affiliate all schools to CBSE. Have
compulsory refresher teacher training for all,
preferably in institutes outside Bihar. Invite
established educational trusts to open public
schools in all towns and district headquarters.
Request them to adopt two existing government
schools and accommodate some students of ‘have
not’ class. Invite some educationist
entrepreneurs to open an institute to re-educate
all the unemployed graduates in lakhs in skills
and knowledge so that they can be employable.
3. Create specialized institutes that may be the
first in the country such as Indian Institute of
Non-traditional Power Generation, National
Institute of Rural Economy and Innovation,
Indian School of Rural Architecture, Grouch
Parsed Institute of Economics, and Basishth
Narayan Institute of Mathematics. Also try to
get some extension centers of IIMs, XLRIs, and
IITs in Bihar.
4. Invite entrepreneurs such as M&M, Bharati,
Godrej or Reliance to build SEZs. Declare all
organized sector industries as ‘essential
services’ for next 10 years providing all labour
reforms that have been recommended by NMCC
(National Manufacturing competitiveness council)
in its recent strategy report. Why can’t Bihar
become the first state to take care of these
recommendations demanded by all the industrial
association such as CII. Invite their Secretary
Generals such as Mitra, and Karnik for
suggestions.
5. Build in all that creates a perception-
‘Bihar is the best for investors’. Concentrate
on food processing-, milk-, vegetables-,
fruits-, silk-, handicrafts- based industries.
Vigorate the ITIs is to provide trained
manpower.
6. Use some successful projects and plans as
benchmarks- Biodiesel from Chhatisgarh, fresh
water fisheries from Haryana, poultries and
piggeries from Andhra.
7. Encourage agricultural institutes to open
some call centers to provide solutions to
farmers’ queries and have summer camps for
educating farmers. Get literature on farming
distributed free to all farmers.
8. Let the education department plan some call
centers to answer all queries of students
regarding their day-to-day problems something
like on line tuition.
These were some ideas, which I wanted to share.
May be that you shall like to pick up some of
them. Thanks.
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Dear
Nitish Kumar,
The Well Wishing Senior has listed
some wonderful things you can do to
improve Bihar. I am sure you have to
deal with a lot of headaches and
problems of which we the readers,
and possibly, the Well Wishing
Seniors, are oblivious. We tend to
do the thinking for you, without
knowing the constraints you face,
the budget you work with or the
politics you juggle. Yet, we dole
out advice like an elephant emptying
its bowels. A large load of stuff
that you either already know or
things that are impractical within
the framework of constraints you
operate in.
Bringing in Kiran Bedi (the akeli
chana) is good, but a very small
measure in our crime ridden state.
Here is my humble proposal. Kick it
around and see if you can use it.
A very small number of good, honest
people should be handpicked out of
the police force, paid well and put
in a special secret force. These
people should covertly utilize
bounty hunters (ex-army men) to
neutralize the very top criminals of
the state - a small number every
year, if needed. Expending the
police force for this task is
wasteful. This cell should be formed
to work independently of the
politics of Bihar. The targets it
chooses should be unanimously
decided by a secret panel of
affluent retired people who have
interests in the state, had
distinguished careers, are of
diverse backgrounds, and have little
to gain by being corrupt. The
targets should be renowned criminals
in the state. This has been done in
the US during the wild west days -
the kind, Bihar has now. It is
important to have a sunset
provision, or an end date on which
this force will dissolve, unless
renewed by the CM. It is the only
way you can make Bihar safe on a
budget. This is only a rough sketch.
The devil is in the details and
perfect planning is required to
prepare a force that is totally
immune to politics and corruption
and is not trigger happy. -
Aarcee - Jan. 18, 2006 |
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