Every year from January to April we witness the government departments flooding the money allocated to them in the annual plan outlay down the drain, with very little to show for it. Especially in the last three months of very financial year, these mandarins manage to spend more than 60% of what the total allocation. Needless to say, this smacks of criminal negligence on the part of officers who are supposed to implement different projects in a time bound manner all through the year. As for the ministers, we know very well they are not really capable of doing much other than making atrocious and often indecent comments at the slightest provocation and wasting public money on decorating the ministerial bungalows. There are some good ministers in the cabinet, but they are the exceptions rather than the rule.
Then from May to August-September, we have the grand spectacle of the Government, so called socio-religious organizations and other managements and the officials playing with the future of our next generation in education arena. The shameless bargaining which made the current defence minister of India A.K.Antony wail about the callousness of the religious institutions in the state is getting more and more brazen. As usual, our ministers and officials manage to look as stupid and idiotic as ever and in the process our children and parents are subjected to the worse possible harassment especially those seeking professional education in the state.
Then we have the yearly floods in our towns and cities, every time the rain pours down. We allow the water to stagnate and spread all kinds of epidemics and more havoc. Come summer and we rue the water scarcity, which was unheard of even in the late 1980s in this state blessed with 44 rivers. Having mined out vast quantities of sand in the most unscientific manner possible, we pay for our greed as the rivers die up and are reduced to nothing more than a barren stretch of rocks and torn earth in the summer. We never care about saving the water that floods our state in the rain. As a result we have the power cuts and famine in summer.
Our roads are in a very pathetic state throughout the year (except for the two months after the nominal maintenance job). In fact our small state is pushing the record books in terms of number of accidents and accidental deaths in a calendar year. The list could go on and on and on...
Nothing changes, including our voting pattern (we keep alternating between the two political fronts – and every time the incumbent manages to antagonize us completely within the first two and a half years of its stint). What hope is there for this beautiful little state of ours?
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