Planning towards an ideal army !

An ideal army is one where everybody is a soldier by choice. The military job is short-lived and physically hazardous and many do not think it as a good career option. However, Sixth CPC- public response survey, takes account of these aspects of military job. Good Human Resource Development (HRD) practices will obviously lead us into a better knowledge and competence from our defense personal service. Taking care of their needs will be very important for the security of our country. At the same time, it will make the proposition of a military job more acceptable to common person of India.

6th CPC : Planning on Paying, or Planning on improving Citizen Services ?

On March 2008, 6th Central Pay Commission (CPC) came out with their findings and suggestions. That was the only CPC, which held after the Right to Information act (RTI) and Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM). The Government machinery on the light of this new changes, expected to perform better both in fiscal discipline and delivery mechanism. The objective of sixth CPC had a wider scope. It was to provide a plan of structural changes in Government. That could transform the Central Government Organization to a modern professional citizen friendly entity . .

The Governmental Organization hierarchy was also expected to be more flattened in order to address the need of better delivery of services to citizen .The Commission Chaired by Justice B N Sri Krishna made recommendation on deletion of the superfluous layer that exist in the level of Government , which holds back the decision making process. Obviously, release of report, brought extensive highlight by media on payment and allowance structural changes along with facilities and benefits. However, the overall purpose of the planning exercise of the sixth CPC, to provide a solution on reforming the Government into a highly professional organization, which will respond faster to the needs of Citizen throughout the Country is not that well highlighted in Media.

The success of CPC will be, to give a planning solution on the organizational structure of Government, which could address the citizen needs. Not so well highlighted, sixth Pay commission made an recommendation on Performance Related Incentives (PRI). That makes sense in present global situation. Indian economy is now closely integrated with Global economy Government have a vital talent acquisition war, against the Global Commercial Institution, and Non-Commercial institution. It has to not only the raise pay structure, but to improve the citizen service as per the services of this Global institution, that are operating in multiple nations in order to stay competitive. However, the good news is Sixth Pay Commission is a good planning move on that direction. If implemented properly it could make a highly professional and citizen service oriented Government Institution. These also will go a long way, on creating a long-term sustainability of Indian Government Institutions. We have to realize as a Nation, that even the most influential Roman republic, which existed for 1200 years, could not survive with the lack of proper institution , by an large, which could make incremental development towards Citizen services.

The Threads of thought - Global Inflation and Agricultural productivity

Few of the reasons, which are responsible for Inflation both in global and national scale, is agricultural productivity. We had couple of debates and posting in this blog ,regarding the issues of agricultural productivity. Some of things predicted at that time, is a reality now. This is indeed a test of the how the blog is performing to deliver right insights and knowledge to people.

The first post regarding agriculture productivity was in 27th February

http://joydipchakladar.blogspot.com/2008/02/outlay-or-outcome-what-is-important.html

Entitled as 'Outlay and outcome' it was a pre-Budget post which was trying to see the real condition of agricultural market

http://joydipchakladar.blogspot.com/2008/03/financial-planning-wisdom-give-man-fish.html

The real issue of not focusing in agricultural productivity came in the post of March 3rd 2007.This post was very well discussed , and there are three elaborated comment on this posting .

Issues related to the topic is further discussed when Global food crisis broke down in April 11 and April 14 this year, which has been predicted earlier while responding to the comment of Anthony Mitchell on the earlier post.

http://joydipchakladar.blogspot.com/2008/04/failing-to-plan-lead-to-rise-in-food.html

http://joydipchakladar.blogspot.com/2008/04/global-food-crisis-whats-wrong-in-our.html

Policies of neo-liberalism and globalization have to be put in a deeper scrutiny, which are the voices of the earlier post. The present inflation is an effect of the Global process as remarked by our leaders. I accept that as true. However, that cannot be the end of the discussion. If something is wrong in the global process, we have to figure out a answer. We cannot blindly accept it. We have to think creatively. Might be we should do a online brainstorming session. So, I welcome ideas from all of you.