Prioritising is not
Easy !
=====================
Monitoring is even more difficult
!
PM’s Economic Advisory Council met 2
days back and listed following 10 priority areas to work on [ Source : Economic
Times / 12 Oct ]
·
Economic Growth
·
Employment and Job Creation
·
Informal Sector and Integration
·
Fiscal Framework
·
Monetary Policy
·
Public Expenditure
·
Institutions of Economic Governance
·
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
·
Patterns of Consumption and Production
·
Social Sector
“ The entire thrust of the Council will
be on giving SPECIFIC
IMPLEMENTABLE recommendations to the PM after
consulting all stakeholder ministries “, Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the council,
said after its first meeting on Wednesday
Business Line ( 12 Oct ) adds :
Addressing the media after the meeting , Bibek Debroy
said :
“ Our entire thrust would be on IMPLEMENTABLE decisions .
Our views on the ten identified areas
would be on SPECIFIC THINGS that you can change
tomorrow ……. Five members of the EAC will take the responsibility of MONITORING the ten actionable areas “
Dear Members of
PM-EAC :
Congratulations on your approach – especially on your
emphasis on :
·
Setting SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTABLE targets
for each Ministry
·
MONITORING the actual performance against the
targeted performance
In this regard , I urge you to read my following blog
( earlier sent as email ) :
Monday, 4 September 2017
RTI
= ( Citizen’s ) Right to Information
RTP
= ( Government’s ) Right to Privacy
Yesterday
, PM Shri Modiji reshuffled his cabinet by :
· inducting 9 new faces ( considered to have “ potential for performance “ )
· getting rid of 7 old faces ( considered to have
“ poor performance “ )
· promoting 4 old faces ( appraised as having “ good performance “ )
· laterally transferred Suresh Prabhu ( believed to have
suffered “ bad luck “ )
Understandably
, we will never get to see their “ Score
Cards “ ( Privacy ? )
But
here is my guess as to how these ministers got their performance evaluated
Possibly
, Shri Modiji fixed for them SPECIFIC
MEASURABLE ACHIEMENT TARGETS , at the beginning of
their tenures , as suggested in my following blog ( sent as email on 06 DEC 2014 ) , and got some outside / impartial THIRD PARTY to evaluate their ACTUAL
ACHIEVEMENTS :
06 Dec 2014
BUDGETING
BY OBJECTIVES
Dear
Shri Jaitley ,
Come
Feb 2015 and you will present your Budget in Lok Sabha
You
will allocate thousands of crores of rupees to different ministries , for
spending during 2015-16
You
may even increase / decrease their allocations based on , to what extent ( % )
did they manage to actually " spend"
their current year's allocations
The
one and only emphasis is on " spending "
!
As
usual , no MP will ask :
"
But , what exactly did the Minister concerned achieve by spending this
money ?
What
physical / measureable targets did the Minister succeed in reaching / exceeding
, with that money ? Where / What are the OUTPUTS ?
Why
is it that no targets were set in advance, before the start of the year ?
How
come , Minister was allowed to shoot first and then draw concentric circles
around the hole afterwards ( at the end of the year ) , to claim BULL'S EYE ? "
In
private sector , shareholders / bankers do not hesitate to sack the CMD / MD /
CEO , if he fails to deliver on promised profit
Then
, why are Ministers allowed to retain
their posts ( - or even get kicked upstairs ! ), despite failing to deliver ?
Dear
Shri Jaitley :
MPs
should know that YOU cannot answer these questions , simply because , at the
time of the Budget Exercise , no
physical OUTPUTS got
fixed for each Minister
What
did get fixed , were only EXPENDITURE
TARGETS !
Simply
because MPs passed the Budget without fixing targets such as following for 31
March 2015 :
=================================
* Finance Minister
# GDP ..... 6 % ............
[ 10 % improvement ]
# CAD.......( - ) 5 % .....[ 20 % improvement ]
=================================
* Commerce Minister
# Exports........ $ 350
Billion .... [ 10 % improvement ]
# FDI..............$ 50 Billion...... [ 20
% improvement ]
=================================
* Railway Minister
# Lengths of Tracks......
125,000 Km..... [ Up by 10 % ]
# No of Passenger Trains / day..... 10,000... [ Up by 10 %
]
=================================
* Health Minister
# Chronic Hunger and Hunger
Related Deaths
8 Million / year .................................... [ Down by 20
% ]
# Under-nourished people..... 200 million..... [ Down by 10 %
]
=================================
* Social Welfare Minister
# Dowery Deaths /
year....... 8,000...... ......[ Down by 10 % ]
# People without Toilets........ 500 Million.... [ Down
by 20 % ]
=================================
* Agriculture Minister
# Farmers Suicide/
year..... .. 14,000............... [ Down by 20 % ]
# Food Grain rotting / year..... 5 Million tons..... [
Down by 20 % ]
=================================
So
on and so forth for each Minister
Some
caution / suggestions :
* Ignore the numbers given above. I could
be factually wrong
* Focus on the concept of " Management by Objectives "
* Overcome the fear of " failure to
meet the targets ".
* Overcome the fear of " being
ridiculed " !
*
Don't chop off the neck that dares to
stick out !
* Only failure is , not fixing the
targets !
* Actual vs Targeted achievements must be
measured , on an on-going
basis , by totally independent THIRD PARTY agencies
Ministers / Finance Minister and these
Agencies , must agree in
advance , how the agencies will go about " measuring " the
Actual
Achievements
The method of measurement must be transparent and well publicized
in advance
Agencies shall have no role in fixing of
Annual Targets
That is best done by the PRIME MINISTER - the CEO ,
MakeInIndia
* There must be at least 10 performance
parameters for each Minister
* Parameters themselves could be selected
/ prioritized , based on an
ONLINE PUBLIC SURVEY / OPINION POLL , from Govt web site
* If conducting such an ONLINE POLL for
the forthcoming budget is
too late , same could be done on a printed form , by current MPs /
MLAs / Rajya Sabha Members
* Results of the SURVEY / POLL , must be
published
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There
is no way to find out whether PM had actually set for his ministers , any
QUANTIFIABLE TARGETS or not
But
the citizens have only themselves to blame for failing to come out with a,
citizen’s
CHARTER OF DEMANDS
[ COD ] ,
clearly
laying down TARGETS expected
to be achieved by each and every Minister , till 2019 elections
Now
, don’t expect political parties in OPPOSITION to frame such a COD
They
are still hoping (against hope ? ) – to come back into power in 2019 , and do
not want to say / do , any foolish things to come back to haunt them !
It
is the duty of organizations such as CII –
FICCI – ASSOCHAM – ADR ( Association for Democratic Reforms ) , and various THINK TANKS , to
initiate this process
13 Oct 2017
www.hemenparekh.in
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