Come – Meet – Tea ?
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In
Dec 1979 , I had
defined the role of a Committee as follows :
“ An anthropologist
discovered existence of 'Committees'
during the Indus Valley civilization.
While digging at "mohenjo-daro", he
unearthed a room-full of chairs and cups of tea
- "Come-meet-tea"
!
( Since then civilization
has made great strides in this art
of doing nothing, by introducing coffee - it keeps
you awake !)
[
source : https://latterstolntemployee.blogspot.com/2013/07/synopsis-communication-for-productivity_30.html
/ 23
Dec 1979 ]
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39
years later , I just came across the following validation of my postulate
Here
is what that Parliamentary Panel did :
#
RECOMMENDED
the Niti Aayog to
formulate a policy to regulate and monitor the financial health of the
country’s PSUs
#
OBSERVED
that while CPSUs in a few
sectors like mining, power, steel and petroleum & natural gas
continue to hold a dominant
market position , most of their counterparts in other
sectors have been continuously
making losses over the years
#
CALLED FOR
optimum utilisation of
their assets to generate better earnings
#
OBSERVED
that Air India functioned
under a large debt burden which became unmanageable and
increased to gigantic
proportion year after year
# EXPRESSED
the hope for completion
of the disinvestment process early
# DESIRED
to know the fate of debts
and liabilities on the disinvestment of Air India
# CAUTIONED
the government to analyse
all the factors before taking any decision on the merger of
two CPSUs
# OBSERVED
that they will not
be able to compete in the market unless they are given the desired
level of independence
enjoyed by their counterparts in the private sector.
# RECOMMENDED
that the CPSUs'
Board must be sufficiently empowered to take all strategic decisions
# SAID
accountability must
be fixed for the Board or concerned ministry or department
# RECOMMENDED
that the government
should work out a uniform definition or parameters of “ strategic “
for their classification
# RECOMMENDED
that the
performance of the subsidiaries of loss making state-owned firms should be
thoroughly analyzed
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After reading this , it is possible that someone may file an
application under RTI Act for following details :
# Number of government committees / panels ( Active and
Passive )
# Number of Members
# Number of meetings held and ave no attending each meeting
# TA / DA paid to the members
# Ave time extensions granted as against ave specified
tenures
# No of reports submitted / yet to be submitted
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Now , as far as NITI Aayog is concerned , it has been working on
the question of SICK PSUs – and
what to do with them – for quite some time and not likely to benefit much from
the above-listed “ Observations / Recommendations “
It is also possible that the functionaries of NITI Aayog had
opportunity to read :
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21 Dec 2018
www.hemenparekh.in
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