IdeaSagar

With the NDA winning a majority of seats in the 2014 elections to the parliament, there is hope that a corruption-free and economic and social development oriented government will take reign. The pronouncements by Mr. Narendra Modi give such an assurance.

After ten years of scam-ridden UPA rule, merely forming a new government is not sufficient. It should start with Mr. Modi announcing values and principles that his ministers, senior bureaucrats, and all government officials and operatives will uphold.

There should be strategic objectives laid out for the nation. Following from there are strategic objectives for each branch of the government, viz., the parliament, administration, and judiciary. Each ministry should set its goals and objectives therefrom.

The next step is to develop performance standards and performance objectives for all ministers and senior administrative officers. The performance of ministers and their ministries can be judged based on their accomplishments. In the end, every government worker should have performance objectives and standards against which their performance and accomplishments will be measured and suitably rewarded. Citizens would know what kind of government they got. 

Since most ministers will be Members of Parliament, they will naturally have responsibilities to the ministries they head and to the constituents who elected them. By declaring, as part of their performance standards, what they plan to do in each area, they would be able to devote time, energy, effort, and resources to tasks appropriately.

I plan to follow this posting up with more on this topic later on.