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<\/a>R.C.Acharya<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Narendra Modi is a man in a hurry ! Fired with a zeal to get India to move into a\u00a0 $ 5 trillion economy his intentions are honest and well meaning.<\/p>\n
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Aware of the numerous problems facing the nation he has come up with a plethora of initiatives to tackle them head on. \u00a0Jan Dhan Yojana was one such initiative which has been a run away success with 41.58 crores new accounts.<\/p>\n
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For this he persuaded the banks to open accounts even with \u2018zero\u2019 balance, enabling the poorest \u00a0to enjoy the Direct Benefit transfer scheme for subsidies built on the Aaadhar card platform for a fool proof system of customer verification. The 1.26 lac strong team of bank \u2018Mitras\u2019 delivering branchless banking services played a crucial role in scripting of this success story.<\/p>\n
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Ujjwal Yojna, was another initiative when more than five crore BPL (Below Poverty Line) households got cooking fuel connections for a nominal amount of Rs 1,600. Interetingly the connections were issued in the names of the woman of the household, which aimed to empower women by transferring the subsidy amount to their bank accounts and not be frittered away by menfolk.<\/p>\n
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The well meaning Swatch Bharat\u00a0 Abhiyan\u00a0 has had a limited success for lack of\u00a0 running water at every village for which he initiated the next scheme of providing taps. Not to be outdone the Finance ministry in particular \u00a0has \u00a0not missed \u00a0an opportunity to \u00a0come out with an announcement of\u00a0 some monetary scheme or other, mostly involving loosening of government\u2019s purse strings.<\/p>\n
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However like all men of action, he is impatient to get things done at a much faster pace than ever before. Suffering from an overload of\u00a0 initiatives he had faced a wall of a bureaucracy whose ages old work culture is offering \u2018passive resistance\u2019 to any change. Resultantly with no other means to\u00a0 translate his policies into action the desired\u00a0 results have not been realised within a specific time frame.<\/p>\n
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Added to this is Modi\u2019s \u00a0penchant for bringing about a change by disrupting the existing scheme of things earning \u00a0him the dubious moniker of \u2018The great disruptor\u2019. Some of these initiatives have been the brain waves of\u00a0 \u2018babus\u2019,\u00a0 \u00a0with no clue of what makes a particular\u00a0 organization tick !<\/p>\n
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Learning from the fiasco of \u2018demonetisation\u2019\u00a0 he has since<\/p>\n
then moved a little cautiously leaving initiatives in<\/p>\n
critical areas\u00a0 such as Defence and Foreign Affairs to<\/p>\n
the experts who have been in the field, such as Jayshankar an<\/p>\n
ex top bureaucrat as his Minister in MEA (Ministry of External<\/p>\n
Affairs).<\/p>\n
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Public memory is short, and \u00a0some of the things promised by Modi in various election rallies such as creating 2 crores jobs ever year and crediting\u00a0 Rs 15 lacs in every Indian citizen\u2019s\u00a0 bank account by bringing back the black money illegally stashed away in Swiss banks has been long forgotten.<\/p>\n
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His choice of advisors and personnel to man\u00a0 key posts\u00a0 has unfortunately not yielded\u00a0 the desired results.<\/p>\n
What is urgently needed\u00a0 now is for 1,000 Modis with impeccable credentials and an excellent track record of getting things done\u00a0 to man all crucial delivery points to\u00a0 ensure his policies get translated into results on the ground and not end up as mere statistics !<\/p>\n
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\u2018God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can,
\nand wisdom to know the difference.\u2019<\/p>\n
Called the The\u00a0Serenity Prayer\u00a0it was written by the American theologian\u00a0Reinhold Neibhur who lived In the early twentieht century in USA. His prayer originally asked for courage first, and specifically for changing things that must be changed, not things that simply can be changed.<\/p>\n
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Thus the prayers was slightly modified to read\u00a0 \u2018God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other\u2019.<\/p>\n
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The operative part is \u2018Wisdom\u2019 which is always\u00a0 in short\u00a0 supply. Morover unless a person is a genius and an expert with proven record in his or her specific field of work very few can claim to have such a \u2018wisdom\u2019 to know the difference \u00a0between what needs to\u00a0 be changed and what cannot be changed – or it will require too much effort and simply not worth it !<\/p>\n
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His latest push to get the \u2018big\u2019 business a foothold in the agro economy is perhaps one such intitiative needing a fresh look, and wisely dropped. Could perhaos be revived later when tempers have cooled down and its advantages fully understood and appreciated by the farmers.<\/p>\n
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R.C.Acharya,<\/p>\n
former Member, Railway Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Translating policy into results ! R.C.Acharya Narendra Modi is a man in a hurry… more