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Started by : Muralidharan Venkataraman, Partner/Principal/VP,   07 07 2009 13:24:57 +0000
Industry : Public Sector/GovernmentFunctional Area : Productivity & Performance(Strategy & Execution)
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The gross expenditure for 2009-10 is set to cross INR 100,000 crores or 10,000,000,000,000 rupees. The govt. hopes to spend just 30% of it in Capital or Plan Expenditure. Truely, a mind-boggling sum. I made a ball-park estimate and discovered that the size of the current Budget is twice that of 2003-04. Yet, it is not unusual to read stories like Ministries, Depts and State Governments not using allocated Plan funds year after year. Similar is the case with payment of Commitment Fees to World Bank, ADB, etc., for non-utilization of Project Borrowings.

Under the circumstances, will it not make sense to create a Plan Implementation Monitoring Commission along the lines of Planning Commission? Such a Commission should be obviously under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister with the Cabinet Secretary as ex-officio Administrative Secretary. The Deputy Chairman should be an eminent and apolitical personality like Dr. M.S.Swaminathan, Dr. Abdul Kalam, Dr.Amartiya Sen, Dr. C.Rangarajan just to cite a few names, and should be vested with Cabinet Rank. We can also think of having 4 or more members of the Commission with the same eligibility criteria so that the PIMC will have teeth and can bite when needed. A sinilar structure should be replicated at State level. The stae-level PIMC should be directly accountable to the Union PIMC. The Deputy Chairman and other PIMC members should be constitutional positions so that political pressures on the incumbents can be minimised.

The PIMC should be equipped with a Secretariate with powers to direct, oversee, control and discpline the flow of Plan money along the right channels and without seepages.

The Government of the day has clearly lifted the morale up by appointing Nanadan Nilekani. Hopefully, this idea too may find favor in due course but a lot more wisdom and sagacity added before it kickstarts.

 

 
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1 Setting up a Committee for Plan Implementation Moniutoring
2 Monitoring the governments department would reduce corruption

Setting up a Committee for Plan Implementation Moniutoring

idea posted by Muralidharan Venkataraman Partner/Principal/VP,

Our former PM, late Rajiv Gandhi, made apublic statement, 20-21 years before that out of the total spend by the Govt., not more thn 10-15% reach the target. During this period, the economic growth has been astounding, the Budget Outlay must have leaped by 4-5 times but the ground reality has not changed. In terms of Literacy, Infant Mortality, Healthcare, we are way behind even countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh or Brazil - leave alone China.  Where and how do we apply the break to the governmental apathy and profligacy? Who can bell the cat?

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by Sudeep Tarafdar, Senior Consultant, IBM  | 07 08 2009 08:17:00 +0000

Mr. Muralidharan...this is a great thought and needs to be implemented, with huge allocations of money in this budget, one should also make sure that the allocated budget is utilised properly, and PIMC will do a great job such that each and every Rupee is utilised for the allocated purpose and the center and the state level PIMC is a great idea, if this is done then there will be transparency of sorts..may be not completely but to a certain extent...so a great Idea Indeed Mr. Muralidharan...

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Monitoring the governments department would reduce corruption

idea posted by Darshil CEO/MD/Director, Darshil Cotton Company

Setting up PIMC would be great to monitor the progress of the government expenditure as it is our money and it is our right to leep a check on the use of our money. When we invest in a mutual fund or a portfolio we keep a regular check on the fund's performance and the fund manager is he utilising the fund to the optimum. Similarly government is managing the citizens funds collected through different means of taxes and the utilisation of those resources should be monitored on a regular basis and the performance should be measured and indexed with a base.

The monitoring agency should measure the performance and keep the results on an open forum to the public where we can look to the performance of the government department and question if the funds are not used according to the directions. In this way the government departments would be liable to the public and the corruption can be reduced to a large extent as accountability would be transperent. 

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