From the Ediotr's desk - If I would be the CM - Part-1

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Manoj Padhi

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Dec 19, 2006, 11:50:29 PM12/19/06
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If I WOULD BE THE

Chief Minister                  Orissa ToDAY.NET Debate

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Many of you might be thinking, what a non-sense topic to debate this is ? Whether you will ever become a chief minister ? Well I know about myself - never. Reason , I have seen simple teacher like Hari Swain, BJD MP who happened to be my father's teacher changed. A simple doctor Ramesh Chyaupatnaik changed. I have seen editors like Bhartruhari Mahatab, Tathagat Satapathy and Samuya Ranjan Patnaik changed by forcing them shelves take a side. In politics, I have seen youth congress president Mr. Rohit Pujari, former State BJP president Mr. Jual Oram helpless even though their conscience tells otherwise. And above all our beloved CM, Naveen patnaik is also helpless. Personal principles compromised for vote. The state owned corporation chief posts have been been awarded to party workers instead of IAS officers. A popular IAS officer has been punished for doing his job. For votes Central Government Scheme Names has been changed to state government names. Congress party is forced to give the leader of opposition to the most unpopular leader of Orissa history.

What I hate most is the party cadre system in Indian democracy. Cadre - means loyal party workers to be used for party organizations. Why are they required at all. When Gandhiji used to address public gathering, were there any cadres ? Yes for social organization like RSS, VHP, NGOs, Voluntary organization, cadres are required as they have an objective and people who believe in those objective should take membership. Now these political party cadres are just like free volunteers. They are there sacrificing their usual job without any salary and waiting to get a illegal share from our tax money. The result is Naveen Patnaik's decision to replace IAS Managing Director with politicians or so called cadres. If an honest person like Naveen Patnaik forced to do this even after knowing what happened to state owned Konark TV under Mr. Kalpataru Dash (If my memory is correct), then what I can do ? It is the system, where Naveen Patnaiks , Nitish Kumars and Vajpayees are blackmailed.

Good and honest persons need to take help of Jayalalitha's , Lalu's and double standard Communists. Still I don't understand why they are called themshelves communists. Their manifesto changed to that of socialists and from pro-labour to pro-industry but they are still calling themshelves communists. To me the biggest blunder of Indian people voting Mr. V.P.Singh to power which divided the Indian society with Mandal-Kamandal supporters. Merits are continuously sacrificed. OBC creamy layers being benefited . With in 60 years of Independence, our so called leaders has taken in to such direction, after few years we don't need a Pakistan to attack to destroy us. We will see many more Hindu-Muslim riots, Upper-Lower caste riots, Traitor terrorists to do the job.

And from a free minded columnist with a good job in hand , I will not certainly go to do so many nasty jobs, which is not permitted by my conscience. I heard Chandrababu Naidu worked 16 hours a day. Made Andhra pradesh to No.3 software exporter of India. Microsoft CEO Bill Gates was so impressed that he has sent one of his senior project managers to help Naidu to build the Hyderabad IT empire. I have seen Mr. Vajpayee did his best to make India a nuclear power and india shining. But still our people rejected them. Election with 70% illiterate people, who can be easily biased with a bottle of liquor, with educated persons staying away from election is just mockery of democracy.

f this is the reward to the good and hard workings persons by public, I don't want to be such persons. Persons like Mulayam singh, Lalu yadav, Mayawati, Arjun Singh, J.B.Patnaik, Jayalalitha are still in active politics and keep doing the harm to our society and we don't need a Mussharaf to destroy our country.

This is why I am sure, will never join politics. We have inherited a British type system which was never suitable for our country and we are in a one way traffic, a path of no return.

That was my feeling about the system and I believe many of you also might agree. But another intellectual Oriya Mr. Tushar Mahapatra has different opinion. As per him

•Politicians are doing their job, leave them alone

•Media as an industry is doing fine, let it grow

•Police, bureaucrats, judiciary etc. are functioning well within their constraints

•NGOs have well-adapted to the system in their struggle for survival.

•Profit-booking and bribe-taking are ancient traits that no one can cure

This is just an example how even intellectual thinking s can be 180 degree apart.

Now coming to the big question, with in such a compromised system, with so many blackmailer ministers, party workers, Corrupt employees, always leg pulling (good work or bad work) opposition, how well a chief minister can manage his job. It is not only about doing his own job, but how well he can manage his ministers, make a full proof system to get feedback of implemented system at ground level. To oversee that the persons for which a particular scheme meant is getting the benefit or not. E.g. RS 25000/- scheme for some housing scheme, the end user have to pay a bribe of Rs. 4000/-.

There are so many tasks to do and time is also there 5 years, which as per me is a good time to implement. As some of our members commented 5 years is required for building infrastructure, to me it doesn't look convincing. It is a matter of Vision & setting priorities and goals. Details will be discussed later but if I see Nitish Kumar, he brought former foreign secretary Mr. Muchukund Dubey to overhaul the education sector of Bihar. He is sending 600 of his diary farmers for training at National Diary development board. He overhauled Railways and Lalu is enjoying the fruit. So those people who argue that Naveen Patnaik's was building a framework and not getting central projects from his own Government at centre is not a valid argument. It is not his fault either. It is just like take a BE fresher and give them the CEO post of Microsoft. We inherited a system , where the most competent person need not be leading the country. We all seen how an IAS officer punished for fighting against a BDO. With few low moral good people and high moral large corrupt gang of officers, how best the CM can perform to achieve the goal. And what is his goal ? It is not only bringing investments to state, it is just 5% of his total goals. His goal is to see making this stupid democracy work. Stupid democracy as this favors corrupt people and punish honest people.

Democracy involves dignity, diversity, dissent and development. Unless the last person can celebrate his or her sense of dignity, exercise democratic dissent and involve themselves in the process of governance and development, democracy becomes an empty rhetoric. Democracy dies where discrimination begins and the politics of exclusion takes root.

This is the real goal of a Chief minister and if he doesn't meet these goals, we need to criticize him. We are happy with his industrial achievements , but that is only 5% of his task.

(to be continued..)

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viswas tripathy

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Dec 20, 2006, 3:12:49 AM12/20/06
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Dear all,
Orissa is still to build a consensus for locating one of the proposed I.I.Ts at Berhampur which falls under the underdeveloped pocket of South Orissa, yet communication and climate wise better off than most other places. Andhra which could not succeed in getting an IIT at Hyderabad or Baser till now has finally got the nod of the central government for a Greenfield IIT at Medak. The stand of the central government that the proposed IITs would be located in underdeveloped pockets and all of them would be greenfield in nature rules out the case of upgrading the existing NIT or UCE into IIT. Further Bhubaneswar as the state capital won't make a strong case. So, we must zero in on Berhampur and start a massive struggle like the one we did for NIS at the earliest. Any delay will be fatal for the state and it would seal the relevance of  IIT demand for Orissa forever.
Warm Regards
Viswas
 
IIT for Medak
HYDERABAD, Dec. 19: Within hours of the Centre announcing an IIT for Andhra Pradesh, chief minister Mr YS Rajashekar Reddy today proposed setting up of a 21st century Gurukul to train youth in Information Technology. The IIT, the first in AP, would be located in Medak district. n SNS

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Dec 20, 2006, 6:12:06 AM12/20/06
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Dec 20, 2006, 12:17:47 PM12/20/06
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Dear All,
Rayagada or Jeypore in south Orissa or Baripada in north Orissa should be chosen.
Human resources in Cuttack, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Berhampur, Baleswar and Sambalpur are much developed and competetive.So please give top priority to Rayagada or Jeypore or Baripada.
 
Regards
Binod

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Jibanendra Mahanty

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Dec 21, 2006, 2:05:55 AM12/21/06
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Dear All,

With due respect to feelings of various readers, I would suggest that the
IIT ( for Orissa) should be located in the district of KALAHANDI.

Hope that the High-tech Institute will erase the general perception abt
Kalahandi ( which was synonym for Starvation Death).

Thanks,

J.N.Mahanty

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viswas tripathy

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Dec 21, 2006, 5:19:21 AM12/21/06
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Dear all,
IIT will never come to Orissa if we fail to take a principle stand that we will locate the IIT in x or y place and find the ways to go about it. If every one comes with a different proposal, including the state government then it all becomes chaotic and our demand will get devalued and diluted. Rajasthan wants the IIT at Kota, Andhra initially wanted it at Baser and finally had to be satisfied with Medak. Like we must take a stand and start building a consus on that. This time we might have lost the IIT race but that is not the end of the game. If three IITs can come up, if there is valid ground why a fourth can't?
 
As far as the demand for locating it in Berhampur is concerned, the prime intention was that being close to the tribal and underdeveloped hinterland and at the same time having good connectivity with rest of India, this would make a strong case and there was no cheap emotion attached to it.
 
IIT is not the only demand before the central government, Orissa needs to have Central University for which Prof. baral has done a good work so far. IIM and Research institutes like National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) or Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), which may if pursued locate their regional chapters in different cities of Orissa. I mean, we must know the art of negotiating and results will follow.
 
Thanks
Viswas

Jibanendra Mahanty <jn...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

With due respect to feelings of various readers, I would suggest that the
IIT ( for Orissa) should be located in the district of KALAHANDI.

Hope that the High-tech Institute will erase the general perception abt
Kalahandi ( which was synonym for Starvation Death).

Thanks,

J.N.Mahanty


>From: binod k mohanty
>Reply-To: Oriss...@googlegroups.com
>To: Oriss...@googlegroups.com
>Subject: OTN: Re: IIT for Orissa
>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:17:47 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Dear All,
> Rayagada or Jeypore in south Orissa or Baripada in north Orissa should be
>chosen.
> Human resources in Cuttack, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Berhampur, Baleswar and
>Sambalpur are much developed and competetive.So please give top priority to
>Rayagada or Jeypore or Baripada.
> Regards
> Binod

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Vishnu Ippili

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Dec 23, 2006, 12:59:19 AM12/23/06
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Binod,
I agree to your stand that BBSR,CTC,BAM are much developed, JPR or Rayagada
should be chosen, I do not think that will be a right choice, IIT is premeir
institute in India with certain value and credibitlity attracting people
from around the corner, if it is not located in a better place, probably the
state would get a bad name later. In addition to that IIT can not bring
expected development to a locality or a region, whoch a manufacturing or
processing unit could bring by providing infra and income.

Still I would be more than happy if it is in Jeypore, but my consciousness
does not allow somehow.

Summarily Jeypore can also be a choice, who would say no to such a thing.

Regards
Vishnu Ippili
Kalimela


>From: binod k mohanty <mbi...@yahoo.co.uk>

>Reply-To: Oriss...@googlegroups.com
>To: Oriss...@googlegroups.com
>Subject: OTN: Re: IIT for Orissa
>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:17:47 +0000 (GMT)
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