Assessing implementation hurdles
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: November 23 2015 -
For decades, there has been a barrage of criticism from all quarters when the State Governments in the Northeast region of India failed to implement intended developmental programmes with funds from the Government of India.
However, few have actually pondered on the applicability and the feasibility of implementing certain schemes in the region.
While trying to implement any schemes, one needs to dispassionately ponder on what ails the current system or even on the very conception of implementation as the main driving force behind pushing forward developmental agenda in the Northeast States.
Apart from the armed political violence, the Northeast region is also prone to calamities of different kinds – both man made and natural.
However, one distinct marker of these States has been the frequent failure of implementing programmes and policies that have resulted in recurring financial crises.
Most of the time, the political leaders and provincial mandarins come up with ready-made explanations with splash of rhetorical answers.
The understanding to these phenomena depends on which side of the fence one sits on.
One of the ready made explanations is related to policy framework and hurdles of implementation while the other one is related to the usual cacophony of voices over supposedly inadequate funds released by a benevolent Centre.
The conclusive points based on the two understandings are often seized by the primary opposition to corner the ruling regime as one gets to witness during election times.
The opposition slams the ruling regimes in the States for having failed to prudently utilize fund allocated for the States or that the ruling party is responsible for causing underdevelopment.
Irrespective of political party affiliations and ideological leanings, both the opposition and the ruling dispensation agree on one thing – that there is a crisis.
There have been feeble attempts to explain the phenomenon of financial crisis when there is an open secret that many departments have actually failed to pick up programmes for fixing plans pertaining to infrastructural development.
The current dismal situation should not only be looked at from the set parameters of assessing the implementation or non-implementation of developmental plans under huge or little allocated funds.
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