Implementation crisis and the fear within
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: February 06, 2014 -
Apart from the protracted armed political violence, the States in Northeast region are often prone to calamities of different kinds.
One near permanent marker of these States has been the frequent failure of implementing programmes and policies and recurring financial crises. These crises have been often accompanied by inconsequential ready-made explanations or sometimes riddled silence to the crises.
There are two normative understandings to the phenomenon depending on which side of the fence one sits on.
The first one is related to policy framework and implementation while the second 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.
The opposition fire cannonballs of criticism alleging that the Governments have failed to prudently utilize fund allocated for the States or that the ruling party is responsible for all the mess strewn around.
Irrespective of political party affiliations and ideological leanings, both the opposition and the ruling dispensation agree on one thing – that there is a crisis.
Closer home, there has 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.
For decades, there has been barrage of criticism from all quarters when it comes to failure of the State Governments for their failure to implement intended developmental programmes.
However, few have actually pondered on the applicability of governance and the feasibility of implementation.
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 State.
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