Common State Government Issues - Inputs on Root Causes
Below are the key issues as identified by you in the Functioning of States in India.
Please review and help identify Root Causes for these issues by responding to this post.
We will then identify Solutions separately and develop the whitepaper which will be sent to PMO and various Chief Ministers in India.
This is a very important subject as till we transform Functioning of States, most Indians will not feel the impact of Good Governance/Development approach being implemented by Government of India.
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
Improving State Functioning - Inputs on Key Issues
1. Police does not file FIRs or take action against the culprits
2. Crime rate is increasing
3. Government officers behave like they are masters of the people, not Government servants
4. Too much corruption in the state offices
5. There is no end to the inspectors unnecessarily interfering in the workings of small & medium sized companies
6. State agencies like HUDA and DHBVN to not take ownership of the tasks
7. Passport verification done by state police takes a long time
8. Revenue department (where land/flats registrations are done) is fully corrupt
9. RTO (Transport Office) is ill-equipped for issuing driving license, vehicle registration process
10. Officers in the Public Distribution System take commission before releasing the grains
11. Municipal corporation is mismanaged
12. State departments are not reachable on phone and emails are never replied to
13. State Government makes plans but no time bound action is seen
14. MLAs and MPs interfere in all the administrative functioning of Districts and Taluk
15. Many state departments are non-responsive
16. Trade unions hamper the performance of organizations
17. Lack of modern IT infrastructure
18. Extremely slow decision making. No major policy level decisions taken at state level
19. Lack of innovative solutions while dealing with local issues
20. Electricity departments at the lowest possible efficiency level
21. States do not utilize Central funds made available to them
22. States create their own business laws that are in addition to Central laws which places more hurdles on the way of doing business
23. States do not allow transparent audits of their own schemes
24. States do not heed to needs of the industry and blame the Centre for not doing much for them
25. The judicial decision making process is very slow more