Sunday, 11 January 2015

Sujavna 2015 (2)

Sunday 11, 2015 1630 hrs

Will Indians take serious notice that there is a wide slip between the cup and the lip!

A lot of things are going good for India and many Indians, and therefore it is easy to miss the yawning gap that defines the wonderful intentions of the government and the ground realities of how these intentions will translate into a better India for Indians and for the world at large.

Think about it – the Prime Minister exhorts citizens and corporate India to participate and deliver success in campaigns such as Make In India, Swachh Bharat (Clean India), a Digital India, or even Adopt a Village by each Member of Parliament. It is true that a visionary government and its leader need time to show results, and I am most willing to wait, but I am afraid the wait will end up frustrating me and many Indians like me, because I see these campaigns are (a) still lacking “local champions” at many of the key implementation organizations (read ministries and government departments) and (b) are not based on a participative-risk-reward management framework for local stakeholders.

The need to include both the- above-mentioned approaches will require innovations that change these campaigns from being government schemes to projects that excite entrepreneurs, investors and local government departments to sign up for projects that can be appropriately  rewarded for objectively-certified successes.

And this brings us to the core theme of this blog – the need for lateral thinking! Any body listening?


Happy to hear your views. Wishing you all a great week ahead.

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