JUDICIAL GOVERNENCE.

JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION. If the Delhi and Bihar state Elections are taken as an indication, the Central Government influence is showing a downward graph. The Government’s popularity is at its lowest ebb. Many unwanted issues like the judiciary and the Collegium system of appointment of Judges were front runners. Now the things have gone against the Government. The Judiciary has proved that it can overpower the politics in Government administration. By abolishing the Collegium system the Government wants its choice of Judges preferably from candidates believing in party ideology. The Apex Court has given them a slap on their face. The Law has honored us. The Politics within the Government has proved incompetent. They have ruined the country. They have shamed the country. They are good agitators as agitators go. And as agitators’ days have gone, they should go. Leave the country in the hands of the Judiciary and the President. Take for example the Jharkhand politics. Where no party got the majority, last year the Governor’s rule had to be imposed. The Apex Court could examine this issue. We had to approach the Supreme Court for its interpretation of the term Majority. There is no provision for power sharing and bargaining. Out of total strength of 81, the JMM with 20 seats maneuvered to gain power with total strength of 42 MLAs. All the 42 are either ministers or in charge of important Boards. This is corruption. Majority of the MLAs have criminal background. From 1947 to this date eleven Five Year Plans have spent billions of rupees. The country is still without infrastructure. The poor has gone poorer. The country can not provide basic amenities like drinking water, housing roads to its population. The country has become a no man’s land. It is the Judiciary and the President who have to shoulder the responsibility to save the country. The Judge should not be young. He should have the eye to see, smell evil, not from his soul but on account of long observation of evil in others before him. Knowledge is his guide. He need not be guided by personal experience. The judges should serve till the age of 72. Immediate action in this aspect is warranted in the interest of the country. The President is in charge of the army, election commission, Accountant General, Public Service Commission etc. She should tighten up the screws mercilessly. The computer, the internet, the cell-phone have changed our life. Things have now changed. World has changed. We have to change. With the advent of computers, methods of work has changed. Exploit the computers. They are good servants- bad masters. Though computers are installed in every office, there is no sign of reduction of staff in the offices. On the contrary it is seen that with the coming of computers parallel machinery is deployed with the result that there is duplication of information in almost all the fields. Administrative expenditure needs to be slashed to a half. The Government may form guidelines that certain computerized work need not be kept in files. There are so many Directorates and Departments of Principal Commissioners who simply transmit the lower level information to the Ministries. With the coming of the computers and easy access to the Ministry directly by the lower formations, such intermediary departments need to be winded up. Government has to encourage the VRS scheme and take other harsh measures to reduce the staff to a half of the present strength. There is no need of clerical staff. Only computer literate staff is required. The Government has to take effective steps and tighten up the things before it is late.