Improving State Functioning - Inputs on Solutions
Based on your inputs, below are the key Root Causes for the various issues related to Functioning of States in India.
Please review them and help identify solutions to these Root Causes by replying to this post. Once we
have done that we will put together a whitepaper on this subject and send it to the PMO and request it be sent to various States of India.
Thanks for your participation!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Improving the State functioning – Root Causes
1. Police try not to register FIRs so that their workload doesn’t increase
2. Law and order situation is not under control
3. A lot of authority is vested in the state Government officers
4. Corruption has become the norm. Government officers think it is their right to take bribes
5. The entire pyramid is corrupt and a share of the bribes is passed on to everyone
6. No defined KRAs for Government officers
7. Tasks which have need for the Centre and State to work hand in hand never go on smoothly due to lack of Effective Coordination Mechanism
8. Grievance redressal mechanism is next to non-existent
9. Websites of a lot of departments are either non-existent or out dated
10. Most of the State Government departments lack the vision and direction and have no assistance from Centre
11. Expertise to execute the plans is missing
12. MPs and MLAs want a say in everything that happen in their area
13. MPs and MLAs interfere in state functioning many times for personal gains/corrupt collusion.
14. Trade union laws are heavily in favour of the labour unions
15. State Government employees are not well equipped to using IT systems
16. Each decision needs to be passed by different department which leads to delay in implementation
17. Very little Innovation at State Government level
18. State Taxation system is very complicated
19. No motivation for the state employees to go above and beyond their assigned duties
20. Performance and Productivity linkage to Employee Remuneration is absent
21. There is no rational, transparent and effective transfer policies
22. Trade Unions'(particularly with political affiliations) interference in spite of security and good working conditions
23. Human intervention in handling and processing the Citizen Services with little or no use of IT
24. There are no effective systems available for ensuring the availability and accountability of the State Government Employee
25. State laws have often been seen as a transgression of central laws
26. Too much autonomy at the State Level to make decisions related to Labor, Police and several other departments with little understanding of Best Practices leads to Corruption, Law & Order and Execution failure.
27. Non-uniform land laws across the states have resulted in massive corruption in land related departments of states like Urban Development - Town and Country Planning
28. Divergent political views between the Centre and the States have been the biggest stumbling block on the way of development of states
29. There is no comprehensive and time-bound plan to bring debt-ridden states out of their economic mess more