In Dec 1979 , I had defined the role of a Committee
as follows :
“ An
anthropologist discovered existence
of 'Committees' during the Indus Valley
civilization.
While digging at "mohenjo-daro", he
unearthed a room-full of chairs and cups of tea
- "Come-meet-tea" !
( Since then civilization has made great
strides in this art of doing nothing,
by introducing coffee - it keeps you awake !)
[ source :
https://latterstolntemployee.blogspot.com/2013/07/synopsis-communication-for-productivity_30.html / 23 Dec
1979 ]
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39 years later , I just came across the following
validation of my postulate
Here is what that Parliamentary Panel did :
# RECOMMENDED
the
Niti Aayog to formulate a policy to regulate and monitor the financial
health of the
country’s PSUs
# OBSERVED
that
while CPSUs in a few sectors like mining, power, steel and petroleum &
natural gas
continue to hold a dominant market position ,
most of their counterparts in other
sectors have been continuously making losses
over the years
# CALLED FOR
optimum
utilisation of their assets to generate better earnings
# OBSERVED
that
Air India functioned under a large debt burden which became unmanageable
and
increased to gigantic proportion year after
year
# EXPRESSED
the
hope for completion of the disinvestment process early
# DESIRED
to
know the fate of debts and liabilities on the disinvestment of Air India
# CAUTIONED
the
government to analyse all the factors before taking any decision on the merger
of
two CPSUs
# OBSERVED
that
they will not be able to compete in the market unless they are given the
desired
level of independence enjoyed by their
counterparts in the private sector.
# RECOMMENDED
that
the CPSUs' Board must be sufficiently empowered to take all strategic decisions
# SAID
accountability
must be fixed for the Board or concerned ministry or department
# RECOMMENDED
that
the government should work out a uniform definition or parameters of “ strategic
“
for their classification
# RECOMMENDED
that
the performance of the subsidiaries of loss making state-owned firms
should be
thoroughly analyzed
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After reading this , it is possible that someone may file an
application under RTI Act for following details :
# Number of
government committees / panels ( Active and Passive )
# Number of Members
# Number of meetings
held and ave no attending each meeting
# TA / DA paid to the
members
# Ave time
extensions granted as against ave specified tenures
# No of reports
submitted / yet to be submitted
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Now , as far as NITI Aayog is concerned , it has been
working on the question of SICK
PSUs – and what to do with them – for quite some time and not
likely to benefit much from the above-listed “ Observations / Recommendations “
It is also possible that the functionaries of NITI Aayog had
opportunity to read :
FLOGGING
A DYING HORSE ………………[ 28 Feb 1986 ]
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21 Dec 2018
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