Supplementary memorandum submitted by
Dr G Eswaraiah, Director (Research), Centre for Social Development,
Andhra Pradesh, India
I want to bring before you some gross weaknesses
in the DFID donor, govt staff and local people. In the earlier
e-mail I have indicated some issues by which the programmes had
failed and the money was wasted. And people were misunderstood.
The Euro project for the tribal upliftment had also
failed in the tribal Paderu, Visakhapatnam. But the project authorities
did not hear me.
Since 1947, when only 10% of the total workers (mostly
govt aided) had cornered out the budget
benefits, how can we establish equality and sustainability
in income in the remaining 90% of the unorganized workers. The
GDP and its growth rates of the Indian nation were being enjoyed
by these 10% of the organized workers.
India needs large budget for the welfare services
for poor widows, destitutes, disabled and the aged. The poor need
special medical aid to reduce deaths. The burden of family pensions
to the govt retired employees is very high, Rs 10,000 crores per
year.
Now India is being fast desertified due to population
explosion, devegetation, deforestation,
soil erosion and desertification. It needs large
funds to establish plant nursery in every village for
green ecosystem.
Income from agriculture, animal husbandry, petty
traders, artisans and forestry is decreasing since 1985. Even
though immature mortality decreased and birth control measures
increased at slow speed, the population size, low income, malnutrition,
long dry period in the year(8 months), dowry, high marriage expenses
and heavy dropouts(in schools and colleges), and staff corruption
had reversed the income of the families.
The frequency of closing of industries is very high.
But the remaining industries have no their original patents and
licenses. Most of the patents of the industries are imported since
1947. So India gets less income from them.
DFID is an earlier British ODA and it has affection
with Indian people after leaving India on 1947. But Indian civil
servants are not trained but are working like British colonial
staff.
Competitive exams and permanent jobs had heavily
corrupted the performance of the staff at their jobs. Now every
programme or admn govt staff is the first beneficiary and people
are the last beneficiaries. Staff gets pay commissions, high salaries,
DAs, increments, allowances, promotions, even travel bus passes
(which were not allowed for the poor), leaves, bribes and family
pensions. Govt treasury has become a choultry for the staff.
DFID, World Bank, Netherlands Assisted Projects,and
voluntary donors (NGOs) German EZE, Bread for the World, SIDA,
CIDA, IGSSS, CAPART, etc have to fund on 50% loan basis but not
on 100% grant basis.
Before framing projects, govt secretaries did not
consult private scientists to guide the projects and concerned
depts with written instructions to collaborate. So there is no
interdepartmental
co-ordination and universities consultancy.
The govt staff, distict collectors, civil servants,
researchers, elected politicians and NGOs did not sit in the academic
libraries for 100 hrs/year to get in contact wide literature.
The govt is getting now only one-fourth of the taxes.
When every rupee is taxed the govt can get
large taxes for programmes and avoid taxes. As people
say people's participation , then why
not staff participation ? Presently staff is making
remote control sensors to supervise programmes without spending
time with people everyday.
Now 90% population has low income and unstable income
since 1947.
So these are my suggestions for the funding agency
with 20 years experience.
April 2004
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