Further supplementary memorandum submitted
by Dr G Eswaraiah, Director (Research), Centre for Social Development,
Andhra Pradesh, India
In continuation to my earlier correspondence concerning
Indian development tools and the task of DFID investment, summarily
the donor has to face the following challenges:
1. Large budget diversion to powered leaders, govt
consultants and govt staff in terms of salaries, allowances, subsidies
to staff and leaders and family pensions. This staff includes
govt academic staff and scientists.
2. Large office budget to office building construction,
office rents, vehicles, office equipment, etc
3. So now little budget is left to people who constitute
90% of the population.
4. staff and politicians and researchers do not have
regular contacts with people/stakeholders. It is not a democratic
participation but it is a dictation by staff and politicians.
It is a remote control of staff on people that administration
proceeds.
5. Thus programmes and their reports are manipulated.
No one asked the staff and politicians periodical performance
reports
6. The civil servants, district officers, NGOs and
even researchers do not spend time in advanced libraries and get
knowledge to set right the
administration and for innovations.
7.India is the third most corrupted country in the
world.
8. The above reasons made the admn to erode growth
rates and human development. Now the country has to depend on
data manipulation, imports, debts, tax evasion, inequality and
violence, starvation, and desertification.
9. No Economic Reforms, Globalisation, Foreign investments,
periodic elections, etc cannot solve problems. That is why many
of the programmes had failed with loss of billions of rupees every
month.
May 2004
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