this post is regarding people at top executive positions who take decisions on a whim or without proper consultations with the key stakeholders or about those stakeholders who don't try to understand the changes suggested and blatantly oppose it. I'll take up one case of each type.
The first can be specifically concerned with the MHRD's (Ministry of Human Resource Development) decision to introduce a common engineering entrance exam from the very next year. This has been on the ministry's agenda from quite a while and the first model was proposed quite a while back which faced huge criticism from all around be it IIT faculty, alumni or students. The issue regarding consideration of the board exam marks, their scaling or normalization (as there are in-numerous boards in the country) being the center of criticism. Also the stakeholders never quite felt being adequately consulted. This criticism and some new round of discussions brought in a new model which had two different levels of exams for IITs but still not much clear about the board exam issue. And yet again it is seeing huge criticism from not only IITs but NITs & IIITs as well. Where faculty are opposing (some news even went around about IITK professors not going to their Convocation to mark a sign of protest), some alumni are talking about going to Court, etc.
So my question is why can't we have proper round of discussions between all the stakeholders, try to take everyone's point of view into considerations, try to tackle all mutually agreeable problems in mutually agreeable ways and then go on to bring in this new system of so much importance (with a minimum of 1.5 million students expected to go through it every year). Why are we in such hurry to bring it in this year ? Can't we just go through the system that we follow every year once again in 2013 and in the meanwhile consult with all the stakeholders to bring it in mutually and in a proper shape ?
I understand that reaching agreements with such huge stakeholders base can be extremely difficult but the best of attempt should be made to cater to all reservations and suggestions.
The 2nd case can of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, this was taken as an executive decision by the government but had to be taken back within 10 days because of heavy opposition. But their seemed to be clear lack of discussion as to why it was introduced and what were its merits in the current economic times (where we have a Eurozone crisis slowing the whole world economy down and even the foreign investment in India seems to be going down). This particular agenda now seems to be in a limbo where their is no clearly defined way forward whether the opposition parties who were opposing are being made to understand its importance or the government realizing their reservations ?
There has also been talks about a "Policy Paralysis" around these days, where the government has not been able to push necessary reforms and take crucial decisions because of heavy opposition by opposition parties and coalition partners. But it is important to understand that those very opposing parties that are claiming that this government is in a state of policy paralysis are themselves the one who are causing it .
Again my question is simple why not collaborate, discuss various pros and cons, take everybody's suggestions and bring out the Best as everyone is supposed to have only 1 final motive i.e. betterment of the system. So with the same final goal let's work, collaborate and rise together rather than fighting like cats and dogs.
The first can be specifically concerned with the MHRD's (Ministry of Human Resource Development) decision to introduce a common engineering entrance exam from the very next year. This has been on the ministry's agenda from quite a while and the first model was proposed quite a while back which faced huge criticism from all around be it IIT faculty, alumni or students. The issue regarding consideration of the board exam marks, their scaling or normalization (as there are in-numerous boards in the country) being the center of criticism. Also the stakeholders never quite felt being adequately consulted. This criticism and some new round of discussions brought in a new model which had two different levels of exams for IITs but still not much clear about the board exam issue. And yet again it is seeing huge criticism from not only IITs but NITs & IIITs as well. Where faculty are opposing (some news even went around about IITK professors not going to their Convocation to mark a sign of protest), some alumni are talking about going to Court, etc.
So my question is why can't we have proper round of discussions between all the stakeholders, try to take everyone's point of view into considerations, try to tackle all mutually agreeable problems in mutually agreeable ways and then go on to bring in this new system of so much importance (with a minimum of 1.5 million students expected to go through it every year). Why are we in such hurry to bring it in this year ? Can't we just go through the system that we follow every year once again in 2013 and in the meanwhile consult with all the stakeholders to bring it in mutually and in a proper shape ?
I understand that reaching agreements with such huge stakeholders base can be extremely difficult but the best of attempt should be made to cater to all reservations and suggestions.
The 2nd case can of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, this was taken as an executive decision by the government but had to be taken back within 10 days because of heavy opposition. But their seemed to be clear lack of discussion as to why it was introduced and what were its merits in the current economic times (where we have a Eurozone crisis slowing the whole world economy down and even the foreign investment in India seems to be going down). This particular agenda now seems to be in a limbo where their is no clearly defined way forward whether the opposition parties who were opposing are being made to understand its importance or the government realizing their reservations ?
There has also been talks about a "Policy Paralysis" around these days, where the government has not been able to push necessary reforms and take crucial decisions because of heavy opposition by opposition parties and coalition partners. But it is important to understand that those very opposing parties that are claiming that this government is in a state of policy paralysis are themselves the one who are causing it .
Again my question is simple why not collaborate, discuss various pros and cons, take everybody's suggestions and bring out the Best as everyone is supposed to have only 1 final motive i.e. betterment of the system. So with the same final goal let's work, collaborate and rise together rather than fighting like cats and dogs.
