Cashless dream fading
If the steps taken by the central government fade away after the initial push then the real benefits will also fade away. Hence their is a requirement to identify the most critical steps taken by the government and then focusing on the same to get the desired results.
To give you an example, post demonetization there was a big push for the digital payments and people were forced to go for the same since there was no hard cash available. The challenge today is to promote the cashless transactions when there is no dearth of cash. The big players which can generate a lot of digital transactions are still with the government like railways.
I was surprised to see that the Railway officials were happily accepting large sums of money for transportation of goods in cash from the big time traders. This was not expected atleast from the Railways.
This is just one example and there may be many more such transactions by government departments.
Category: Railways
Railway Budget
Importance of railways in the progress of the nation is evident from the fact that separate railway budget is preaented in india. I don’t know if the same is done in other countries also.
I feel that the railway budget is presented every year but the projects can not be implimented in an year. Hence, there should be a 5 year budget of any new goverment and a yearly review budget. This way the success or failure of a goverment can be gauged.
I deliberarely did not talk about 10,20 or 50 years plan since in our democracy, change in government has a major change in priorites which ideally should not be. But it is the reality of todays politics.
Whats your take on the budget for 5 years and review every year. 1 year is too less a time for big issues or should I say small and real issues which take ages to be resolved.