“Yeah! lo Governor” Chits declared as Chats entered the room.
“Chumma, irdi how dare you speak to me in Hindi” Chats retorted. For the new entrants to the Plumsville table of Mango Meadows. Dr. Chitra Doraiswami goes by the common name Chits while Charulatha Kandasamy responds to Chats.
‘Dai take an appointment with Balu before he retires, I said, ‘ello Guvnor’
‘Oh! So, you have been reading Barbara Cartland again!” retorted Chats,
“What do you mean madam Sherlock?’
“Elementary Watson, ‘ello Guvnor is a classic Victorian London tradespeople slang. And dropping the ‘H’ gives it a cockney accent”
Sometimes I wonder how Chats brain files all this trivia. Anyway, with our Chai-biskut done, it was back to the work table. Yet somewhere the word
‘Governor’ nagged.
My perineal friends Merriam-Webster tell me that a Governor is a person who governs, what is governance…well a process of overseeing the direction of the government. Governance involves decision making through socio-political guidance that is to arrive at a decision involving the communities and its needs. Governance also involves the implementing the decision made.
Good governance of course would have certain parameters. That would involve citizen participation. It would mean citizens choose the right person who will implement the social requirement.
It would also involve rule of the law. That would mean independent judiciary.
The governance has to have transparency
Responsiveness… that there is an interrelationship between administration and the people. After all the government is the representation of the people, and administration ensures that the decision is implemented.
The administration would function to fulfil the need of the community, and people this makes it consensus oriented. For this to happen there should be equity and inclusion. Everyone should feel that they have a stake in it. The decisions taken and implemented also need be effective and efficient that is it should be sustainable in the big picture.
Finally, the most important factor ACCOUNTABLITY.
Why good governance… good governance would mean economic, environmental, social and political development.
Well, Tomichan Matheikal to me this would be good governance but I also know that this is utopia.
Think of this our national emblem has 4 lions each facing a different direction. The society is that frame wondering which direction should one run. Treading the unknown path is fearful, risky so we like sheep follow the person in front of us.
Our governance not just governance in most of the countries is distillation of lying and bullying. The power the government has is derived by force. Do something that government does not want then you know what it is.
We as a country choose to be sectarians. Social ethics have demised under the debris of political dirt and this has been revealed time and again. The public goods of prosperity and progression in reality are but fairy tales.
True leadership in democracy is doing what your people want for themselves and not what you want for the people.
On this note….
Ciao Guvnor.
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