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Arvind Kejriwal’s latest high-profile recruit: activist Medha Patkar

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muActivist Medha Patkar has become the latest high-profile recruit of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP founded by Arvind Kejriwal. “It’s time for a new wave in Indian politics,” she said today.

Ms Patkar, 59, is known for her work in the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a movement that is fighting the construction of large dams on the Narmada river in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

Founded a year ago by Mr Kejriwal, AAP lassoed an outsized victory in the recent Delhi elections. Mr Kejriwal is now the Chief Minister of the capital.

His party says it will fight to inoculate politics against corruption and to expunge the VIP culture that has law-makers flaunting their privileges and status symbols, but offering little accountability or availability to the public.

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  1. Transferring Cancer ?

    Arvind Kejriwal’s order to transfer 800 officers of Delhi Jal Board to other departments , is like trying to cure cancer by transferring it from one part of the body to another part !

    At worst , these officers will end-up spreading their corrupt practices to those other departments

    At best , those other departments now will have , twice to thrice the number of tables to push the files around !

    Their current departmental efficiency / productivity of 10 % will further go down to 5 % !

    Perhaps , in the short term , Arvind had only this alternative to send out a message

    What should he do next ?

    Here is a suggestion :

    > Invite National Productivity Council to carry out TIME & MOTION studies
    and WORK-SAMPLING studies , to set STANDARD TIMES for all activities
    / processes

    > Get IIT -Delhi , to monitor the individual and departmental efficiencies
    ( Ratio of Actual Times / Standard times )

    > Publish findings on Delhi Government web site

    > Get IIM-A , to develop / install , a Performance Appraisal System based
    on ANNUAL OBJECTIVE SETTING exercise for each officer
    ( MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVES )

    > Incorporate , elements of ” Self Appraisal ” / ” Superior Appraisal ” and
    ” Peer Appraisal ”

    > Serve ” Show Cause Notice ” to those officers whose productivity is less
    than 80 % of the standard in any quarter

    > In Service Rules incorporate a clause to terminate the service of a officer
    whose productivity falls below 50 % for two consecutive quarters

    Over the next 12 months , this exercise should be carried out for all the departments of Delhi government

    This is a pre-requisite to the introduction of Guaranteed Delivery of Services Bill

    DEAR ARVIND

    Cancer cannot be cured by transferring it from one part of the body to another

    The affected part must be amputated !

    * hemen parekh ( 14 Jan 2014 / Mumbai )

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