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Preeti Mehra

Management professionals, like their counterparts in other walks of life, seem worried at the gigantic proportions religious intolerance, terrorism, biased governance and corruption have reached in the country.

Hence, it is no wonder that delegates to the National Conference on Public Governance organised by the Bangalore Management Association recently, urged the apex body, All India Management Association (AIMA) to immediately establish a Centre for Public Governance in New Delhi.

The `Bangalore Declaration' as it was called, recommended that both the Centre and the State Governments publish a list of 50 to 100 major projects, along with their investments and current status, every quarter. It also called for specific time limits for performance in the delivery of public services and felt that a single window approach for public services would be more effective.

While on the State level the declaration called for public transactions becoming transparent and accountable and the confiscation by the State of all ill-gotten gains, there were specific demands in regards to public officials. It felt that the performance of every public official should be judged against targets and that their pay hikes should depend on the quality and effectiveness of the work they have done. Not enough of course, but it does show that one more body of professionals is ready to stand up and be counted.

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