Like Ramgoolam has promised yesterday if he wins the May 5 polls. Well for the same reasons it was ridiculous to brutally disempower people with inequality-creating and opportunities-reducing policies from morning till evening and then come up with a funny contraption called the empowerment fund.
If your policies are right you're not going to leave a lot of people by the wayside.
Creating a ministry of social integration would be a mis-guided move. First of all, the idea itself vindicates the thesis that a lot of people have been left behind in the development process. Now to remedy the problem, government will create a new ministry focused on ending exclusion. How can one ministry end poverty? Poverty is the result of the combined policy choices made by the government, be it in fiscal policy, employment policy, social security or health. Taking a piece-meal approach to poverty reduction would not help. We need a holistic approach to the problem.
ReplyDeleteGovernance is based on the implementation of some basic principles which permeates all policies and decision-making. These principles vary in accordance with socio-economic models chosen. Things like controlling inflation, jobs creation, provision and maintenance of social related services, maintaining and improving the quality of life of the people etc. should normally constitute the Key Result Areas of Government. It is unbelievable that social integration should not be among its KRAs.
ReplyDeleteGive a beggar a meal today, he'll come back for more tomorrow. Learn him to fish, he'll become a fisherman.
ReplyDeleteMais selman, dans Dodoland, couma to faire developpment pres ar borlamer self-appointed péssèrr faire chantage ar toi...
@ akagugo
ReplyDeleteSocial integration starts with education and ends with education. Training and learning are all part of education. The Ministry for Social Integration will make no sense and will become yet another bureaucratic tool if the education policies remain flawed at its base. People will become poorer and poorer and more competence will be recruited from abroad.
deja enna asser beacoup comme ca, parfois mo penser ki faire finne faire empowerment fund etc....darga et tout ca zot redundant. ki faire ti besoin ca, penan ministere ki ti capave occupe tout ca?
ReplyDeleteInvent nuvo ministere ek tou kalite tit ronflan pu touye touye letan. Pa blie get sa.
ReplyDeleteHookoom was made Minister of Civil Service AND Adm Reforms. What is his bilan? ZERO.
ReplyDeleteTang became Minister of Consumer Protection AND (is it?) Citizens Charter. Bilan? ZERO
Dame Seebun was Minister of Women's Rights AND Family Protection. Women are still looking for seats in political parties. Women's Rights? Family protection? Do you feel protected? Bilan? Zero.
We can go on with naming ministries with stuffy names?
Simple question: sale/purchase of a vehicle - NTA (at Cassis), then Registrar General (City centre), then again NTA (Cassis. Who said we are in 2010?
To obtain a licence/permit?
To obtain a doc at Registrar of Assns: Request and take claim at Registry of Assns (Deschartre St), then pay at Ministry of Labour (1 km away, Barracks St), then back to Registry (Deschartre St)!
Where are the one-stop-shops?
Will creating ministries or changing their names into stuffy ones solve the problems of lepep?
New chapter in this farce is the Love Bridge.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the source of that persistence? Tunnel vision?
ReplyDeleteCould it be the same source as competitive depreciation and rent-seeking behaviour?
ReplyDeleteEyewash to plunder the few remaining beaches?
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