Wednesday, June 22, 2011

PBB Not Immune To GIGO

PBB means Programme-Based Budgeting while GIGO is the acronym you met when you started learning about programming or computers: Garbage In Garbage Out. PBB was supposed to help us manage public funds better and get our priorities right. I say was because we know from the audit reports that we didn't exactly make a big dent in the multi-billion rupee wastage. And because we still didn't realise that building another reservoir or sufficiently reducing leakages in our water system was a topmost priority. For five straight years.

In other words PBB will not make you any dumber than you already are and there is absolutely no need for bean-counters to raise it to the level of a God.

You can read the PBB manual used at our MOF if you haven't read some good fiction for a long time.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good u r not in parliament, they would had had heart attacks daily with ur aruguments

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Non do. Mo ti pu amenn enn defribrilater ar mwa.

akagugo said...

A-partir 2012, si nou capacité production courant pas augmenté, nou pou apross capacity limit of demand for electrical power, caractérisé par enn fluctuation voltaz lor la-ligne, ek bann coupur bien frékents. Alors, défibrilaterr mars ar courant-ça non...?

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Nu finn fer provision pu sa: nu defribrilater portatif li mars usi ar manivel.

akagugo said...

An bon. Inpé couma ça boug-la so ti radio? Pas tiginn tourné pou bizin tourné pou ki bann ki pé atann pou resuscité: kisann-la volontaire pou tourne manivelle?

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Wi, defribrilater la pu bizin... robis!!!

Ek wi nu kav retruv nu san volonter.