Statesman News Service
MALDA, April.30: Left Front MPs will raise the issue of the Election Commission’s “double standards” vis-a-vis the Assembly elections in West Bengal, in both Houses of Parliament, CPI-M MP and chairman of the Railway Standing Committee, Mr Basudeb Acharia, said. Addressing an interactive session at the Malda College auditorium today, Mr Acharia said: “Being a constitutional body, the EC’s role could have been much more transparent. Instead, it has hatched a conspiracy against West Bengal. We will raise this issue in both Houses of Parliament, seeking justice.” “For Assam and Tamil Nadu, the EC has been toeing a soft line but it is particularly harsh against West Bengal for reasons better known to them,” Mr Acharia said. He also criticised the recent nuclear deal between India and the USA and accused the Congress-led UPA government of ruining the country’s interests. “The UPA government has failed on many counts, such as non-implementation of labour laws in special economic zones, providing agricultural loans to farmers and so on,” he said. Mr Acharia also lambasted the Union railway minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, for increasing the fare for long-distance journes. Today’s interactive session was organised by Malda Left Front members as a part of the election campaign. Many Congress supporters also took part in the session.
Acharia’s pledge
Statesman News Service
MALDA, April.30: Chairman of the Railway Standing Committee, Mr Basudeb Acharia, today assured that he would try to solve some local problems related to the railway department.Representatives of the Malda Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce today said the problems pertained to the shifting of rake points and labourers’ duty. They said the railway authorities wanted rake clearance day and night but it would be difficult for them and the labourers to follow the system, owing to lack of infrastructure at Malda town station. Local residents submitted a deputation to Mr Acharia to seek permission from the railway authorities for the construction of a subway at Rathbari level crossing in the interest of thousands of residents who live on the western side of the railway track.Residents of Ward No 24 led by Mr Ram Prasad Ghosh told Mr Acharia that the railway authorities wanted to close the present railway gate because of a flyover.But in practice, the flyover which connects National Highway 34 to the market, offices, schools, and colleges is not use. The railway gate is more effective. #
1 comment:
Excellent blog.
Why Americam management failed and resulted into great economic recession.?
The modern (Western) management concepts of vision, leadership, motivation, excellence in work, achieving goals, giving work meaning, decision making and planning, are all well discussed and implemented but failed miserably.
The greed is a more fundamental and better explanation than the principles of economics and the impact of government policy on economic decisions. Misses the point that most people and businesses are motivated to improve their condition and that this force is always at work. Why did greed suddenly cause this meltdown? What allowed it to get out of control. There is one major difference. While Western management thought too often deals with problems at material, external and peripheral levels, the Bhagavad-Gita tackles the issues from the grass roots level of human thinking. Once the basic thinking of man is improved, it will automatically enhance the quality of his actions and their results. If businessmen wanted to rape and pillage, I mean maximize profit, you wouldn’t have to force them to loan money. Their profit motive gives them an incentive to “serve” the community. If certain communities aren’t being served that signals the presence of other forces dissuading businessmen from selling their product or service. Implicit in this argument is the belief that customers have a right to demand the services and goods provided by businesses. Of course, this idea underlies arguments for universal health care and whatever other service or good deemed to be too valuable to trust to the market.
The management philosophy emanating from the West is based on the lure of materialism and on a perennial thirst for profit, irrespective of the quality of the means adopted to achieve that goal. This phenomenon has its source in the abundant wealth of the West and so 'management by materialism' has caught the fancy of all the countries the world over, India being no exception to this trend. My country, India, has been in the forefront in importing these ideas mainly because of its centuries old indoctrination by colonial rulers, which has inculcated in us a feeling that anything Western is good and anything Indian, is inferior. Gita does not prohibit seeking money, power, comforts, health. It advocates active pursuit of one's goals without getting attached to the process and the results.
The result is that, while huge funds have been invested in building temples of modem management education, no perceptible changes are visible in the improvement of the general quality of life - although the standards of living of a few has gone up. The same old struggles in almost all sectors of the economy, criminalization of institutions, social violence, exploitation and other vices are seen deep in the body politic.
The source of the problem
The reasons for this sorry state of affairs are not far to seek. The Western idea of management centers on making the worker (and the manager) more efficient and more productive. Companies offer workers more to work more, produce more, sell more and to stick to the organization without looking for alternatives. The sole aim of extracting better and more work from the worker is to improve the bottom-line of the enterprise. The worker has become a hirable commodity, which can be used, replaced and discarded at will.
Thus, workers have been reduced to the state of a mercantile product. In such a state, it should come as no surprise to us that workers start using strikes ( gheraos) sit-ins, (dharnas) go-slows, work-to-rule etc. to get maximum benefit for themselves from the organizations. Society-at-large is damaged. Thus we reach a situation in which management and workers become separate and contradictory entities with conflicting interests. There is no common goal or understanding. This, predictably, leads to suspicion, friction, disillusion and mistrust, with managers and workers at cross purposes. The absence of human values and erosion of human touch in the organizational structure has resulted in a crisis of confidence.
Western management philosophy may have created prosperity – for some people some of the time at least - but it has failed in the aim of ensuring betterment of individual life and social welfare. It has remained by and large a soulless edifice and an oasis of plenty for a few in the midst of poor quality of life for many.
Hence, there is an urgent need to re-examine prevailing management disciplines - their objectives, scope and content. Management should be redefined to underline the development of the worker as a person, as a human being, and not as a mere wage-earner. With this changed perspective, management can become an instrument in the process of social, and indeed national, development.
Now let us re-examine some of the modern management concepts in the light of the Bhagavad-Gita which is a primer of management-by-values.
Mulavana Bhattathiri
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