Justice Sanjiv Khanna is the new Chief Justice of India.
Jharkhand Phase 1 campaign ends. Elections are on 13 Nov.
Work is changing. Quickly. Workplaces. Work styles, methods, skills, tools, pace. New works. Jobholder needs to own knowledge, skills, tools, micro-infra including tech, working capital. Hybrid hours. More multi-skilled articulators, analysers, teamworkers, problem solvers, client servicers.
Starting point for a genius may be high IQ, EQ, SQ, NQ, or being a prodigy. Curiosity, creativity, persistence, seeing things differently takes them to the level of genius. Without the worry of failures. Challenging the status quo wisdom, practices. Despite obstacles. Diversity of interests, exploring multiple disciplines, areas of knowledge for making unexpected connections, connecting dots. Collaborating. Exploring new experiences, unfamiliar territories, stepping outside comfort zones. Focusing on impact, geniuses emerge, evolve. We can be geniuses. If we were labelled so earlier, can we be truly like thembe them truly soon? Can we try and be?
Political masters – Modi, Bhagavat, Shah, Rahul, NCBN et al – may take decisions, there are officials with distributed responsibilities and differential patterns of working. As executors, conscience-keepers, brains trust of the political class. 15M government servants. Some are more equal, more powerful, more responsible. From amongst officers at the apex level, in PMO, in the ministries, in the states, in CMOs, in the districts. Cabinet-rank Advisers, Secretaries, Collectors stand out. Not politically elected. These at state and union level are on the verge of retirement or with new/ extended tenures after retirement. At apex level, some stand out: PK Misra at PMO; Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser; Shaktikanta Das, RBI; TV Somanathan, Cabinet Secretary; Rahul Navin, ED; Praveen Sood, CBI; BVR Subrahmanyam, NITIA; General Anil Chauhan, CDS; Arvind Panagariya, Finance Commission. Of course, Sanjiv Khanna, CJI. There are secretaries: External affairs; Home; RD et al. A similarly knit team of officers would be in states. And collectors take charge in districts. Is this the steel frame? Or more than the steel frame? Of late, we see them being loyal to the political establishment, and bending the steel frame towards serving the political interests, by hook or crook.
Apart from Political system (legislature,, executive) and bureaucratic steel frame, officer-employee-labour unions, and their advisers, Justice system, corporates, businesses, media, academia, civil society, local governance system etc., play their part in the sarvodya-antyodaya growth, progress, development matrix. Where are the people? Where are their collectives? Enterprises? In all this. Are they marginalized, are they already in the margins? All in their name, for them. But, without them. Can we have 40% of everything that matters and concerns people at large, in their hands? Budget, plan, expenditure? Can all aggregated cumulative budgets of the country be reallocated, shared – with most of it in direct democratic local governance institutions, say 40%; followed by states, say 30%; next for across the states, say 20%; balance for national-international, 10%? Is this possible, doable? Can we also nudge 73-74 amendments, as they are, and/or modified, forward? Can we also have local self-reliant, self-sufficient budgets, in addition to direct allocations? Can we be the influencers, influencers of influencers? Mentors? Relentlessly pursuing, persisting, strategically.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing, for-with people, PVM. In N? parivartanayoga for 7L.
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