July 30, 2012
Permandu, what can you really DO?
Last updated upon twenty-nine Jul 2012 08:50pm
by R. Nadeswaran
IT WOULD be scornful to our readers if you give a compendium meaning of a word "transformation". But if you have been one of those who keep a compendium upon your breakfast table, a discerning glance will tell you that a key operative word in a clarification will be "change".
"Change" is not a four-letter word as well as it has been used liberally as well as literally over a past few months, especially in tie to a imminent ubiquitous election.
We will not debate a politicians upon their understand of a word and
instead residence issues associated to a Government Transformation Programme (GTP) as well as a movers as well as initiators Performance Management as well as Delivery Unit (Pemandu) to insist a meaning of a word as well as a implications.
In this column last Monday, among others, an critical subject was raised: "Are government agencies listening as well as implementing policies as well as discipline promulgated by Pemandu?" Today, you have to poise yet a more critical question: "Does Pemandu listen to a voices of reason as well as residence a most shortcomings in a complement as well as respond immediately?"
One major complaint from a public is that government departments as well as agencies do not residence issues lifted as well as instead, select to procrastinate, hoping that a problem! s will g o away. But when Pemandu, being a forebearer of change, does not rehearse what it preaches shift in a mindset as well as meditative of people who run these departments as well as agencies then Joe Public should not be faulted for final that Pemandu's existence is a waste of taxpayers' money.
It's not that Pemandu does not have a resources to undertake a elementary task of responding to reports in a media. What's so difficult in telling a universe a nitty-gritty of what it claims to have achieved? The issues that were lifted do not come underneath a ambit of a Official Secrets Act nor do they need extensive research for a answers. Besides, at a beck as well as call have been professionals as well as experts, public relations as well as advertising agencies, upon whom it has spent millions over a past dual years.
To make it elementary for a Pemandu bosses to understand, let's have answers to these questions:
- Does Pemandu recognize that crime has permeated most areas of society as well as public notice is that nothing gets done without greasing someone's palm?
- What can it do to safeguard that government departments as well as their heads imitate with policies as well as discipline in their buying system?
- Can Pemandu safeguard that an open as well as transparent buying complement is implemented when it comes to government jobs?
- Will you see a end of a Ali-Baba complement that has resolutely entrenched itself in a buying system?
- What can Pemandu do when justification is presented that contracts were awarded underneath dubious circumstances?
- Can Pemandu stop a rent-seekers who have been used to shaking their legs as well as collecting millions of ringgit?
- Will Pemandu prop-up as well as await polite servants who stand up to their domestic bosses as well as insist upon going by a book?
- And really importantly, will Pemand! u as an group that promotes clarity as well as accountability, open a books for public scrutiny? After all, it is funded by taxpayers' income as well as surely, they have a right to know if their income has been well-spent.
Pemandu might wish to disagree that answers to a little of these questions have been over a purview though as a agent of change, should it not propose for plan of policies or for that matter, demand for legislation to prevent such abuse?
It is distinct that Pemandu does not have powers of enforcement or prosecution. But as a government group underneath a auspices of a Prime Minister's Department, certainly it has sufficient poke to compel each polite servant (through a offices of a Chief Secretary to a Government, Dr Hamsa Ali, ha!ha!) to imitate with in accord with directives. There have been sufficient clauses in a General Orders to action opposite errant officers or those who defy such official directives. But will a large stick be wielded?
As much as most who perspective that Pemandu might have achieved something since 2010, there have been most who have negative perceptions. Pemandu has to take a bull by a horns by addressing issues. It cannot censor at a back of a paid-for TV programmes as well as commercials as well as advertorials. It has to come out with a guns blazing unwell which, it will be considered an group perplexing to sell ice to a Eskimos.
R. Nadeswsaran supports most of Pemandu's initiatives though it certainly falls short in a little areas. He is editor (special as well as investigative reporting) as well as can be reached at:citizen-nades@thesundaily.com
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