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Hi Srivastava,

In our country, no one would be surprised to find an elected representative who is a PUC fail. Even 5th std failed  thugs can become corporators and MLAs and even ministers in this "great" democracy. If you read today's Bangalore Mirror you can find how many candidates who are the wives of rowdies have been elected. One candidate even filed his nomination papers when he was out on parole. This is a prime reason why people have no faith in the system and in a way, we cannot always blame educated people who stay away from participating in the electoral process. Its high time, that there is a complete revamp in the system.

Rgds,

Sathyan

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... but no appreciation expected :) Just my 2 cents..

Yes, I do have same feelings here and would like to share with you all.  While I said here that revolution is only way, that does not mean let us not wait for it to happen. We will be the change to bring the change.

Now back to the topic. The fact is the we have already elected people with poor educational back ground and poor/no professional background. This was inevitable as all of you said above. So what next? Can not we achieve excellence with given setup? Do we think, just because our corporators are less educated, they are not intelligent? Don't we think if they are professionally mentored/trained to do their jobs, they can excel?

The answer is partially yes. It will require systematic planning and execution as a project (praja project ? Similar one which had BMTC interaction). 

My thoughts on solutions:

1) Collect background of all members. educational ,financial , family, cultural

2) Categorize/Classify. Say 3-4 categories.

3) Analyze the needs of each category to perform.

4) Design the system to mentor them (via crowdsourcing, I am a fan of it)

5) Implement via non-profit orgs. BBMP will/need not spend for such things.

6) Evaluate corporators after mentoring.

7) Get feedback and improve system for next set.

We have 5 years to do this job.

So now, I am trying to summarize the background information available in public domain of candidates in an excel sheet. This should give us bigger picture of BBMP composition. I will post in this thread once on or before 08-Apr-2010.

Let us see where/how  it goes with you all.

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 Here is the datasheet I am working on. As I believe in crowd-sourcing all are welcome to add details. The source of data is from BBMP website link  1 and link 2 . link 1 gives you official results and link 2 gives you affidavit submitted by candidate which contains partial details we want.

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what has somebody's performance in puc got to do with his performance as a public servant?

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Hi,
It is a sorry state when we go to elect our representatives. It is like choosing from the worst.  The election commisision board  should chart out a clean strategy and plan for list of parties, and rules for qualification ( i mean in terms of education, age and code of conduct ). The ground rules may have been there, but there is no such implementation of the same i guess.

I am not sure if this is the right approach or a corrective idea, but the president of india ( for the country) and the governor of the state should be more active and should voice his concern on these electoral proceedings.

The elite, educated class have not voted.... in fact i have not exercised my right to vote.. You have candidates from a cobbler, waste-collector, etc etc contesting for elections.. So I know that electing him as a corporator would not clear the current scenario but he would mess it up more.

Why vote then?  Up in the centre, we have chief ministers builiding statutes after statues, but there is no stop on this. I am still not clear why the president and prime-minister are mute spectators. In one of the discussions aried on NDTV  a program featuring "We the People:", a discussion on this was happening on the crores of ruppes being wasted in form of a garland, but what is the ues.. Talk ,Talk and Talk, but such culprits will get away. Where is the end for such atrociites, mis-use and poor leadership.

Again who will bell the cat (if you and i and the rest ) who have a common intterset  to see a change in the electoral list??? At the state we may be speaking of a BBMP election, and at the center it is worst.  The news channel is more interested in covering SANIA -MANIA hyped marriage - such issues are very common among the  poorer sections of the society... which is a very sensitive issue here.

Ulitimately it is a power- game coupled with money and corruption. And if we dream of a cleaner govererance, where should we start then- if you see there is corruption everywhere, and why there is corruption, because reservation - or quotas in the government sector comes to picture, the general community or the educated masses are shying away from it.

any more views?

Regards,

Neeyathi

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