Handicapped ?? Who ?
The especially endowed persons or
the especially- endowed-Minister ?
We are witnessing a typical kind
of a handicap this weekend. Are we aware that in India we have umpteen numbers
of Ministries for benefiting the Especially Endowed Persons , henceforth, EEP for me. We have now seen how a
prominent Minister has accessed the Government Grant-in-aid for these persons
and has not been able to satisfy the grant-provider Government Agencies. The
hue and cry over the demand of the resignation
and than dumping of the Minister while registering a criminal case
against him and his NGO/ Trust compels me to pay some time and words to my flow of
thoughts on this.
The typical case is one in so-many
that we come across the hugh number of un-reported and in-documented cases of
Fund-bungling in Free India.
The lessons learnt from this case are as follows :-
The lessons learnt from this case are as follows :-
1-
The power-that-be cannot satisfy the
Fund-givers when this “ Fund-giver”
happened to be a Government Agency. When the receivers are a big-shot and the
name and fame so high we would have expected smooth settling of accounts from
both the sides but what we are witnessing is a dangerous road ahead for the
receivers of the so-called easy-funds from the Government Agencies. Small
agencies. NGO, etc can never satisfy the requirements of the Fund-providing
agencies if this is the typical and best
example of harassment from the fund-providers.
2-
India , as a welfare State, is so tardy in the
implementation of the programmes and schemes for the especially – endowed
persons (EEP)s that we do need large numbers of NGOs. Voluntary Agencies and
Volunteers to reach out to the persons from EEP categories. The role of the mediator- Agency cannot be sidelined in India.
3-
The bungling and evil-maneuvering of the Funds
meant to provide relief and welfare for the EEPs have been done by high and the
mighty having the most powerful Ministry.
The need to investigate this is much more severe as the Powerful Politicians
are running number of NGOs and siphoning the funds from the Central and State
Agencies.
4-
The reputation of the Social Work Agencies and
the well-meaning service providing agencies is at stake , when we see that the
Funds are not reaching those Agencies who are working in remote villages and
for the poor people of the country.
5-
The reputation of the NGO/ trust is further
diminished when we find that the name of prominent freedom fighter and the ex-
President of India has been inadvertently dragged into the controversy. We are witnessing
a shameful downfall of the Indian
quality of international politicians.
When
we look at the above cases I am confident that the personal stature of the NGOs will rise above these
cases of open vulgarity of Fund-guzzling and the political-bureaucracy nexus to
misuse the funds from the Central pool will decrease.
The
pseudo-Muslims and half- Muslims of this country have brought much pain in the
overall functioning of the welfare schemes
meant for the poor Muslims and the EEPs, especially in the Independent
India.
Thanks
to the Right to Information Act that we are getting solid hard proof of the
Fund-Managements taking places in India. We will not see ends to these
bungling, these are just a beginning of the sort of things to come in India.
The
disrepute brought about by the grandson
of the ex-Prez in an eye-opener for the really deaf-mute-handicapped system who
is not capable of catering to the needs of the EEPs in India.
however, the Question still remains ,
exactly
Who is the
handicapped ?
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