Doctors’ absenteeism |
Political funding |
Challenge:
• District administration and police should carry out surprise raids to check the attendance of the doctors. • Village Panchayat should be given the power to write the annual report of the doctor which should be read out in the gram sabha meeting. • Problems like this can be solved only if Uttar Pradesh is split into several smaller states which can be administered more efficiently. |
Challenge: Reform proposals: • The financial accounts of every political party should be made public. These accounts should be examined by government auditors. • There should be state funding of elections. Parties should be given some money by the government to meet their election expenditure. • Citizens should be encouraged to give more donations to parties and to political workers. Such donations should be exempted from income tax. |
(a) Doctor’s absenteeism: Doctor's absenteeism can be controlled by making it compulsory for the doctors to live in the village of their posting. Secondly, they should be debarred from doing private practice. These rules should be part of their terms and conditions for appointment. These conditions must be strictly followed. Surprise checks by the department should be made. The erring doctors should be punished by the department.
(b) Political funding: Role of money in elections in India has been increasing for the last few years. It is necessary to curb the role of money to make democracy more successful. The first, two proposals i.e. auditing of accounts of the political parties and state funding are good because these reforms will bring transparency in the finances of the political parties. Secondly, state funding will reduce the expenditure on elections. Role of money will be less and the poor candidates may also be fight elections.