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Today the news of Padma Awards attarcted my attention. After congratulating my senior and mentor for years Sri Sreedharan for his Padmavibhushan Award, my mind relfected on the awards given to Sri Narayana Murthy and Ratan Tata.The later two truly added wealth to our country in positive terms and proved Indian engineers and science can produce world class services and products and it is never a case of public tax payers' money drawn to achieve their excellence. I am a little confused why routine project execution and tendering for just getting imported equipment for which technologies are available within the country, and benefitting more the foreign industry rather than India, producing white elephants requiring perpetual public funding is placed at such high level! Being honest and working with integrity is normal for any government servant and need not be made a virtue to get an award- or does it mean remaining corrupt is normal.Delivery of a project is important but failure of many in the government to function makes one odd person who delivers a special one to be emulated. Accepting the wisdom of our rulers, perhaps it does not mater if country's wealth is drained when alternatives are available- but deliver and be honoured.Our red tape and administration is truly a challenge and Sreedharan truly mastered the art of handling this challenge and one cannot but admire him for the same. But Tata or Narayana Murthy cannot afford such luxury! Hats off to them!

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