Why we want to keep governance a secret affair?

We bureaucrats for some reason are still unable to get out of our well conditioned mind set to keep the right of the government intact to hide files from public.

While the process preceding the final government orders should be secret till the issue of orders, once the order is public, automatically the entire file noting and the documents which led to the competent authority to issue the order, should also lose the protection of secrecy.

Every single government order issued to affect public interest, and is published , should have the supporting documents and noting of bureaucracy and the competent authority, made equally public as the order itself.

Why a citizen should "appeal" to the "master" in the public servant, to get information under the RTI Act?

Please think over. It is a matter of just an executive order which can be issued now, today.

Present technology allows images of the 20 odd critical pages and the noting of the three levels of bureaucrats below the competent authority to be posted as pdf files on central information data base along with the final government order.

Then in case grievance arises, a court of law can be approached with the down loaded authentic documents, from web, for redressal.

This step acts as powerful deterrence to even a bad guy in the system, because of the fear that his action will get exposed along with the order, for a court to intervene.

Imagine under this system the scenarios of Adarsh scam or 2G scam or allocation of oil blocks. None of these would have occurred.

In fact over a period the high level corruption would vanish and the motivation for occupying the exalted Minister's post to do arbitrary favours to kith and kin, would also vanish. The political corruption too would evaporate then.

Only service element will be left in the governance.

We actually do not need the song and dance drama going on for enacting more laws and creating more number of authorities to whom we should appeal.

You are all intelligent and understand how bureaucracy functions. I am surprised why you are fighting shy of demanding this simple but the most effective step, to eliminate even intention of corruption in working.

Citing practical difficulties and need to keep the process secret are specious arguments. I as head of Konkan Railway did practice real time working with audit and vigilance watching the work flow on the web.

It is practical and feasible unless one has a private agenda.

Hope you do not have any.

Had I been the PM, I would have forced the issue against the fellow ministers and the Cab sec and got the orders issued implementing the executive order as cited above.

At least discuss the demand in public and in press.

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