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Thanks to the writer who remembers that India has one labour ministry and one labour minister . It is happy that the writer has reminded me and perhaps Gangwar also. I am sure he still remembers that he was labour minister. I also thought he is a minister without portfolio.
There is a lack of English speaking Ministers like Ms Irani or late Shri Jaitley in the Govt. People do get impressed along with mainstream Eng media. Afterall v r so enamoured of the foreign language. Shri Tharoor was good but Congress did not make him a fullfledged Cabinet Minister. Ms Irani is also not allowed to spk. Shri Goel would speak but he is not as fast as Ms Irani in fluency. Shri Prasad does not speak that much; may b party discipline. Congress had a good no. of fluent speakers. Labour Min is fairly a neglected Min with no Communist party dominating. Who cares for labourers in the survival of the fittest env or politics? Even ILO is rotten. There is surely talent deficit in many a Min. PMO bureaucracy (mostly retd) holds sway from late Rajiv Gandhi’s time. It is zero in NITI Aayog. Young talent is reqd in Cabinet. It is worst in States. It is not in public glare. That is why Scheme implementation is also poor. Bureaucrats hold the field. Ministers ought to give interview. Public gets a good picture from response. For e.g., today (21.5.20) Shri Puri Civil Aviation Minister spoke so well giving sufficient respect to bureaucrats. Marvellous. V also need strong spokesperson like Dr Patra though he also looks weak now under stress.
government told that lockdown time is paid full salary for maigrents but most of company are not paid why can we know this and what is the acction take for the company’s
Have ministers any value or recognition in the Modi government? They are in the cabinet for the namesake only. It is the PMO which is running the country.
A pertinent question. In the previous government of khangress, the PM had no value or negative value, meaning the PM used to go and approve the files instead of files being sent to him by ministers. Now it is just reverse. Times are changing. That is why somebody long ago has told that democracy is a dictatorship by elected representatives, otherwise called a suicidal act, anyway , unless the vote is used with discretion .
Are we are not responsible for the present state of migrants? It has become fashion for us to be critical sitting in the comfort zones.
Why did we not respond when large number of labor was migrating. For the past 70 years we were sleeping not questioning the planners and implementors on exodus of leaving their states and going to far of places for work. Why the respective states didnot provide the similar works in their own states.
The “Garibi Hato” slogan of 1971 remaind as election slogan. We see the result of this slogan after 50 years.
We all eager to shed tears for them now. Atleast now the states should provide them jobs in their own states. It will enable them to stay with their families in difficult sotuations and earn their living.
Some states who are giving freabies for votes should change their priorities by giving them work not make them lazy or beggers.
Nothing should be free but they should provide some work to live with dignity.
We all should impress the state govts to provide them work in respective states. Why the poor workers should go from north to south and south to west or east to south.
It is the responsibility of every state to give some work and avoid freebies. Once we make them depend on freebies, migration from other states start. No one should be paid if they donot do some work or the other, if we have to realise “Garibi Hatao” in real sense of the term. Please think loudly.
No minister of Modi goverment has submitted his progress card so far.All we get to hear is PM modi’s bhashans .Not a single minister has published his ministry’s or his own accomplishments.that is the tragedy of Modi Govt.Let somebody tell prime minister modi India cannot be ruled solo.First of all Modi has to Resurrect entire indian judiciary which has collapsed/broken.It is the judiciary which is main pillar and runs the country in an orderly manner.this fact has escaped from the mind of indian politicians and they are ruling with mindset of I,Me,Myself.It is a great tragedy of indian system.nisaruddinjeddy@gmail.com
From what one can understand from this article, unless a minister is actively visible in the press and social media, he is deemed to be hibernating. So much for journalists and their rational, for coming to a certain conclusion. No wonder people have lost faith in these intellectual and professional lazy, caricature of the real thing. Wither Indian journalism?
Govt . should do the helpful things for poor migrant , Everyday the migrants are suffering a lot many lost their lives ? this is a critical time for nation. It is not the time of criticize govt or criticize any one ? as a Indian we all should do some help for poor migrants. BECAUSE PRESENT MODI GOVT . NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR MIGRANT THEY SEEMS BUSY IN TELEVISION PROPAGANDA. VERY VERY WEAK GOVT IN INDIAN HISTORY.
Thanks to the writer who remembers that India has one labour ministry and one labour minister . It is happy that the writer has reminded me and perhaps Gangwar also. I am sure he still remembers that he was labour minister. I also thought he is a minister without portfolio.
There is a lack of English speaking Ministers like Ms Irani or late Shri Jaitley in the Govt. People do get impressed along with mainstream Eng media. Afterall v r so enamoured of the foreign language. Shri Tharoor was good but Congress did not make him a fullfledged Cabinet Minister. Ms Irani is also not allowed to spk. Shri Goel would speak but he is not as fast as Ms Irani in fluency. Shri Prasad does not speak that much; may b party discipline. Congress had a good no. of fluent speakers. Labour Min is fairly a neglected Min with no Communist party dominating. Who cares for labourers in the survival of the fittest env or politics? Even ILO is rotten. There is surely talent deficit in many a Min. PMO bureaucracy (mostly retd) holds sway from late Rajiv Gandhi’s time. It is zero in NITI Aayog. Young talent is reqd in Cabinet. It is worst in States. It is not in public glare. That is why Scheme implementation is also poor. Bureaucrats hold the field. Ministers ought to give interview. Public gets a good picture from response. For e.g., today (21.5.20) Shri Puri Civil Aviation Minister spoke so well giving sufficient respect to bureaucrats. Marvellous. V also need strong spokesperson like Dr Patra though he also looks weak now under stress.
government told that lockdown time is paid full salary for maigrents but most of company are not paid why can we know this and what is the acction take for the company’s
It seems that order had already been withdrawn.
He stated his point earlier
Have ministers any value or recognition in the Modi government? They are in the cabinet for the namesake only. It is the PMO which is running the country.
A pertinent question. In the previous government of khangress, the PM had no value or negative value, meaning the PM used to go and approve the files instead of files being sent to him by ministers. Now it is just reverse. Times are changing. That is why somebody long ago has told that democracy is a dictatorship by elected representatives, otherwise called a suicidal act, anyway , unless the vote is used with discretion .
Are we are not responsible for the present state of migrants? It has become fashion for us to be critical sitting in the comfort zones.
Why did we not respond when large number of labor was migrating. For the past 70 years we were sleeping not questioning the planners and implementors on exodus of leaving their states and going to far of places for work. Why the respective states didnot provide the similar works in their own states.
The “Garibi Hato” slogan of 1971 remaind as election slogan. We see the result of this slogan after 50 years.
We all eager to shed tears for them now. Atleast now the states should provide them jobs in their own states. It will enable them to stay with their families in difficult sotuations and earn their living.
Some states who are giving freabies for votes should change their priorities by giving them work not make them lazy or beggers.
Nothing should be free but they should provide some work to live with dignity.
We all should impress the state govts to provide them work in respective states. Why the poor workers should go from north to south and south to west or east to south.
It is the responsibility of every state to give some work and avoid freebies. Once we make them depend on freebies, migration from other states start. No one should be paid if they donot do some work or the other, if we have to realise “Garibi Hatao” in real sense of the term. Please think loudly.
चाटुकारिता भी एक कला है.
No minister of Modi goverment has submitted his progress card so far.All we get to hear is PM modi’s bhashans .Not a single minister has published his ministry’s or his own accomplishments.that is the tragedy of Modi Govt.Let somebody tell prime minister modi India cannot be ruled solo.First of all Modi has to Resurrect entire indian judiciary which has collapsed/broken.It is the judiciary which is main pillar and runs the country in an orderly manner.this fact has escaped from the mind of indian politicians and they are ruling with mindset of I,Me,Myself.It is a great tragedy of indian system.nisaruddinjeddy@gmail.com
From what one can understand from this article, unless a minister is actively visible in the press and social media, he is deemed to be hibernating. So much for journalists and their rational, for coming to a certain conclusion. No wonder people have lost faith in these intellectual and professional lazy, caricature of the real thing. Wither Indian journalism?
Govt . should do the helpful things for poor migrant , Everyday the migrants are suffering a lot many lost their lives ? this is a critical time for nation. It is not the time of criticize govt or criticize any one ? as a Indian we all should do some help for poor migrants. BECAUSE PRESENT MODI GOVT . NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR MIGRANT THEY SEEMS BUSY IN TELEVISION PROPAGANDA. VERY VERY WEAK GOVT IN INDIAN HISTORY.
After the Editor’s tweet, I did actually use a Google search to learn the gentleman’s name.