Two years of a senior executive before retirement syndrome

Most of the senior executives/ senior bureaucrats become timid in taking bold decisions in 2 years period before retirement with a fear that wrong decision taken by them will affect the release of their pension. Had they taken those decisions in time it would have affected the lives of millions of people in a positive way but for protecting their own pension. This raises a question on democratic system whether they want to do good for millions of people or tolerate such a selfish creature of democracy. If the age war for pension is removed  & it is made voluntary, the losses to the exchequer will be much less than the salaries to effective persons. These 2 years before maturity needs to be considered seriously before the country goes to doll drums. The syndrome 2 years of prematurity needs serious view by democrats in India as there is no social security for the employees.

Least concern of the Government on the problem of Narcotics & Psychotropic Substances

Every society is grappled by the abuse of drugs resulting into crippling the family members of the abusers. I was talking to a Director Family Welfare of a State Government. I was astonished that there has been no training on the subject and no person at state level designated for rehabilitation of drug addicts. The NGOs working for the cause are the victims of bureaucracy and corruption. The economic loss caused by drug addiction is much more than any single disease in India but negligible attention on the issue.

It appears the priorities in health services are decided by business motives, The disease like TB, Leprosy, Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and similar diseases requiring huge treatment costs and promoting big business are of higher priority.

Where are be leading?

Nothing in research can fluence more than the cost of study

In an evaluation study of Government of India the evaluation proposals were invited for longitudinal study for different states. IIDM was selected for Bihar State with a budget for 3 consecutive data collection years at a cost of more than INR 3.00 Million. Another reputed organization bid for Maharashtra for more than INR 6.0 Million with same sample size. But another research organization quoted only INR 1.0 Million per state for 4 states. Out of the lot the organization with 1.0 Million quotation was allotted 3 states. All other bids kept pending with out any communication for years. When asked the processing organization, it had no answer. One may conclude research &  evaluation has no standards of measurement &  no norms &  values.

Parkinson's Law in M&E Research

The research today has become a commodity to be manufactured as tailor-made-product. The client decides the budget & the sample size upto primary sampling unit. Now as researcher you are to design the size of respondents to fit the budget. Now all your research design is to suit the budget. Therefore one can introduce corollary to "Parkinson's Law- The research design expands as per the budget available". I have seen top research organizations of the country following this law while submitting the proposal of evaluating National Development Scheme of a famous Ministry of Govt. of India.