Businessmen behind corruption in India

Never had been so nakedly cheated as today at Indirapuram IBP Petrol Pump on NH24. Fuel was delivered but never reached my tank. The gauge hand stood firm where it was.

Nothing was pumped though display showed. No argument could make rogues manning station yield and I was made to retreat. Though whole premise of Corruption and fight against it, is based up conduct of 'public servants', it has been for centuries rotten one among 'businessmen' ( and in abundance !!) who had been sucking society with this tool in India with use of every trick to make money even corrupting low paid Govt officers. Spurious drugs, adulterated milk, thugs running public buses and autos, LPG dealers running black market syndicates, it's this community which keeps 90% of the margin between producer and consumer.

And they get protection from 'Annas' because it is this community which fills their public meeting as they see some mean opportunity in it.

Who should own Company Intranet Portal?

The intranet web site I manage for our company (of about 35000) is now a decade old. Immediately after it was set up in 2001 the portal became a hit and was touted as a breakthrough innovation for employees engagement. The content owners had remained always Corporate Communications ( I am from that) but the platform management for first first 5 years was outsourced directly by CC through third parties but later IT department created a platform and made CC move intranet website to that . There started the problem.

The popularity declined and content quality deteriorated as less and less of employees started coming forward to share and contribute, mainly because IT Department created platform was purely built on concept they thought was technologically manageable by them. Obviously their thrust was on 'convenience of maintainability' not 'user-friendliness'.

The soft-information architecture for the distribution of content which CC felt best meets organization needs was not 'fitting' into hard - technology they offered. Loser was the organisation having unpopular Intranet, even forcing some of the geographically separated divisions to start running their own intranet thus defeating the very premise of cohesive organization wide one portal as was mandated initially.

The intranet portals must be owned by Corporate Communications as they are the ones delegated to handle communication best suited to management's perception and needs. Also the IT should manage the back-end platform and provide 'hosting' services to CC to run the portal . What would be IA, 'look and feel' of the website and how content would be sourced and hosted is all what should be job of CC.

IT , as service provider, should provide best fit required for meeting needs of CC not other way round. CC may create channels/subsites ( moderated/or independent ) delegated to various other divisions( operations, HR etc) for meeting overall mandate of management or may run part or whole centrally . IT should strictly work to meet user requirement of CC as managers/owners for the Intranet Portal.

Stop and think...

Sloganeering does not make one nationalist .All deeds which damage national interest would be called strictly anti-national , when this country would sit on Judgment Day ruing on its fragments one day in future.Few months hence , I am very sure , when the natural gullibility of Indian public subsides , Anna and his brigade will get what they are worth , from the same public. One can fool some for some time not all time. One day he is giving legal notice to one politician who has already apologized on camera , next day he wants public hanging for some culprits. He has already tried to subvert parliament now he is trying to take over role of courts. It is time that people realize the folly of blindly supporting this gentleman and dump him for creating unnecessary and uncalled for anarchist situation in country.

TV Anchors setting National agenda

Media now is predominantly electronic but the saddest aberration is that it is being driven by several 'anchors' who have views on every topic under the sky.Newspapers have been 'institutions' where news and views get different treatment . Eminent editors and intellectuals providing analysis and news is just plain news. 

Now these, many blatantly irresponsible, 'anchors' are setting the agenda for Govt. , public and opposition. This is not freedom of expression. Can eminent media houses running these channels admit that what their 'anchors' are saying is their views?How are they delegated to speak anything on any topic at their wish?