Tuning Out of Community Reach
What began enthusiastically eleven years back came to a nought on a cold December afternoon in 2021 and SCOTRWA's efforts to obtain a license for a community radio station were shelved for good. The community radio licensing process proved to be time consuming, expensive and frustrating as this letter to the PMO elucidates. It is totally opposite of the spirit of community radio. Supreme Court ruling of 1995 asserts that radio waves/ frequencies are public property. Community radio aspirants need to remember that there is a good chance of…
Whither Administration?
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani The waves of reforms that are touching the shores of civil service do not seem to touch military and judicial services. Defence Services i). In the technology-intensive world that we are living in, the recruitment to the defence services also has to be reviewed, so as to deviate from the traditional ‘Standing Army' concept and involve other citizens in the society ‘on call' in the deployment-strategies. Instead of increasing the numbers like China, we need to invest more in increasing the capabilities of our defe…
We Need a Revolution in Administration
The administrative machinery is the permanently visible symbol of the state and its power. We are, virtually living in a regime of the Rule of Rules, instead of the Rule of Laws, framed, revised and implemented by the bureaucracy. By Rao VBJ Chelikani Since the head of the Executive is the president of the Republic, the administration is one of the organs of the state. But in practice, much beyond the expected respectable autonomy, the balance has tilted in favour of the Administration within the Executive. As the legislature is slack in its f…
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