Earlier reports indicated that the cost of maintaining the administrative machinery of the State (the offices and its staff) came close to Rs 5 billion. What is perplexing is the view taken by the (brainless) bureaucrats, that they are ready with an alternate 'system', wherein even if Rs 5 billion per annum (taking the renewal fees of software licenses into consideration), is given away to proprietary software establishments, the Government can still be run, in a much better way.
Words and ideas fail us in attempting a way out to deal with such a 'corrupt bureaucracy' which is starved of any innovations that can do good to humanity.
If Arundhati Roy lamented that Chief Minister's hands are soaked in blood, perhaps we can all say that his bureaucracy's 'minds and thoughts are full of blood', matching the leader in thought and deed. Dealing with such an evil and vicious hierarchy should be a great challenge, where I fear, even if a thousand Stallmans ever emerged, they would still be beaten and sunk into oblivion.
Someone advised me the other day, that spending time in learning to live with such a condition, would be a much better option, than attempting to challenge or change the views of the 'bureaucracy'. It is the 'rottest', Kerala has ever seen or witnessed, a 'burden' for the toiling lot, and a 'shame' for the millions who still aspires to see a prosperous State.
CK Raju