Why can't Government do this?

Have you heard about NICE? Have you ever heard about Mr. Purnachandra Rao, the man behind NICE? Knowing more about NICE gives you mixed feelings. On the one side you feel happy to see an ordinary person doing extra-ordinary stuff, on the other hand it pains you for the inability of our governments to do these kinds of things.

NICE is Needy Illiterate Children Education. I reckon spending some time on this website gives you insight on what NICE is exactly doing. Here is the URL http://www.nice-india.org/index.php/Main/HomePage. I was amazed when I came to know about NICE almost a couple of years back. I met Mr Purnachandra Rao during my recent India trip since I was toying with the idea of doing something like what NICE is doing. I met him to understand the logistics, and other intricacies involved .

When NICE can take care of about 150 orphans very effectively, why can't the government with enormous resources do the same?

Yes, there are typical Indian problems such as corruption, red tap-ism, lack of political will, lack of proper press support, and finally lack of enough money. Do you believe government lacks money to implement these kinds of things on the future of India?

I strongly believe that our government can do this as follows:

1. Inject some degree of capitalism into this. What I mean by this is to involve private companies for maintaining libraries, hospital etc. I believe strongly that government cannot do every thing by its own both in terms of administration and funding.

2. Identify cheap lands out side district head quarters in every district to build huge buildings for school, one library, one hospital, and hostel for kids and teachers.

3. Involve rich people and celebrities in this project to get publicity as well as for funding. Encourage them to adopt some children.

4. If possible have some vocational training to children to generate some money for them.

5. Finally have total transparency in the spending of money with auditing from non-governmental entities.

Keep in mind one thing "Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing"


What do you think ?