Subject: Fw: SAD SITUATION for 'India The German press has savaged India�s
misgovernance.
MOHAN MURTI
The Brussels-based European Commission Standing Committee on Global Foreign
Direct Investments last week listed the top 20 destinations the EU 27 will
target for the next five years. Sadly, but for well-known reasons, India does
not figure in the list. Stocks of European Union direct investments to the
rest of the world amounted to �5.6 trillion at the end of 2012 and the EU
continues to have a fixation with China. As for India, senior EU officials
noted with quite a bit of scepticism: �India is probably getting there, but not
quite arrived�. An editorial in the highly circulated German national newspaper
Frankfurter Allgemeine screamed:�India has never had it so bad. Stealing in
government has never been this brazen. Government officials are now so
audacious in their corrupt practices that they do not give a damn about who is
watching�. �Supreme Court directives are routinely flouted. Crime rates are up
and security of life including women�s safety, which is the first
responsibility of every government, is at its lowest ebb. India must then be
more than qualified to be called a failed state.� In the Manager magazine, one
of Germany�s leading glossy business journals, an article said: �Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh has a natural inclination to be a follower, not a
leader. �
DESPAIR AND HOPELESSNESS
The article states, �India is a country where merit and integrity have no value
and the country continues to sink beneath the suffocating weight of mediocrity
and unrestrained, rampant greed. The majority of citizens feel excluded and
disrespected at all levels of their daily lives. The youth of the country that
make majority of the populace clearly feel helpless and many are pushed to take
to misdemeanour and crime.�
FAILURE OF GOVERNANCE
Der Spiegel wrote in an edit article recently: �While the main functions of the
parliament are to make laws and hold the executive accountable through
oversight, Indian lawmakers make very few laws, pass incompetent motions and
engage in rampant disruption of the proceedings.� The German business newspaper
Handelsblatt wrote: �For India, it seems clear that the hope of becoming one of
the best twenty economies in the world will only remain a daydream. Corruption
is the bane of the society. The Government knows this and the crusade against
corruption is being handled with kid gloves.�
(The author is former Europe Director, CII, and lives in Cologne, Germany.)
(This article was published in Germany on September 4, 2013)
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