The BJP government is moving in the right direction prohibiting government employees first class air travel, foreign jaunts with companion freebies, also five star hotels meetings/ seminars and is promoting video conferencing to cut down on unnecessary/ discretionary expenditure. However this is not in line with the tremendous pomp and pageantry expenditures in their mega rallies and victory/ other celebrations indulged in by the same government. The Congress too had issued stringent orders for austerity measures which were implemented more in the breech! Unless there is a drastic change in mindset, behavioral changes are unlikely. Our Tourism department is getting ready for promoting Goa at travel marts abroad. Hypocrisy and working around austerity measures are nothing new. The BJP have appropriated Sardar Patel and the Mahatma, dumping Indira and Nehru. Sardar mediated the Ghandian ethos of inclusiveness and also Nehruvian aspirations through political pragmatism! Interestingly Mahatma is only propagated for civic use! We have a long way to go to become "Visva Guru" ie a super and spiritual power as propagated by Raj Nath Singh our Home Minister.
