Comments on: A ministry for every grievance http://pragmatic.nationalinterest.in/2009/10/25/a-ministry-for-every-grievance/ Beyond offensive defence Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:37:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SR Murthy http://pragmatic.nationalinterest.in/2009/10/25/a-ministry-for-every-grievance/comment-page-1/#comment-17248 SR Murthy Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:56:04 +0000 http://pragmatic.nationalinterest.in/?p=2936#comment-17248 The issue of benchmarking the success of the govt. in an objective manner is important, and has been raised by many concerned citizens. Here is a proposal: 1. Start off by mapping the areas under control currently by the maoists, district by district, and within each district. Also, each district will have a certain fraction under govt. control (the remaining are obviously under maoist control) 2. split these districts into some number of groups, say 4, (divided using some criteria such as the people who are in charge of the operations or some other sensible dimension). 3. As operations complete and governance returns, then areas are moved under govt. control (or under maoist control, if they retake areas) and the percentage under govt. control hopefully continues to increase until it is 1. 4. progress is tracked on a district by district basis and also on a groupwide basis -- this allows one to understand which groups are employing succesful techniques, and whether anything can be learnt that could help everyone involved. 5. After govt. has control of an area, the progress in governance needs to be measured using other metrics, but that should probably be done for the rest of India too. Best Regards The issue of benchmarking the success of the govt. in an objective manner is important, and has been raised by many concerned citizens. Here is a proposal:

1. Start off by mapping the areas under control currently by the maoists, district by district, and within each district. Also, each district will have a certain fraction under govt. control (the remaining are obviously under maoist control)

2. split these districts into some number of groups, say 4, (divided using some criteria such as the people who are in charge of the operations or some other sensible dimension).

3. As operations complete and governance returns, then areas are moved under govt. control (or under maoist control, if they retake areas) and the percentage under govt. control hopefully continues to increase until it is 1.

4. progress is tracked on a district by district basis and also on a groupwide basis — this allows one to understand which groups are employing succesful techniques, and whether anything can be learnt that could help everyone involved.

5. After govt. has control of an area, the progress in governance needs to be measured using other metrics, but that should probably be done for the rest of India too.

Best Regards

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