RE: GAO equivalent?, babu culture, was:Salary for legislators.

[Charudatt <charu@iced.com>]

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	From:  Kush Khatri[SMTP:free_voice@yahoo.com]

	. . . .
		The Parliament cannot exercise its fiduiciary
		responsibilites unless it has complete authority on the
public purse. 
		Thus, the first supporting institution required is
something akin to
		the GAO (General Accounting Office).  Without complete
and absolute
		accounting of every paise to the parliament, and thereby
to the
		people, legislature will remain weak.

	Isn't ther a govt agency called PAC Public(Political?) Accounts
Committee that is the GOI equivalent of the US GAO?

	In general, your point is well taken that legislators need
administrative and research support. 

	Is there any movement now streamline the way decision making is
done by making information available through computers? Or
alternatively, among the administrators in this group, does anyone have
a proposal for getting rid of the babu culture that still dominates
government business wherein a clerk can paralyze plans worth millions by
losing a file or making some cryptic notation on a file. I suppose I'm
saying that technologically the babu/file system can be thrown out where
information access is the key to petty power and corruption. What would
it take politically and technologically to change the system?