Pre-budget comment

The development indices as publicised officially have invisible walls and barriers, not ordinarily visible to the outsiders. Poor governance encourages such negative infiltration into the economic flux, and awareness programmes are not initiated properly by the elected MPs, ministers, and the cabinet. The people have sympathy for the unpleasant tasks and responsibilities of the harassed Finance Minister (the homework applies to all developing countries).

Materialistic temptations are a universal human weakness in the evolution of civilisation. Discipline starts from the top and enforcement of the same also starts from the top. There is no point in pointing fingers at the lower levels of the society, who do not lead the nation. If the approach is right, the later details take care of it. Why cry "wolf" in urban jungles?