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Monday, December 14, 2015

Chennai- Relief

One of the cardinal rules of accountability is that there is someone accountable for job to be done, a result to be achieved. If you cannot accept accountability, you have no business to be in any form of power be it in politics or in business. At the highest level two institutions are responsible for Chennai relief. One, Government – Jayalalitha and Narendra Modi ; two, India’s  richest 20 companies Premji, Narayan Murthy, Ambani,  Mahindra etc ..
Now, thousands of people are flooded out of their homes, their life derailed and we don’t even know who, which IAS or any such officer or team of people are accountable for the relief operation. Imagine GE appointing someone from human race as its CEO, and they will try to do something.
Our media is so clueless about what is going on. Their guess is as good as ours, just that they have time to write something and we don’t. All they are doing is corporate advertisement and brand promotion.
Wall street journal estimates the Chennai flood loss to be about 3.5 billion usd, it is one of the worst five or six in the world and our prime-ministerial team is busy with song and dance because they don’t like Jayalalitha.
1. Can we hire IBM or TATA and outsource the relief operation? Give the politics its share in cash and get rid of that bottleneck?
2. Let us ask again, please let us know who is in charge of Chennai flood relief? How is it organized?
 2. List of people whos life is derailed? Are we building it? Publish it on Hindu
3. How are you planning to fix them? Release the plan
4. Estimate of how many people still trapped? How many rescued so far, some numbers please.
5. Have you hired any expert agency? I am sure this is not the first time something like this has happened in the world..
6. Why not hire Bill Gates foundation? What are we doing with Bill Gates about this?  

7. Build a dedicated public website for this and hire Infosys to update information about the relief being done.