The right to take all decisions about the village and its organizational set up should be of the villagers. The need is to bring about an amendment to the existing Panchayati raj and other prevailing laws where this power should be enshrined in the people of the village. The gram sabha should have the power to stop the salary of a teacher who is not coming to the school or not teaching properly. If a Doctor does not take care of its patients then the gram Sabha should have power to stop his salary.
If a ration shop does not distribute ration properly or indulges in black market then the gram Sabha should have powers to cancel his license. If the Station House officer of a police station does not register a report and indulges in extra constitutional methods against the people, then the gram Sabha should have powers to stop his salary, too.
Do you think that it would bring about a change? Off course it would change everyone from the errant SHO to the inept teacher to a corrupt ration shop keeper. After all they are now accountable to the people and they know that the real power now rests with the gram Sabha or the people. They all will make sure that they remain on the right side of the people by serving the interest of the people.
Appointment of the teacher in a village should be done by the gram Sabha. It has been seen that the state governments employ thousands of teachers by fraudulent means. The quality of teachers who have paid bribes to get jobs is questionable.
How would they teach children?
Under RTI (Right to information) act it was found that in many a schools, up to class ten, of Jharkhand state have not a single teacher. In Vamani higher secondary school, Kanuga, Saraikela, Kharsawa has 310 children but not a single teacher. In a school of Siroom there are 435 children in ten classes but there is only one teacher, that too for Bangla language. Currently it is the duty of the state government to provide teachers in school. Many a times people in the above mentioned places wrote to the state governments but no answer ever came.
Should we keep waiting for the favours of the state government when the teachers would be appointed? This is a cruel joke played with the lives of millions of children spread across the nation.
Their lives are being compromised and sacrificed. This system needs to be changed.
The people of the community should be given the power to appoint
and dismiss the teachers. The people who go to a hospital for getting medical treatment should be empowered to appoint and suspend the Doctor. The administration should go directly in the hands of people. All government employees should be appointed by the gram Sabha and also suspended or dismissed by the gram Sabha. This right or the power to appoint and suspend all government employees must rest with the gram sabhas.
This will greatly benefit the country. The state governments appoint thousands of teachers from the cities to reach in the villages at a salary of Rs.15000/ per month but even then they do not want to work in the villages. But if the Gram sabhas are allowed to appoint the teachers then the teachers appointed from the village will work for Rs.5000/ per month.
If they do not teach then they could be suspended by the gram sabhas.
By changing the law steps should be taken that gram sabhas should have power to call any BDO or employee of the government on the village level to attend their meetings and to obey orders passed by the gram Sabha. On the district or block level the people could give orders to government employees.
The people should have the power to summon the ration inspector, summon the BDO, summon the tahsildar, summon the Sub Divisional Magistrate or summon the Collector of the district. If the government officer does not obey the decisions of the gram Sabha then the people should have powers to punish the erring official.
The power to appoint and discharge the employees on block and district levels should rest with gram sabhas through the office bearers of the block panchayat and district panchayats.
The people should have right to ask for information about any matter pertaining to their village, from any government officer up to the state level. Inappropriate schemes are formulated by the state government for the villages. Therefore, the villagers should have right to know about the type of decisions that are being taken and schemes that are formulated for the village.
The gram Sabha should have this right to know.
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