The political Dimension

Today, I was fortunate enough to attend a meeting where all administrative big bosses and the political big boss sit together and review the progress of government intervention.

I came across this fight between political and administrative setup which perceives the development in different phases.

Basic assumptions:
Both players act genuinely.
Both players try to maximise the values in their lines of setup.

Yes, to come back to the discussion.

SSP is a flagship program in AP which give pensions to 70 lakh beneficiaries every month.
Physically challenged people are also given pension through this scheme and only they receive a 1.5 fold extra amount of pensions than other. Hence, the basic rule of greedy and needy always tries to come under physically challenged category and receive extra amount of pension.
1) Because of this, there are wrong inclusions.
2) Because of the first category and limited budget, the deserved people are not able to get pensions.

Now, there is this software and diagnosis by doctors which identify and classify the physically challenged category.

Ofcourse, all the people want to come under category.
THe testing and identification of physically challenged takes place in 4 phases and it takes 4-5 months in total.

But here the question is, whom to be tested First: the new applications or the existing ?
Administrator wishes to test all the people who have identified themselves as physically challenged already and receiving the pensions. The reason is quite clear. Testing on them, will result in eradication of wrongly included pensioners and hence saves the money for Govt. Which means, as an administrator, he can maximise the residual fund and use it for other schemes.

Politicans ,on the other hand thinks that there is absolute need to test the new applicant first. The reason follows the development orientation. Developmental law does say that there can be people who can be wrongly included but any deserved candidate should not be left out. It also affects the political will power of the particular politicians for excluding some of the deserving candidates.

If we follow the administrator path, then what about developmental law ? if we follow the politician path, what about budget?

The question remains unanswered.!