Evaluation of All Work is Essential, Including Our Governments'

In many companies, managers evaluate their employees at regular intervals. The purpose of this evaluation is manyfold - improve performance, stream-line efforts etc. The main idea though is to ensure that work is actually getting done. Similarly, employees in turn get a chance to evaluate their managers. Again, the idea is the same - ensure that the managers are doing their job right. Without these checks it would be hard to keep teams productive.

Now consider this - we hire our governments by virtue of paying taxes. Therefore, it is our duty to evaluate governments to ensure the system works. Taking part in elections cannot be considered evaluation for the sake of improvement. Elections are just too far apart. Elections cannot force governments to do the things we want them to do. We need to get involved in a continuous process of evaluation of our governments. It is important that governments get regular, even constant feedback so they know, they need to keep improving.

I haven't met anyone in India who is happy with the way things are. Hence it is especially important for all of us to raise our voices and be heard. The state of things can only get worse if we choose to keep valuable feedback to ourselves. How can we do this without getting pained by it? Its easy now.