With the change in times the consciousness of people has also changed more than the digital trends of political appeasement of the leaders particularly MLAs and Parliament members (MPs)
Good or bad, politics is now more visible in videos on social media sites and less on the ground and as such the perception of people about people’s representation and working of the Government has also changed. Very recently a public representative was shown talking over mobile phone to a senior bureaucratic over the issue of round the clock power supply to a hospital in a video on a social media platform giving an indication that he is on a mission to work for improving the health facilities at Government run hospitals. Such digital activities if at all done with the intents of public welfare don’t impressed the people in any way as with the change in times the consciousness of people has also changed more than the digital trends of political appeasement of the leaders particularly MLAs and Parliament members (MPs). Knowing that real methods and practices of improving public services are quite different from those shown on videos going viral on social media sites, the people have changed perception about both the working of the Government and as well as public representation. For the purposes of meaningful improvement in the delivery of public services through improvement in infrastructural facilities the well adopted administrative practices and procedures demand that review meetings are held and for effective implementation the decisions taken at such meetings are circulated among the concerned authorities of the concerned departments. Unfortunately not only political representatives but the top Government functionaries also have developed an unusual practice of getting the videos of public inspections and interactions uploaded on social media sites to create an impression that they reach out to the people for improving infrastructural facilities to improve the delivery of public services across Jammu & Kashmir.
“Wisdom demands that both the political leaders and as well as bureaucrats learn lessons from these bad trends of digital activities on social media platforms and tend to work seriously for bringing about a perceptible change in both the infrastructural facilities and as well as delivery of public services. Experiences of decades have shown that initiatives taken for improving the infrastructural facilities and delivery of pubic services always change public perceptions about both the standards of people’s representation and as well as working of the Government. It is the time for both the public representatives particularly MLAs and Parliament Members (MPs) to give up the practice of digital activities on social media sites and tend to take all the initiatives for improving both the infrastructural facilities and as well as delivery of public services across Jammu & Kashmir.”
This usual digital activity of the public representatives has in fact led to the crushing defeat of several prominent political leaders in the recently held assembly elections but unfortunately such leaders are still engaged in these unwanted and unusual digital activities on social media platforms equally in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division. Wisdom demands that both the political leaders and as well as bureaucrats learn lessons from these bad trends of digital activities on social media platforms and tend to work seriously for bringing about a perceptible change in both the infrastructural facilities and as well as delivery of public services. Experiences of decades have shown that initiatives taken for improving the infrastructural facilities and delivery of pubic services always change public perceptions about both the standards of people’s representation and as well as working of the Government. It is the time for both the public representatives particularly MLAs and Parliament Members (MPs) to give up the practice of digital activities on social media sites and tend to take all the initiatives for improving both the infrastructural facilities and as well as delivery of public services across Jammu & Kashmir.
