It is easy to fudge accounts. But the truth will prevail about the gross mismanagement of forests and wildlife in India. The bureaucracy at the Centre and in the states that governs and manages our natural treasures has no clue whatsoever as to how to do so — which is why forests have shrunk and animals have continued to head towards extinction. Lack of experience in the ‘field' and no substantive expertise have led to the abject failure. The men in charge are in eternal denial. They come up with untenable explanations to accompany their limited knowledge. They manipulate their bosses and play politics in the worst possible fashion to cover up their faulty operations.
Archaic positions and regulations allow for corruption and malfunction. Misuse of power, sarcastic reactions to any intelligent and appropriate suggestion from civil society, complete lack of accountability and more have brought us down to our knees. It is shameful that India permits its bureaucracy to kill the great inheritance and legacy of this nation. Other countries have found solutions and worked wonders. India has only one response — close the area to the people. This is the commonplace, weak ploy of men and women who, because of insufficient brain-power, prefer dictatorial stances. It generates a kingdom of wholesale corruption where the doorkeeper is bureaucracy and where accountability remains in the hands of a class that is going the wrong way, behind closed doors. Thus, the destructive nexus of those mandated to enforce the laws and the lawbreakers has besieged modern India, weakening our civilization. Read the full report here.
Source: Malvika Singh, The Telegrap, Kolkata.
