Today, 26th January, is the Republic-Day of India.
Republic according to dictionary means: A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy. Sovereignty means: The liberty to decide (choose) one's thoughts and actions. The state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations.
So if good laws are made and corresponding procedures are made simpler, leaner and easier to follow then good governance follows.
All like good governance. There are exceptions of a few whose 'living' itself depends on non-governance.
For good or desired governance, voters need to choose (vote-in) deserving and desired people in government who make laws and procedures for governance.
An article on the republic day eve yesterday (the national voters day in India), reported that more than 40% of young respondents between 18-29 years age were not registered yet as voters. Top reason: Process of registration is cumbersome!
When things get difficult¹ to perform, people generally avoid doing the desired. Similarly, unless the process of voter registration is made simpler, prospective voters won't come out to register.
Apart from this, agent's businesses thrive on such difficult processes. Enemies of democracy proliferate. Their premium goes up. Authorities earn 'speed-money' to speed up 'difficult' processes. In the process of speeding up their side income, rules get a passé.
Although at a premium, infiltrators fighting for their survival and to get a foothold in a foreign country go out of their way to foot the bill. Danger of dirty (read corrupt) candidates getting elected gets more likely. Governance getting a miss becomes more probable.
What's the solution?
People-in-power need to make processes and procedures simpler², leaner and easier. But they might take their sweet time to do so.
Meanwhile in their own interest, voters need to take that extra pain to register themselves. And then come out; walk that extra mile to:
Vote For Governance !
Rest Will Follow. In absence of that extra pain, the enemy within and the enemy outside both are sure to gain.
So on this Republic-Day, let's use that sovereign liberty and our choice in order to (as my MaiKu© poem on the subject goes):
Make It³ Simpler² n Leaner!
Rest Will Get Easier !!
Life Will Become Merrier !!!
MaiKu© Is My-Haiku
Freely ideate it's poetic rhymes
Any objective topic it chimes
Footnote
1: 3D: Dirty-Danger-Difficult work is avoided by people. A fire-fighter, for instance, won't willingly jump to fight a fire if he isn't protected by appropriate gears. Unless danger to his life is mitigated, he will not go out of his way to get people out of danger.
2: MISER: Minimize, Improvise, Simplify, Eliminate, Reduce
3: Things under our control
Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder:
WOW Work-Culture: By Telling or Selling
Take Habits For A Ride
Discrimination-is-Cremation of Law-&-Order (Part-1)
Discrimination-is-Cremation of Law-&-Order (Part-2)
Discrimination Cremated! But How Long?
How To Make A Difference
Big-Be Or Bug-Be !
Treat Root-causes, Not Symptoms !
Nauseous Communication Gaps
Do You Cleanup-After-Crisis
Raam or Krishna-Shyam: Tell me Hey Raam!
Will It Work Here?
Some Moron Some Great
That's How Morons Work
You seem Reasonable if you appear Un-reasonable
Smart-Moron Who Breaks Your Glass
Suggestions On-Sale, None-To-Buy
Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
Ridiculous Poison-culture versus Maverick Kaizen-culture
Tolerate Once, Twice, Thrice?
That's how some business partnerships work
Taken-For-Granted ? You Deserve It !!
Technology in-place, security dis-placed
IQ-EQ-or-SQ: What-is-more-important?
Do you know a Best-Career-Plan
Customer or Custo-Mer?
Experienced A Delightful Payment !
An Experience of Heart-and-Soul
Less With More And More Gets Sore
Should one care for value?
ABCD of India Shining
Beware Of Political-Presentations
Do You Cleanup-After-Crisis
Hoarders Of Filthy Hoardings
Are You Good If Others Are Bad?
In-big-problem? Wear-hats-to-solve-it!
Success-or-failure! What-do-you-like?
Do you exercise your choice meaningfully
Do You Ask Right Questions?
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