Babudom . This is a noun used informally in South Asia. It means bureaucracy as allegedly created and perpetuated by babus. Also called babucracy. I used to think this term and such specimen are only present in government organisations and other civil agencies. How wrong I was.I have been encountering them daily in the RWA meetings. The purpose of a bureaucracy is to successfully implement the actions of an organization of any size, but unfortunately in our Society we have turned it into a fine art on how to ensure that a thing is not done in time. The Committee meetings remind me of the following sayings:
" A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard"
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ~John Kenneth Galbraith.
" A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard"
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ~John Kenneth Galbraith.
The RWA has certainly turned this into a fine art on how to ensure things are not done in time.
Will things change???????? May be not in the immediate future, people are too stuck in the 19th Century Grove, where computer is an alien thing, consulting others is not heard off and taking suggestions from others below dignity. All things must be done by hand, cannot depend on the computer are still the moto.
Am I being too pessimistic ?? May be, but this is one time I sincerely hope I am proved wrong..................
Hi, I have recently shifted to this society around 2 months back. Its disturbing to know that this place is not worth to be called as a society as it lacks the basic living standards to be maintained by a human group staying together. Apart from getting frustrated everyday by the power cuts and the delays of back up for more than 5 mins most of the times, shortage of water, pathetic sanitary conditions around..... I have encountered a atrocious problem today. Somebody urinates and passes stool in front of the society flats right near the lifts....disgusting and it is not a one day story....its happening from past a month or may be more than that and the caretakers are not even bothered. I strongly recommend not to opt for this society even if u have to pay a little higher....after all its the basic standard of life for which we r paying so much.
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