Jun 10, 2009 
New Delhi: Accountability is the key word for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government. And therefore we might soon get new laws which will make it imperative for the government teachers to attend classes and doctors to turn up in hospitals.
Twenty-five per cent government school teachers across India don’t show up in classes and of those who do don’t bother to teach properly.
But now the government wants to get tough and the first indication came from the President’s inaugural address to the Parliament.
So, a new law is being conceptualised which will demand accountability from all stakeholders, especially those involved in the government’s flag ship programmes like the Sarv Siksha Abhiyan and the National Rural Health Mission .This means the law that will make it imperative for teachers to attend classes and doctors to turn up in hospitals.
“We are looking at any public services system and trying to see there is accountability and quality. But we need to open up our lenses a bit, it is not just in matter that teacher is present and marks are being given,” says educationist Anita Rampal.
The bill is tentatively being called the Public Services Law and will be initiated in the next 100 days.
CNN IBN, June 8 2009
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