“My desh ki rakhsak janta ki savik ho..Capitan of Indian army”,
says the hero. “Do you know who am I? I am your boss the Indian citizen, your
army run by our taxes”, says the heroine. These are the striking lines with which the new Indian
movie Junooniyat (2016) begins. The movie begins with a scene in which a
drowning girl is salvaged by a soldier of the Indian army. The dialogues of the
both the hero and that of the heroine are of paramount importance if viewed
from the lens of the operations of the public sector institutions in the
developing countries especially Pakistan.
The public servants of Pakistan whether they are civil or military
personnel think of themselves as superior to the common populace. They
have frequently been noted for their indifference in the execution of the
public services which they are constitutionally bound to deliver. They consider
the delivery of services as a special favor on their part with the public. It
is simply due to the fact that they don’t think who their employer is? Simply say,
it is the general public- the tax payers with whose money they are paid
and entitled to the privileged statuses they enjoy.
Every single man of in street is the employer of the highest
rank public servant of the state. It is the money paid by vendors, cobblers,
drivers and shopkeepers which is spent on the public services, and the servants
are supposed to manage and oversee the delivery of these services. But the
disposition and attitude of the public servants which is marked by a gross
indifference towards the public services reflect that they are still unaware
who their employer is? Once the same concept was inculcated into the mind of
the public servants they will become aware of the true identity of their
employer and thereby will become conscious of their duties in the delivery of
services to the public.
The realization of the public as being employer of the state
servants has better been uttered by the heroine of the movie Junooniyat (2016),
whereas words of the hero himself reflect that he is aware of the identity of
his employer and is thereby conscious of his duties. The Capitan (hero)
does not at first tell about his rank and department rather introduces himself
as the servant of the public and a man
devoted to the uplift of the state – a soldier of the Indian army. Perhaps the
most interesting are the words of the drowning girl (the heroine) who asks the
captain whether he knew who the girl was, and then says that she was his boss
or employer -an Indian citizen, with whose taxes the Indian army runs.
This type of education is badly needed by the public servants
of Pakistan in particular and its masses in general. The public servants once
becomes aware of the their employer or boss which are but the general public,
they will cease their attitude of indifference towards them and will devote
themselves with heart and soul to the delivery of the services to the public
which the constitutional duty of the servants and right of the public. The
public, if became aware of the their right to services and knew the fact that
the public servants are but their paid employees, will no more regard delivery
of the services as a favor on part of the servants and will openly resist the
VIP culture and undue protocol of the public servant as an impediment in
their way of entitlement to the services, as it is enunciated by the heroine of
the movie Junooniyat (2016),. It is time Pakistan promote such civic education in
the country.
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