What makes Nitish Kumar the best CM in India ?

Nitish Kumar is the Best CM of the Country. This statement may receive several contradictions, but there is no doubt that he is one of the Best CMs in India.

His style of work is often praised by his critics also. Simplicity, Tough Measures, Zero tolerance against Corrupt is what makes him distinct. It is he who is credited for bringing Bihar back on the maps of India. Here we present his few initiatives which put him ahead of most leaders and Chief Ministers in India.

Nitish started by issuing a public declaration of his own modest property and demanded that all his cabinet colleagues do the same. He brushed aside murmurs of protest and recently extended the diktat further to encompass nearly half a million civil servants and police. Now both citizens and tax officials can easily keep an eye on who is getting richer.

To promote transparency, all complaints of bribery will soon be uploaded to YouTube, making for a palpable shaming effect. The government is also offering whistle-blowers a cash reward of nearly $10,000 if any such tip-offs result in conviction of a corrupt official.

Last year Nitish upped the ante by enacting a law that empowers the Bihar government to confiscate any ill-gotten property, pending trial, and turn it into a school or health clinic. If the accused wins the case, the property is returned (plus interest). “The basic objective … is to instill a sense of fear in the minds of corrupt public servants,” wrote Kumar on his blog. “When they see that their property earned through corrupt practices is ultimately seized by the government, they will realise the futility of amassing wealth.”

Already about 20 officials, including a former state police chief, have been caught in the dragnet. Three have seen their property confiscated, sending a powerful deterrent message to potential bribe-takers around the state.

With another law, the Right to Public Services Act, he imposed deadlines on some 50 government services and established financial penalties for failing to meet them, effectively ending the practice of intentionally delaying delivery and then demanding a bribe to perform.

 And finally, like several other Indian states that have acted faster than the central government, Kumar passed his own ombudsman law.

(Based on the inputs from GlobalPost )