Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jun 9: Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner, V Ponnuraj, who had been sent to USA on two-week training, reported back for duties on Tuesday June 8. He had attended a special training course by experts on the subject of implementation of new development projects and their management, at the Duke University, Durham NC, USA.

On his experiences at USA, Ponnuraj found the civic sense of Americans to be worth appreciating. He found that the Americans voluntarily obey the rules and laws and therefore, the administration faces less problems in handling law and order problems. He also found that the town planning, drainage system, obeying of traffic rules, and neat planning, construction and maintenance of buildings found in that country, were worth emulating.

The practice in our country is that in case of traffic rule violations, the policemen abuse the offenders and then fine them. However, in USA, the policemen behave politely with even the offenders, although they too penalize them as per rules. Their duty-consciousness is a plus point, Ponnuraj explained.

Ponnuraj finds no major changes in the administrative procedures of USA and India. He feels that the things he learnt at the training will come in handy while discharging his administrative duties here.