Institutions are organizations founded and united for a specific purpose.
Institutions also represent sets of relationships, practices or behavioral
patterns of a community or a society. Services to the society by state,
including transportation services, are rendered through a set of such
private and public institutions. Over a period of time, with the changing
needs and priorities of the community and society, the institutions lose
their relevance, if similar changes in their roles, relationships and
functions are not incorporated.
India as a society has been experiencing changes affecting various
facets of life of its citizens. Transportation services have not been
left untouched. With globalization and growing importance of free market
enterprise, it has become pertinent for institutions of India providing
services in transportation to realign them.
With close association LASA has been having with many of India’s
institutions related to provision of transportation services, it has
achieved an unparalleled understanding of their working. Such understanding
sweeps across all levels of governance including central (federal),
state (provincial) and municipal.
Based on deep understanding of the transportation as a sector and an
intimate knowledge of the institutions involved in provision of transportation
as a service, LASA has successfully advised many of them in ways to
strengthen themselves. Specific services rendered under such assignments
include:
- Legal provisions
- Functional and administrative structure
- Employment and training of staff
- Funding for road works and for administration, salaries and expenses
- Financial control
- Process Audit
- Planning criteria
- Materials test facilities
- Effective quality control of all operations
- Monitoring systems
- Access to research and information
- Recruitment policies of manpower
- Condition of employment and pay structure
- Lack of overall external, institutional and internal staff accountability;
and
- Organizational efficiency and structural complexity
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