There are always good people within all departments and I will not paint a broad brush on the entire lot of people. My point is MODP as a ministry does not function in the classic sense that a ministry responsible for production decisions. MODP at the end of the day it designed to bring some process structure on how projects are approved (the formality part) and hence can be funded. However reality is that the decisions are made not at the ministry level but within the functional groups that are perhaps part of the ministry. So the MODP as a ministry is toothless. In my previous post I mentioned that the real decisions around productions are made at SPD, HIT and Kamra and a few other groups. I am not even sure if PAC Kamra and others are units of MODP. They very well might be. But do try and understand that I am making a distinction between the Ministry and the parts that perhaps make it. Reason for that is the independent nature and decision making authority that lies in those sub-units not in the Ministry.
In terms of knowing about the Ministry, this particular ministry is one I am very familiar with on many levels.
Finally let me state whatever power that does exist in the Ministry is with the Secretary of the Ministry, not the Minister. That person usually is a an ex-uniformed person, and he is often the guy these other units rely on to keep things in line.'
If you think of MoDP as the procurement and a quasi sales sales branch of key production organizations then you'll be more accurate. Anything more than that is giving too much credence to this ministry.
