Do Indian Ministers need training in Communication Skills?

Communication is an act of expressing your ideas to others: this can be vocal, written, visual (maps, logos etc.) or non-visual (gestures, body language etc.). How well this information can be transmitted and received is a measure of how good our communication skills are.

Ministers play a vital role in the development of the society as they are the ones who decide how the government is run and what reforms are undertaken. To help our country progress, politicians need to direct their subordinates as well as people to work in a coherent and harmonious manner. To guide our country toward the right direction, ministers need to have good communication skills so as to make others understand what needs to be done and how. However easy this may seem, our ministers often find themselves embroiled in controversies so far as their communication skills are concerned. We have seen many times in the recent past that ministers make derogatory remarks about others or others' faiths and beliefs, oftentimes leading to law and order problem in the society; their communication skills have also been under question because there have been instances where ministers have slapped or pushed reporters for asking simple and innocent questions; thus shaming themselves as well as the country by their unruly behaviour, not only in the public but even in the legislative assemblies and Parliament across the length and breadth of the country. If you ask : Do our ministers need training in communication skills? I think they really do.