Duty

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

Duty is duty whether is of less or high in quality, quantity, and in payment. We should fulfill our duty either it may be the layman’s duty or the duty of the president. We have to fulfill our duty at any cost neither we may be obstructed for payment nor we may get support of others. The duty is to be followed timely rather to be deferred which is the common habit of Nepalese people. If we defer our duty it will affect us in the future so our habit needs much improvement improving duty habits.

We should be responsible person in the society or in the work place. We have been appointed as personnel of any institution so we should be responsible to do the work what is assigned to us. The thing what is given to us should be done on time so that we can get even more responsibility from the office or officers. It has two consequences: it helps us to increase the trust and we can have chance to get more responsibility that helps in the increment of our income. The final goal is to improve our life style.

Duty and accountability are interconnected elements. We should be accountable to our work as accountability is the condition of taking the responsibility of the work what we have done. We must be accountable towards our clients so that we can get the positive outcome out of it. There are two types of accountability: horizontal and vertical. Horizontal accountability is related to the clients whom we have been working. On the other hand, vertical accountability deals with the higher authority to be responsible. If we can balance both of these factors it helps to produce good result in our life.

Duty should be followed by time which is another factor to determine the quality and efficiency of the worker. If the duty is given to any worker, certainly there is time bound. So we should follow time to make ourselves reliable follower of accountability. If we can’t fulfill duty on time, we wouldn’t be able to get even more responsibility. Accordingly, our job is in danger of being redundant. It will reduce our income and trust, eventually we will be workless. Duty and time are integral factors and only the successful can go ahead. Thus it determines success and failure in our life along with economic and social benefits. So to be a successful man we have to follow duty on time.

Duty also determines payment of any personnel where s/he has been working. If we fulfill duty on time we can get payment duly; neither we have to lose our labor, time and opportunity cost as well. We have done work to get some money or payment. So duty has direct connection with economic benefit or it is also the tempting factor for every individual. Moreover, it also encourages a person to stay away from idleness. Money is the matter to follow duty in a person’s life which always haunts them. Since the payment is on the basis of duty and quality people are prone to follow the duty on time.

Likewise, we can see the relation with duty and identity of ours. We acquaint ourselves along with our duty. For example: he is an officer, she is a doctor and so on. Since our identity is defined by the duty, we have to follow it properly. It also gives us benefit, if we have followed it well neither would we be doomed. In this way, we have taken duty as a social matter more than a payment. Being a social creature we have to form our identity to be recognized in the society. Thus duty is the determining factor in our social life which provides us dignity and respect. If we are unable to fulfill the duty, we have been rated as a coward man in the society and our social identity will be down. If we can fulfill duty on time, we will get even more responsibility that will increase our social recognition along with positives.

At last I would like to repeat that duty is duty as it has played vital role in human’s life. We should be able to fulfill our duty on time so that we can have various possibilities that have been following us. If we are dutiful in our life, we can do what we have planned. Accordingly, our social recognition would be high and we can be an established man in the society.