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My own experiences with bureaucrats make me feel that many of them lead politicians in subtle ways into the pit to be able to control them. Babudom is getting increasingly politicized. The nexus between IAS officers and mantris is bad news for citizens. The entire bureaucracy is nurtured at a huge distance from the life of the people. They think they are called to be servants of political masters. So long this attitude prevails, no knowledge of any procedure or regulation will help. The crucial issue in ethics, as Immanuel Kant pointed two hundred years ago, is that the will to act according to the ethical sense which is already there is under-developed. We all know what is right and what is wrong. What we lack is the will power to stand by the good we know. So, we have become experts in inventing excuses for supporting the corrupt and violating our conscience. The worst thing about a corrupt order is the oppression it mounts on the honest. Those who are not convinced may read my Memoir titled On A Stormy Course (Hachette India, 2017). It is available on Amazon.in
The author is only stating the obvious. A ignorant civil servant eager to please but not knowing the procedures, or that they are to be adhered to in letter and spirit, is not distinguishable from a corrupt compliant official.
The official must do the right thing and if the minister wants to do the wrong thing, the minister is free to override the official at his own risk. Sometimes the minister may override for reasons which are justified politically. But if the minister is doing a corrupt act, he will always want to hide behind the official’s file notings.
So there cannot be any mercy for officials who bend the rules or twist them or act against the public interest to please their political masters for whatever reasons. Officials have plenty of service protection from dismissal. It is intended only to help them take a courageous stand in the favor of the proper thing to be done.
So good officers should not normally suffer, but bad officers whether ignorant/corrupt/etc must be punished severely.
Aptly put, Mr Goel. In a recent book (Sutras for Super cops) available on Amazon.in, I have dealt with the visitation of karma on police officers when they violate the laws of integrity and professionalism.In fact, this applies to all those who are entrusted with power over others.
My autobiography “Pursuit of Law and order, Amazon.in, might also be of interest to all civil servants.
A P Durai IPS
This is what I know about IAS Officers. As probationers, they train to be honest.
As Assistant Commissioners, they are Indian Administrative Service officers. By the time they finish their tenure as Deputy Commissioners, they are members of the Indifferent Administrative Service .
By the time they reach Secretary level, they are members of the Indian Association of Scoundrels.
By the time they become ACS, they are MFs. They will do anything for money, wine, women etc. One amongst this MFs becomes CS & contests elections. I have never come across a single objective , caring and dedicated IAS officer here.
Please add ‘ by the time, they become secretaries, they are members of the Indian Ass kissing Service and continue
IAS men and women should accept that the service is corrupt from the core. Few years back corruption used to start after some years of service. In initial years, officers used to be honest but the present trend is different. The corruption starts from the beginning and currently officers are hiring professional services for image building.
The article does not give much comfort to the aspiring civil servant except to say that he must know the procedures fully and point them out to the political bosses. In a recent case, some official in the MOD has pointed out on the file how wrong it was for the Govt to release funds to Dassault without a sovereign guarantee. He has been overruled by the top politicians of the country who probably pressured the senior most civil servant to play ball .
In the case of Coal Secy H C Gupta the case is also different. It is not that he was trapped by Man MOhan Singh, but that in the hysteria of finding wrong doers , even judges get carried away
and fail to see that it is impossible for a Committee to check every financial detail of hundreds of allottees . If the allottees deceive the Govt with false data, it is they who must be punished . If there was no collusion, the civil servant cannot be punished . HC will have to go on appeal for all the cases filed against him.
IN INDIA TODAY, A TRUTHFUL AND HONEST WILL BE TESTED IN EVRY STEP OF LIFE. WE ARE NOT PATRIOTS. ONE IS NOT LOVING MOTHERLAND AND NATION. HOW CAN YOU EXPECT FROM HE WILL BE GROOMED AS STRONGER. WORST CLASS POLITICIAN,. WORSE PUBLIC SERVENT , BAD OUR THINKING AND ACT.
I don’t totally agree with. Whether it is civil services or any authority ,while putting up the note the concerned officer has to clearly state the rule position ,procedure and also deviation if any. Then it is for the appropriate authority to clear the file or return it. When the concerned officer does his job in a half baked way , issue may boomranging. Particularly IAS officers at any level need not worry ,provided they are up right and clean
I advise the new entrants to the top AIS services to decide from day one whether they want to be honest. Or dishonest with tight compartment , no intermediate way. If you decide to be honest, you should be ready for side postings, stringent way of living, no recognition in Govt, public and in your own Department, disrespectful attitude from subordinates and avoiding behaviour from seniors , abuse sharing from wife and children before and after retirement due to financial crunch and so many difficulties but you will come through these barriers as your conscience will be strong. If you decide to be dishonest, start from the first day, upto 10 AM daily register your haxri with, CM, HM, CS and other officials and politicians who matter, be ready to accomplish their desires of every kind , be ready for persecution and prosecution of wrong orders and deeds of them , enjoy field postings and earning money with fame and medals. fascinating way of living for family, cars, jewellery and houses. Remember money makes the mare go. But at last you will repent that your children had fallen in bad society, could not get into AIS services. After retirement the money you earned shall not help you as you will be caught by several permanent diseases which will not allow you to enjoy full creamy food, drinks, namkins, sweets and early oldness will come to you as death in the dreams. Disobedience from sons and daughters in law. Wife shall be cursing rather respect you who although enjoyed best of your periods
Hi dear the question raised. are genuine but the higher buracracy is also much involved in doing the misdeed to the country once they join the system they all trained to misuse the law,s loopholes for personal benefits ,as a human being of low morality so why making a noise the iron steel frame is rusted from within no morally no ethics only money money and no paroitism with regards swachh samarpit simplified samridh self done Sindhu
They are all corrupt without exception.They are not misused…..they have their vested interests….. involving billions.They pose themselves as honest only after retirement to get sympathy of public.They take hefty bribes…. syphon off it either in business or real estate or gold and precious stones or send it to foreign countries through hawala where they have already settled their sons and daughters.
So beware of these shameless corrupt bureaucrats posing themselves as honest and upright crusaders.
The opinion is one sided. IAS is sacastically termed “I Am Safe” service. They play the game intelligently. If anything goes wrong they also pass the buck by stating that they were misled by the lower level officers. Very few IAS officers suffer like the coal secretary. It’s also a fact that over the years the quality of IAS officers is coming down in terms of honesty and integrity.
It is basically bureaucrats who are in collusion with politicians. The bureaucrats heading deptts./PSUs sideline honest officers and get the orders of masters implemented. If these senior IAS officers could keep their spine straight, no politician can make them budge and get wrongs done from them. Yes, what happens is that certain black sheeps in every cadre are their to oblige . And, that makes honest officers suffer by being denied top posts or incentives. And the wrongdoers get all what they want. This system continues and thus, population of wrongdoers increases. Honest officers, on many occasions, endanger their own life and property.
My own experiences with bureaucrats make me feel that many of them lead politicians in subtle ways into the pit to be able to control them. Babudom is getting increasingly politicized. The nexus between IAS officers and mantris is bad news for citizens. The entire bureaucracy is nurtured at a huge distance from the life of the people. They think they are called to be servants of political masters. So long this attitude prevails, no knowledge of any procedure or regulation will help. The crucial issue in ethics, as Immanuel Kant pointed two hundred years ago, is that the will to act according to the ethical sense which is already there is under-developed. We all know what is right and what is wrong. What we lack is the will power to stand by the good we know. So, we have become experts in inventing excuses for supporting the corrupt and violating our conscience. The worst thing about a corrupt order is the oppression it mounts on the honest. Those who are not convinced may read my Memoir titled On A Stormy Course (Hachette India, 2017). It is available on Amazon.in
The author is only stating the obvious. A ignorant civil servant eager to please but not knowing the procedures, or that they are to be adhered to in letter and spirit, is not distinguishable from a corrupt compliant official.
The official must do the right thing and if the minister wants to do the wrong thing, the minister is free to override the official at his own risk. Sometimes the minister may override for reasons which are justified politically. But if the minister is doing a corrupt act, he will always want to hide behind the official’s file notings.
So there cannot be any mercy for officials who bend the rules or twist them or act against the public interest to please their political masters for whatever reasons. Officials have plenty of service protection from dismissal. It is intended only to help them take a courageous stand in the favor of the proper thing to be done.
So good officers should not normally suffer, but bad officers whether ignorant/corrupt/etc must be punished severely.
Aptly put, Mr Goel. In a recent book (Sutras for Super cops) available on Amazon.in, I have dealt with the visitation of karma on police officers when they violate the laws of integrity and professionalism.In fact, this applies to all those who are entrusted with power over others.
My autobiography “Pursuit of Law and order, Amazon.in, might also be of interest to all civil servants.
A P Durai IPS
This is what I know about IAS Officers. As probationers, they train to be honest.
As Assistant Commissioners, they are Indian Administrative Service officers. By the time they finish their tenure as Deputy Commissioners, they are members of the Indifferent Administrative Service .
By the time they reach Secretary level, they are members of the Indian Association of Scoundrels.
By the time they become ACS, they are MFs. They will do anything for money, wine, women etc. One amongst this MFs becomes CS & contests elections. I have never come across a single objective , caring and dedicated IAS officer here.
Please add ‘ by the time, they become secretaries, they are members of the Indian Ass kissing Service and continue
IAS men and women should accept that the service is corrupt from the core. Few years back corruption used to start after some years of service. In initial years, officers used to be honest but the present trend is different. The corruption starts from the beginning and currently officers are hiring professional services for image building.
Social media is full of such stories.
The article does not give much comfort to the aspiring civil servant except to say that he must know the procedures fully and point them out to the political bosses. In a recent case, some official in the MOD has pointed out on the file how wrong it was for the Govt to release funds to Dassault without a sovereign guarantee. He has been overruled by the top politicians of the country who probably pressured the senior most civil servant to play ball .
In the case of Coal Secy H C Gupta the case is also different. It is not that he was trapped by Man MOhan Singh, but that in the hysteria of finding wrong doers , even judges get carried away
and fail to see that it is impossible for a Committee to check every financial detail of hundreds of allottees . If the allottees deceive the Govt with false data, it is they who must be punished . If there was no collusion, the civil servant cannot be punished . HC will have to go on appeal for all the cases filed against him.
IN INDIA TODAY, A TRUTHFUL AND HONEST WILL BE TESTED IN EVRY STEP OF LIFE. WE ARE NOT PATRIOTS. ONE IS NOT LOVING MOTHERLAND AND NATION. HOW CAN YOU EXPECT FROM HE WILL BE GROOMED AS STRONGER. WORST CLASS POLITICIAN,. WORSE PUBLIC SERVENT , BAD OUR THINKING AND ACT.
I don’t totally agree with. Whether it is civil services or any authority ,while putting up the note the concerned officer has to clearly state the rule position ,procedure and also deviation if any. Then it is for the appropriate authority to clear the file or return it. When the concerned officer does his job in a half baked way , issue may boomranging. Particularly IAS officers at any level need not worry ,provided they are up right and clean
I advise the new entrants to the top AIS services to decide from day one whether they want to be honest. Or dishonest with tight compartment , no intermediate way. If you decide to be honest, you should be ready for side postings, stringent way of living, no recognition in Govt, public and in your own Department, disrespectful attitude from subordinates and avoiding behaviour from seniors , abuse sharing from wife and children before and after retirement due to financial crunch and so many difficulties but you will come through these barriers as your conscience will be strong. If you decide to be dishonest, start from the first day, upto 10 AM daily register your haxri with, CM, HM, CS and other officials and politicians who matter, be ready to accomplish their desires of every kind , be ready for persecution and prosecution of wrong orders and deeds of them , enjoy field postings and earning money with fame and medals. fascinating way of living for family, cars, jewellery and houses. Remember money makes the mare go. But at last you will repent that your children had fallen in bad society, could not get into AIS services. After retirement the money you earned shall not help you as you will be caught by several permanent diseases which will not allow you to enjoy full creamy food, drinks, namkins, sweets and early oldness will come to you as death in the dreams. Disobedience from sons and daughters in law. Wife shall be cursing rather respect you who although enjoyed best of your periods
Hi dear the question raised. are genuine but the higher buracracy is also much involved in doing the misdeed to the country once they join the system they all trained to misuse the law,s loopholes for personal benefits ,as a human being of low morality so why making a noise the iron steel frame is rusted from within no morally no ethics only money money and no paroitism with regards swachh samarpit simplified samridh self done Sindhu
They are all corrupt without exception.They are not misused…..they have their vested interests….. involving billions.They pose themselves as honest only after retirement to get sympathy of public.They take hefty bribes…. syphon off it either in business or real estate or gold and precious stones or send it to foreign countries through hawala where they have already settled their sons and daughters.
So beware of these shameless corrupt bureaucrats posing themselves as honest and upright crusaders.
U know best.
The opinion is one sided. IAS is sacastically termed “I Am Safe” service. They play the game intelligently. If anything goes wrong they also pass the buck by stating that they were misled by the lower level officers. Very few IAS officers suffer like the coal secretary. It’s also a fact that over the years the quality of IAS officers is coming down in terms of honesty and integrity.
It is basically bureaucrats who are in collusion with politicians. The bureaucrats heading deptts./PSUs sideline honest officers and get the orders of masters implemented. If these senior IAS officers could keep their spine straight, no politician can make them budge and get wrongs done from them. Yes, what happens is that certain black sheeps in every cadre are their to oblige . And, that makes honest officers suffer by being denied top posts or incentives. And the wrongdoers get all what they want. This system continues and thus, population of wrongdoers increases. Honest officers, on many occasions, endanger their own life and property.