Lok Sabha elections 2019 has quite a few former IAS and IPS officers turning to politics — some who joined after retirement and others who dumped their careers midway.
New Delhi Municipal Council area was awarded as the 'Cleanest Small City' while Uttarakhand's Gauchar was adjudged the 'Best Ganga Town' under the Swachh Survekshan awards.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
One has mixed feelings about this development. These are highly educated, talented individuals, they have practical experience of governance, some would say they will enrich politics. However, the political neutrality / impartiality on which a permcivil service is based will be weakened, undermined if officers – either post retirement, or by resigning – begin to enter electoral politics. 2. A not unrelated aside. Some of the lateral entrants who have been selected by the UPSC – the earlier proposal was an in house selection panel headed by the Cabinet Secretary – are now found to be ideologically aligned to the ruling party. One way or another, politics is permeating administration.
Congress desperately wants its chair back. For this they will support anybody to fight election for the purpose of vote cutting. But aaega to Modi hi.
One has mixed feelings about this development. These are highly educated, talented individuals, they have practical experience of governance, some would say they will enrich politics. However, the political neutrality / impartiality on which a permcivil service is based will be weakened, undermined if officers – either post retirement, or by resigning – begin to enter electoral politics. 2. A not unrelated aside. Some of the lateral entrants who have been selected by the UPSC – the earlier proposal was an in house selection panel headed by the Cabinet Secretary – are now found to be ideologically aligned to the ruling party. One way or another, politics is permeating administration.