We select individuals capable of becoming Formula One drivers. Then we give them rickety Maruti 800s on potholed roads and expect championship lap times.
If we get this right, the citizen of 2047 will experience government as ambient and humane. Benefits arrive when needed without forms; grievances resolve in hours.
Indian politicians expect civil servants to suck up to them. Ireland envoy Akhilesh Mishra's hit-job on Congress and his admiration of PM Modi will undoubtedly be noted by his political masters.
Two solutions come to mind: Govt must fix the tenure and duration for officers and make empanelment for top positions non-discretionary, matrix-based, and transparent.
There’s a reason senior government officials rely more on consultants than their own subordinates. They walk the extra mile that mid or junior-level officials won’t.
When IAS officer and Jaisalmer collector Tina Dabi changes her Instagram profile picture, or goes for a walk with her husband, or even wears a bindi, she becomes the news.
Bengal CM Mamata raised the issue with Modi govt during her visit to Delhi last week. In April, Bengal chief secretary wrote to Union govt seeking more IAS and IPS officers.
Uniformity of rules should be the playbook across sectors. Different rules, whether for telecom players, retail entities or online businesses, would invariably trigger the level-playing questions.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
This is strawman and a poor article in general. It basically doesn’t even address the issues in UPSC, just one complaint out of many. It’s not just the memory based exam issue but the idealisation of the service to an extent that it’s not even considered a public service anymore, but a position of power, thoroughly abused as seen in many cases and probably many unreported cases. The amount of behavioral issues among civil servants is so prevalent, that it has rightly earned its reputation of being the puppets of politicians. Anyway, I see no mention of safeguards against abuse by politicians for their own benefit. A thousand issues with the UPSC, an outdated exam pattern with no transparent selection process. Obviously a former civil servant would defend the institution that made him, but this desperate effort to counter valid criticism falls flat. If they know how to drive in formula 1, who is giving them the maruti? Funny. It’s you thats the beraucracy. It’s you who atleast get to drive the maruti, metaphorically, while the people that rely on your work, are not even able to ride a bicycle, metaphorically ofcourse. I had a couple of chuckles reading the article. Funny man
The schools have become the schools training Godi Giri , Questioning punishable, freedom from accountability and compliance and freedom from corruption. They are competing with the politicians in growing.
Besides the issues in selection process, the induction as well as future trainings seem improper and inadequate. The officers do not take it as a public service but to act as a boss to command! They keep themselves isolated from the general public and feel they are superior to others unlike in other advanced countries! They fail to honour the technocrats who really deliver on the ground. On the other hand they fall victims to political bosses. Whole criss cross and confusion to show right direction to nation. Training should be so good that shapes up their mindset and personality.
This is strawman and a poor article in general. It basically doesn’t even address the issues in UPSC, just one complaint out of many. It’s not just the memory based exam issue but the idealisation of the service to an extent that it’s not even considered a public service anymore, but a position of power, thoroughly abused as seen in many cases and probably many unreported cases. The amount of behavioral issues among civil servants is so prevalent, that it has rightly earned its reputation of being the puppets of politicians. Anyway, I see no mention of safeguards against abuse by politicians for their own benefit. A thousand issues with the UPSC, an outdated exam pattern with no transparent selection process. Obviously a former civil servant would defend the institution that made him, but this desperate effort to counter valid criticism falls flat. If they know how to drive in formula 1, who is giving them the maruti? Funny. It’s you thats the beraucracy. It’s you who atleast get to drive the maruti, metaphorically, while the people that rely on your work, are not even able to ride a bicycle, metaphorically ofcourse. I had a couple of chuckles reading the article. Funny man
The schools have become the schools training Godi Giri , Questioning punishable, freedom from accountability and compliance and freedom from corruption. They are competing with the politicians in growing.
I really appreciate your views. Very nicely written and expressed.
Best Regards
alakesh
Besides the issues in selection process, the induction as well as future trainings seem improper and inadequate. The officers do not take it as a public service but to act as a boss to command! They keep themselves isolated from the general public and feel they are superior to others unlike in other advanced countries! They fail to honour the technocrats who really deliver on the ground. On the other hand they fall victims to political bosses. Whole criss cross and confusion to show right direction to nation. Training should be so good that shapes up their mindset and personality.