According to govt data, appointments through promotion at the level of deputy secretary, joint secretary, additional secretary & secretary fell to 2,918 in 2018 from 5,953 in 2016.
Speaking at CPR Dialogues 2020, T.V. Somanathan, secretary in Department of Expenditure, said lateral entries should be based on merit & not on political connections.
Contrary to popular belief, the Indian state is remarkably thin. Compared to other G20 countries, India has the smallest number of bureaucrats per capita.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh said the lateral entry procedure was designed to be objective and hence background would not matter, just one's capability and experience.
In a 2-week training programme, the lateral entrants got a crash course on governance matters that will help them begin their journeys as joint secretaries.
Modi govt has forcibly retired officers, pushed for lateral entry & sought to break IAS stranglehold, earning both praise & flak for tinkering of civil service.
Industry insiders say any rise in duties on Indian generics will squeeze profits for Indian companies, but will also make the drugs costlier for patients in US.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
Scrapping the Planning Commission was a wise act. There the matter should have rested. What Niti Aayog has contributed to the economic development of India – beyond an occasional, tiny uptick in the Ease of Doing Business index – remains an enduring mystery.
1. Bypass upsc
2. Introduce cronies and their agents.
3. Hallowing out govt capacity like it happened in UK
4. Bypass reservation.
5. Bypass talented who clear from lakhs of student and hire foreign Univ educated persons, most of whom are upper caste and form bjp’s NRI support.
6. Degrade Indian universities despite huge talent and competition and value foreign Univ trained moneyed individuals who claim domain expertise.
7. Form policies which has no ground connect and understanding. Only it has ideological underpinning of market liberal fundamentalism which is thoroughly discarded in the West and Europe. This only benefits top 5% of Indian population who have become core BJP supporters.
Ex. Agri reforms-most benefit to traders, core bup supporters. On the other hand excess imports, arbitratrary export ban benefitted traders and leads to losses of farmers kept untouched.
Ex. 2 plight of migrant, labour laws.
You have crony govt. Only more sophisticated than UPA 2 and manages media well. They will only want bigger slice of pie and ignoring size of pie.
It’s against the spirit , rights and scope of the citizens of India.
Scrapping the Planning Commission was a wise act. There the matter should have rested. What Niti Aayog has contributed to the economic development of India – beyond an occasional, tiny uptick in the Ease of Doing Business index – remains an enduring mystery.
1. Bypass upsc
2. Introduce cronies and their agents.
3. Hallowing out govt capacity like it happened in UK
4. Bypass reservation.
5. Bypass talented who clear from lakhs of student and hire foreign Univ educated persons, most of whom are upper caste and form bjp’s NRI support.
6. Degrade Indian universities despite huge talent and competition and value foreign Univ trained moneyed individuals who claim domain expertise.
7. Form policies which has no ground connect and understanding. Only it has ideological underpinning of market liberal fundamentalism which is thoroughly discarded in the West and Europe. This only benefits top 5% of Indian population who have become core BJP supporters.
Ex. Agri reforms-most benefit to traders, core bup supporters. On the other hand excess imports, arbitratrary export ban benefitted traders and leads to losses of farmers kept untouched.
Ex. 2 plight of migrant, labour laws.
You have crony govt. Only more sophisticated than UPA 2 and manages media well. They will only want bigger slice of pie and ignoring size of pie.