Modi govt has forcibly retired officers, pushed for lateral entry & sought to break IAS stranglehold, earning both praise & flak for tinkering of civil service.
There has been no adverse effect on the morale of civil servants because of lateral recruitments, said Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
After the illegal detention of Prema Wangjom Thongdok at Shanghai airport, China once again fell back on a deliberate playbook it has used for decades.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
I am a 75-year old UP NRI residing in Canada since 1975, I am irreparably damaged by the corrupt IAS, IPS, and PCS of UP India. I complained to Modi the Prime Minister of India and others, tragically they all turned a blind eye to my genuine grievances. They condoned the atrocities, crimes against humanity inflicted on me and my family in Canada by Indian IAS, IPS and PCS.
Sadly, this was all eyewash before the elections of 2019. The Disruptor in Chief is now eating out of the hands of the very same bureaucracy. He is like a lost lamb without them.
Really? These bureaucrats are dinosaurs in present world. Passing an exam based in rote learning, these bureaucrats are a serious drag on India’s progress. Can anyone imagine in a fast paced world like this, Indian bureaucrats are still getting promotion on basis of seniority? Name even 10 projects which were done in time and without scams after this bureaucracy was instituted. Slow moving snails, wasteful management of resources, looting nation with nexus with politicians , no accountability, what has this so called pillar given us apart from the worst , most corrupt, lethargic bureaucracy in Asia ? Sorry mam, you are either an aspirant or belong to the coterie to claim the bureaucracy as a “pillar” . Hilarious.
Have u ever met an ias officer do u know how much hard work is required bas kuch bhi bolda kuch search hi karle google par inke nina democracy nahi bachegi bewakoof
Good move. Break the IAS mafia. How come a lateral can change anything in 3-4 years. How dare anyone changes. Time to bring in merit and continuous learning and fresh ideas and subject matter expertise to relevant domains. It is a system where someone takes an exam 35 years back, passes that interview and becomes a jack of all trades at all times. Which business gives you that free ride in the current competitive world where everything changes completely every decades. Outdated, obsolete skills serve no purpose., so bring in young laterals to think fresh. The job is not an entitlement of few who passes that outdated exam and selection process.
Yes! An idiot…illiterate person hijacked the most talented IAS officers !! Unfortunate !!!
IAS officers are most talented.
On what basis? Passing a exam ,huh?
Your definition of most intelligent is crooked up.
That’s why IAS are whipped. They think they are supreme but they are not.
The bureaucracy protects its own. Take the example of Amitabh Gupta, IPS who was sent on compulsory leave for issuing a NOC type letter to one Wadhwan and his family and servants totally numbering 23 in five cars, to travel from Khandala to Mahabaleshwar
( both hill stations in Maharashtra ) duringg lockdown. No doubt the politicians must have taken a huge bribe. But Gupta has not been even suspended.
A reform which is solely needed in India is to do with the proper implementation of the RTI act. This is being hampered by the DOPT or department of personnel and training. All the central ministries headed by the respective ministers and IAS secretaries do not implement section 4(1)b of the rti act under the proactive disclosure clause and even if they do, it is not kept upto date deliberately or key parts are left out from the proactive disclosure. Another issue is that there is no scope for 360 degree disclosure or appraisal by the public consumers of govt services of the central ministries and subordinate organisations because the DOPT managed deptt of administrative reforms does not allow forms to be filled about itself on pgportal.gov.in. People are unable to login easily because of complicated password system and the same is the case with applying for RTI online at rtionline.gov.in. If the stakeholders or basic consumers of govt services cannot appraise or give feedback about services given by IAS officers, what can a 360 degree appraisal mean, except a fake concept being implemented only as lip service?
The biggest damage done to this country is by the BABUs. They were trusted with correcting and guiding the some time even illiterate politicians, because they were suppose to be the cream of the society. It was them who tutored the gullible and played the ball with the corrupt. They were the known wealth creators for themselves and the their political masters.
It is only Modi govt who is capable of shaking the foundation of India’s IAS-led civil service —the rusted and rotten frame . A man given such privileges must be deprived of them even at a hint of wrong doing and then punished in a way, that the rest will think 100 times before indulging in nefarious activities for self or the political master.
In democracy people will elect but the BABUs ( who are selected and protected) can and should make sure that that the elected operate within the parameters laid down by constitution.
The biggest damage done to the country is done by politicians with babus coming in a close second. And with greater authoritarianism as we see under the Great Gujaratis viz. Modi & Shah, even the few segments of babudom that were relatively – I re-iterate relatively – upright and meritocratic will now be turned into puppets.
Hence, when you obsequiously claim “It is only Modi govt who is capable of shaking the foundation of India’s IAS-led civil service”, you are actually turning over an independent civil service to dance to the tunes of 2 RSS and fascism inspired Gujaratis who have run the economy to the ground, increased political instability in the country and waged war on the poor. All for centralising and consolidating their own political power, democracy be damned.
Sadly, India’s upper caste Hindu middle classes back these 2 men, conflating their Hindutva with Hinduism.
Nobody elected those babus. A bunch of humanities graduates who have read too much Karl Marx, read history through the eyes of the Marxist Bipan Chandra and never ran a real business or created jobs are in dangerous policy making positions. Their independence needs to not only be taken away but their agency itself needs to be challenged. It is time for capitalism to take over and save whatever is left of the country or we’ll just be a feeding ground for sending our talented to different countries around the world for the rest of the century and beyond, if there even will ever be a beyond.
My dear , I think you are not aware that the PM and Home Minister both belong to OBC . I don’t understand why you people always show a tendency to bring the upper class into the controversies which has no meaning at all. Please grow up man , don’t be so lame with your thinking . And , as far as the lateral entry is concerned , I also don’t agree to it. It’s not that Modi became PRIME MINISTER just because of the upper class voters . If you study the demography it’s the OBC and the SC,ST who are more in numbers. So, how can you say that it’s only because the upper class backing the MODI and AMIT SHAH …….. When you talk plzzzz have an inspection and analysis about which you are going to say or write.
This is a trailor only the services will be turned into Master and Servant relationship.
Leaders know iron cuts iron by their people secludedly but not uniformly on their Masters , therefore applying it ruthlessly and speedily lest they could consolidate and revisit their faithfulness.
Another exercise by MoSha to consolidate their own power under the guise of reforms.
The IAS, IPS must be abolished. All must join at the lowest rung of the officer cadre and rise up as is the system in the UK. Second, the IAS is a staff function. How can they be senior to the technocrats who are the line function ? This is the biggest fault in our organisations. Third, those who form the rejected stuff (80%) having failed to get seats in medical, engineering etc., take coaching and compete in IAS, IPS. That is why the quality of officers in the IAS, IPS is so poor. What have they done in the lasr 72 yrs. of Independence? Not a single govt. Office is efficient, sensitive to the needs of the public and all depts. are mired in corruption. For rapid development, technocrats must be elevate and given status above the clerks of the IAS. The head of the technical depts. Must report directly to the Minister concetned, and the services of the IAS must be made available to them in the same way that personnel depts. in PSUs do.
IAS are glorified clerks, a governance structure designed by British Invaders to enslave Bhaarat. Brit called it ICS, post 1947 they changed name to IAS.
3050 IAS admin clowns are jack of all trades, masters in none. Should be dismantled by act of parliament & replaced by domain exptertise of technocrats. IAS is the root cause of political and bureucratic corruption, crime chaos, lack of investments, unemployment & poverty in last 73 yrs.
“Should be dismantled by act of parliament & replaced by domain exptertise of technocrats”
You might end up with a bunch of testicle scratching, triushul wielding thugs from the VHP, RSS, Hindu Jagran Manch and other assorted saffronistas running the show and lighting the fire on the funeral pyre of the economy.
You claim:
“IAS is the root cause of political and bureaucratic corruption”
Aren’t you now conflating cause and effect Mr R Sood ? Every IAS officer is forced to kowtow to politicians and threatened if s/he does not do so. the names of IAS officers Ashok Khemka, Durga Nagal ring a bell Mr Sood?
An uncle of mine, anupright IAS officer recruited in the late 50s wrote a report warning the GOI (Congress at that time) about the perils of locating the Union Carbide chemicla plant close to the slums of Bhopal. For his efforts, he was transferred, sidelined and eventually decided to retire early. And his advice to me, way back in the 80s was to stay clear of that profession as it entailed working for politicians rather than the people. And with Modi and Shah now institutionalising political interference in the civil services, rest assured that the civil services will reflect always reflect the contours of Indian politicians. And they, with almost no exceptions are vile, corrupt, power hungry and interested in feathering their own nests.
“Not a single govt. Office is efficient, sensitive to the needs of the public and all depts. are mired in corruption. For rapid development”
Do you know what happens if you are upright and do not toe the line of politicians ? Heard of the cases of honest, upright officers like Ashok Khemka and Durga Nagpal? They have been hounded, threatened, transferred and toyed with by the political class. And the Modi moves which give politicians greater rights to make civil servants do their bidding as opposed to upholding the Constitution will only make the situation worse. Indeed, it entrenches and institutionalises political interventions in the civil services.
Unless there is a watertight insulation of the civil servants from the shenanigans of the political class, you are not far off from the day when you will political apparatchiks and babus from the RSS, VHP and other nutcases that worship the likes of Adityantah running the bureaucracy.
IAS system created by Britishers to rule over India the legacy continued in collaboration with politicians in the bargain they become parasites.
Indian private sector corporate working efficiently due to accountability with no redtapism .
Modi is shaking the foundation of bureaucracy & challenging them hence they are feeling the heat.
It’s good move hopefully will yield results in time to come.
Nice article but note it down those young IAS who have resigned will either join big corporate or Politics for making money. Next I have observed that IAS sitting on key posts will sign the documents after the expectations are fulfilled. Let Income tax department check the assessts official, unofficial, families and benami — they are the richest in India. Please don’t have mercy on these cadres.
Indian Civil Services was introduced in India by Britishers for their own purpose of plundering India.There is no such one exam to recruit the top rank officials in any developed country.Britain itself has abandoned this kind of bureaucracy.
There is performance based promotion to become top rank officials in developed country.
On the other hand,Indian Governments continued with this system after independence, so that Indian corrupt politicians could enjoy the fruit of corruption without being directly involved in curruption.These officials have worked over the years as stooges of ministers and politicians.Indian bureaucracy with provisions of infallibility and immunity against prosecution have been proved the major cause for corruption.
The current Primeminister Mr.Narendra Modi has guts to go for the required reform and therefore people are supporting him.
ICS should be down away with some better system.
awesome Mr. Modi!!!!!!!!!! after reading this, im feeling proud that my vote is not being wasted…this is how a nationalist and popular leader should behave instead of a robot. also , those who are resigning ,,,please resign en masse. you will not be missed…there are professionals far more worthy waiting to work with govt.
Any set of reforms will have to be judged by the results it has produced on the ground. Admittedly, India is too large a government system for the fruits to ripen overnight but, viewed objectively, there is little visible in the last five odd years to suggest that the country’s governance has moved to a higher orbit. Have written enough on the economy, which could prove to be an immense iceberg. Consider foreign policy, for IAS and IFS come from the same stock. It is really for the Cabinet Secretary, the head of the civil service, to tender good advice on the disruptions that are taking place.
Not only Chief secretary Modi should consult Soniaji who ran the country efficiently through NAC.
The point is, SOMEONE will have to run India’s administration machinery. IAS and such services which selected candidates from highly competitive UPSC exams were doing a reasonably satisfactory job for decades. Now Mr Modi says they are not good enough. Well, he will have to prove his point. Are his lateral entry candidates delivering the results? Let someone in his PMO start giving a regular brief to media – – something along the lines, PROGRESS OF SPECIALIST GUIDED PROJECTS. If this indeed hints at emergence of an encouraging trend, then no amount of praise for Mr Modi will be enough.
By institutionalising “lateral entry”, what MoSha are doing is getting a formal channel for implanting their own ideological sidekicks i.e. Hindutva types from the RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal etc. into the civil services. Stalin was a master of doing this in the former USSR – he simply planted his henchmen in the civil servcies and they kept a close check on other civil servants and ensured that they did his bidding.
For all its flaws – and there are many – the civil services are taught to uphold the Constitution and serve the people. And a few do precisely that, recognising that even though the people may have elected a corrupt, conniving and at times criminal politician, the rights of the people triumphed the selfish desires of the politician. We have the cases of IAS officers like Ashok Khemka and Durga Nagpal who stood for the people and against politicians – at great personal risk. Indeed, even risk of death. Khemka, it must be remembered, took on the might of the Congress party in many of his decisions. Durga Nagpal took on the sand mafia in Noida and was promptly in the crosshairs of the Samajwadi Party. As India Today* writes:
“An intrepid young officer takes on illegal sand mining. Acynical state government punishes her on the pretext of having incited communal tension. Durga Shakti Nagpal is proof that India is no country for upright bureaucrats”
Clearly, MoSha have learnt a thing or two from corrupt Congress, Samajwadi Party and other political outfits. Indeed, MoSha are ensuring that the de facto practice of treating the civil services as an appendage of a political party becomes a de jure one.
Incidentally, loved reading your sagacious observations in The Hindu comments section as well. My comments in TH do not get published anymore …
I am Sr. Citizen and had opportunities to meet many IAS and IPS officers. Largely I have found them arrogant and never consider them as public servant. Instead they treat the public as their servants and second class citizens. ACR is managed and our country system is largely corrupt. A good officer is determined by general public how he attends to the problems and solve them using the powers the IAS/IPS possess. Modi Govt is perfectly right to bring about the changes. ACR must be judged by real time experience.of common man and not by managed ACR.
Very well said sir. The worse thing was that even after paying the admin fee (read bribe) they would still not do the work. Land revenue, health care and ration ( the ones that effects the poorest the most) are the worst.
Whilst you may be right that IAS & IPS officers have now become a law unto themselves, you forget that they are not anymore independent but are the personal bureaucrats of politicians. Hence, you should be directing your ire at politicians who have corrupted the civil services. As India Today writes about Ms Durga Nagpal, an IAS officer who stood for the rights of citizens:
“An intrepid young officer takes on illegal sand mining. Acynical state government punishes her on the pretext of having incited communal tension. Durga Shakti Nagpal is proof that India is no country for upright bureaucrats”
It is naïve of you to think that the MoSha move to introduce lateral placements in the IAS is a move to help much maligned citizens like you. Indeed, it is nothing but an institutionalising of political interference in the civil services.
And yes, I am sure that for blind, blinkered Modi worshippers, Modi can do no wrong and if he claims that 2+2 = 5, your ilk will go about thrashing people who doubt it. Just as the middle classes vehemently defended demonetisation, a classic example of voodoo economics and the perils of unchecked authoritarianism, knee-jerk defence of the supposedly infallible Great Gujarati is in your DNA. If the Great Gujarati says bang your vessels, you will do so, he he says light diyas, you would comply; if he suggests that you should drink gomutra, you would do so too. I fully accept that the Indian, upper middle class, upper caste Hindus are now members of the Modi cul. And it is your prerogative to belong to the Modi cult or the Swami Nithyananda cult. But let me ask you something, assuming for the time being that the Great Gujarati is utterly honest and has solely the interests of citizens like you in mind when he wishes to make the civil services more pliant to politicians. My question to you Sir is as follows:
What happnes when the Great Gujarati is one day booted from power and let us say another political party or coalition of political parties comes to power? Would they not throw out the Great Gujarati appointed civil chamchas err.. servants and replace them by their own flunkeys ? Want Mayawati to appoint her stooges in the civil services Mr BK Periwal?
some cynics illegitimate product of coitus between communist and crab just comments everywhere like they don’t have real job.
I am a 75-year old UP NRI residing in Canada since 1975, I am irreparably damaged by the corrupt IAS, IPS, and PCS of UP India. I complained to Modi the Prime Minister of India and others, tragically they all turned a blind eye to my genuine grievances. They condoned the atrocities, crimes against humanity inflicted on me and my family in Canada by Indian IAS, IPS and PCS.
Sadly, this was all eyewash before the elections of 2019. The Disruptor in Chief is now eating out of the hands of the very same bureaucracy. He is like a lost lamb without them.
A ploy to subvert another pillar that sustains our democracy.
Really? These bureaucrats are dinosaurs in present world. Passing an exam based in rote learning, these bureaucrats are a serious drag on India’s progress. Can anyone imagine in a fast paced world like this, Indian bureaucrats are still getting promotion on basis of seniority? Name even 10 projects which were done in time and without scams after this bureaucracy was instituted. Slow moving snails, wasteful management of resources, looting nation with nexus with politicians , no accountability, what has this so called pillar given us apart from the worst , most corrupt, lethargic bureaucracy in Asia ? Sorry mam, you are either an aspirant or belong to the coterie to claim the bureaucracy as a “pillar” . Hilarious.
Have u ever met an ias officer do u know how much hard work is required bas kuch bhi bolda kuch search hi karle google par inke nina democracy nahi bachegi bewakoof
Good move. Break the IAS mafia. How come a lateral can change anything in 3-4 years. How dare anyone changes. Time to bring in merit and continuous learning and fresh ideas and subject matter expertise to relevant domains. It is a system where someone takes an exam 35 years back, passes that interview and becomes a jack of all trades at all times. Which business gives you that free ride in the current competitive world where everything changes completely every decades. Outdated, obsolete skills serve no purpose., so bring in young laterals to think fresh. The job is not an entitlement of few who passes that outdated exam and selection process.
The bureaucracy in India went into rigor mortis many years ago. The Modi government is trying to pry India out of its dead and rotting corpse.
Yes! An idiot…illiterate person hijacked the most talented IAS officers !! Unfortunate !!!
IAS officers are most talented.
On what basis? Passing a exam ,huh?
Your definition of most intelligent is crooked up.
That’s why IAS are whipped. They think they are supreme but they are not.
The bureaucracy protects its own. Take the example of Amitabh Gupta, IPS who was sent on compulsory leave for issuing a NOC type letter to one Wadhwan and his family and servants totally numbering 23 in five cars, to travel from Khandala to Mahabaleshwar
( both hill stations in Maharashtra ) duringg lockdown. No doubt the politicians must have taken a huge bribe. But Gupta has not been even suspended.
Seen a Bull in a china shop??
A reform which is solely needed in India is to do with the proper implementation of the RTI act. This is being hampered by the DOPT or department of personnel and training. All the central ministries headed by the respective ministers and IAS secretaries do not implement section 4(1)b of the rti act under the proactive disclosure clause and even if they do, it is not kept upto date deliberately or key parts are left out from the proactive disclosure. Another issue is that there is no scope for 360 degree disclosure or appraisal by the public consumers of govt services of the central ministries and subordinate organisations because the DOPT managed deptt of administrative reforms does not allow forms to be filled about itself on pgportal.gov.in. People are unable to login easily because of complicated password system and the same is the case with applying for RTI online at rtionline.gov.in. If the stakeholders or basic consumers of govt services cannot appraise or give feedback about services given by IAS officers, what can a 360 degree appraisal mean, except a fake concept being implemented only as lip service?
The biggest damage done to this country is by the BABUs. They were trusted with correcting and guiding the some time even illiterate politicians, because they were suppose to be the cream of the society. It was them who tutored the gullible and played the ball with the corrupt. They were the known wealth creators for themselves and the their political masters.
It is only Modi govt who is capable of shaking the foundation of India’s IAS-led civil service —the rusted and rotten frame . A man given such privileges must be deprived of them even at a hint of wrong doing and then punished in a way, that the rest will think 100 times before indulging in nefarious activities for self or the political master.
In democracy people will elect but the BABUs ( who are selected and protected) can and should make sure that that the elected operate within the parameters laid down by constitution.
The biggest damage done to the country is done by politicians with babus coming in a close second. And with greater authoritarianism as we see under the Great Gujaratis viz. Modi & Shah, even the few segments of babudom that were relatively – I re-iterate relatively – upright and meritocratic will now be turned into puppets.
Hence, when you obsequiously claim “It is only Modi govt who is capable of shaking the foundation of India’s IAS-led civil service”, you are actually turning over an independent civil service to dance to the tunes of 2 RSS and fascism inspired Gujaratis who have run the economy to the ground, increased political instability in the country and waged war on the poor. All for centralising and consolidating their own political power, democracy be damned.
Sadly, India’s upper caste Hindu middle classes back these 2 men, conflating their Hindutva with Hinduism.
Nobody elected those babus. A bunch of humanities graduates who have read too much Karl Marx, read history through the eyes of the Marxist Bipan Chandra and never ran a real business or created jobs are in dangerous policy making positions. Their independence needs to not only be taken away but their agency itself needs to be challenged. It is time for capitalism to take over and save whatever is left of the country or we’ll just be a feeding ground for sending our talented to different countries around the world for the rest of the century and beyond, if there even will ever be a beyond.
My dear , I think you are not aware that the PM and Home Minister both belong to OBC . I don’t understand why you people always show a tendency to bring the upper class into the controversies which has no meaning at all. Please grow up man , don’t be so lame with your thinking . And , as far as the lateral entry is concerned , I also don’t agree to it. It’s not that Modi became PRIME MINISTER just because of the upper class voters . If you study the demography it’s the OBC and the SC,ST who are more in numbers. So, how can you say that it’s only because the upper class backing the MODI and AMIT SHAH …….. When you talk plzzzz have an inspection and analysis about which you are going to say or write.
what is your problem with gujrat
Wah modiji Wah
This is a trailor only the services will be turned into Master and Servant relationship.
Leaders know iron cuts iron by their people secludedly but not uniformly on their Masters , therefore applying it ruthlessly and speedily lest they could consolidate and revisit their faithfulness.
Well said !
Another exercise by MoSha to consolidate their own power under the guise of reforms.
The IAS, IPS must be abolished. All must join at the lowest rung of the officer cadre and rise up as is the system in the UK. Second, the IAS is a staff function. How can they be senior to the technocrats who are the line function ? This is the biggest fault in our organisations. Third, those who form the rejected stuff (80%) having failed to get seats in medical, engineering etc., take coaching and compete in IAS, IPS. That is why the quality of officers in the IAS, IPS is so poor. What have they done in the lasr 72 yrs. of Independence? Not a single govt. Office is efficient, sensitive to the needs of the public and all depts. are mired in corruption. For rapid development, technocrats must be elevate and given status above the clerks of the IAS. The head of the technical depts. Must report directly to the Minister concetned, and the services of the IAS must be made available to them in the same way that personnel depts. in PSUs do.
Bang on! Agree with you entirely!
IAS are glorified clerks, a governance structure designed by British Invaders to enslave Bhaarat. Brit called it ICS, post 1947 they changed name to IAS.
3050 IAS admin clowns are jack of all trades, masters in none. Should be dismantled by act of parliament & replaced by domain exptertise of technocrats. IAS is the root cause of political and bureucratic corruption, crime chaos, lack of investments, unemployment & poverty in last 73 yrs.
“Should be dismantled by act of parliament & replaced by domain exptertise of technocrats”
You might end up with a bunch of testicle scratching, triushul wielding thugs from the VHP, RSS, Hindu Jagran Manch and other assorted saffronistas running the show and lighting the fire on the funeral pyre of the economy.
You claim:
“IAS is the root cause of political and bureaucratic corruption”
Aren’t you now conflating cause and effect Mr R Sood ? Every IAS officer is forced to kowtow to politicians and threatened if s/he does not do so. the names of IAS officers Ashok Khemka, Durga Nagal ring a bell Mr Sood?
An uncle of mine, anupright IAS officer recruited in the late 50s wrote a report warning the GOI (Congress at that time) about the perils of locating the Union Carbide chemicla plant close to the slums of Bhopal. For his efforts, he was transferred, sidelined and eventually decided to retire early. And his advice to me, way back in the 80s was to stay clear of that profession as it entailed working for politicians rather than the people. And with Modi and Shah now institutionalising political interference in the civil services, rest assured that the civil services will reflect always reflect the contours of Indian politicians. And they, with almost no exceptions are vile, corrupt, power hungry and interested in feathering their own nests.
“Not a single govt. Office is efficient, sensitive to the needs of the public and all depts. are mired in corruption. For rapid development”
Do you know what happens if you are upright and do not toe the line of politicians ? Heard of the cases of honest, upright officers like Ashok Khemka and Durga Nagpal? They have been hounded, threatened, transferred and toyed with by the political class. And the Modi moves which give politicians greater rights to make civil servants do their bidding as opposed to upholding the Constitution will only make the situation worse. Indeed, it entrenches and institutionalises political interventions in the civil services.
Unless there is a watertight insulation of the civil servants from the shenanigans of the political class, you are not far off from the day when you will political apparatchiks and babus from the RSS, VHP and other nutcases that worship the likes of Adityantah running the bureaucracy.
IAS system created by Britishers to rule over India the legacy continued in collaboration with politicians in the bargain they become parasites.
Indian private sector corporate working efficiently due to accountability with no redtapism .
Modi is shaking the foundation of bureaucracy & challenging them hence they are feeling the heat.
It’s good move hopefully will yield results in time to come.
Nice article but note it down those young IAS who have resigned will either join big corporate or Politics for making money. Next I have observed that IAS sitting on key posts will sign the documents after the expectations are fulfilled. Let Income tax department check the assessts official, unofficial, families and benami — they are the richest in India. Please don’t have mercy on these cadres.
Indian Civil Services was introduced in India by Britishers for their own purpose of plundering India.There is no such one exam to recruit the top rank officials in any developed country.Britain itself has abandoned this kind of bureaucracy.
There is performance based promotion to become top rank officials in developed country.
On the other hand,Indian Governments continued with this system after independence, so that Indian corrupt politicians could enjoy the fruit of corruption without being directly involved in curruption.These officials have worked over the years as stooges of ministers and politicians.Indian bureaucracy with provisions of infallibility and immunity against prosecution have been proved the major cause for corruption.
The current Primeminister Mr.Narendra Modi has guts to go for the required reform and therefore people are supporting him.
ICS should be down away with some better system.
awesome Mr. Modi!!!!!!!!!! after reading this, im feeling proud that my vote is not being wasted…this is how a nationalist and popular leader should behave instead of a robot. also , those who are resigning ,,,please resign en masse. you will not be missed…there are professionals far more worthy waiting to work with govt.
Any set of reforms will have to be judged by the results it has produced on the ground. Admittedly, India is too large a government system for the fruits to ripen overnight but, viewed objectively, there is little visible in the last five odd years to suggest that the country’s governance has moved to a higher orbit. Have written enough on the economy, which could prove to be an immense iceberg. Consider foreign policy, for IAS and IFS come from the same stock. It is really for the Cabinet Secretary, the head of the civil service, to tender good advice on the disruptions that are taking place.
Not only Chief secretary Modi should consult Soniaji who ran the country efficiently through NAC.
The point is, SOMEONE will have to run India’s administration machinery. IAS and such services which selected candidates from highly competitive UPSC exams were doing a reasonably satisfactory job for decades. Now Mr Modi says they are not good enough. Well, he will have to prove his point. Are his lateral entry candidates delivering the results? Let someone in his PMO start giving a regular brief to media – – something along the lines, PROGRESS OF SPECIALIST GUIDED PROJECTS. If this indeed hints at emergence of an encouraging trend, then no amount of praise for Mr Modi will be enough.
Very well said Mr Sanjiv Bhatla !
By institutionalising “lateral entry”, what MoSha are doing is getting a formal channel for implanting their own ideological sidekicks i.e. Hindutva types from the RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal etc. into the civil services. Stalin was a master of doing this in the former USSR – he simply planted his henchmen in the civil servcies and they kept a close check on other civil servants and ensured that they did his bidding.
For all its flaws – and there are many – the civil services are taught to uphold the Constitution and serve the people. And a few do precisely that, recognising that even though the people may have elected a corrupt, conniving and at times criminal politician, the rights of the people triumphed the selfish desires of the politician. We have the cases of IAS officers like Ashok Khemka and Durga Nagpal who stood for the people and against politicians – at great personal risk. Indeed, even risk of death. Khemka, it must be remembered, took on the might of the Congress party in many of his decisions. Durga Nagpal took on the sand mafia in Noida and was promptly in the crosshairs of the Samajwadi Party. As India Today* writes:
“An intrepid young officer takes on illegal sand mining. Acynical state government punishes her on the pretext of having incited communal tension. Durga Shakti Nagpal is proof that India is no country for upright bureaucrats”
Clearly, MoSha have learnt a thing or two from corrupt Congress, Samajwadi Party and other political outfits. Indeed, MoSha are ensuring that the de facto practice of treating the civil services as an appendage of a political party becomes a de jure one.
Incidentally, loved reading your sagacious observations in The Hindu comments section as well. My comments in TH do not get published anymore …
* https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/20130819-durga-shakti-nagpal-suspended-ias-officer-uttar-pradesh-akhilesh-yadav-765162-2013-08-09
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I am Sr. Citizen and had opportunities to meet many IAS and IPS officers. Largely I have found them arrogant and never consider them as public servant. Instead they treat the public as their servants and second class citizens. ACR is managed and our country system is largely corrupt. A good officer is determined by general public how he attends to the problems and solve them using the powers the IAS/IPS possess. Modi Govt is perfectly right to bring about the changes. ACR must be judged by real time experience.of common man and not by managed ACR.
Very well said sir. The worse thing was that even after paying the admin fee (read bribe) they would still not do the work. Land revenue, health care and ration ( the ones that effects the poorest the most) are the worst.
Whilst you may be right that IAS & IPS officers have now become a law unto themselves, you forget that they are not anymore independent but are the personal bureaucrats of politicians. Hence, you should be directing your ire at politicians who have corrupted the civil services. As India Today writes about Ms Durga Nagpal, an IAS officer who stood for the rights of citizens:
“An intrepid young officer takes on illegal sand mining. Acynical state government punishes her on the pretext of having incited communal tension. Durga Shakti Nagpal is proof that India is no country for upright bureaucrats”
It is naïve of you to think that the MoSha move to introduce lateral placements in the IAS is a move to help much maligned citizens like you. Indeed, it is nothing but an institutionalising of political interference in the civil services.
And yes, I am sure that for blind, blinkered Modi worshippers, Modi can do no wrong and if he claims that 2+2 = 5, your ilk will go about thrashing people who doubt it. Just as the middle classes vehemently defended demonetisation, a classic example of voodoo economics and the perils of unchecked authoritarianism, knee-jerk defence of the supposedly infallible Great Gujarati is in your DNA. If the Great Gujarati says bang your vessels, you will do so, he he says light diyas, you would comply; if he suggests that you should drink gomutra, you would do so too. I fully accept that the Indian, upper middle class, upper caste Hindus are now members of the Modi cul. And it is your prerogative to belong to the Modi cult or the Swami Nithyananda cult. But let me ask you something, assuming for the time being that the Great Gujarati is utterly honest and has solely the interests of citizens like you in mind when he wishes to make the civil services more pliant to politicians. My question to you Sir is as follows:
What happnes when the Great Gujarati is one day booted from power and let us say another political party or coalition of political parties comes to power? Would they not throw out the Great Gujarati appointed civil chamchas err.. servants and replace them by their own flunkeys ? Want Mayawati to appoint her stooges in the civil services Mr BK Periwal?