American economist Lant Pritchett of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government .. described the Indian bureaucracy as ”one of the world’s top 10 biggest problems”, up there with AIDS and climate change.” The insufferable attitude of IAS – India’s Arrogant Servants June 1, 2013, 12:57 am IST Shantanu Bhagwat in Reclaiming India | India | TOI Such is India’s fate – to be “ruled” by either totally corrupt or totally arrogant “senior” bureaucrats who are never accountable for anything they do in their life and are ruining India through their TOTAL ARROGANCE. The Delhi games showed the world just what can be done when its (India’s) daunting civil service takes control – and the result wasn’t pretty. Corruption, waste, inefficiency, obfuscation and a cancerous lack of accountability in officialdom – and all of it on an Olympian scale. ...Some economists have calculated that India’s bureaucratic inefficiency costs the country 1 to 2 points in annual growth. Part of the problem is its size and power. India employs about 4 million civil servants, with another 7 to 8 million in its 35 states and territories. It is the world’s biggest civil service, bigger even than China’s, which has about 15 per cent more people to administer than India. And India’s numbers don’t include the armies of non-paper shufflers; the personal staff of senior bureaucrats who manage t
another point of view on the subject " quote " If anybody is interested in improving the quality of governance in India all he has to do to start with is to implement the cabinet resolution passed in 1957 laying down that officers from the professional services should be recruited into higher posts in the Secretariat.Some feeble steps were made in this direction when Morarji was PM in the 70s. Even better, to put it briefly, is to remodel all departments on the ISRO model as in Sweden,giving up the East India company model of rule by "writers" whose ignorance of the subjects they deal with is supposed to be a unique qualification to rule over experts in the subject with years of experience. The present catchword of "lateral entry" is a conspiracy of the corporate mafia to create a horde of Trojan horses who will make their pile and return to their parent organisation , without any commensurate accountability " SSKaimal. " ( formerly with GoI and the UN )
Please read read Jayaprakash Narayan's " How to Cut deadwood in bureaucracy " written in 1973. This talks about how outdated the IAS system was already by 1973. Even Nehru considered it is biggest failaure to reform the bureaucracy. Attempts to reform it like the Hanumanthaiah commission was buried by the same IAS bureaucracy. Harvard prof. called the IAS one of the great dangers facing the world. Basically a 19th century system to control and exploit a native population is incpapable of running a wlfare state in the 21st century. A bad system always beats a good individual!
Re: read Jayaprakash Narayan's " How to Cut deadwood in
by R ponnabalam on Jul 28, 2018 03:38 PM
Well said.IAS has beaten down India Flat despite having India grown upto that three score and Ten years.Nobody in India wants to take it on but blabber that we would become a developed country with this system which show cases it's bad performance in everything seen in India.No hope around the corner R.Ponnambalam
The constitution of India was drafted during 1947 to 1949 and the conditions and practices at that time were different. We were only an agrarian country and milk availability was in a very small quantity. Further, consumption habits were different like less spirits and major vegetarian population. Agriculture promotion was main priority at that time. Mechanized farming was practically absent and bullocks were used to plough soil at country side. The time has changed a lot. Economy has been overhauled over the period. Consumption habits have changed completely and also the methods of cultivation. Moreover quantity of milk produced in country has substantially increased and become a exporting country. Even milk is being thrown on roads as a protest and governments are finding difficult adjust the situation economically and relying on subsidy to meet the situation. Policy, thinking , psychology and other things need to be revisited to meet the present day situation considering economy and world situation. US the proponent of free trade and economy has revised its policies in the changed conditions. Now has imposed lot of restrictions on trade, employment and added duties on imports from several nations & items to protect the country's economy. We are trying to be conservative and adopting changes for personal gains. Now, is the need of revisiting the policies in changed circumstances & correct the policy. Cow may be important and there is no restriction for personal cons
Re: Cow protection
by sandeep sule on Jul 27, 2018 05:14 PM
not only drafted, the content are as early as 1850 when the rules & laws were formed for ease of rule of British people
The respective Ministries and Ministers have not held themselves responsible.Is the country ready to hold the Ministry and Ministers responsible?In the days gone by secretaries of Ministries used to visit Govt.of India Industries.They should put things in writing .R.Ponnambalam
India will not come out the morass of being a Corrupt country unless IAS system takes responsibility.We will not become a developed country also .As an employee in Pvt. Sector I had to give my Director the Problems left unsolved in every month in a Particular Department.It is so simple.The IAS dom has to make every officer do that way and check whether that has been truely done.Then build and act on it .Consolidate it or take the help of that famous AGGREGATE word using sector to aggregate it.Control is setting the outcome needed,checking the outcome achieved,measuring the variance to see whether it is within the limits prescribed ,without spinning off control and the like.We are not doing it DELIBERATELY.A few days back there was a write up in this site by one officer telling how so many officers attend a particular conference in Foreign countries!That is an honest saying. Not something is rotten in the state of administration of India ;almost everything is rotten in the state of administration of India R.PONNAMBALAM
India will not come out the morass of being a Corrupt country unless IAS system takes responsibility.We will not become a developed country also .As an employee in Pvt. Sector I had to give my Director the Problems left unsolved in every month in a Particular Department.It is so simple.The IAS dom has to make every officer do that way and check whether that has been truely done.Then build and act on it .Consolidate it or take the help of that famous AGGREGATE word using sector to aggregate it.Control is setting the outcome needed,checking the outcome achieved,measuring the variance to see whether it is within the limits prescribed ,without spinning off control and the like.We are not doing it DELIBERATELY.A few days back there was a write up in this site by one officer telling how so many officers attend a particular conference in Foreign countries!That is an honest saying. Not something is rotten in the state of administration of India ;almost everything is rotten in the state of administration of India R.PONNAMBALAM
India will not come out the morass of being a Corrupt country unless IAS system takes responsibility.We will not become a developed country also .As an employee in Pvt. Sector I had to give my Director the Problems left unsolved in every month in a Particular Department.It is so simple.The IAS dom has to make every officer do that way and check whether that has been truely done.Then build and act on it .Consolidate it or take the help of that famous AGGREGATE word using sector to aggregate it.Control is setting the outcome needed,checking the outcome achieved,measuring the variance to see whether it is within the limits prescribed ,without spinning off control and the like.We are not doing it DELIBERATELY.A few days back there was a write up in this site by one officer telling how so many officers attend a particular conference in Foreign countries!That is an honest saying. Not something is rotten in the state of administration of India ;almost everything is rotten in the state of administration of India R.PONNAMBALAM
