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This story is from December 23, 2005
IAS officers to be monitored along corporate lines
A leaner babudom is no panacea.
This is the administrator's, and not the practising politician's, mindset: He sees drawbacks of the state in isolation from the characteristics of civil society.
In this framework, the police is slothful and brutal because of its system of transfers and promotions. By the same token, the IAS is non-performing and corrupt because it lacks an internal carrot and stick policy.
Retired bureaucrats of the prime minister's ilk perhaps want to recreate the IAS as the steel frame of old (like the ICS), a self-regulating entity impervious to political pressure.
It should be apparent to them that the bureaucracy's performance varies from state to state, depending on social and political influences.
The IAS is more efficient in the southern states than elsewhere, because society holds it accountable, either directly or through its political representatives.
If bureaucrats are hand-in-glove with their political masters, making money and neglecting their duties, the onus lies on society to turn the tables on them.
The rest amounts to tinkering. Let the people furnish their efficiency ethic for bureaucrats: We don't need an army of faceless assessment committees or a set of revolving doors.
The IAS will deliver if stripped of its feudal trappings. A DM lives like a 19th century burra sahib even in this time and age, served by an army of minions in his office and residence.
Doctors and engineers join the civil service only to soak in this sense of power. Sadly, they live in a society that continues to be impressed by the aura of sarkar.
If the prime minister is impatient about administrative reform, he should seek to alter the conditions and character of the civil service ��� in short, shatter that aura.
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