Unfortunately, I am old enough to have seen the country steadily go down the drain over the the decades since "independence," and my view is similar to that of Lt. Gen. Singh that China is going to munch the north. As a matter of fact, after careful consideration and analysis of demographics-history my view since past couple of decades has been that the geogriphical region containing Afghanistan-Pakistan-India-Bangladesh-Nepal is going to the mother of all upheavels, the likes of which the world has never before seen or imagined. Billions of hungry, illeterate people "governed" by unworthy politicans-babus, multiple relegions and languages, creeking administration and judical systems, etc.
Regards.
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On Thu, 7/16/15, Vidyut <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] It's time to shut the IAS down
To: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net" <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
Cc: "Harbhajan Singh" <genharbhajansingh@yahoo.com>, "Gaur J K" <gaurjk@hotmail.com>
Date: Thursday, July 16, 2015, 10:54 PM
There are
problems with the IAS, there are problems with politicians.
Alas, controlling each other is rarely about public
interest. Perhaps I am cynical, but I don't think there
are any magic fixes. Boring as it seems without a quick
pill, I think it is going to take alert citizens
relentlessly demanding accountability, scrutinizing and
curbing every wrong that comes to light.
I think people consider the
government or bureaucracy more like a service that ought to
be perfect or you will call up customer service. Alas, in a
democracy, the final boss is the citizen and it may be like
herding cats, but in the end of the day, they will have to
keep an eye on their employees and reward, punish or remove
as necessary.
The most
important thing is to mobilize people. Not go one morcha or
andolan or against one bad guy, but in the spirit of
vigilant and involved management of their own
country.
Perfection is
a convenient mirage that allows people to shruf off their
own role on the stage. The only hope is continuous
improvement.
Vidyut
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at
10:19 AM, Jagjit Ahuja <jagjit.ahuja@gmail.com>
wrote:
You
may like to go through the appended write up written by an
IAS officer . Though it is long but worth reading
. I have read every word
but found that he has not analyzed as to who has been
responsible for bringing such a state of affair of our
country.
It is my feeling that
the so called Steel Frame of the country, the bureaucratic
set up is responsible . This gets confirmed when we
analyze working of our governing system after
independence. It has been the bureaucrats who kept on
grabbing all the powers by be-fooling both the politicians
and the public by twisting the rules to meet the
requirements of the people whom they wanted to
help.
Such a situation would
have never creeped in our governing system had they been
fair to all with the authority and the powers they were
enjoying .All these years the Joint Secretary of a
Ministry is considered as the
Government.
Please advise if I am
wrong in my analyses.
Brig J S
Ahuja
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at
11:17 AM, Harbhajan Singh <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
wrote:
My
Dear Gaur,
How are
you?
I wonder if this topic is discussed
in the NDC!!!!!
We require
Administrative and political reforms. But dear Gaur all the
Governments are being managed by the IAS!!! Does any one
think IAS would let any such reforms take place and above
all be implemented!! Just look at OROP case!!!
We need
a military/Presidential take over for two years in which the
agenda should be administrative and political reforms and
then hand over the reigns back to the new dispensation. I
agree it is an Utopian idea but if we need to achieve some
thing such ideas have to come up.
My considered view is that India is
going to go down the drain and China-Pak combine will
subjugate us in a decade or two may be. Things on the ground
for common people including our types are very bad indeed
and deteriorating fast.
Harbhajan SinghLt Gen
From: Gaur J K
<gaurjk@hotmail.com>
To: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net"
<indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 14 July
2015 3:26 PM
Subject: RE: [IAC#RG]
It's time to shut the IAS down
13/7/15
Yes, but will it not be a piece-meal
change?Our whole system of governance is based on
the colonial british model.Our judicial system is
based on the same.Our laws are based on the same.
Some laws are as old as 1860 just after it was taken over by
the Imperial power.
Our Constitution is
primarily drawing upon the British Model. Yet
the realisation that changes are needed in the institutions
of Governance should lead to the desired changes sooner or
later.Hiring of experts/advisors outside the IAS
system could be one way to dilute their dominance. Mr. Modi
seems to have realised and doing so in some
areas.JKGaur
From: dhiranil@hotmail.com
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 23:15:59 +0530
Subject: [IAC#RG] It's time to shut the IAS
down
Forwarding as received, for it makes a lot of
sense, sharing this article specially with those among us,
who love welfare of our Society, our Armed Forces, and above
all, our country as a whole. It is an open fact that they
are also the creator of the problem that is existing and
around the widely known subject matter as OROP issue
!Anil Dhir
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:34:09
+0530
Subject: Fwd: It's time to shut
the IAS down
From:
To:
It's time to shut
the IAS down (
A forward as received) Last updated on: June
08, 2015 13:17
ISTThe IAS distrusts
outsiders bringing change, the product of being a tenured
cadre; it worships authority rather than citizenship, the
legacy of being lackeys of the Queen-Emperor -- and it
admires itself above all, for no reason that the rest of us
can discern. Mihir S Sharma explains.If Prime Minister
Narendra Modi fails to live up to the expectations that he
has raised, it will not be entirely his
fault.After all, he has
moderated his promises.The shining vision
of India's future he outlined in early 2014 has been
replaced by the -- still inspiring -- set of aspirations
listed in the 2015
Budget.A house for everyone
by 2022, with 24-hour power, clean drinking water, a road
and modern sanitation; one job per family, medical and
skilling facilities close by, and much else of that
nature.You cannot fault his
targets, and you cannot fault his
energy.If he seems to have
little idea of how to get there, well, he was never asked
for such details about implementation on the campaign trail,
so it's a little late to complain
now.The problem is that
he is trying to drive the country to these oh-so-distant
targets by 2022, but he still has the same old car with
which to do it.Today, in the middle
of 2015, it is doubly, triply, quadruply clear that changing
the driver was not enough -- the driver was never the
biggest, the realest problem. The real problem is the
car.Modi might have the
will, the energy, the sincerity and the ambition. But unless
he fundamentally changes the system that implements his
will, that realises his ambition, he is doomed to
fail.And that system is
the Indian government and its bureaucracy. I want you to
pause for a moment to think, as objectively as you can,
about how farcical it is.We, the world's
fastest-growing economy and its largest democracy, have a
state structure basically unchanged from the extractive
system set up to rule a vast, pastoral country on behalf of
a distant island nation.We have a twice-born
bureaucracy that holds so much
power.Why? Because they
are the happy inheritors of a system in which civil servants
would have been loyal to Queen and Whitehall, but ministers
may have been dangerously nationalist -- and thus needed to
be easily vetoed or
blocked.We still have a
tenured, generalist civil service, organised on Victorian
public-school principles, even as our economy and governance
become fiendishly more
complex.Every single foreign
investor, foreign do-gooder, foreign diplomat, is astounded
by both the intelligence of their Indian bureaucratic
interlocutor and their -- much of the time -- complete and
utter ignorance of the issues at
hand.What else can you
expect?The person having to
deal with FIIs today may have been dealing with water
harvesting yesterday.No matter how high
your rank in a deadly dull competitive examination in the
early 1980s, you will not handle that transition
seamlessly.It is natural,
therefore, that you take no risks and show no imagination;
you are, after all, always a step behind those you are
regulating or governing.It is less natural that
you are incredibly arrogant even while being that step
behind. (Or to suppose that anyone else in government being
paid more than you would be a colossal, extraordinary insult
to the Indian Republic, equivalent to Bangladesh annexing
most of Eastern India. Imagine if a tax expert or a lawyer
was hired from the private sector and paid more than the
Cabinet Secretary! The whole edifice of government would
collapse! Anarchy would rule! Four southern states would
sink into the sea! Etc,
etc)We have an
un-fire-able, unaccountable civil service, which can screw
up as much as it likes -- consider, for example, the
monumental error that was the FII-MAT (minimum alternate
tax) imbroglio -- and still will face no
consequences.This is the largest
cause of the institutionalised mediocrity that holds this
country back. Even promotions are largely dependent on
seniority and not record; nobody would run any other
organisation thus, but it's OK to run a complicated,
under-governed country like
this?Ah, we are told, but
insulating administrators is necessary to ensure they are
not subject to politicisation -- to ensure they are
"independent".This laughable claim
can only be the product of wilfully refusing to actually
read even one newspaper headline over the past 20
years.Who can claim that
bureaucrats are not politicised, given contemporary history?
How many have simply refused to sign what they are supposed
to? There are some such glorious names, but vanishingly
few.Combine these three
factors, and you have a government machinery that is
unaccountable, under-informed, and all-powerful. It lacks
creativity. It automatically stifles innovation (witness the
colossal idiocy underlying its shutdown of Uber in the
capital).There is no alternative
but to shut these people down. Root-and-branch reform,
beginning with an end to the imperial-era privileges of the
Indian Administrative
Service.The IAS distrusts
outsiders bringing change, the product of being a tenured
cadre; it worships authority rather than citizenship, the
legacy of being lackeys of the Queen-Emperor -- and it
admires itself above all, for no reason that the rest of us
can discern.The prime minister,
sadly, agrees with that.He, too, seems to
imagine that his transformative promises can be
operationalised and implemented by the same people who have
failed us for 70 years.His first action on
entering 7, Race Course Road, was to tell the secretaries to
the Union that they could speak to him directly, cutting out
their ministers.Subsequently he took
over all appointments. This is in a way natural; when Modi
was appointed chief minister of Gujarat, he had no
experience of -- or history of interest in --
policy.Guess who he turned
to? Perhaps that's why the bureaucrats other Indians see
as obstructive, backward-looking monuments to institutional
arrogance are seen by our prime minister as gentle tutors in
the art of governance.This is a pity,
since the only way he will actually transform India is by
first transforming its hopelessly out-of-date
government.Actually, if Prime
Minister Narendra Modi fails to live up to the expectations
that he has raised, it will be entirely his fault. He should
have started by ending the
IAS.
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