Will India’s Bureaucratic Reforms Remain In a Sorry State Or Rise From Ashes?
The QuintThe crux of Singh's argument is that the officers of All India Services have become complacent due to the certainty of their career progression without any linkage with performance or productivity. However, the fact is that the provisions for such review and weeding out of inefficient and corrupt officials already exist. In the first instance, the bureaucrats must be divested of the authority to draft service rules for themselves as they tend to focus on parochial considerations of career advancement instead of functional necessity and National Interest. That is the reason for an irrational provision in the “All India Service rules” which restores the seniority of an officer superseded – for whatever reason including the lack of integrity, upon his eventual promotion, even it is delayed by several years!