It is difficult to agree that the Indian bureaucracy has become a great stumbling block and is quite incompatible with the democratic set- up. Thanks to periodic general elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for more than five decades, the bureaucracy in India has subtly attuned itself to the aspirations, wishes and sentiments of the elected representatives of the people from their pre- independence role of serving the colonial masters.
A few upright and neutral bureaucrats, true to their oaths, are sidelined as they do not submit meekly to their political bosses. Even senior bureaucrats like chief secretaries and directors- general of police cannot resist the temptation of post- retirement rehabilitation and so oblige their political masters.
In an atmosphere charged with rampant corruption, infecting both politicians and bureaucrats, the efforts of the political bosses succeed, as, unfortunately, they have got the measure of the bureaucracy and found it wanting. In such a scenario, despite his best wishes for revamping the bureaucracy, the Prime Minister can hardly do anything.
Arun Kumar Bhaduri,
Kolkata, 27 April 2008.
Excerpts from Bureaucracy revamp a tall order for PM
Comments: The bureaucratic set up has systematically degraded the Honour and Stature of the Armed Forces for the last 60 years in connivance with the the elected Politicians. Neither of them have any clue as to the tribulations of Armed Forces personnel whose civil liberties have been denied/ curbed in consonance with the Army Act. The ESM suffer more indignities due to the corrupt bureaucracy.
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