Let's get our house in order. When you supercede 75% of your officers by the rank of Colonel, you got serious trouble. If every bloke who joins the IAS makes it to Joint Secretary, why are we crying foul. We have brought the present predicament upon ourselves. Till some years back did'nt we hear that we had the best selection system in the country. So what has changed now. The problem dear friends, is not with our stars but with us that we refuse to learn. Learn from politicians, learn from the bureaucracy. When the ruling party wants to appease a coalition partner, it offers it ministerial posts, when it has none it creates new ministries, even odd sounding ones like the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Closets. When the bureaucracy wants to upgrade its cadres it creates new departments under such ministries, such as the Department of Open Defecation under the Ministry of Sanitation and WCs, with one Secretary and maybe two Joint Secretaries each heading important sounding sub-departments such as Sub Department of Open Defecation along Railway Tracks and Sub Department of Open Defecation in Fields. There, you have one additional Secretary and two Joint Secretaries. So let a thousand Major Generals Bloom.Many would say it is difficult as all appointments have to be okayed by the bureaucracy. Difficult yes, impossible no. As Lord Krishna said to the brave Arjuna, the battle lies not without but within.
By Lt Col Sanjiv Sharma (Retd)
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