{"id":228467,"date":"2023-02-24T20:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=228467"},"modified":"2023-02-24T20:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:15:30","slug":"how-vikasvaad-has-lost-out-to-centralisation-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-vikasvaad-has-lost-out-to-centralisation-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"How vikasvaad has lost out to centralisation of government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>How vikasvaad has lost out to centralisation of government<\/strong>\u201d published in The Indian Express<\/strong> on\u00a024th<\/sup> February 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>issues with bureaucracy and elite institutions<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: India has taken up the G20 presidency and there have been talks about changing India. However, even among G20 nations, the condition of India is dismal.<\/p>\n

This article discusses the reasons behind the dismal condition of India and provides an analysis of the vikasvaad of 2015.<\/p>\n

Where does India stand amongst the G20 countries?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

India\u2019s per capita is lowest within the G20.<\/strong> The life expectancy in India<\/strong> is second lowest.\u00a0More than 30 percent of jobs in India need just primary education and 70 percent of those in the workforce have no contract.<\/p>\n

Hardly 35 percent of male population and 18 percent of the female<\/strong> population attain secondary education. India also has some of the most polluted rivers and cities.<\/p>\n

Girls do not go to school in some areas while most cities remain unsafe for working women.<\/p>\n

In all these matters, India stands at the bottom amongst the G20 nations and these all have brought into attention the vikasvaad of 2015.<\/p>\n

What was Vikasvaad of 2015?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It was aimed to reform of the top bureaucracy of the country and revamp the central scientific agencies<\/strong>. Because, it is the top bureaucracy which determines the quality of people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

In India, through the IAS, IITs, IIMs and a network of central agencies are available. Power is concentrated in a few hundred top functionaries.<\/p>\n

They are responsible for the conduct of most state functions such as managing irrigation systems, making railway engines, running universities or regulating hospitals.<\/p>\n

The scientists and professors are responsible<\/strong> for the measurement, analysis and upgradation of most practices like estimating groundwater and tackling pollution.<\/p>\n

The elite institutions<\/strong>, through their graduates, create new professionals, companies and agencies that bring modern services to the citizens of this country.<\/p>\n

However, these institutions and top functionaries have not performed up to the expectations.<\/p>\n

What are the issues with these top institutions and functionaries?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The IITs today are the same as in the 1990s, because they remain disconnected from the states <\/strong>they belong to. Most professors have little understanding of regional problems like floods and droughts, pollution, etc.<\/p>\n

The IIT graduate is a global brand with little training or interest in nation-building or the temperament for working on hard scientific problems.<\/p>\n

Further, the current IAS officers are incapable of performing well<\/strong> and as per changing demands of society because of their old-fashioned training and work culture.<\/p>\n

This has been one of the reasons behind the failure of most of the departments in several states.<\/p>\n

This has ultimately led to the coming up of a contractual system for government works<\/strong>. These are mostly taken up by the politicians and big contractors who provide low grade services.<\/p>\n

Hence, the aim of the vikasvaad of 2015 was to dismantle this system. That could not be achieved.<\/p>\n

Why were the aims of the vikasvaad of 2015 not accomplished?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There were various political reasons<\/strong> such as \u2013 a)<\/strong> it would diminish the power of the government by creating a more elite society, b)<\/strong> it would strengthen\u00a0a diverse civil society, enhance awareness and free thinking on issues of education, health and culture, c)<\/strong> it would further develop the southern states which might affect the supremacy of central government controlling those states from the North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cHow vikasvaad has lost out to centralisation of government\u201d published in The Indian Express on\u00a024th February 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance Relevance: issues with bureaucracy and elite institutions News: India has taken up the G20 presidency and there have been talks about changing India. However, even among… Continue reading How vikasvaad has lost out to centralisation of government<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-228467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}