{"id":264254,"date":"2023-10-13T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=264254"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:41:06","slug":"administrators-all-services-need-more-officers-not-just-ifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/administrators-all-services-need-more-officers-not-just-ifs\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrators- All services need more officers, not just IFS."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> The post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Administrators- All services need more officers, not just IFS.<\/strong> So do local govts. And recruit more specialists\u201d published in \u201c<strong>The Times of India<\/strong>\u201d on 13th October 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong> GS2- Governance- Role of civil services in a democracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The article discusses the need for strengthening the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) due to increased global engagement. It highlights that, contrary to popular belief, India&#8217;s bureaucracy isn&#8217;t overly large but requires enhancement and specialization to manage complex, modern tasks and international affairs effectively, comparing practices with the USA and China.<\/p>\n<h2>What is the issue with the Indian foreign service?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Understaffed:<\/strong> The IFS don&#8217;t have enough members. A parliamentary panel highlighted this after comparing it to foreign services in other countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recruitment Process:<\/strong> There are questions about whether the current recruitment process brings in people with the right skills for today&#8217;s complex world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Need for Specialization:<\/strong> Modern challenges, like managing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), require more domain expertise. The IFS needs people with specific skills and knowledge.<\/p>\n<h2>How does India&#8217;s bureaucratic strength compare internationally?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Peak in 1986:<\/strong> India had 19,000 government officials per million people at its bureaucratic peak in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below Asian Average in 1990s<\/strong>: Government employment was about 2% of the population, under the Asian average of 2.6%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local vs. State and Central:<\/strong> Unlike the U.S. and China, India\u2019s local governments have fewer bureaucrats than state and central governments. In contrast, the U.S. and China have a larger bureaucratic presence at the local government level, which hasn\u2019t hindered their state capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAdministrators- All services need more officers, not just IFS. So do local govts. And recruit more specialists\u201d published in \u201cThe Times of India\u201d on 13th October 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Governance- Role of civil services in a democracy. News: The article discusses the need for strengthening the Indian&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/administrators-all-services-need-more-officers-not-just-ifs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Administrators- All services need more officers, not just IFS.<\/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":[1],"tags":[300,212,10496],"class_list":["post-264254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-governance","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700780160},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264254","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=264254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}