{"id":34683,"date":"2018-10-31T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34683"},"modified":"2018-10-31T12:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:21:43","slug":"fixing-the-steel-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fixing-the-steel-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the steel frame:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/fixing-the-steel-frame\/article19831007.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fixing the steel frame<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 1947, India continued to adopt the civil service system inherited from the British with no major reforms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in reality, the colonial civil service system was unsuitable for a politically free, socially feudal and economically poor country such as India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Indian bureaucracy: legacy of British Colonialism<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Colonial bureaucracy: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colonial bureaucracy<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was an instrument or apparatus which included the employment of officials to assist in the administration of the colonial states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India inherited an administration which was created by its British rulers to serve the interest of their Queen and the British parliament.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whole set of Indian Civil Services was designed and trained by the British with the aim of extracting maximum revenues from the local Indians.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country segregated the civil services as the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IAAS), etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the problems of Indian bureaucracy?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>The inherited bureaucracy of India is crippled by<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> political interference, <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">outdated personnel procedures, <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and a mixed record on policy implementation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bureaucracy has continued to be <\/span><b>deeply hierarchical and rule-bound.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been a resistance to change. It is said that the age-old system is keeping the Indian bureaucracy intact.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in turn its inefficiency,<\/span><b> corruption and delays<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have become, in public perception, the hallmarks of public administration in India<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the \u00a0measures to be taken?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reforms should be brought about by the government to <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reshape recruitment and promotion processes,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> improve performance-based assessment of individual officers, and <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adopt safeguards that promote accountability while protecting bureaucrats from political meddling. For example:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Reforms suggested by <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Second Administrative Reforms Commission (SARC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commission had recommended significantly lowering the permissible age of entry into the civil services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It recommended establishment of national institutes of public administration that would cultivate a new pool of aspiring civil service applicants. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commission also suggested that all promotions be based on successful completion of mandatory training.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commission recommended a system of two intensive reviews at the 14 and 20 year marks to determine continuance in public service.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And a new civil service reform bill to fix a minimum tenure for senior posts and establish safeguards against arbitrary dismissal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, changing the character of the personnel system would not by itself be enough, organizational charges in the area of government ministries departments are also needed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing the steel frame:\u00a0 Context: Since 1947, India continued to adopt the civil service system inherited from the British with no major reforms. But in reality, the colonial civil service system was unsuitable for a politically free, socially feudal and economically poor country such as India. Indian bureaucracy: legacy of British Colonialism Colonial bureaucracy: Colonial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fixing-the-steel-frame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fixing the steel frame:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704796226},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34683","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}