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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Under Modi govt, civil servants have lost initiative and drive. India is paying the price -Samir Singh Chandel

Under Modi govt, civil servants have lost initiative and drive. India is paying the price -Samir Singh Chandel

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published Published on May 25, 2021   modified Modified on May 31, 2021

-ThePrint.in

In various state govts, the office of district magistrate has been reduced to a glorified post office that receives instructions from various govt departments.

Not so long ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ridiculed India’s civil servants in Parliament when he questioned whether the government should be run by ‘babus’, a euphemism for bureaucrats. It is ironic to see the PM now, addressing the very same ‘babus’, the district magistrates of India.

If one thing the Covid-19 crisis has signalled, it is the complete and colossal failure of the institution of the Indian government. From ‘Minimum Governance’, a slogan coined by PM Modi in 2014, to ‘No Governance’ in 2021. The Modi government at the Centre has not only failed in anticipating the second wave but it continues to flounder and remains absolutely clueless about handling the situation.

It is not hard to see the reason behind this — a systematic neglect of the steel frame of India, repeatedly demeaned and undermined.

What civil servants now stand for

Some may argue that PM Modi prefers to work directly through bureaucrats, overriding his ministers. But the fact remains that he prefers to work with a ‘select’, handful of bureaucrats, not the system of civil services. In this light, even the so-called reforms introduced by the Modi government are not systemic in nature, but are designed to rope in ‘committed’ officials, not independent-thinking ones.

The system of accountability for civil servants to the elected representatives is based on two assumptions, which are both inherently flawed.

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ThePrint.in, 25 May, 2021, https://theprint.in/opinion/under-modi-govt-civil-servants-have-lost-initiative-and-drive-india-is-paying-the-price/664867/


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