Deadwood in the Indian bureaucracy will not be able to clog the government any longer. The Centre has notified a rule making it compulsory for IAS, IPS and officers from other all-India services to retire in "public interest" if they fail to clear a review after 15 years of service. Officers adjudged as inefficient and non-performing will be shown the door and even those who make the cut will need to...
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Early axe for non-performing babus
-The Telegraph Non-performing babus can lose their jobs after 15 years — instead of 30 now — following a change in rules by the Centre. All officers of the All India Services, which include the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Indian Foreign Service and the Indian Revenue Service among others, will be covered by the rules notified last week by the department of personnel and training after consultation with the states. Under...
More »Don't trash this law, the fault lies in non-implementation by Brinda Karat & Sabu George
There can be little quarrel with the argument that India requires a comprehensive policy to prevent sex selection as put forward by National Advisory Council members Farah Naqvi and A.K. Shiva Kumar in The Hindu (“India & the sex selection conundrum,” January 24, 2012). That the use of sex selection technologies to abort female foetuses is linked to the increasing devaluation and disempowerment of women is well known. It is...
More »Clean chit to PM, not PMO by Samanwaya Rautray
The uneasy head that wears the Prime Minister’s crown has been given a clean chit but not the Bureaucrats. The Supreme Court today acknowledged that a Prime Minister could not be expected to look into “minute details” of every case placed before him but launched a blistering attack on officials of the PMO and the law ministry for failing to apprise Manmohan Singh of the gravity of the charges against A....
More »Do we need the Aadhar scheme?
-The Business Standard Its guarantee of non-duplication can have far-reaching cost benefits but it has deep design flaws that can be compromised. PRAVEEN CHAKRAVARTY Former Volunteer, Financial Inclusion, UIDAI* “Aadhaar is an unadulterated identity programme that answers the question: Is the individual who he or she claims to be?” The word “unique”, and not “identity”, is central to the unique identity programme or Aadhaar. It may be true that the vast majority of people possess some...
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