Re: ias training

[Sathya Kumar <saiweb@md2.vsnl.net.in>]

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:53:51 +0530

this is realy HITTING THE NAIL ON THE HEAD !
I COULD NEVER HAVE DEFINED THE PROBLEM SO CRISP.

Govt. & its minnions is the problem to the millions
in gross patchs. Who is to bell the cat.

Sauvik Chakraverti wrote:
> they have been trained (and examinmed)in "knowledge'
> that is viewed with extreme suspicion today. they have
> been trained to see the people as the problem and the
> state (themselves) as the solution.
> this must change.
> modern public administration begins with public choice
> theory which begins by teaching the theory of the
> budget-maximising bureaucrat: niskanen's theory. ias
> officers, if trained to see themselves as the cause of
> big budget deficits and the diversion of public money
> from private goods to public goods will be forced to
> reform themselves.
> the beginning must be made by reforming their minds.
> i strongly suggest that, for a beginning, the centre
> for civil society should be asked to conduct one of
> its liberty and society seminars in the lbs national
> academy of administration. sanjeev sabhlok has been
> asked by me to recommend this to the lbsnaa.
> we can tailor the seminar to suit young ias recruits.
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