RE: IAS

["Indrajit Barua" <indrajitbarua@philosophers.net>]

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Doing away with the ritual of writing 'IAS' after their names will be a
good way of cutting down these snobs to size.

As I have said, individually there are many fine chaps in the service, but
taken together as a whole, collectively, they ARE a bloody disaster for India.

Keep up the resistance!

>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:11:39 -0600
>From: "Sabyasachi Dey" <DSabyasachi@novell.com>
>To: <indrajitbarua@philosophers.net>
>Subject:
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>Hi,
>
>I am writing in response to your message at India Policy. I strongly
support the view
>that IAS officers are trained to be "rulers" and not "servants". They
forget that their
>task is to merely server people and implementation of policies formulated
by the
>people representatives. Eventually these guys become arrogant and cause an
>irrecoverable damage to the nation. This role should be reversed
immediately and
>that can be done by abolishing the hating terminology "IAS".
>Can you justify why a chap write his name like this :  <name>, IAS. DO I
write my name
>like this :  Sabyasachi Dey, Gold Medalist, B.Tech.(CS) ?!?!?!
>Often they try to link up corruption among them with their low wages ! How
funny as if
>they did not know what their wages would be while they joined the service.
>
>thanks,
>Sabyasachi.
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>Only half in jest, i would recommend closing down of the academy and
>doing away with the IAS. as usual, we have chosen the wrong route --
>training our civil servants on the russian-socialist model -- to rule
>rather than to serve.
>
>Individually, most of them are fine chaps, but as a system, they are a
>bloody disaster for the Nation.
>
>I'm not an IAS baiter -- I have many friends in the service, including
>some secretary to GOI level officers both serving and retired and I've
>said these same things to them also.
>
>We won the Kargil was despite the IAS -- this is the popular feeling
>here.
>
>The service, because of their huge numbers and because they are ther
>permanently on the scene, have become unaccountable to anyone and are
>now driven purely by self interest and their own narrow ends rather than
>for national interests. Of course -- there ARE exceptions to prove the
>rule -- mr j.m.lyngdoh and dr sanjeev sabhlok are two examples i know.
>
>The real problem is: how do we train & motivate the best and the
>brightest in the land to serve effectively under the worst set of
>scoundrels that can be produced by our country?
>
>Indrajit Barua.
>
>>Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:26:46 -0800 (PST)
>>From: "Yadhuvendra Mathur" <ym@lbsnaa.ernet.in>
>>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>>Subject: Re: Judiciary, Prasar Bharati, Sen
>>Reply-To: debate@indiapolicy.org
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>>Dear Sanjeev
>>I have recently joined the India Policy debate site and it promises to
>>be
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>of
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>>If there are any takers I shall put up the Syllabus that is current and
>
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>>Regards
>>Yaduvendra Mathur
>>PS: our site http://www.lbsnaa.ernet.in
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