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‘Bureaucrats should take bold decisions’

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— PHOTO: P.V. SIVAKUMAR

Expert opinion: British High Commissioner to India Sir Richard Stagg interacting with a scholar at ASCI on Monday.

HYDERABAD: Addressing cross-generational issues will be the biggest challenge for any democracy and civil servants should provide strategies to elected governments to tackle a new range of problems, said British High Commissioner to India Sir Richard Stagg here on Monday.

Delivering a lecture at Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) on ‘The role of the public service in the 21st century democracy’, the diplomat said that with rising aspirations of people and their expectations from their democratic governments, civil servants should take bold decisions and implement them with conviction rather than worry about drawing criticism.

The British High Commissioner emphasised the need for public and private sector partnership in infrastructure, education, healthcare, R&D as the government alone could not raise resources. However, governments should provide the framework and transparency to ensure that the private sector delivered for faster development. He appreciated the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) constructed in PPP mode here and concept of e-seva for speedy service to the public.

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