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Reforming civil services — a different view
The practice of `jack of all trades' — round pegs in square holes and square pegs in round holes — is the villain of professionalism and probity in civil service. Nowhere in the civilised world such atrocious practice of governance would be practised wherein experienced and competent technocrats and professionals are compelled to play second fiddle to greenhorns with next to nil subject knowledge, just because they belonged to a particular pampered service.
Restructuring the selection machinery
THE CURRENT debate on the proposed ban on entry of technocrats into the all-India and Central civil services has brought into focus the need of taking a fresh look at our national personnel policy. The Macaulay-Trevelyan concept of recruitment ...
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