IC Centre for Governance
by Ajit Ujjainkar
On
the eve of the general election, the IC Centre for Governance (ICCFG)
hosted a lecture series on the changing role of the civil services. The
lectures on the critical topic of the relationship between the
bureaucrats and the political leadership were delivered on April 4,
2014, at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
In
his opening remarks, Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary and
Governor of Jharkhand and currently the President of the ICCFG, said
that Sardar Patel, the founder of the civil services in independent
India, had visualised a clear role definition for the two crucial
categories of bureaucrats and politicians. The political leadership
defined the policies and the bureaucracy implemented these policies. The
politicians had the vision and perspective, and the civil servants the
domain knowledge and institutional memory. They started with feelings of
mutual trust and interdependence. But over the years, they failed to
delimit their respective roles with precision and clarity and this
created feelings of mistrust and suspicion among them....Read more
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