Governance
bureaucracy ashwani lohani
Bureaucrats have failed to play the role assigned to
them in the task of nation- building. Instead, they seem more concerned
with enjoying the fruits of power
The
imminent change of guard at Raisina Hill will once again witness the
emergence of turncoat bureaucrats, this time in large numbers due to
their long association with almost a decade of single- coalition
governance at the Centre. Misrule or otherwise, the penchant of the
Indian bureaucrat to disassociate himself from the previous government
and actively associate with the next, even at the cost of being termed a
turncoat, is perhaps beyond compare.
Bureaucrats
are expected to be non-political and, therefore, meant to guide and
obey the diktats of their elected political masters. Yet, many of them
emerge as bigger and wily politicians in their perpetual efforts to have
a good time, almost always. Good times they invariably have, albeit at
the cost of the nation and the hapless populace...Read more
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