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The real problem with our bureaucracy is about accountability and responsibility. The pay structure of our Bureaucracy is such that officers get small salaries and large perks and amenities in form of bungalows and servants. In many cases, they occupy the same bungalows that the British left in 1947. And they do not do their job responsibly because there is little accountability associated.
If you are an Indian, it would be an astronomically impossible odd that you didn’t hear of how corrupt our bureaucracy is or how some ‘babu‘ or some ‘bade sahab‘ is corrupt and nothing more than a public disgrace. Well, that’s Indian bureaucracy for you.
Fair disclosure that I do understand and acknowledge the fact not all bureaucrats are corrupt. In fact, we have exemplary civil servants that have served as an inspiration to us all. But this is not about them, those honest civil servants. This is about what is wrong with Indian bureaucracy.
Bureaucrats, Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Measures
Bureaucrats, Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Measures are now modern day derogatory overtones that express tyranny, arrogance and debilitation in our country’s governance. Bureaucrats are, in this day and age, perceived as those with massive egos and false nationalist zealotry. They are in essence a rule bound bookkeepers who have ‘I’ mentality when it comes to interpreting rules. They play favorites, they are biased, they stay vague so that they are not held accountable, and they maintain chaos so that no one can see them cheat.
From Outside: Looking In
Don’t take my word for it. I am just an ordinary Indian citizen exercising my freedom of speech. Wouldn’t it help if you could see our Indian bureaucracy from an outside view? It is said that an unbiased opinion comes from the uninvolved. So let’s do that. Let’s see what others think of Indian bureaucracy.
In October 2010, just after the conclusion of Commonwealth Games in India, Eric Elliswrote a post titled ‘A most uncivil service‘ on The Age where he talks about the Indian bureaucracy. Unfortunately, he has nothing good to say. He writes the following –
The Delhi games showed the world just what can be done when its daunting civil service takes control – and the result wasn’t pretty. Corruption, waste, inefficiency, obfuscation and a cancerous lack of accountability in officialdom – and all of it on an Olympian scale.
Delhi’s dramas may have been revealing for observers who briefly touch India but sadly these are the common issues daily confronting and long bedevilling a billion Indians and the foreign investors urged to invest their money in business there. Some economists have calculated that India’s bureaucratic inefficiency costs the country 1 to 2 points in annual growth.
India’s daunting civil service is supposed to be the pride of the nation – just ask its privileged nabobs – but instead its malfunction and malgovernance hold India back. Enter any average government office in India and one is struck by the mountains of yellowing paperwork, years of filing and unfinished work ground down by the sheer scale of chaotic India’s myriad issues that overwhelm.
Another account by Lant Pritchett of Harvard University sheds some brighter light on the Indian bureaucratic problem. In a paper, in 2009, titled “Is India a Failing State?“, he described Indian bureaucracy to be one of the most serious problems in the world today; up there with AIDS and climate change. He makes a point that foreign investments, and any welfare schemes in India for that matter, will never improve India’s economy as long as there is an inefficient Indian bureaucracy. These bureaucrats are like a tumorous growth that eat away any welfare funds like a parasite.
In his book “The Foundation Pillars for Change: Our Nation, Our Democracy & Our Future”, Mr. V.K. Patel writes that most developmental spending fails to reach its intended recipients. It is either diverted or misused by a sizeable and a complacent bureaucracy. I corroborate to Mr. Patel’s description of bureaucracy.
We need to take away these IAS’s comfortable life devoid of any accountability for their country. Take away their big bungalows, their VIP status, their guards, their peons, their orderlies and hook them up in a system where they are rewarded for their good acts and punished for their bad deeds. Unless and until such an overhaul happens, India is not going to be a great country. No welfare policies will ever come to fruition. India cannot change without a change in our bureaucratic system. This is what is wrong with the Indian bureaucracy.
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Nitesh Kumar, Brown Bureaucrats have replaced British Lords
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The real problem with our bureaucracy is about accountability and responsibility. The pay structure of our Bureaucracy is such that officers get small salaries and large perks and amenities in form of bungalows and servants. In many cases, they occupy the same bungalows that the British left in 1947. And they do not do their job responsibly because there is little accountability associated.
If you are an Indian, it would be an astronomically impossible odd that you didn’t hear of how corrupt our bureaucracy is or how some ‘babu‘ or some ‘bade sahab‘ is corrupt and nothing more than a public disgrace. Well, that’s Indian bureaucracy for you.
Fair disclosure that I do understand and acknowledge the fact not all bureaucrats are corrupt. In fact, we have exemplary civil servants that have served as an inspiration to us all. But this is not about them, those honest civil servants. This is about what is wrong with Indian bureaucracy.
Bureaucrats, Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Measures
Bureaucrats, Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Measures are now modern day derogatory overtones that express tyranny, arrogance and debilitation in our country’s governance. Bureaucrats are, in this day and age, perceived as those with massive egos and false nationalist zealotry. They are in essence a rule bound bookkeepers who have ‘I’ mentality when it comes to interpreting rules. They play favorites, they are biased, they stay vague so that they are not held accountable, and they maintain chaos so that no one can see them cheat.
From Outside: Looking In
Don’t take my word for it. I am just an ordinary Indian citizen exercising my freedom of speech. Wouldn’t it help if you could see our Indian bureaucracy from an outside view? It is said that an unbiased opinion comes from the uninvolved. So let’s do that. Let’s see what others think of Indian bureaucracy.
In October 2010, just after the conclusion of Commonwealth Games in India, Eric Elliswrote a post titled ‘A most uncivil service‘ on The Age where he talks about the Indian bureaucracy. Unfortunately, he has nothing good to say. He writes the following –
The Delhi games showed the world just what can be done when its daunting civil service takes control – and the result wasn’t pretty. Corruption, waste, inefficiency, obfuscation and a cancerous lack of accountability in officialdom – and all of it on an Olympian scale.
Delhi’s dramas may have been revealing for observers who briefly touch India but sadly these are the common issues daily confronting and long bedevilling a billion Indians and the foreign investors urged to invest their money in business there. Some economists have calculated that India’s bureaucratic inefficiency costs the country 1 to 2 points in annual growth.
India’s daunting civil service is supposed to be the pride of the nation – just ask its privileged nabobs – but instead its malfunction and malgovernance hold India back. Enter any average government office in India and one is struck by the mountains of yellowing paperwork, years of filing and unfinished work ground down by the sheer scale of chaotic India’s myriad issues that overwhelm.
Another account by Lant Pritchett of Harvard University sheds some brighter light on the Indian bureaucratic problem. In a paper, in 2009, titled “Is India a Failing State?“, he described Indian bureaucracy to be one of the most serious problems in the world today; up there with AIDS and climate change. He makes a point that foreign investments, and any welfare schemes in India for that matter, will never improve India’s economy as long as there is an inefficient Indian bureaucracy. These bureaucrats are like a tumorous growth that eat away any welfare funds like a parasite.
In his book “The Foundation Pillars for Change: Our Nation, Our Democracy & Our Future”, Mr. V.K. Patel writes that most developmental spending fails to reach its intended recipients. It is either diverted or misused by a sizeable and a complacent bureaucracy. I corroborate to Mr. Patel’s description of bureaucracy.
We need to take away these IAS’s comfortable life devoid of any accountability for their country. Take away their big bungalows, their VIP status, their guards, their peons, their orderlies and hook them up in a system where they are rewarded for their good acts and punished for their bad deeds. Unless and until such an overhaul happens, India is not going to be a great country. No welfare policies will ever come to fruition. India cannot change without a change in our bureaucratic system. This is what is wrong with the Indian bureaucracy.
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