Recruitment and Training of Higher Civil Service: A Case for Change
| Author | Priyanka Malhotra |
| Published date | 01 July 2012 |
| Date | 01 July 2012 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0019556120120323 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING
OF
IDGHER
CIVIL
SERVICE: A CASE
FOR
CHANGE
PRIYANKA
MALHOTRA
Search for an opposite civil service has always been high
on the priority
of
political thinkers, leaders, scholars and
administrators.
The
world has become a global village and
there is an unavoidable phenomenon
of
increasing global
interdependence
and
institutional collaborations
and
participation. This makes
an
efficient administrative setup,
with talented civil servants especially
at
higher levels, a
key necessity
of
our times. This article explores as to how
improved capacity building
of
public servants, principally
in
view
of
the socio-economic realities and cultural and
ethnic diversities will help build a forward looking and
professional service.
THE CIVIL Service in India is an imperial legacy left by the British.
They effectively and strongly administered and protected the country
and the key instrument
of
governance was like a "Steel Frame". There
was no separate cadre
of
higher civil service, since all the higher
positions in administration were reserved for the Generalist Service
(ICS), an All India Service. This came to be identified as higher civil
service. The same position has more or less continued after Independence
with IAS having taken its role. But IAS is one
of
the three All India
services (the other two being IPS and IFS) constituted by an Act
of
Parliament. The All India Services Act 1951, in consonance with Article
312
of
the Constitution,
~alls
for the creation
of
All India Services common
to the Union and the states.
The civil services have always been and shall continue
to
be the chief
bulwark
of
a government and a nation. The future
of
a country
is
mainly
dependent on the efficiency, honesty, integrity, fearlessness, courtesy and
law abiding nature
of
its public servants. Since the ancient period when
man passed from the authority
of
Patria-Potestas to the realm
of
a king
with larger area
to
control and administer, the need for a regularly recruited
and trained service has been felt.
No
government can be successful and
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