Version 2000.2

["Dr. Sanjeev Sabhlok" <sanjeev@sabhlokcity.com>]

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Based on Umesh's excellent points below, I have added the following under 

8.	Administrative Reforms

e)	All these administrative positions would be filled by nomination of the
person by the elected executive and subsequent screening and confirmation
hearing and approval by the Lok Sabha or related State Assemblies. 

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At 06:55 PM 01/12/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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>Forgive me folks for joining late in this debate. If my two cents worth
>means anything then I say we don't need IAS Academies or a separate class of
>IAS officials. We certainly could and should have very high and strict
>standards of educational, as well as relevant experience in industry and/or
>academic background for the positions of public offices to run bureaucracy
>such as Secretaries of various departments reporting to individual
>ministries. All of these administrative positions should have a limited term
>and must be filled by 
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>1. Nomination of the person by the elected executive (such as the prime
>minister or chief minister depending upon the jurisdiction) and
>2. Subsequent screening and confirmation hearing and approval by the Lok
>Sabha or related State Assemblies. 
>
>All of bright and young individuals aspiring to join civil service should
>study hard, hone their skills as able administrators by proving to be
>successful Academicians/Entrepreneurs and then look for the opportunity for
>an elected executive to pick them up and again have the courage to face
>intense public scrutiny and confirmation process from the
>parliament/assembly of elected representatives. 
>
>In my humble opinion this is the only way to return power to the people, the
>ordinary citizens to govern themselves. That's what IAS strives to achieve
>but totally the wrong way. 
>
>In my approach, there may not be too many jobs of IAS or other civil
>servants, but instead, these bright young people will work towards
>generating wealth for the country and for themselves as entrepreneurs while
>opting temporarily to join as civil servants to serve individual elected
>governments rather then sitting permanently on government payrolls as
>parasites (for lack of better word, forgive my choice of no so nice a word!)
>no matter whether so many civil servants are needed or not. 
>
>Hope this provides some helpful input, otherwise please ignore my message. I
>don't claim to know a lot in this field. 
>
>Umesh Tiwari
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