RE: Version 2000.2 - Public Employees

["acomelo" <acomelo@goplay.com>]

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Administrative

I believe public employees in any country should have a minimum of 5 
years of private sector experience before being considered for hire 
in the public sector.  I have come to this conclusion after having 
worked in both the private and public sectors in the US for over 15 
years, 



"Dr. Sanjeev Sabhlok" <sanjeev@sabhlokcity.com> wrote on Monday 
February 7, 2000 at  9:17am:
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>Based on Umesh's excellent points below, I have added the following 
under 
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>8.Administrative Reforms
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>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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>Version 2000.2 is now up.
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>At 06:55 PM 01/12/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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>>http://www.indiapolicy.org/lists/india_policy/2000/Jan/msg00010.html
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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. 
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>>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. 
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>>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. 
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>>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. 
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>>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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