Full of devastating quotes from an unimpeachable writer — “over the past 70 years, even the PMs of India haven’t been able to easily remove corrupt IAS officers, leave alone the incompetent ones”
“Our elected politicians have no real powers to deliver their election commitments. Our democracy is thus being choked from within – by the unaccountable and ultra-powerful IAS.”
“... no IAS officer comes even remotely close to the competence of middle-level managers in the Australian government. If the pool of administrative leaders in India is so poor, how can India possibly succeed?”
The situation in the states is more dire than at the Centre — “... all important posts in the states have been captured by the IAS through IAS cadre rules. These include senior positions in local government bodies, such as municipal corporations.”
The biggest takeaway, a fundamental truth that many have already identified and railed fruitlessly against — “The IAS is unfit for the task of taking India from the Third World to the First World.”
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