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Should an IAS officer resign to join politics?

September 4, 2018September 4, 2018 Arjun Singh Dyarakotibureaucracy, civil services, IAS, IAS O P Chaudhary, Politics0 comment

IAS O P Chaudhary has resigned from his job. According to the sources, he is likely to join BJP and contest the poll next year. O P Chaudhary is a 2005 batch IAS officer and was currently posted as the collector of the Raipur district of Chattisgarh. Should his decision to quit the job for joining the politics be welcomed? It requires a great amount of courage to resign from a job( read service) as prestigious and dynamic as civil services for which one has to work really hard to…

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Lateral entry into Civil Services: A decision to be welcomed or an attempt to privatise the bureaucracy?

August 20, 2018August 21, 2018 Arjun Singh Dyarakoticivil services, lateral entry, upsc0 comment

Ever since the Central government has given a green flag to the lateral entry of the individuals with expertise in a specific domain into the bureaucracy at the central level, a debate has risen over the efficacy of this move with many hailing it as decisive step brought about in a bid to reform civil services and others criticizing it for bypassing the conventional procedure of the entry of civil servants and many other reasons discussed later in this article. This is not the first time that the centre has…

Role Of Civil Services in Democracy.

August 14, 2018 Ashutosh Ranacataylst, civil services, Democracy, modern state0 comment

Role of civil services. Civil Services and Democracy considered as two highly significant arrangement in any modern state. These two arrangement are part and parcel of any modern state arrangement but at level of thesis these are antithetical. Democracy is considered driven Values, Opinion, Preference & emotion etc. COMPLIMENTARY ROLE OF THESE TWO CONCEPT Our major political theorists Amitai Etzioni has observed that on the face the two concept may appear antithetical but it is through civil services only that the objective can achieve. According to Richard Rose, people while…