BUREAUCRACY AND SOCIETY

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BUREAUCRACY AND SOCIETY- The IAS at Work: Edited by Rakesh Hooja; Rawat Publications, Satyam Apartments, Sector 3, Jawahar Nagar,


Jaipur-302004. Rs. 695.

Winston Churchill faulted them for “arrant pedantry” when it was pointed out to him that he had ended a sentence with a preposition. Margaret Thatcher would not regard them highly either. Nearer home, Jawaharlal Nehru found them “cutting the red-tape along.” Yet, none could either downsize or dispense with bureaucracy.
Experience
Fifteen officers of the Indian Administrative Service share their experiences at work in Rajasthan. Experience is the best school in that the test comes earlier and lessons are learnt later. One of the officers, Rajagopal, has specifically mentioned the lesson at the end of every episode he narrates. Since the early 1950s and ‘60s, the role of the civil servant has shrunk to the mere mechanics of implementing the policies of the rulers, and ensuring propriety of procedure and accountability to audit. The contributors, while in service, have been professional and objective enough to go along even with policies and programmes considered unviable and did not, as a rule, stick their neck out.





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