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Former judges, bureaucrats hit out at BBC over documentary on Modi

A statement signed by 13 former judges, 133 ex-bureaucrats, including diplomats, and 156 veterans said, "Regardless of whom you, as an individual Indian, might have voted for, the Prime Minister of India is the Prime Minister of your country, our country. We cannot allow just about anyone to run amok with their deliberate bias, their vacuous reasoning....

A wasting disease

The bureaucrat-politician nexus in administration is well-known. More worryingly, the line between the political executive and the permanent bureaucracy is getting increasingly blurred.

A call to serve

By the middle of the last decade, acute crisis of officers in various departments of the Union government appeared particularly in the grade of Directors. The same crisis appeared in the corresponding grades of the All-India Services. States became reluctant to spare their officers for Central deputation. Similarly, Central government departments also hesitated in sparing officers of the organized services for manning deputation posts of the Centre

Cooperative federalism

It has been iterated that officers would be posted on Central deputation only in consultation with the States but also been made clear that "once the number of officers to come on deputation to the Centre is fixed after mutual consultation, the Central Government should have overriding powers to get those officers"

CM issues stern message to bureaucrats

She said some senior officials pass on their work to junior officers, who in turn submit reports without checking the actual facts. “The DMs and SPs should give priority to the Chief Minister’s Grievance Cell. Providing services to people and catering to their complaints is our responsibility. Such lacunae and negligence would not be tolerated,” she said, adding that some principal secretaries work well but some don’t.