Environmental governance is one of the emerging challenges facing the contemporary world. It is the means by which society determines and acts on...
ByPrabhat KumarJune 7, 2019IN March 2013, a concerned group of ex-bureaucrats, including some former cabinet secretaries, met then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to advocate for urgent...
ByPrabhat KumarJanuary 6, 2019Strange are the ways of the government at times. For instance, in the beginning of the twentieth century, the government of Madras Presidency...
ByPrabhat KumarDecember 5, 2018I have spent almost four decades in government. But in my knowledge, never before has a campaign to introduce and spread ethics in...
ByPrabhat KumarSeptember 12, 2018A new chapter was recently added to the old debate on the relationship between the political executive and the senior bureaucracy when the...
ByPrabhat KumarAugust 17, 2018WHAT started as a proposed idea has now emerged in a concrete form with the Department Of Personnel and Training issuing an advertisement...
ByPrabhat KumarJuly 16, 2018THERE is a consensus among the scholars and public administration professionals that the Indian Civil Services in the state and union governments need...
ByPrabhat KumarJune 20, 2018SWOOSH! Another civil service day has just passed like an ephemeral shower of April. Nothing seems to have changed a bit in government....
ByPrabhat KumarMay 18, 2018Lateral hiring may sound like an exciting concept, but it is a flawed one for several reasons. For one, it will destroy what...
ByMG Devasahayam and Prabhat KumarAugust 19, 2017WHEN we write about governance in the country, we should try to be absolutely honest, and realise at the same time that it...
ByPrabhat KumarAugust 4, 2017