Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

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Is nothing sacred?

In 1995, addressing the AICC session, Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao had lamented the fact that the economic reform regime lacked a human...

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INDIA’s FIVECELLULAR SCAMS

Radio spectrum, the carrier of wireless communications, is a scarce but reusable natural resource. It has been the focus of policy manipulations and...

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‘The RTI now offers open protection to the corrupt’ 

I left the police force in 2005 because I could not stand the level of corruption prevailing. In my 1985 batch of 82...

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Heart of darkness

“Governance and leadership are the yin and the yang of successful organizations. If you have leadership without governance you risk tyranny, fraud and...

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Cry for this coastline

Is POSCO’s $12-million project worth the destruction of Orissa’s natural seafront heritage? POSCO-India’s project to build a steel plant yielding 12 million tonnes...

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The day of the Fixer…It’s the shelf life, stupid!

The fixer has become a fixture in the shadowy world of Indian governance. Even though this unique position finds no mention in the...

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Voting for the lesser devil

The quality of governance derives from the quality of political leaders but the voter has little choice, or does he? The World Bank...

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Organized anarchy

Lumbering along in its unique way, India has progressed but not on the social front At 62, India is hardly a senior citizen...

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No meat in your policies, Pranabda

 There is little in the Budget to fulfil the stated goal of re-energizing government so how will it happen? Presentation of the annual...

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In the service of the public

India’s civil servants need to go beyond the call of duty but the reality is just the opposite At a felicitation in Pune...