SC order will loosen neta’s grip on bureaucrats

The Supreme Court's directives that civil servants must not take oral orders from the executive and that the Government should assure a fixed tenure for them, will go a long way in unshackling the bureaucracy from excessive political influence. While the impact of the rulings will not be limited to the Government in power and will have a bearing on successive regimes, the fact is that the court's intervention has come in the backdrop of a series of actions the Congress-led UPA and a few State Governments have taken to clip the wings of honest bureaucrats who dared to do the right thing.

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