Protecting India’s steel frame

It is no secret that India’s once-powerful civil service is now a mere instrument in the hands of an increasingly erratic and unresponsive executive branch. A number of reform commissions and committees have reported on what needs to be done to arrest the country’s falling administrative standards. To no avail. The reports of various committees and commissions, including the most recent one—the Second Administrative Reforms Commission—are merely consigned to cupboards in secretariats.

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