This is regarding the recent fiasco that the DOPT report on the decrease in the age limit for writing the all India exams had created.
Compliments to the DOPT for coming up with an answer within a day. Compliments to The Hindu for highlighting the issue to the public at large and pressurizing the government to come up with an answer.
While a young bureaucracy will give the idealism that is associated with the youth to the bureaucracy, it should also be noted that the AIS exams of recent times have shown that there are a considerable number of people who want to join the bureaucracy after getting exposure to the professional world. The AIR 1 of the 2013 exam is testimony to it.
As I get interested in policy, governance and administration, I cannot but observe the lack of understanding regarding these topics in me. It is not as if my curriculum in school or MBA did not have requisite topics but I do not think there was much inspiration. Articles and policies were just listed down as if blaring out that they need to be mugged. There was no historical or current context associated with them.
As I study the subjects further I realize the vision with which the constitution of this nation was written and the safeguards it tried to make. The realism from the idealists is something that I am in awe. But Alas! as was said by Ambedkar, the constitution is as good or as bad as the people.
And for that good, inspiration can be sought from the writings of the judicial legends of Mr. Nani Palkivala and Mr. Nariman or from the administrative rogues of Mr. Vinod Rai and Mr. Parakh or from the writings of I K Gujaral.
I hope to see such books being prescribed for readings in the schools and colleges of India and provide the country with a youthful bureaucracy.
Jai Hind!
