Nosense Comparision

I don’t know what the true intention was, but a bit surprised to see the timing of the article in a Telugu daily months ago ….., at a time when a few successful enthusiasts, numbered less than 10,000 of the nation for the year2007 were getting ready to take on what a very few genuinely healthy newspapers like The Hindu have depicted it as Mother of All Examinations through which country’s policy makers, decision makers, sometimes…..otherwise-caretakers of governance by ordinance are recruited through three phases by central recruitment agency which was established by an act of parliament decades ago. The article categorically tried to label government’s permanent executives on par with swinging executives whose hard work would generally be overshadowed under the illuminated ‘glass with care’ roofs, whose work is assessed on a daily basis and whose market value news in the recent economic quarters are enriched with latest media experience. Its lead essay said that cream of the society is being housed these days in MNCs regardless of their stature in fortune500 or a place in Forbes magazine list, with the prime focus being on earning much more than a under secretary/ DG rank official in GOI machinery and maintained that they aren’t even in a mood to switch over to what the daily wanted to mirror the civil wing as passed away glorious administrative and police set up. But unsurprisingly statistics have been presenting a different picture as many IITians, management graduates from IIMs started pouring down straight into the Indian Civil Services making entry much complex for other stream’s creamy layers. Therefore if it were the ‘hard’ cream that’s entering into the IITs, IIMs and institutions alike and if it is to be believed, then certainly DoPT, MHA, MEA shall have exclusive rights to claim that they’ve been the trend setters for whatever growth this nation has absorbed over decades. Initiating land reforms, setting up R and D institutes and their credible management, creating civil, human rights commissions, public grievances cell, authoring and encouraging economic reforms, establishing boards for railway, telecom, postal services, IT, SEZs, maintaining electoral rolls and powering smooth electioneering……these were a few among many ideas that blossomed from smarter brains of our civil servants, of whom many had pioneered the above sutras after getting elevated to viceroys and governors after their superannuation of the service and after their contribution on the field was over with some dignity. It is in this context, I, as a civil services aspirant, as well as a person who seek to gun down unnecessary and unwarranted remarks for the pitfalls in the entire system (which generally require broader view and immediate sweeping changes of the mindsets as a whole) of humanity and its existence ever since its evolution, have come in to defend civil servants unconditionally!