Reforms and Changes
As of 2011, in a duration of past three years over 450 chargesheets have been filed and a total of 943 cases are at different stages of investigation by CBI against civil servants.
By a corporate consultancy firm based in Hong Kong in 2012, Indian bureaucracy is ranked and rated as the worst in Asia with a 9.21 rating out of 10. A paper prepared in 2012 by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions states that corruption is prevalent at all levels in civil services and it is institutionalized.
On 28 November 2011, the Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT) of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions created a proposal to retire and remove incompetent, inefficient and unproductive All India Service officers after 15 years of service, instead of tolerating them to superannuate at the age of 60. Former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian welcomed this move with caution saying, "Periodical weeding out is very good. But the process to determine who needs to be prematurely retired should be fair and transparent. There is a possibility that even good IAS and IPS officers may be targeted because of political reasons,". Former UPSC chairman PC Hota echoed his sentiments remarking that, "We need drastic remedies. The situation has become terrible. The other day an IAS officer in Delhi was arrested for disproportionate assets of Rs.3.15 crore. She is just a 2000-batch IAS officer with 11 years of service. But at same time, the officers' service records should be analysed before a decision against him was taken". The proposal has been accepted and rule 16(3) of the All India Services (death-cum-retirement benefits) Rules of 1958 was amended on 31 January 2012.
In order to bring in more suitable candidates, changes in the entry level exams of All India services conducted by UPSC were introduced in year 2011 by UPSC in Preliminary Stage Exams. The UPSC is under consideration to change exam pattern for Mains stage exam, by 2014.
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“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)