Thursday, April 07, 2005

Review of Mandal (2005a, 2005 b): Public Service - I and II, The Statesman, New Delhi, April 6-7, 2005

Review of Mandal (2005a, 2005 b): Public Service - I and II, The Statesman, New Delhi, April 6-7, 2005

In these two successive articles* Mr. Mandal, a former member of the Indian Civil Service, covers a very wide range of issues including providing an historical evolution of civil services in India. Noting the deteriorating standards of the Indian Administrative Service, he calls for market-driven civil services in India pleading for lateral entry to the civil services. Missed from these two-well written articles is the contribution eGov can make to good governance in the 21st century.

Dr D.C.Misra
April 7, 2005
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*Mandal, Debaki Nandan (2005a): Public Service-I: Bureaucrats Drift Towards Negativism And Mediocrity, The Statesman, New Delhi, April 6, 2005, Wednesday, available: http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?date=2005-04-06&usrsess=1&clid=3&id=101447, and

Mandal, Debaki Nandan (2005b): Public Service-II: Need For A Market-Driven Approach, The Statesman, New Delhi, April 7, 2005, Thursday, available: http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=3&theme=&usrsess=1&id=73354