"A country or a Nation, is a system. Government of a country is a sub-system operating in that country. Within the micro system of the 'Government', many micro systems operate such as 'Political System', 'Bureaucratic System', 'Legislative System', 'Judicial System', etc. etc. There may be further smaller sub-divisions within the micro systems, such as nano, pico, femto, atto, zepto, yocto, etc. Systems, sub-systems and their smaller entities come along with their origins, customs, practices, traditions, merits, shortcomings, etc. A person rising to a certain high level in hierarchy, has to appreciate these pluralities and polarities, and while trying to obtain co-operation, contribution, performance, work etc. from the other Systems and Sub-Systems, and in any case will help the country if he does not speak in a belittling or deriding manner about those sub-systems, and customs-practices."-- These are personal views of this ybrao-a-donkey, which are not intended to be imposed on others. The trigger for expressing these is: Mr. Narendra Modi's comments and observations which compared his rise to the PM's level in 16 years, and the elevation which an IAS Officer may get in the same span of 16 years. What Mr. Narendra Modi has compared, are not really comparable, because they belong to different streams, with divergent 'inputs' and 'outcomes', both short run and long run.
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What Mr. Narendra Modi is reported to have said to the IAS Officers on the occasion of Civil Services Day
"...Modi, whose speech was often met with cheers and laughter, said that he was not a part of the bureaucracy because he did not get the chance “to attend coaching”. The reference was to tuition classes which many would-be bureaucrats join to be able to qualify for the civil services. If he had, he said, he would have become a bureaucrat of the rank of a director after serving the people for 16 years.
“...It is my good luck that I am in public service for the past 16 years...I did not get the chance to attend coaching,” he said. As his audience applauded, he turned to Nripendra Misra, principal secretary in the PMO—who was sitting on the dais—and asked him what rank he would have reached after 16 years in service.
“...Deputy secretary? director,” he said, after consulting Misra. “So I should have come in the director category.”
...Modi added that there had been several committees and commissions on administrative reforms, comprising officers from central and state governments. “But all those who made all these reports, they must not have read them completely,” he said. “I feel that those working in this system have enormous experience. What you (bureaucrats) have, the kind of suggestions you have, no reform can be bigger than that. But we don’t value this (experience),” the prime minister said.
Additional personal views of ybrao-a-donkey with no malice towards anybody
1. Coaching(s) may be formal or informal. What the Civil Services Aspirants get from Coaching Centres may be formal 'paid' coaching. It may be difficult to say whether 'Coaching Centres' are really necessary or unnecessary. There are many pluses and minuses. It is a 1000 page occupying important subject. For example, poor students hailing from Rural Areas may need additional preparatory training before they face the Civil Services Examination. Even within the Urban and Metro Environments, poor students living in 'ghettos' may not get the same resource support, which the scions of Bureaucrats, Business persons, Political Bosses, Plump-Professionals get. Everything relates to Level Play-Ground. Spoilt children of Super-Rich may want to recoup their 'knowledge losses' by late efforts. Here also, we can say 'Better Late than Never'. Real problem is not 'waking up late', it is the Manipulation of the Civil Services Examination and Interview Mechanisms by Coaching Centers.
INFORMAL COACHING OF SCHOOL-COLLEGE-COMPETITIVE-EXAM DROPOUTS IN POLITICAL PARTIES
What Mr. Narendra Modi was exactly doing between 1968, and his joining RSS/ erstwhile Janasangh /present BJP as a full time worker, nobody knows.
From the time of his joining RSS & BJP as a full-time worker, we can deduce that he has received informal training. It is very difficult, without inputs from him, or from those who are associated with him, to estimate what part of his time was spent on carrying flags, distributing leaflets, erecting banners, etc., and learning from his Seniors and imparting to his Juniors in RSS, and BJP. Till 2001, until Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee- the then PM of India, and Mr. L.K. Advani, Dy. P.M. at that time, recognised his extrinsic-intrinsic/content+worth, he must have been receiving some sort of training, which the Civil Services aspirants may not get access to. Mr. Narendra Modi, for the benefit of the bureaucrats in the Government, can write a book on the informal training he received in BJP and RSS.
LARGE VARIANCE BETWEEN HOW POLITICIANS ARE GROOMED / GROOM THEMSELVES and HOW BUREAUCRATS ARE GROOMED / GROOM THEMSELVES
DYNASTY Groomed politicians: I mean the politicians who have their parents/grand parents as 'trainers' in this country of dynastic succession. E.g.: Prince Jawaharlal Nehru (groomed by his father), Princess Indira Gandhi (groomed by her father), Princes Sanjay Gandhi and Raji Gandhi (in the tutelage of Late Indira Gandhi and Ms.Sonia Gandhi). Prince Rahul Gandhi, groomed by Ms. Sonia Gandhi. Prince K. Taraka Rama Rao, Prince Nara Lokesh, Prince Akhilesh Yadav, Prince Tejasvi Yadav.
SELF-GROOMED POLITICIANS: Mr. L.K. Advani, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, Mr. Narendra Modi, et al. Even self-groomed politicians are subject to and susceptible to influences from the preachings of the leaders whose ideology they might have inherited.
Whether dynasty-groomed politicians or self-groomed politicians, the KNOWLEDGE-BASE, THOUGHT-PROCESSES-BASE the dynasty-groomed-politicians get from their groomers will be totally different from the KNOWLEDGE-BASE, THOUGHT-PROCESSES-BASE the Bureaucrats get from their Coaches in Coaching Centres, and trainers in Formal Institutions such as Administrative Staff College, National Police Academy.
Politicians in POWER OCCUPYING IN KEY POSITIONS when they try to preach to BUREAUCRATS may get APPLAUDS AND CLAPS. But they may not be real applauds and real claps. Just pretensive applauds and claps. In Telugu language spoken by 100 million, there is a proverb: 'EDava lEka navvinaTlu' (English equivalent: "Persons laughing/smiling, being unable to cry/weep."). Laughing and Clapping are skills and traits which are not taught in Coaching Centres and Training Colleges. They are learnt by persons in work environment. Besides, they are not restricted only to Govt. Bureaucrats. They also apply to , and prevail even in Private Sector Management-hierarchial-structures.
EARLY DAYS OF INDIA'S FREEDOM 1947
Bureaucrats used to, by virtue of their vast experience, accumulated knowledge, particularly legal awareness, advise their political bosses about the legality-otherwise, practical pros and cons of actions/reforms which politicians were eager to introduce. In other words, they were performing an unasked-probably-unauthorised task of reining their political bosses from their hasty predilections and rash manoeuvres. While doing that, they were also reducing the burden of the Upper House of Parliament, by preventing introduction and passing of hasty Bills and laws. They were also reducing the work burden of judiciary in interpreting and adjudicating the faulty laws/ on the basis of the faulty statutes. Today's bureaucrats have to keep their mouths shut, keep their inner ear and outer ear channels well-cleaned, so that nothing CRUCIAL-CRITICAL uttered by political bosses is ignored. They have to attend Offices/ meetings , keeping their brains at home.
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