Dilip Cherian | Private sector specialists will helm Modi’s reforms push
Published : Apr 22, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Updated : Apr 22, 2021, 12:00 am IST
While it would be erroneous to see political colour in what should be seen as usual assignments, few observers are willing to buy this line
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In September last year, the Modi sarkar gave the go-ahead to its most ambitious bid to reform the bureaucracy — a national capacity building programme. Finally, the programme has got underway with the creation of the Capacity Building Commission (CBC) under the National Programme for Civil Service Capacity Building aka “Mission Karmayogi”.
And given the government’s recent obsession with domain experts from the private sector, the man appointed to head the new CBC is no babu, but Adil Zainulbhai, the chief of the Quality Council of India (QCI), which is an autonomous body under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. He is a former chairman of McKinsey India and a known supporter of the Prime Minister. The CBC will have two members — Ramaswami Balasubramaniam and Praveen Pardeshi — with only the latter being an IAS officer (of the 1985 batch).