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Lateral Entry Is Fine. But What About Enhancing the IAS s Professional Competence?
The fatal failing of the Indian bureaucracy has been its low level of professional competence, because once a young civil servant joins the service, he is shuffled among various departments allowing him no time to acquire expertise in any field.
Enhancing the competence of IAS is required, but running it down does not help.
Certain facts may help us to assess the issue of lateral entry more objectively.
First, in the past too, experts were inducted at senior positions into the government without any advertisement. Many of them, such as Dr. Manmohan Singh, Bimal Jalan, Lovraj Kumar, Vijay Kelkar, Montek Ahluwalia, Rakesh Mohan, Jairam Ramesh and Arvind Subramanian, left a good impact and contributed to the governance substantially in senior positions. The fact that some of them later joined the ruling party and served as ministers did not invite criticism of their past contribution when they ser
Our regular health segment
What Ails You? is taking a longer look at the vexed topic of obesity. This week, David discusses the link between being overweight and developing diabetes. What role does insulin resistance play in becoming overweight? Is diabetes hereditary? Can diet reverse it? Those and other questions are answered by Professor Gary Wittert, the Independent Chair of the Weight Management Council of Australia and founding Editor in Chief of the “Journal of Obesity Research and Clinical Practice”.
Duration: 14min 9sec