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Press reports indicate that a group of 116 retired civil servants from All India and Central Services that included former Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, former Health Secretary K Sujatha Rao, former Foreign Secretary and ex-National Security Adviser Shivashankar Menon, former Adviser to the Prime Minister T K A Nair, et al. wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to provide: ....
845 Satya Mohanty Former Secretary, Govt of India THE Indian State has not been the strongest and there are several reasons for feeble State capacity paucity of funds and manpower, pork-barrel politics and multiple objectives without the wherewithal to achieve them. But during a crisis, every time the State has been pulled by the bootstraps, it has delivered when the promise was faint. The technical cadre, bureaucracy, the states and municipalities often rose to the occasion. What we have seen in New Delhi amid the second wave of Covid-19 is not just a collapse of a rickety system, but everyone running around like headless chicken. No longer do people look to the State, which has clearly betrayed the trust in failing to plan ahead during this pandemic. And perhaps more so because no plan was being made adequately, it left everyone to his own devices. Planning not only involves thinking in advance, but it also exponentially improves response. Right from the Napol ....
Dilip Cherian | Too much PMO! Ex-babus chide Modi on vaccine policy, state ties Published Jun 3, 2021, 7:14 am IST Updated Jun 3, 2021, 7:14 am IST The coalition of the willing that Mr Modi seemed to have created since his ascent to power in 2014 is now beginning to crack News In the context of the second Covid surge, a group of 116 former civil servants has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the government of not addressing the crucial issues at stake. What makes this “open letter” significant is that the signatories include former Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar, former foreign secretary and national security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon, former health secretary K. Sujatha Rao, former adviser to the Prime Minister T.K.A. Nair, former chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and former Delhi lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung, among others. ....