• ISBN13: 9788126937202
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: June 4, 2023
• Pages: 268
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 300 grams

To stop the rot, you need to know what’s rotting! The problems are aplenty: weak governance, poor design and implementation of welfare programmes, abysmal record management, unabated corruption, wasteful public expenditure and the like. Despite their integrity, hard work and competence, IAS officers find themselves trapped in many such situations. In addition, they receive little or no support from the top and bottom rungs. In this part memoir, part scholarly disquisition, the author analyses the current situation in India, and suggests policy changes aimed at transforming individual competencies of IAS officers into better collective outcomes for the larger common good. Hailed by some as India’s steel frame and reviled by others as a relic of the colonial past, the Indian Administrative Service is an enigma for most. In this candid insider account, Naresh Saxena gives the IAS a human face and shares valuable ideas for administrative reform. Jean Dréze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics

Naresh Chandra Saxena retired as Secretary, Planning Commission in 2002. He was the topper of his batch (1964) in the Civil Services Examination.