I A S :: NON PERFORMING IAS & ITS PSEUDO POVERTY OF PLENTY

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                   NON PERFORMING IAS 

                                     & 

          ITS PSEUDO POVERTY OF PLENTY

IAS OFFICER SAYS GOLD MEDLIST CANNOT BE COMPARED WITH BACK BENCHERS.

BUT IAS BACK BENCHERS AND NON PERFORMERS LOSE NOTHING..THEY RIDE ON THE SAME WAVE AS THEIR GOLD MEDLIST BATCHMATES.

PLEASE READ THE GRIVENCE AND CRIES OF RULE MAKERS. HOW DEEPLY THEY ARE FEELING THE PINCH ON PERFORMANCE BASED AND RESULT ORIENTATED SYSTEM WHICH GOVT WANTS TO BRING.

SYSTEMATICALLY ORCHESTRATED

DOWNFALL OF ARMED FORCES, THE ONLY HIGHLY DISCIPLINED AND PERFORMANCE BASED AND RESULT ORIENTATED ORGANISATION CONCERNS NO ONE.

Wg.Cdr.R.D.Ahluwalia

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HYDERABAD: Officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the top rung of the country's bureaucracy, are up in arms after rumours that the Seventh Pay Commission could bring about parity between them and other civil servants who are lower down in the civil service hierarchy.

Associations of IAS officers have held several formal and informal meetings to weigh options before them to thwart any attempt to whittle away at the advantages they now enjoy over others by virtue of securing top grades in the civil services exam.

Nearly 200 young IAS officers have so far submitted their representations to Cabinet secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha, the country's top bureaucrat, and to the central IAS officers' association, airing serious concerns over the reported move by the pay panel towards salary parity and doing away with the IAS edge in what is known as empanelment."I was astonished to see media reports on the proposals towards parity between the services, which is nothing but an attempt to equate the gold medallist with last-benchers.Such proposals not only go against the principles of competition but also penalise top performers in the name of parity," said 1993 batch IAS officer on condition of anonymity .

Top-ranked students in the civil services exam are assigned the IAS and Indian Foreign Service, followed by other branches such as the Indian Police Service (IPS) and the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). Empanelment refers to the selection of officer to a post which has the rank of joint secretary in the central government. The next step could be a petition by the Central Indian Civil and Administrative Association, the lobby group of IAS officers, to the cabinet secretary, who is also an IAS officer.

Sanjay Bhoosreddy, the honorary secretary for the association, told ET that over 100 IAS officers have expressed anguish with his grouping so far about the reported recommendations of the pay panel which is due to submit its report by the end of this year. "The key concerns of the junior IAS officers pertain to emoluments and losing edge in empanelment," he said. 

For years, officers from branches such as the IPS and IRS have complained that they do not make it to the rank of joint secretary in the same numbers that IAS officers do, and that their salaries are lower than those of IAS officers despite working on equally complex assignments. There are some 4,800 IAS officers across India. TS Krishnamurthy , an IRS officer who went on to become the Central Election Commissioner, argued that handing non-IAS officers a permanent handicap is not such a good idea.Instead, after some length of time, all those in the All-India Services should be treated equally . "I had a disadvantage; every time I had a handicap of two years and I feel no reason why there should be differentiation after 18 or 20 years," he said.

N Jaya Prakash Narayan, a bureaucratturned-politician and founder of Lok Satta Party , said the need of the hour is far-reaching reform instead of cosmetic changes in the Indian administrative services. "The government should seriously look at making bureaucracy an instrument for change through specialisation, competition, incentive to perform and autonomy ," he said.

"While we are recruiting some of the best people through a rigorous competitive examination, there is a widespread perception that the country is not getting best out of them over a period of time irrespective of which service they belong to."

ET

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Wgcdr Harish K Seth A simple truth, bitter as it be, UNIFORM can STEP IN for the IAS and deliver. UNIFORM can not be replaced by anyone in civies, not even the I A S.

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Jwo MA Reddy The main issue is not that of selection only. Post selection, how the person performs is the criteria. There are about 50% of the people in every department, starting from defence to the lowest of a police constable perform much better than their immed...See More

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Nikhil Diwanji the simple statistics and figures have been always evident 60 % are from reserved categories.. they are the beggars who chose easiet ways

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Satish Nair Hope India wakes up & gets them To Finally Perform.

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Major Goswami It's like a Sword of Honour being paid the highest salary for life! Or is my understanding defective? 
The greatest threat to the life of a bureaucrat is 'Accountability ' and it's evil twin 'Performance'. 
Having successfully subdued Accountability th...See More

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एन एस चौहान Your gold medal is useless unless you perform exceptionally , you people are working on casteline and working for yourselves .This country could have been different to day , had you been sincere and hard working , you were and you are non-performer . This nation does not want gold medalist in ADM , wants * TALE NTED* administrators , pathetic this country couldn't produce one thousand such people a year .

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Jose Joseph It does not need great intellect to conclude that the the Govt will function much better without these IAS guys. They are people with bloated egos spending most of their time trying to show off that they are the kings. They will go to any length to humiliate lesser mortals like the Defense Forces.

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Vinod Sharma They are the Biggest Suckers the society has. If a person is not ready for his performance evaluation , it simply means that he is not a capable person and therefore should be discarded or shown the door.

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The Rise Of Fascism From India’s TV Studios

SOURCE ::http://swarajyamag.com/politics/the-rise-of-fascism-from-indias-tv-studios/

The Rise Of Fascism From India’s TV Studios

Tufail Ahmad

Tufail Ahmad is Director, South Asia Studies Project at the Middle East Media Research Institute, Washington DC. He tweets @tufailelif

2 Nov, 201551 CommentsPoliticseditor's pick /Fascism / Islamism /Jihad / media / mussolini

In any society fascism emerges from the educated class of people, never from the masses.

In an article in the Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran of October 15, this writer argued:

‘India is witnessing the emergence of fascism from newsrooms, a movement of totalitarian ideas that divides us in order to win.’

Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, said:

‘All men are intellectuals, but not all men have… the function of intellectuals.’

In the Gramscian sense, journalists, activists and Twitterati are intellectuals. The term ‘Fascism’ was unique to Italy, but as a movement of totalitarian ideas it is relevant to explaining the Indian condition.

One, in any society fascism emerges from the educated class of people, never from the masses. All journalists and intellectuals howling at the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are highly educated.

Fascism of the educated class fears new ideas. F. A. Hayek, author of The Road to Serfdom, wrote:

‘It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions….’

Since Modi advocates new ideas, journalists and intellectuals feel threatened.

Two, fascism’s conveyors are alive to the workings of media, the key concern of George Orwell in 1984. Media is fascism’s key ally. Baba Ramdev, the yoga guru, can claim that he tried to escape an ink attacker. But Sudheendra Kulkarni allows Shiv Sena to blacken his face, more thoroughly the better, waits for TV crews and proceeds to host former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri in Mumbai. He will not release Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s book in her birthplace, Swat. He knows where to host book events, and where not to host.

Three, the fascism emerging from India’s newsrooms is backed by big businesses and the nation’s dynasty. Corporates and dynastic centres of power pose a threat to democracies in every country. Indian media houses are ideologically configured. Fascism is conveyored by the paid mainstream media, which militates against the unpaid social media. Indian journalists describe every Twitter user who questions them with the power of facts and arguments as a Sanghi. In the West, such truth-tellers are dismissed as Zionists.

Four, in the pre-democracy era, fascism had a leader in Benito Mussolini, and marched with his regime and the army. In democracies, it is surviving as a movement of ideas, as the armies now serve the people and are accountable to civilian leaders elected by voters. As a movement of totalitarianism, fascism in India was silent as long as its leaders were in power. Even now, it shields the socialist leaders of Uttar Pradesh for the Dadri killing, or the communist leadership of Kerala despite 250 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers being murdered. Its silence is murder.

Five, fascism is anti-democratic. It counters the leaders elected by masses if such leaders are not its allies. Since the elected leaders may not be educated, journalists target them to assist the march of fascism in Indian society. Journalist Nirupama Subramanian selected the rustic Haryana chief minister M. L. Khattar to seek his views on beef. She would never choose the more suave Arun Jaitley, or go to any village chowk to seek people’s views on beef because it will not serve fascism’s purpose, which is to undermine the elected government.

Six, fascism describes itself as working for people’s interests. For example, North Korea calls itself as the Democratic Republic; China describes itself as the People’s Republic; Cuba dubs itself a Republic. In fact, they are essentially totalitarian. Fascism does not work for people’s interests. Aided by journalists, it whips up passions in which public sentiment runs counter to public interest. Currently, India’s authoritarian and dynastic Congress party is being defended, note not by its own leaders, but by journalists and intellectuals. The Congress hopes to win by remaining silent.

Seven, journalists pose as moralists as teaching ethics to the government on varied issues such as the killing of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri or the murders of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and M. M. Kalburgi. Such stance could be in public interest, but invariably these moralists are silent when Taslima Nasreen is attacked in Hyderabad, or Professor T. J. Joseph’s hand is chopped off and reformist Islamic scholar Chekannur Maulavi is killed by Islamists of Kerala. Fascism disregards the republic’s Rule of Law, loves the anarchism of Arvind Kejriwal.

Eight, the fascism emerging from television studios mushrooms into large-scale intolerance when the voters elect leaders not in ideological compliance with it. It fears vote. On the eve of elections, it searches for new issues that will serve its objective. Fascism hopes to win by dividing us. The lynch mob is at issue only when the victim is a Muslim. In Faridabad, journalists painted the deaths of two kids in fire as an attack on Dalits. ABP news channel described Chhota Rajan as a “Hindu don”. When a Naxalite is arrested, journalists describe Indian laws as ‘draconian‘.

Nine, since the fall of the USSR, fascism is allying with wickedness. Globally, the left-liberal journalists are in bed with jihadists. Indian journalists are silent on the rise of burqa in public life, or about the anti-women Shah Bano law because it came from their party. Fascism is anti-rights, anti-women and anti-democracy. One newspaper reported a non-existent military coup, the editor’s desire. In the Emergency, most journalists licked the boots and Khushwant Singh was lauded. Except ideology, what explains that Salman Rushdie will stand by his tormentors?

Ten, this fascism seeks allies in the enemy camp. It would not like to invite Malala Yousafzai to Mumbai because its allies in Pakistan would not like it. It is more comfortable with the Pakistani state’s representatives, whether Maulana Tahirul Qadri or those in the Track II underworld, or even the arch enemy General Pervez Musharraf. It does not serve Indian Muslims. It serves Islam – or burqa, triple Talaq and skullcap. Essentially, it shuns Muslim commentators who call for equality of Muslim women. It is not incidental that TV journalists love maulvis.

Eleven, the Berlin wall in Indian society fell in 2014 when the voters elected new leaders not liked by this class of fascists. Its debris is still clearing as journalists howl and awards are returned by those who benefitted from the party, the dynasty, the ideology. Karl Marx said that man makes history but he does so in some given circumstances. Modi emerged victorious because India’s voters noticed that the fascist class of journalists and intellectuals serves its own interests, not the nation’s half-clad daughter begging at the traffic lights for a few coins.

Twelve, Hayek argued that the intellectuals are ‘professional second-hand dealers in ideas‘. Now that Modi, the first-hand dealer in original ideas, has grasped the Hayekian view that economic freedom is a prerequisite for all other freedoms, Indian intellectuals are unwilling to tolerate the voters’ judgement. Aided by journalists, intellectuals are using television studios to accuse India of being intolerant. As the democracy matures, this class of intellectuals will die. The only path open for this landed fish is to search for a new moral universe.