CONTENTS:- 1. A Survey of Bureaucracy in India. 2. India Bureaucracy in Historical Perspective. 3. Image of an Indian Bureaucrat. 4. Ethics in Administration. 5. How the Bureaucracy Functions in India?. 6. Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?. 7. What Ails Indian Bureaucracy?. 8. Measures to Combat Corruption in Bureaucracy. 9. Excessive Controls and Bureaucracy. 10. I Am Sorry. 11. Reforming Indian Bureaucracy. 12. Why India Needs a Strong and Impartial Civil Service?. 13. Role of Civil Service: Then and Now. 14. All-India Services: An Essential Feature of the Constitution. 15. Need of Administrative Law for India. 16. Privatisation. 17. State Impunity and the Violation of Human Rights in Relief and Rehabilitation: A Case Study of Gujarat. 18. Conscience, Character and the Use of Force. 19. The Dharmic State. 20. Good Governance in the New Millennium. 21. Accountability in Administration. 22. Corruption and the Rule of Law.
DESCRIPTION
The book contains chapters on functioning of bureaucracy in India written by eminent writers like Parkinson and public-spirited bureaucrats like PC Alexander, N Vittal, PS Appu., MN Buch and MK Kaw. The book projects achievements and failures of Indian bureaucracy after independence. It is wrong to blame bureaucracy for all the ills of India as bureaucracy operates only in about 15 to 20 percent portion of the Indian Economy. It also attempts to assess the performance of the present bureaucratic system in India through a general formulae devised by Dr. P.K. Agrawal. The book also sets an agenda to reform the bureaucratic system in India, which is essential for an efficient delivery system of development. The book has universal application to all bureaucratic systems and will be immensely useful for insight into the working of Indian bureaucracy. It will be a handbook for trainee in service officials, administrators and policy-makers.
