Tagore's Light

Let me take you back to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, passed in 2013 and brought into force in 2014. Section 44 made it mandatory for every public servant to declare their assets and liabilities, along with those of their spouses and dependent children. Only the IAS lobby opposed this provision with all its strength. You can guess why. The DoPT extended the deadline for submitting property declarations five times. Every time, it declared that no further extension would be granted under any circumstances. Yet it kept extending the deadline. DoPT is also headed by an IAS. Eventually, in 2016, the IAS lobby got Parliament to amend Section 44 in just one minute, without any debate, removing the original mandatory disclosure requirements. The amendment left it to the executive to prescribe how public servants would declare their assets. And since then, the promised rules have never been framed to make that disclosure system operational. Now look at the Whistle Blowers Protection Act, passed in 2014. The government withheld its implementation, claiming that amendments were necessary. When the amendment bill lapsed, the government said no amendment was needed. Yet the law has never been brought into force. This is how transparency and anti-corruption laws are thrown into the dustbin. Even the weakest accountability measures are perceived as threats by the IAS lobby. The RTI Act has been butchered. IAS officers have captured the Central Information Commission. The entire system is designed to loot citizens and provide enormous protection to the corrupt and powerful. Ordinary citizens are left powerless, paying taxes like colonial lagaan, serving bureaucratic lords and living under their arbitrary authority. The IAS system has eaten away at this nation. Even in Pay Commissions, IAS officer occupy key position and secure extra edge in pay among the same upsc batch other cadres, arbitrary NFU to raise their pay, promotions and career progression. They manufacture higher posts, arbitrary hierarchies and privileges, extracting every possible benefit from taxpayers’ hard-earned money. And what do citizens get in return? These generalists occupy leadership positions across departments without specialised knowledge, original work or measurable performance. Wherever they go, they monopolise power, drain public resources and protect their own privileges. India gained political independence in 1947, but the colonial administrative structure survived. British rulers were replaced by Indian bureaucratic lords, while citizens remained powerless before the same feudal machinery. Whoever dismantles this IAS system and replaces it with democratic, professional and accountable public institutions will be a real patriot who gives India its second independence, freedom from the surviving relics of colonial rule. @narendramodi @RahulGandhi @khurpenchh @VivekGa54515036 #BureaucraticReforms #IASReforms #EndBureaucraticRaj #AdministrativeReforms #NFU #PayCommission #8thPayCommission #EndVIPCulture