Revamp Bureaucracy right away.

Revamp Bureaucracy right away.
The peculiar situation in the State of Delhi, where its officers are bending before Centre, making the wounded Chief Minister talk some sense (all would agree now!) is interesting. Centre can't afford to sit quiet. Let's Revamp Bureaucracy right away. Remember the Indian bureaucracy, the much celebrated, yet much reviled too. The 'once, the 'steel frame' and is now simple 'babudom'. How has it traveled from the 'steel frame' days to being seen as a 'laid back and laggard' phenomenon today? There is great need to introspect on these issues as any sustainable economic development can only be premised on the edifice of a transparent, accountable and ethical governance structure, which is what the civil service is meant to provide. Unless we've bureaucratic reforms with fundamental and structural changes by holding bureaucrats accountable, we'll continue to struggle as political initiatives take painfully long to translate into actions.
Good governance is the need of the hour. The citizen, having come centre stage, demands a more responsive, transparent and accountable set-up which is premised on probity and integrity. Why is it that the Central Bureau of Investigation is called the 'handmaiden' of the government in power. The highest court in the land called it the 'caged parrot'. Caged by whom? Obviously, by the government in power. Caged by the very people who loftily declare that the 'law will take its own course'. How often has the law been allowed to take its own course? It is these piquant situations that create a hiatus between the officers who are willing to stay on the straight and narrow path, as against those who are willing to acquiesce to the political pressure for very narrow career-related gains.