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    Essay 3 Political Interference in Bureaucracy

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    Political representatives are responsible to citizens for fulfilling election promises, while bureaucrats are responsible for implementing policies. Both must work together for development, as good policy cannot be implemented by a bad administration, and a good administration cannot save a bad policy. There needs to be political intervention, not interference, in bureaucracy. A lack of guidelines on the political-administrative relationship allows for detrimental interference that undermines bureaucratic freedom and creativity. Recent Supreme Court rulings pave the way for a civil services code to better define this relationship.

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    Political representatives are responsible to citizens for fulfilling election promises, while bureaucrats are responsible for implementing policies. Both must work together for development, as good policy cannot be implemented by a bad administration, and a good administration cannot save a bad policy. There needs to be political intervention, not interference, in bureaucracy. A lack of guidelines on the political-administrative relationship allows for detrimental interference that undermines bureaucratic freedom and creativity. Recent Supreme Court rulings pave the way for a civil services code to better define this relationship.

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    Political representatives are responsible to citizens for fulfilling election promises, while bureaucrats are responsible for implementing policies. Both must work together for development, as good policy cannot be implemented by a bad administration, and a good administration cannot save a bad policy. There needs to be political intervention, not interference, in bureaucracy. A lack of guidelines on the political-administrative relationship allows for detrimental interference that undermines bureaucratic freedom and creativity. Recent Supreme Court rulings pave the way for a civil services code to better define this relationship.

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    Political representatives are responsible to citizens for fulfilling election promises, while bureaucrats are responsible for implementing policies. Both must work together for development, as good policy cannot be implemented by a bad administration, and a good administration cannot save a bad policy. There needs to be political intervention, not interference, in bureaucracy. A lack of guidelines on the political-administrative relationship allows for detrimental interference that undermines bureaucratic freedom and creativity. Recent Supreme Court rulings pave the way for a civil services code to better define this relationship.

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    Political Interference in Bureaucracy Causes, Consequences

    and Remedies

    The administrative of any democratic country is


    analogous to a ship. The owner of the ship is its
    people, the captain is the representatives chosen
    by the people elected politicians and the sailors
    are the ones who help the captain in taking the
    ship to its destination the bureaucrats. It is by the
    integrated and coordinated approach of the three
    that the ship reaches its destination. Here the
    relation between the captain and the sailor is of
    primary importance as they are on board and take
    the prime responsibliy of the ship.
    Political representatives are directly responsible to the
    citizens as they are weighed on the parameters of
    completion of their election promises. They are
    subjected to close scrutiny and hence are hence in
    constant pressure of being politically correct and at
    the same time have to deliver. In contrast the
    bureaucrats are the permanent executives and are
    directly responsible to the political heads and
    indirectly to the people. They have the technical
    know how and are required to translate the policy
    formulations into policy implementation. They are
    expected to operationalise theplan and show
    results at the ground level.
    Both the temporary executive and the permantent
    executive need to work in tandem for the overall
    development of the citizenry and country at large.
    As famously quoted A bad administration cannot
    implement a good policy, a bad policy can not be
    saved by a good administration. Hence each
    should offset the shortcomings of the other for
    producing positive results.
    Intervention Vs Interference

    As noted by the Second Administrative Reform Report


    optimum space needs to be provided for the
    bureaucrats so that innovative solutions can be
    achieved. A thin line lies between intervention and
    interference. Political intervention in bureaucracy
    is essential in a democratic country, not political
    interference-PM NarendraModi.
    Due to a lack of comprehensive guidelines regarding
    the political-administrative relation, this is largely left to
    discretion and sometimes misused leading to
    detrimental interference amounting to curbing the
    bureaucratic freedom of judgement and operation. The
    political class with stringent time frame of 5 years may
    resort to hassled implementation. The political power
    and supremacy may also undermine the possibility of
    creative operation space for the permanent executive.
    With no detailed guidelines for grounds of transfer of
    the public servant, there has been a growing
    prominence of a transfer industry sucking the
    enthusiasm and motivation off the bureaucrats.This has
    inturn led to sycophancy which in turn paves the way
    for embezzlement of funds and corruption.
    The Supreme Court has paved the way for a civil
    services code in its recent judgment .

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