Question Q.16 (continued)GS2GS2

Lateral entry into civil services is seen as a reformative step, yet it continues to attract criticism and controversy. Discuss.

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Lateral entry was conducted as transformative under 2nd ARC recommendations in enhancing civil service, efficiency and effectiveness.

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Non removal of dead voters

Allocation of electoral manipulation due to sudden age and jal in elector registered (eg post maharastry state elections)

Above challenges highlight the need of such verification like Aadhaar linkage as we have nearly lost adult registered under Aadhaar.

However here are:

Challenges in Aadhaar linkage:

1High incidence of Aadhaar sometimes over Aadhaar number of state population

2False Aadhaar ID with illegals

3High exclusion and omission error. (eg 6.1. mismatches) in NIF & fingerprinting match

4Aadhaar neither proof of age nor nationality of states is Aadhaar itself.

Recently, supreme court in PIL against SER flagged & inconsistency in documents needed to prove valid voter.

Aadhaar and voter ID linkage will not be successful until we make Aadhaar fail-proof. Again by ensuring proper oversight and checks.

Lateral entry was conducted as transformative under 2nd ARC recommendations in enhancing civil service, efficiency and effectiveness.

Lateral entry transformative and reformative step:

1Bring outside expertise into Union department

2Allow fresh ideas and knowledge in system (eg NFT in educating)

3Shift from generalist to specialist policy formulation

4Improving 3 E's (efficiency, government sector efficiency)

Factors for criticisms and controversy:

1Short term engagement only (2-5 years)

2Low quality engagement due to lower remuneration

3Different motive is government setup not just post

4Challenge to including of affirmative action in recruitment

5Soon as disrupted to in seasoned bureaucracy

6Limited ground knowledge to understand problems from ground.

Measures to bring lateral entry:

1Institutionalize living policy (eg UPA UPSC exam and interviews along with experience)

2Include never vation policy in living process

3Possibility of extending and shift to permanent commission

4Promote organising style NITI Aayog to recruit from lateral entry

5Fixed service conditions to recruit under lateral living

Lateral entry bring new energising civil service and if inducted properly and effectively will lead to good long term results.

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Conclusion

Lateral entry bring new energising civil service and if inducted properly and effectively will lead to good long term results.

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Concludes with actionable solutions
Identifies both positive and negative dimensions
References specific administrative framework (2nd ARC)
Provides concrete measures for improvement
Suggests institutional models

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ANKIT JARWAL

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