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Revanth slams IAS officers for staying in comfort zones
Revanth Reddy said IAS officers in the past used to brief the political heads in depth about the pros and cons of the issues and policies they raised and planned to implement. But nowadays, when a political leader commits a mistake, instead of showing the correct path, they were being advised to do three more such things and try to please the political executives, which was not good for society.
The chief minister said this after releasing a book authored by retired bureaucrat M Gopalakrishna at the IAS Officers' Institute in Begumpet. Chief secretary A Santhi Kumari, special chief secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, a large number of IAS, IPS, and IFS officers in service and retired, Gopalakrishna, and his family members participated.
In the past, bureaucrats used to be among the people most of the time. Gopalakrishna is one among them.
"I am not happy with some of the officers' functioning style. I don't know whether it is some sort of disease, but some of the district collectors are preferring to stay in the comforts of air-conditioned offices. This has to change, and they should go into the field and work for the welfare of the poor," Revanth said.
Good and efficient officers would get good postings as political bosses can only frame policies, but their successful implementation was in the hands of the officers. "It is wrong to think that a bureaucrat cannot do the work of a political executive. Manmohan Singh served with RBI, as finance minister, and then the prime minister. A positive approach among officers is needed," Revan
Seventh Leadership Conclave
| Shri Ashok Thakur Former Secretary Higher Education, MHRD India |
Shri Thakur has a Post-Graduate Degree in History from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Later was awarded Diploma in International Economic Relations from International Institute of Public Administration, Paris, in the year 1984-85. He has also been an alumni of Kennedy School of Government and also IDS Sussex University, where he did programmes on Infrastructure Development in Market Economy and Poverty Reduction, respectively. Since he retired in October 2014 he has been an Honorary Professor in Public Administration at Punjab University. He is also a member of the Circle of Friends of Cambridge University UK. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1977 and since then has held several posts including Principal Secretary, Tourism ,Culture, Youth Services and Sports, Industries, Forests , Home etc in the State Government of Himachal Pradesh. At the Centre, he worked in the Ministry of Rural Development in the rank of Joint Secretary. He also served in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, as a faculty member. In May 2008, he joined the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, as Additional Secretary Technical Education and later took over as Secretary [Higher Education] in May 2012. During this period of more than 6 years, Shri Ashok Thakur took a number of steps to improve the quality of higher education in the country by initiating reform measures through UGC, AICTE and DEC. These are the principle regulators in the country affecting the lives of more than 30 million students enrolled in more than 700 universities and 300 engineering colleges ,most of which are in the private sector. An unprecedented number of top - class institutions of higher learning were set up under him .Till 2008 there were only 7 IITs which increased to 16. Similarly the number of IIMs increased from 6 to 13 and N
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