IAS losing sheen ?

Gone are the days when the Indian Administrative Service officers used to be held in high esteem. Today the majority people do not have the same opinion about the IAS. The difference may be of ones perception but all in all, everyone agrees that it is not the same old IAS which used to be known for its uprightness.
The above conclusions are derived on the basis of the opinions that were received during the latest debate on the whispersinthecorridors.com. the topic of the debate was - Has Indian Administrative Service (IAS) turned Indian Boneless Service (IBS).
The response was startling. Not even a single respondent had the same old high opinion about the IAS who are by and large supposed to decide the course of action the country takes for the well being of its people. The IAS, because of the wide spectrum of its activities, was designed to help in policy formulation and its subsequent implementation.
But from 1967 onwards when defections became the rule in order to capture power, these Services have been viewed by the politicians as instruments to influence their opponents, help in bribing them and assist in coercing them with the result that now one can only mourn the passing of the IAS.
Thus, while some suggest that the services in question be renamed Indian Adjusting Service, others feel that it be designated Indian Apna Service or even
Heavenly Abode Service (HAS).
"You term it 'Boneless' (IBS), they find it 'Meaty' (IMS). In these days when each tooth is an aching tooth and every bone is a bone of contention who would like to have such a long column of small pieces of bones just to encase a thin thread. See the maintenance cost ? See the phrases of the times, flexibility, elasticity, resilience et all. A service that does adjust to the tunes of times is doomed.
A Service with a spine would have withstood the onslaught of the politicians and continue to function according to law and the norms of propriety. A Service with a skeleton would have had the framework to enable it to withstand shocks and pressures. Even a cockroach with a carapace would have been able to avoid being crushed. However, considering the degree of supineness to which the IAS has reduced itself one finds that it has lost first its spine, then its skeleton and now even its carapace.
And the main reason behind the IAS losing its sheen, according to the respondents are, decrease in standard; Submissive to politicians and their stoops and indulgence in undue favourism for lust for money.
The Darwinian theory of evolution consists of a rising curve from invertebrates to vertebrates, from carapace to skeleton, from ape to man. In India on the other hand the premier Civil Service exhibits a downward curve in the evolution cycle from the Indian Civil Service (ICS) to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and now the Indian Boneless Service (IBS).
Is it surprising then that such a Service can only be called the IBS ? One can only mourn the passing of the IAS and bemoan the arrival of the IBS on the Indian administrative scene.

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