Indian civil servant

Indian civil servants, often referred to as "Babus", collectively widely perceived as the self-serving collective known as the "babudom" at all levels of government and government-linked organisations, marked by the very low Government effectiveness index by the self-preserving hierarchies of tax-payers-paid government servants with the colonial exploitative mentality of lording over the tax-payers the babus are paid to serve. Though the good people in the system exist (even their goodness is questionable if they do not self-preservingly blow the whistle despite knowing the corruption), yet the Babus blatantly violate the conflict of interest by enabling, collaborating and complying with the corrupt politician dynasties and groups and breed the corruption and cronyism to maximising the corrupt spoils for themselves by the deliberate introducing illegal bribe-inducing procedural delays hindering the effective governance and public service delivery. They thrive beyond the elected term of corrupt political collaborators though the culture of self-preserving and risk aversion. They are ought to uphold, but have the illrepute of being the reverse of the good citizen, who violate the professional ethics lacking the voice of conscience, through their deliberate proactive hindrance to the customer serviceto the citizens they bring down the national productivity slowing down the development of nation. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Indian civil servants, could be employed by the national, state or local government, PSU or elected officials at any level, they are easily recognised by the same attitude of entitlement, propensity for corruption and impunity with arrogance when questioned or held accountable.

List

The Indian civil service

• Administrators of the native states of India
• Administrators of British India who came as servants of the East India Company before the formation of the ICS in 1853
• Members of the former Indian Civil Service (ICS) as well as the superior central and nationalised services in British India, who joined the civil service after 1853.
  • Dewans of the former Indian Princely States
• Employees of the Central Civil Services of the present Government of India, and respective Indian state governments including the
  • Indian Administrative Service
  • Indian Forest Service
  • Indian Police Service
• Technocrats and Academic Administrators who have held official positions of the Government of India and the respective state governments of the Indian Union.

For lists of civil servants of respective cadres see:

• List of Chief Secretaries of Rajasthan

In popular culture

Since early 20th-century, Indian civil servants are colloquially called "babus", ^[5] while Indian bureaucracy is called "babudom", as in the "rule of babus", especially in Indian media. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

See also

• Category:Indian civil servants

References

1. Chakrabarty, Bidyut. *Indian Administration*. Sage Publications, 2007.
2. Jain, R. B. *Contemporary Issues in Indian Administration*. Vishal Publishing Co., 2003.
3. Arora, Ramesh K., and Rajni Goyal. *Indian Public Administration: Institutions and Issues*. New Age International, 2007.
4. Potter, David C. *India's Political Administrators: From ICS to IAS*. Oxford University Press, 1996.
5. "Yet to start work, Natgrid CEO highest paid babu". The Times of India. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
6. Anand Parthasarathy (1–14 September 2001). "A barbed look at babudom: Will the typically British humour of Yes Minister work if transplanted to an Indian setting? Viewers of a Hindi satellite channel have a chance to find out". Frontline, India's National Magazine from the publishers of The Hindu. Bureaucracy knows no bounds...
7. "PM Modi tightens screws, gives babudom a new rush hour". The Times of India. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
8. "Babu". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 17 September 2014.