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Fake IAS officer arrested from Kolkata

A man who allegedly duped several people by impersonating as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer has been arrested, Kolkata police informed on Monday.

Lens on role of bureaucracy when state is reeling under scams

With the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) summons to eight IPS and three IAS officers of Bengal to appear before the central investigating agency for interrogations in Delhi in connection with their alleged involvement in coal smuggling scam, the role of bureaucracy has sparked off serious controversy particularly at a time when the Mamata Banerjee government is facing an unprecedented crisis.

Time for Governance

Government being a continuum, the flexibility for a new government to make drastic changes is rather limited. Most old programmes will continue, maybe under a new name but with higher allocation, and a few new ones would be added, maybe with a new resolve. The progression will be unhurried but steady, based on the work done earlier.

Dog-eat-dog bureaucracy

We have a bureaucracy where the honest feel dejected and most of the others are aligned to individual politicians and factions. The mass transfer of bureaucrats and police officers on every change of regime, is proof of this fact. If more proof is needed, the ugly confrontation between police officers of West Bengal and the CBI would convince readers of the veracity of this proposition.