(Online Course) Public Administration for IAS Mains Exams
Topic: Civil Services: Civil Service Activism
Civil Services is paid services (servant) of the state chiefly in public administration who support a policy of direct, vigorous action in advancing a project or in strengthening the hold of some ideas. CS as one of the intelligent sections of citizenry and under expanding activities of state, their number is constantly growing therefore to exclude them from the exercise of state, their number is constantly growing therefore to exclude them from the exercise of their active role is to make a fairly large section of citizen body inert.
Too much of protection can reduce a person to cowardice. This is what a happening to civil servants, they willingly become cowards since they do not have courage even to face a transfer or some minor inconvenience for upholding principles of good governance. Like a ‘coward who dies a thousand deaths’ they are compromising and acquiescing every time just to keep and positions safe.
