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
A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple wikt:interest#Noun, interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. Typically, this relates t ...
by
enabling, collaborating and complying with the corrupt politician dynasties and groups and breed the
corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's gain. Corruption may involve activities ...
and
cronyism
Cronyism is a specific form of in-group favoritism, the spoils system practice of partiality in awarding jobs and other advantages to friends or trusted colleagues, especially in politics and between politicians and supportive organizations. ...
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
Professional ethics encompass the personal and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals.
The word professionalism originally applied to vows of a religious order. By no later than the year 1675, the term had seen secular appli ...
lacking the
voice of conscience, through their deliberate
proactive
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hindrance to the
customer service
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to the citizens they bring down the
national productivity slowing down the
development of nation.
[Chakrabarty, Bidyut. *Indian Administration*. Sage Publications, 2007.]
[Jain, R. B. *Contemporary Issues in Indian Administration*. Vishal Publishing Co., 2003.][Arora, Ramesh K., and Rajni Goyal. *Indian Public Administration: Institutions and Issues*. New Age International, 2007.]
[Potter, David C. *India's Political Administrators: From ICS to IAS*. Oxford University Press, 1996.]
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
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who came as servants of the
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
before the formation of the ICS in 1853
* Members of the former
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British Raj, British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
Its members ruled over more than 3 ...
(ICS) as well as the superior central and nationalised services in British India, who joined the civil service after 1853.
**
Dewan
''Dewan'' (also known as ''diwan'', sometimes spelled ''devan'' or ''divan'') designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler. A ''dewan'' was the head of a state institution of the same name (see Divan). Diwans belonged to the el ...
s of the former
Indian Princely States
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Associated with India
* of or related to India
** Indian people
** Indian diaspora
** Languages of India
** Indian English, a dialect of the English language
** Indian cuisine
Associated with indigenous peoples o ...
* Employees of the
Central Civil Services
The Central Civil Services (CCS) encompass the various Civil Services of India that are exclusively under the jurisdiction of the Government of India. This is in contrast to the All India Services, which are common to both the central and state go ...
of the present
Government of India
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, and respective Indian state governments including the
**
Indian Administrative Service
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the Public administration, administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. The IAS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Police Service (IPS) and the Indian ...
**
Indian Forest Service
The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is the premier forest service of India. .The IFS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) & the Indian Police Service (IPS). It was constituted in the year 1966 un ...
**
Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service (IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became Partition of India, independent from the British Empire.
Along with the Indian Admini ...
* 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", while Indian bureaucracy is called "babudom", as in the "rule of babus", especially in Indian media.
See also
*
:Indian civil servants
References
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