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Civil Services & Governance Reform
GS-II: Constitution, Governance, Social Justice & IR
Useful for: UPSC Civil Services
Overview
Civil services provide continuity and neutrality; reforms aim at competence, accountability and citizen focus.
Key points
- Article 311 protects civil servants from arbitrary dismissal; Article 312 lets Parliament create new All-India Services on a Rajya Sabha resolution.
- Mission Karmayogi (2020) aims at competency-based capacity building.
- Lateral entry brings domain experts into senior positions.
- The 2nd ARC’s tenth report ("Refurbishing of Personnel Administration") recommended performance management and accountability.
- Prakash Singh (2006) directed police reforms such as fixed tenures and security commissions.
- The generalist–specialist debate concerns expertise versus breadth.
Practice MCQs
From the perspective of definition and scope, which one of the following statements about Civil Services & Governance Reform is correct?
- Civil Services & Governance Reform has no exceptions or limitations in exam analysis.
- Civil services require professionalism, political neutrality, domain capability, responsiveness and ethical accountability.
- Administrative reform is achieved simply by reducing staff numbers regardless of function or capacity.
- Civil Services & Governance Reform is unrelated to institutions, processes or real-world applications.
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Answer: (b) Civil services require professionalism, political neutrality, domain capability, responsiveness and ethical accountability.. Civil services require professionalism, political neutrality, domain capability, responsiveness and ethical accountability.
Consider the following statements on Civil Services & Governance Reform, focusing on definition and scope: 1. Civil services require professionalism, political neutrality, domain capability, responsiveness and ethical accountability. 2. Administrative reform is achieved simply by reducing staff numbers regardless of function or capacity. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
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Answer: (a) 1 only. Statement 1 is correct; Statement 2 is a common misconception.
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