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Professionals and Civil Services

25 February 2013 at 18:36

by Initiative for Competition Promotion

The issue of Professional ra!uates parti"ularly the #nineers an! $o"tors oin for the

Civil %ervi"es has al&ays attra"te! attention an! even a bit of "ensure a"ross In!ia' #ven

the Parliamentary %tan!in Committee on (ome )ffairs has observe! it tantamount to

&astae of professional s*ills a"+uire! at reat "ost an! ,thro&in the fun!s spent on the"an!i!ates- professional e!u"ation !o&n the !rain,' I am rather surprise! to see virtually

the same aruments bein repeate! ad verbatimno& in .ashmir after the latest I)%

results in &hi"h four people from valley/ $r %hah Faisal $r mair $r ayees an! $r%ho&*at +ualifie! for the servi"e' In"i!entally all of them happen to be professionals'

ast year also three people from the state/ #r Imtiya4 $r ahav aner $r %hahi!I+bal &ho oine! In!ian Civil servi"es &ere from professional ba"*roun!' Four or fivepeople from %tate &ho oine! In!ian Forest %ervi"es in re"ent past are aain from

professional ba"*roun!' I !ont have the e7a"t statisti"s about the number of

professionals oinin the %tate Civil %ervi"es .)%9 but they "ertainly outnumber the

people &ith reular a"a!emi" ba"*roun!' There &ere many voi"es aainst the so/"alle!internal brain !rain an! several "omments &ere presente! some of them severe on our

allee! mis!emeanor of !esertin the profession9;

I suppose all these people are marre! by a myopi" vie&'The first arument is that afterhavin obtaine! professional !erees they are ettin into the I)%

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even te"hni"al ob on han!' #nineers in the I)% have been ma*in sterlin "ontributions

&ithin the =overnment espe"ially in te"hnoloy relate! areas'

)s rear!s +uality a +ui"* loo* of a!mission to various "ourses is revealin' The numberof people optin for s"ien"e sube"ts is hihest at the 2 level perhaps be"ause of our

so"iety-s obsession &ith enineerin an! me!i"ine' )fter the 12th stan!ar! e7ams bestamon s"ien"e stu!ents flo"* to the "ourses li*e De!i"ine an! #nineerin' @o& by

sayin that professional in the "ivil servi"es are a !rain &e are virtually sayin that thebest stu!ents shoul! not enter our publi" servi"es; Ef "ourse it "an be arue! that e7ams

!o not reveal true the potentialA that many brilliant stu!ents &ithout fa"ilities

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The apparent intelle"tual !is!ain of the "ivil servi"es is perhaps "ause! by some of our

o&n inse"urities espe"ially in institutions of hiher learnin' In"i!entally all those &hohappen to ta*e the vie& aainst professional oinin "ivil servi"es are from routine

a"a!emi"s' $oesnt it in!ire"tly put a +uestion mar* on their o&n "re!ibility?

By the &ay ho& many $r %hah Faisal $r mairs $r %ho&*ats or #r Imtiya4s &e

have sen! to these servi"es in the past? ) fe& professionals optin for these servi"esshoul! not soun! alarmin' ets hope more an! more people from our valley et into

these servi"es so that these pseu!o/"riti+ues really have a point to ma*e'