Bureaucracy and Political Apathy

I am publishing this post after I have seen some systematic flaws down the line towards the people.

Bureaucracy or Permanent Executives are their in India to aid , advise and assist the Political Representatives.In a democratic system the Ministers,MPs,MLAs represent the popular choice as they bring the popular mandate and aspirations with them.But often we have heard about this debate of Generalist vs Specialist where both professions take pride in themselves and undermine the other side.Taking pride in your profession is good but it should convert in to egotic roller coaster ride.

Bureaucrats are supposed to work at the ground level and implement the policies as made by the legislaters and executives.But the responsiblity also comes with limitations.Because at the ground level many a times it happen that the civil servant have to depart from the regular course and take a call out of his own discretion.I remeber a case here.In a district in the Chambal region a policy was devised to handle the problem of dacoity. As a solution to the problem of dacoits in this region the government announced a scheme which provided a Rehabilitation package to all the dreaded dacoits if they surrender to the Police.The policy actually worked and lot many surrendered.But there was a peculiar case where that dacoit had not killed a single civilian.He told the Police that he had become a dacoit to take wealth from the rich and give it to the poor.But he had never killed anyone in those 10 years of dacoity. Interestingly, the concerned D.G of Police could not accept his surrender and he wasn't given the rehabilitation package.The reason- that package was specially for dreaded dacoits i.e those who have killed at least 10 persons. The D.G said " Though I understand the flawed policy, but my hands are tied". So was that dacoit supposed to go back and kill 10 persons to entitle himself the rehabilitation package?

There have been cases like this in many other areas where the bureaucrats are supposed to only follow the rules and not to get departed otherwise you get derailed(#smirk).What we need is to come up with a system where both bureaucrats and MPs/MLAs work in tandem with some give n take in their discretionary powers to ultimatel serve the populace better.Civil Societies have worked in this area to represent the problem of the concerned areas but to bring out the solution some changes are needed.We need not become the blind implementors but integral,proactive and empathetic action is needed from both parties.