Polity Class 17

Role of civil services continues...

Civil Service Neutrality

Features of civil services neutrality

Political neutrality

o Masterman Committee

Give Neutral Advice To Minister

Not Influenced By the Personal Ideology

Case study

Functions and role of civil servants

Continuity and change to administration

Second ARC recommendations

Evolution of civil service neutrality

Civil Servants Neutrality In Nehruvian Era

Steel frame Of Indian Administration

Case studies

Dilution Of Civil Servants Neutrality In Second Half Of 1960s

Specially During Emergency

Civil Servants started seeking Political Patronage

Case studies

Post 1970s

Second ARC Recommendation

Concept of Committed Bureaucracy

Pros & Cons of Committed Bureaucracy

Civil Servants Anonymity/ Ministerial Responsibility

Pros & Cons Of Civil Services Anonymity

Case studies

Limitations of Anonymity principle

Advantages of Anonymity principle

Civil Service Activism

Meaning of Activism

Many Case studies covered (Armstrong Pame, Kiran Bedi etc.)

Definition of Civil Service Activism

Way forward

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