* When I started to prepare for UPSC, I dreamt of becoming an 'IFS officer'. I'm hugely interested in foreign policy and diplomacy. When I started and finished to learn about India's history and polity, as everyone would do, I was also motivated as a national executive.
* But, when I started to compare, how far the constitution is been practicing in present day, where few key aspects of it, been used or manipulated to favor certain states and betray certain states, I realised that, being a state executive is the grassroot of Indian administration and there is a huge auditing needed in this 'fiscal percolation' between union & states to avoid reverse percolation.
* Our makers of constitution have intended to create such All India Services, for "administrative unity" in an union of 'diverse & pluralistic society'. When there is an infringement in "pluralism" of our nation, then why should we need IAS officers? Intentionally downplaying the role of IAS, is an act of centralisation in administration. If the trend persists, IAS will become faded away with direct control from center in administration via governor.
* An IAS, recruited by UPSC, appointed by President of India, assumes an attitude of serving an individual entity(India), but infact it is not. IAS officers are recruited by UPSC for 'convenience in on-boarding alone', but work & get paid from State governments, making that IAS officer bound to obey the administrative head of the state(CM) and not the directions of center.
That is why when Chief Secretary Bandyopadhyay of WB, obeyed path of his administrative leader(CM) eventhough he is an IAS, that's how one must be.
* All executive actions are taken in the name of President. When recruited by UPSC, signed by President of India & deputed to work in a state, an IAS is bound to work aligned with the interests of that particular state's administrative head(CM) alone. Signed by President of India for an IAS or Governor of State for a SPSC both are bound to serve only the state, not center.
* Does all the IAS adhere to this? Does not IAS officers become loyal to center? Is this the way, constitutionally it was meant to be?
* In due course, this kind of practise, of loyalty towards center would gradually erode the dignity of an All India Service(IAS). India as a whole, will develop, only when civil service aspirants, serve their own SPSCs, which is the grassroot of executive actions, and reduce administrative beurocracy.
* So, 'without each and every states individually developing in social, economic & unique cultural aspect, India cannot develop'. "Without states, there is no union. Infact, to be tangible, there is no union at all, but only a beautiful unity of states, among various diversity". Let us not forget, the strength of our nation, is "Unity in diversity" which is nothing but, "Union among diversified states".
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