Lateral Entry News
#HTLS 2019: ‘Promoting performance, not privilege’: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a push for lateral entry into the bureaucracy during his address at the 17th edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. PM Modi said that his government is rewarding performance and not privilege. The Prime Minister added that it is heartening to see people letting go of posh jobs to come work for the government and said that domain experts who are not part of the civil services should also be incorporated into governance.
6 Dec 2019Lateral entry can crush the steel frame of India
Lateral inductees, divorced from reality, will have little or no idea of how policies are implemented at the grass-roots level, let alone the policymaking process
4 min read4 Jul 2018Lateral entry in civil services: Old wine in a new bottle
Set up in 1957, the ’Industrial Management Pool’ was to create a pool of highly qualified managers hired from both public and private sectors
4 min read22 Jun 2018Going beyond lateral entry in civil services
The manner and philosophy of training bureaucrats remains a neglected dimension; lateral entry will not remedy this
4 min read20 Jun 2018Lateral entry is good, but more is needed
Bringing in private sector talent can buttress the bureaucracy but far-reaching reforms are needed to revitalize it
3 min read12 Jun 2018The need for lateral entry in civil services
It is both a workaround for the civil services’ structural failings and an antidote to the complacency of a career-based service
4 min read19 Jul 2017Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared