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GS Mains Model Question & Answer : Explain the importance of Indian Bureaucracy in the Era of Globalisation . Comment
GS Mains Model Question & Answer : Explain the importance of Indian Bureaucracy in the Era of Globalisation . Comment
Q. Explain the importance of Indian Bureaucracy in the Era of Globalisation . Comment
Model Answer:
Explain the importance of Indian Bureaucracy in the Era of Globalisation.
The era of globalisation worldwide commenced about and one and a half decades
back; sometime around the mid to the large 1980. What is accepted, generally, as
globalisation today is actually the spread of the process of liberalisation of
the economy on a global scale. By liberalisation of the economy is meant freeing
a national economy from governmental control and letting it run as per the
market forces. It is against this definitional context that we must understand
bureaucracy here.
In India (as indeed in many other countries), it was increasingly felt that the
democratic socialist model of development had failed to deliver the goods. Of
course, it is debatable whether there was something intrinsically wrong with the
democratic socialist framework or it had gone wrong as regards the
implementation part. Whatever may be the truth, the fact was that liberalisation
of the economy, entailing a slackening, if not total elimination, of
governmental regulation over the economy, gained currency. This process was of
course actively encouraged by the US influenced bodies such as the IMF
(International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank.
Once liberalisation of the economy was accepted, changes in the bureaucracy were inevitable. In India (as elsewhere), there has been a slackening of governmental rules and regulations, which certainly has been a welcome development. We may mention here that in this unit, we are not debating the merits and demerits of globalisation. You will read about globalisation in unit 29. In this unit, we are only concerned with the impact of globalisation on the bureaucracy and that too in the Indian context. As already mentioned, in the era of globalisation or alternatively, Economic Reforms, there has been a doing away of the plethora of government rules and to this extent, the developmental process has been speeded up. However, it is still not clear if it has brought down corruption arising from the acts of commission and omission of the Bureaucrat -Politician-Businessman combine. Even as the process of economic reforms consequent to liberalisation has been on, there have been consistent reports of India continuing to be atnongst the most corrupt countries of the world. This naturally raises questions about the very rationale of liberalising the economy. Be that as it may, the process of liberalisation is currently very much on in the country.