How Centre's 10 Joint Secretary jobs ad may be India's declaration of independence

India has the most closed and hierarchical government of any major democracy. In fact, India's bureaucracy is more removed from its people than those in many authoritarian countries. Our politicians may get all the attention, but everyone knows that mid-level bureaucrats such as joint secretaries -- there are about 350 of them in all -- are India's real policy-makers.

How Centre's 10 Joint Secretary jobs ad may
Indians, on the other hand, immediately recognized that in opening up the ranks of the civil service to qualified outsiders, one of their country's stoutest walls had been breached. Image source: Reuters

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