Saturday, 25 June 2011

civil services

Today an former student came to visit me with the news that he has qualified in the civil service exams- IRS to be precise. There seems to be a minor trend of our students getting into the civil services.
If a good Lokpal bill comes through and if more and more students start entering the civil services for reasons other than the good perks and fat dowry, maybe 10 years hence, we will have a good bureaucracy and hence better governance.
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