IAS Vs IMS – Indian Maritime Services
We have had a a lot of good things in place and the nation has benefitted tremendously on them. Having said that, we also need to reflect that, we inherit and continue to create a whole lot of dumb policies, administrative mechanisms, legislations, and regulations in our industry. This toxic cocktail can transform any sensible administrator into a disillusioned god airdropped with unlimited sanctions. One such joke is going around that we should have IMS in direct mocking competition with the elite IAS mandarins. We should realise that this IAS thing is a continuation of the colonial system of governance for tax extraction and oppression of the people. This service has done more disservice than service to the people of this nation. A class among classes, they are second to none – not even their political patrons at times. They are the shadow dictators in their own realms. They are perfectly insulated from the naked ground with varying castes of Babudom. Protected by the system for all their foolishness, they perceive themselves to be infallible all-knowing geniuses. They write rule books in volumes. If one man in a billion breaks their rules, they punish the entire billion. Their rule books are in large volumes. But all of them leak. All of them stink. All of them punish the majority and favour a handful. Political leaders in most cases are severely intimidated with these tricky & incomprehensibly large rule books in the fear of breaching the constitution.
We have had a a lot of good things in place and the nation has benefitted tremendously on them. Having said that, we also need to reflect that, we inherit and continue to create a whole lot of dumb policies, administrative mechanisms, legislations, and regulations in our industry. This toxic cocktail can transform any sensible administrator into a disillusioned god airdropped with unlimited sanctions. One such joke is going around that we should have IMS in direct mocking competition with the elite IAS mandarins. We should realise that this IAS thing is a continuation of the colonial system of governance for tax extraction and oppression of the people. This service has done more disservice than service to the people of this nation. A class among classes, they are second to none – not even their political patrons at times. They are the shadow dictators in their own realms. They are perfectly insulated from the naked ground with varying castes of Babudom. Protected by the system for all their foolishness, they perceive themselves to be infallible all-knowing geniuses. They write rule books in volumes. If one man in a billion breaks their rules, they punish the entire billion. Their rule books are in large volumes. But all of them leak. All of them stink. All of them punish the majority and favour a handful. Political leaders in most cases are severely intimidated with these tricky & incomprehensibly large rule books in the fear of breaching the constitution.
The talked-about IMS will create many more such creatures with a seemingly all-round technical know-how, with more devastating mindsets to obstruct all things that move. Probably with more precision! Administrators need not be technically sound and thorough in the nuts and bolts they administer. If that was the case, the CEOs of all successful engineering companies like GE or L&T will be only engineers, or the CEOs of all healthcare companies would be doctors. While technical skills are immensely valuable for execution, it becomes equally limiting for administration and management. Administration and management is in itself a very specialised domain, where you need a whole lot of innate qualities of leadership with empowering education & training in administration and management. India recruits a majority of poor or mediocre administrators in the name of IAS or IPS, purely on the basis of rote-power, IQ, & language skill, ignoring the most important factors of leadership, like higher human values and EQ(Emotional Quotient). So talking about IMS is like talking about aping grotesque imperfection. At least the IAS folks have the edge on IQ and linguistic skills. And the proposed IMS guys would be below par on these departments. If this IAS stuff has been a dumb idea for ages, this IMS will be the dumbest of them all.
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Capt Rath
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