Why govt jobs should be less secure

With a new govt taking charge, the spotlight turns to bureaucrats who’ll work to fulfil its mandate. The tenure and service conditions of bureaucrats are often overlooked, but are critical to ensuring the whole govt works in concert to achieve its development goals. Highest in criticality is the ability of govt to hire and fire civil servants.

Mis-firing officers | Most of us haven’t heard of a govt employee being fired. This tells us how super secure govt jobs are. That’s one reason why lakhs of highly educated people apply for lower-level govt positions every year, and why govt servants are often preferred over higher paid private sector employees in arranged marriages.
Such security of tenure was a key feature of govt jobs globally as well, but has changed over time. In India, it hasn’t.

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