IAS-IRS Tug-of-War: Readers' comments on Indian civil service reforms

HAVE a close look at this photo. Shot at an Income-Tax function held in a Delhi suburb just ahead of the B-day, finance minister P Chidambaram was flanked by two senior officers, revenue secretary Sumit Bose, IAS and CBDT chairperson Poonam Kishore Saxena, IRS. As someone says, a smile can cause boundaries to melt, hearts to warm up, and distances to reduce. BoI here presents some of the best viewpoints on its earlier post: “4,200 IRS officers, an IAS boss & half cooked platter of facts”...