5 bureaucrats and their Tendulkar moments

Tendulkar with wife Anjali

INDIA'S greatest sporting legend Sachin Tendulkar has announced that he would call it a day after playing the 200th Test match in Indian soil in November. “It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket” he says. BoI here gives a spin to the moment to find out what 5 top-notch bureaucrats of the day were, when Tendulkar made his Test debut against Pakistan on November 15, 1989. And also, what are the Tendulkar moments of each one of these officers. Disclaimer: The bureaucrats are randomly picked up.

Know Your Babu: Andhra IAS who shares birthday with Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar after swearing-in as an MP (June 4, 2012)

AS legendary cricketer Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar turned 40 on Wednesday, there were celebrations all around. At Kolkata, the birthday boy cut the cake with his wife Anjali standing beside him, and hundreds of camera persons capturing the historic moment. Somewhere in Andhra Pradesh, a 1998 batch IAS officer who shares the birthday with Tendulkar,…

Can every IAS, IPS or IFS be MS Dhoni or Sachin Tendulkar? Government says NO

THE government has reiterated that officers should not be given 10 out of 10 in a routine manner by the reporting or reviewing authorities, and this should be restricted to 20% of the officers under their supervision, and any grading of more than 8 for each attribute must be justified by giving reasons in writing in a separate sheet. Numerical gradings are done in a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 refers to the lowest grade and 10 to the highest. It has come to notice that many officers have secured full marks in the outcome of Performance Appraisal Report (PAR) introduced for IAS, IPS and IFS so far, which may later be applicable to other civil servants too. The original idea of introducing the numerical system by replacing the age-old Annual Confidential Reports (ACR) was to locate the outstanding officers and help them securing empanelment and promotions faster than the others. But that must be a limited lot as not every officer can be MS Dhoni or Sachin Tendulkar! The government in a recent order has further reiterated its instruction issued on 3rd December, 2008 which says that any grading of more than 8 for each attribute must be justified by giving reasons in writing in a separate sheet. The guidelines for Reporting Authorities also said that the members of the Service graded between 8 and 10 will be rated as ‘outstanding’ and will be given a score of 9 for the purpose of calculating average scores for empanelment/promotion. Similarly, members of the service graded between 6 and short of 8 will be rated as ‘very good’ and will be given a score of 7.

Babu Blogger’s Take: All these are perfect! But what’s about officers who take more initiatives and hence are likely to make more mistakes vis-à-vis others who are laggards so far as new initiatives are concerned. More you work, more controversial you could be! So, it’s a big challenge for the administrative reformers to give special incentives to those who work hard and initiate new projects.