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Magazine Article
It's a vocation and not a job, says Javid Chowdhury
2014
Overview
It won't be presumptuous to claim that the old bureaucrat's profession was a vocation, not just a job. In a developing country like India, there is a societal need and an ethical imperative to intervene on behalf of groups that desperately need a helping hand-and that can only be provided by practitioners of a vocation. A senior bureaucrat of the 1990s would have cut his teeth when a commitment to public interest was the talisman of the civil service. Today, even among the most dedicated and responsible young civil servants, the mere mention of it would raise a snigger of bewilderment. It is not as though the old civil servants were self-denying ascetics. It is just that they internalised the worldview that public interest was the ultimate touchstone to determine the worth of a public servant. In a country awash with public scams, integrity is important for a public servant. The old civil servants drew from the explicit value system of their time-integrity, principally financial integrity, was essential. Of course, it must be noted that opportunities for financial misdemeanours in the 1990s were negligible compared with today. Now we have a vast number of government transactions that are highly speculative- many involve intangible assets where there are no market transactions to determine price; and many other sale transactions involve a monetary consideration that has been determined by subjective assumptions. The oldies of circa 1990 had credibility gifted to them by the citizenry, and they used it to great advantage. The young civil servants would do well to win that back, even if it means investment of much time and effort. I can guarantee they will live to recognise this step as the premium investment of their professional career. So this sermon from an oldie to the fresh young civil servants must end here. There is no intention of being judgmental. Each generation will, no doubt, design its professional persona in the context of the circumstances. However, this weather-worn veteran would venture to suggest that the enduring foundational values mentioned above would continue to be relevant in any circumstances, in any age.
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Living Media India, Limited
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