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At the time of our independence in 1947, while Patel systematically went about getting the princely states to accede to India, using persuasion, incentives, and force, he also, perhaps, realised at the same time, that the unification of India will last only if we have a band of patriotic civil servants, having a national character, not dependent on regional pulls and pressures, and who enjoy the independence to talk back to their political bosses when necessary, and work for the welfare of the people, without fear or favour. Patel, therefore, created the Indian Administrative Service. In order to ensure that the IAS officers have the independence to freely express their opinion without fear of losing their jobs, he built-in safeguards in the Constitution itself. The Indian Administrative Service has served the country well. The IAS, together with the other two All India Services, namely the Indian Police Service and the Indian Forest Service, has helped keep in check the diseases of corruption, anti-national activities, and terrorism, helped hold free and fair elections since our independence, and ably assisted the political leaders implement myriads of schemes beneficial to the nation as a whole and target groups in particular, enabling India to grow into the fifth largest economy, one of the strongest military power, one of the largest producers of food, a nuclear power, a leader in space research and many more laudable achievements. Since the IAS operates in anonymity, and they are bound by the code of conduct, very rarely do they inform the public about what exactly is their contribution. The collection of essays presented in this book is an attempt to provide a glimpse of what the Indian Administrative Service has been doing for the nation over the years and how it is still silently serving the citizens of this country.The book contains an anthology of essays by Indian Administrative Service officers relating to diverse fields of governance, such as agricultur
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