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It is difficult to make prediction for anything 2-3 decades in advance in the fast changing world. Around 3 decades ago, there was no internet and e-governance. We used to book our railway tickets by standing on the long queues on the railway stations. We used to file all our documents with various departments like Income Tax, Excise, and Customs etc. in paper form and wait for the officer’s permission. In the earlier times, you had to pay money even for depositing your telephone and electricity bills. There used to be waiting list for years before you can get your telephone connections.So much has changed in last three decades in government and in our country.However, the fundamental nature of our politicians and bureaucrats has not changed much. It has perhaps got worse with every passing year. They are still perceived to be as arrogant, inefficient and corrupt as earlier. However, the public now feels much less impact of government because the interface between the governments has changed. Instead of going to the government office for getting your work done, you can do most of the things online sitting at your office. However, if you have to anyway go to the government office, you may still face similar humiliating experience as the earlier generation faced.It does not mean that changes are not happening or changes shall not happen in future. I feel that in the next 2-3 decades following changes may happen in Indian bureaucracy.Their relative importance in government would decline as more services would be provided by private sectors under PPP model or directlyThe private sectors job would become even more lucrative and hence the craze for civil services would decline furtherCorruption in government would reduce primarily due to extensive use of information technologyThere would be far more accountability and transparency for government officers.There will be much more cross movement between the government and corporate at senior levelsThe relative importance of one service (IAS) for top slots in center and state government may come down drasticallyThe importance of IAS/IPS/IFS may decline as the gap between the metros, urban India and small districts widensPolitical interference would increase due to further deterioration of political masters and the increasing expectation of publicPerformance link pay and promotion may be implemented in government sooner than later to improve efficiencies in government

In NC, the teacher has absolute control of grades for students. We can change them on our own initiative, but we cannot be forced to change a grade. A principal who changed grades without notifying and getting an OK from teachers in an adjacent county was demoted from his position.A young man who was an excellent athlete, but also an entitled jerk, failed my US history class, which is required for graduation. He had been offered a football scholarship to a small NC college, but had to graduate to qualify for it. He had taken the class at least once before, and had been put in my class because my policy was (for my standard classes) that if you would do the work and cooperate with me, I would make sure that you could pass the class, often by allowing extra credit. This student had not done the work and made no effort to make it up, although I gave him several chances to. He failed by two points. I had told him about his failing average, and what he needed to do to pull it up. I sent letters to his parents, and notified my department head and the principal that he (among others) were failing. I recommended that the student be allowed to try one more time to pass by attending summer school. He would not be able to attend graduation (county policy) but would get his HS diploma in time to attend college with his scholarship.After the classes were over and the school’s statistical report for the year had been sent to the State Department of Public Instruction, the student and his father came to the principal and asked him to change the grade. The principal told them he could not do so without my permission, so he and they came to my room, where I was packing up my stuff. The father, whose attitude made it clear where his son had picked up his sense of entitlement, demanded I raise his son’s grade by two points.I told the principal that I thought changing the grade of one student, without changing the grades of all the other students in the class in the same way, would be unfair. If the principal asked me, I would raise the grades of the entire class by two points per student, but I would not change the grade of a single student unless he could show where I had made an error in that student’s record. This would change the statistical report for that class for the semester, and therefore the combined statistical report for the school would also have to be changed. Both I and the school would have to send in an error report and resubmit the corrected data first to the county office so the could correct the statistics for the entire school district, and then to the SDPI, so the total state statistical reports for (among others) the US Department of Education would probably have to be amended.The principal told the father that I was right; arbitrarily changing one grade without changing the grades of the other students would be unfair, and changing that many grades would create a huge problem for the statistical reports at all levels because of the amount of work that would have to be re-submitted. He seconded my recommendation for summer school.The father was furious, and so was the student. Unfortunately, they allowed their tempers to get the best of them, and said some things to me and the principal that did not encourage us to be cooperative.The student did take summer school. He passed the course with the minimum grade, got his diploma, and started college.He flunked out his freshman year.

Thanks Balaji Viswanathan (பாலாஜி விஸ்வநாதன்) for A2A. It is really difficult to define the kind of work, duties, responsibilities that an IAS is supposed to do. The whole topic is polemical in fact regarding ICS the predecessor of IAS it was said that it is neither Indian, nor civil and not at all a service. I will in this answer quote from the books written by senior IAS officers who have retired and are very senior to me. I will put their words in italics wherever I will quote. The books quoted will be numbered. To start I will give in brief the official answer.The Indian Administrative Service (abbreviated asIAS) (Hindi: भारतीय प्रशासनिक सेवा ) is the premier[2] administrativecivil service of theGovernment of India. IAS officers hold key and strategic positions in theUnion Government, States[2]and public-sector undertakings.[2 Wikipedia Indian Administrative ServiceIAS are recruited after a long process of competitive exams which consists of three stages preliminary exams a qualifying round for the next stage which is Mains exams. Those who are shortlisted on the basis of their marks in the Mains are called for interview. Based on the marks of mains and interview a merit list is prepared. Candidates are allotted services according to merit cum choice. Generally top 100 opt for the IAS. This year 800,000 candidates had applied for preliminary exams. Read IAS Preliminary Exams, For IAS aspirants . Sanjay Nandan's answer to Why should I become an IAS officer? How can I serve the downtrodden directly by getting into the civil services?How difficult is it to become an IAS officer?Gaurav Agrawal: Hard work is the only way, the results will come automaticallyHow important is the final interview of the IAS exam? Are the marks of "4 papers of GS, 2 papers of optional and an essay" combined with the interview marks?What can go wrong for a successful IAS candidate?After the selection candidates have to join the Mussorie Academy for a two years training programme. Which consists of 8-9 months in the classroom followed by a year's field training and back to classroom for Phase 2 of 4 months. What kind of training and experience do the IAS trainees gain?After the training IAS officers are posted as SDM sub divisional magistrate also called assistant collectors, sub collectors and they have to work under the DMs or Collectors. They are entrusted with the law and order situation of the city along with general administration and development work of the areas under their charge. WikipediaAfter 3-4 years they are given independent charge of districts as a District Magistrate, also called a District Collector or Deputy Commissioner (or shortened to DM, Collector, or DC), is the chief administrative and revenue officer of an Indian district. He is responsible to implement all the government programmes in the interest of the common public of the district. Being a district election officer he conducts elections. He represents the Government in his area and is empowered under practically all the laws of India. Practically all the state government officers work under his supervision. This is the position which is most visible and in the public eye.Sanjay Nandan's answer to What is a typical day in the life of a district collector/magistrate?District collector wikipediaWhat is the amount of stress faced by an IAS officer in his day-to-day life?For most of us this is the best part of the career as an IAS officer. Most of us try to remain as DMs for as long as possible and some do manage for 10-12 years. They progress from minor moffusil to middle and then the major districts. They also manage to get a posting in the CM's home district and thus become intimate with him. This helps them to get posted to state capital as DM. Later on they join the CM's Office as his aide. When CM moves to GoI they move with him.After these two stages the career of IAS varies widely. We may be posted as MDs of PSUs. We may become Commissioners. We also become Secretaries heading the administrative wings of the Ministries. We may also be posted to Indian Embassies. Some get assignments in UN or related organisations.Whatever may be our assignment we have to carry out the core functions of planning, organising, supervising, directing, reporting, coordinating and budgeting.How do we define the work, duties, responsibilities that an IAS is supposed to do. There are lots of opinions often contradictory I will quote some of themFrom [1]. Bureaucrazy by MK Kaw IASThe difficulty is that the IAS does nothing concrete which you can lay your hands on. An IAS officer thinks; most of his thoughts are unprintable. He speaks; what he says is in all probability not what he means. He writes, but only what he can and should.... I have seen colleagues tearing their hair at the end of a day... They were terribly busy all the time. But, what did they achieve? Frankly they don't know. The tally seems to add to zero.From[4] The Service of the State: The IAS Reconsidered by "Ghose, Bhaskar"R.P. Noronha of the ICS:The Service as a whole—British and Indian—consisted of quite ordinary men, set apart from others by three things: adedicated sense of duty born of tradition and training; an independent outlook; and complete identification with the interests ofthe people of wherever we were sent to serve. We deteriorated,’ he adds dryly, ‘laterWho are the IAS officers, IAS was established in 1946 as a successor to ICS. Kaw has this to say[1] ICS were the primal burra sahibs that too its British members... they were the ones who lived like lords in sprawling mansions... sovereignty vested in them, as bequeathed by the British Crown; there was no minister, MP, MLA... their lightest word was law... When Indians gained entry into ... we got brown burra sahibs... he had to speak the Queen's English.. . be metamorphosed into a carricature.. Then.. IAS launched .. the copy of a copy.On the other hand a radically different view is expressed by the author in[2] The Insider's View: Memoirs of a Public Servant by "Chowdhury, Javid" who has this to addForty-five years ago, a new entrant to the civil services was generally a graduate or post-graduate in the humanities or the social sciences. The in-service training he went through as a probationer wasnot structured in any systematic way to equip him for his future responsibilities. The new entrants had made the services after a gruelling examination and were generally in a carnival mood, and werehardly inclined to undergo professional training even to meet the demands of the early years of their careers. But despite this, what came to be implanted in the entrants is best conveyed by a contemporary word—attitude. The behaviour, views and values of our instructors stamped on us indelibly the credo of public interest and commitment to service in an objective and even-handed manner. As an irreducible requirement, our personal conduct, whether financial or social, had toremain impeccable.....Training Our preparation for the responsibilitiesof discharging public duties was one year of in-service training in the National Academy of PublicAdministration at Mussoorie, followed by another year’s training through rotational attachment tovarious district-level functionaries or offices connected with field operations. All this did not reallyprepare us much, even for the limited responsibilities of the early years of service.They can still be expected to understand the need for financial probity, and their responsibility to discharge the duties assigned to them competently and conscientiously. However, at the conceptual level, their role is never perceived by them as furtherance of ‘public interest’.In all this competitive rush in the contemporary economy, the original testament of the civil servant —to serve public interest—is forgotten. Increasingly, the unspoken message is that private interest is ipso facto tantamount to public interest. In the imitation of the private business style, civil servants at all levels have become sorry caricatures of what they were meant to be. In the ambient atmosphere, the new civil servant of today has lost the innocence of yesteryears. The no-frills, ‘public interest’ approach is not widely accepted any more.Another aspect that must be recognized is that, amongst the high-flyers in the civil services, there is never any ceiling to their ambitions. Appointees to the enforcement and intelligence agencies, even when secure in their assignments, nurse hopes for post-retirement sinecures in constitutional positions. It is a widely held perception that several of the Chiefs of the IB have been unhealthily close to the leading personalities of the ruling parties in their time. It is impossible to believe that they could still maintain neutrality and objectivity in the discharge of their duties, which principally requires the making of balanced assessments of sensitive political and social situations. Currently, two former Chiefs of the IB are Governors. So, no matter what protection one gives the appointees under a statute or judicial order, the objectivity will depend on the mettle of the appointee. The procedural changes for selection and tenure have not brought about much improvement in the integrity factor of the performance of the heads of the agencies.That the highest statutory and constitutional appointees perform theirduties with one eye on a future assignment is a frightening thought. However, the hard truth is that there can be no statutory or institutional remedy for this—if the appointee has the mettle, he will never compromise his position for any ambitions that he may hold for the future. Currently, much of the IB’s time is spent in monitoring interparty and intra-party politicking. For several decades now, the IB has been serving as the unofficial pre-poll survey agency for the government in power. It is a different matter that, in their anxiety to please their masters, they trim their assessments to the hopes of their masters. The IB’s assessments have been so completely wrong so often, that now, even their masters have no use for them.The economic laws had been orphaned; the law enforcement agencies were barely suffered, and were never held accountable for not performing their mandatory duties. The economic laws remained in existence, but it was virtuous for the corporate sector to openly work around them. This led to an increasing impression that only the dullwits submitted to the law. The entrepreneurial stars ignored them and created personal wealth, and in a large measure, that is how India recorded growth in the early nineties. The ambient atmosphere was one of unlimited entrepreneurial permissiveness.Being Collector of Ahmedabad district carried with it some tedious protocol duties. Every state Governor, and every central Minister (or his equivalent), had to be received at the airport by the Collector. A Collector’s job is substantively a field job requiring extensive touring. Only by travelling around could he know the reality in the field, as distinct from the sanitized information the staff provided him. Still, the Collector of Ahmedabad had to be ever ready to receive a VIP. I alwayshung up my bandhgala (the compulsory attire for all protocol duties) in the jeep no matter where I was touring. Whenever a message about a visiting VIP was received, I drove straight to the airport.I will further quote a less senior [3] The Mammaries of the Welfare State by "Chatterjee, Upamanyu" on his protagonist's idea about duty‘What do you think, my dear Agastya, of the hordes of bureaucrats who go off their rocker in the course, and because, of their official duties, and who consequently indulge in diverse kinds of conduct unbecoming of a civil servant? Is nobody, as you mandarins say, seized of the problem? The system—the work they do, doubtless—is to blame; the strain, the tensions, together with the futility, the absence of direction, the triplespeak, the bottomless greed of our middle classes, certainly produce a lethal blend—but my point is, it is the civil servant’s preposterous salary that is at the heart of it! My God—if you’re honest, on your savings you can’t take your family of four out to dinner more than once a decade and you can’t fly them, say, Navi Chipra—the capital—Navi Chipra, on a holiday more than once in your lifetime, and you definitely can’t do both, if you’re honest.’Agastya wished to contribute his views. ‘I too have examples of plain living and low thinking. The plain liver is my Assistant Director friend who turned vegetarian because he couldn’t afford meat. The low thinker is my cop acquaintance, a Station House Officer who was dementedly corrupt because he contended that he had four daughters to marry off with dowries of over five lakhs each. Speaking of which, why doesn’t the Welfare State legalize dowries for the civil servants of its Steel Frame? It could then stop paying them salaries altogether.’Agastya Sen believed that one of the many importantduties of the Collector of Madna was to swamp his subordinates with paper. Typical of hiscorrespondence with his staff would be his demi-official letter of December 12 asking the tehsildarsand Sub-Divisional Officers of the district to pay more attention to his demi-official letters. Theydidn’t.‘Shall we discuss that over dinner? A dinner and a long evening alone with you, Madam, is all thatI ask in return. A favour for a favour. Tit for tat. The entire edifice of the government, Madam, isbased on a quite feudal system of favours. It’s even been drafted into our rules and regulations in theform of the powers of discretion granted to our public servants to interpret the law . . . think of the joythat you can give me and I you. The people that you must’ve seen in the waiting room all, all havefavours to seek and to grant, like barter in a primitive society.’