dilemma about our constitution

Recently I was talking to my friend who is appearing for the IAS exam. His name is Dilip. I was drawn to the topic because of its nature. He told me some interesting things about this UPSC exam (union public service commission).

First of all, like the IIT entrance and CAT, this is one of the most difficult and national exam conducted in our country. It provides our country the required administrative personnel required. It can be taken by any citizen of the country irrespective of his or her background. Lakhs of people give this exam, hoping for a nice government job.

The first 150 rankers get the IAS tag (Indian administrative service). The next 150 or so get IFS (foreign) and the last 150 or so get the IPS (police). The highest salary can reach up to 30000 or 35000, but you get so many additional perks that it almost makes up for this slightly less salary. Housing, conveyance, various services are all free. In short it is lucrative. Besides you get to work for your country. Of course you have to work really hard for this.

Anyways we came up with a few interesting things out of this. Every year the annual budget, the railway budget and other decisions are taken on the floor of our big parliament. The fate of the country is decided by the so called wise people of our country. But the policies and various ideas are in fact formulated by the UPSC employees. It is their brain behind these policies. The ministers and other MP only give the finishing touches of presenting it to the general public.

Today’s politicians are by large illiterate. There is no point of their understanding the policies regarding finance, foreign and others. The UPSC employees think about the benefits of society but those can be easily crushed if the politicians want to. Isn’t it weird that the final decisions in our country are taken by people who don’t even know what democracy is. Shouldn’t it be the intelligent people in our country, who are educated, take the country ahead?

I raised these questions to my friend. He said that our constitution is framed in this way. Then I realized that since any change in constitution has to go through the two houses of parliament, this change can never be brought about. The simple reason being that the MPs are literate enough to understand this and will therefore crush any such attempt.

However I can still not blame our constitution for this because I hardly know anything about it. Who knows, I may be wrong about it.

Joke of the day:
A dietician and a garbageman met on a blind date. To break the ice, the dietician asked her date about his work. He mumbled that he was involved in refuse collection.
“What a coincidence,” exclaimed the lady. “I am in waist management.”