Sunday, July 24, 2011

Bureaucratic alienation

Alienation as a concept was given by Karl Marx in relation to his theory of dialectical materialism that explains the origin of class and class struggle. He basically highlighted the increasing isolation the worker class was being subjected to.The proletariat i.e the worker class had no say in the production process and were thus distanced from the product, the process, the community of workers and eventually from themselves. Thus, they got alienated from all spheres of society.

In contemporary times, we can find this phenomenon across all economic activities. The leadership everywhere is dominated by the elite and the execution is left for the majority who as a result of this face alienation. This alienation has unfortunately also crippled our bureaucracy. The permanent executives of our country are selected via a very detailed and unbelievably tough process and only the learned and knowledgeable go through.But ironically those who control them are not even graduates.Such people only due to popularity or rather a political blood line become the representatives and control the bureaucrats.

With such a system in place, alienation had to creep in.Even if the bureaucrat understands the populist action or the genuine action required, he would have to dance to the whims and fancies of the ministry.That is bound to isolate him from his responsibilities and ultimately from the system.One such incident which happened in a district in the Chambal region is of relevance. As a solution to the problem of dacoits in this region the government announced a scheme which provided a rehabilitation package to all the dreaded dacoits if they surrender to the Police.The policy actually worked and lot many surrendered.But there was a peculiar case where that dacoit had not killed a single civilian.He told the Police that he had become a dacoit to take wealth from the rich and give it to the poor.But he had never killed anyone in those 10 years of dacoity. Interestingly, the concerned D.G of Police could not accept his surrender and he wasn't given the rehabilitation package.The reason- that package was specially for dreaded dacoits i.e those who have killed at least 10 persons. The D.G said " Though I understand the flawed policy, but my hands are tied". So was that dacoit supposed to go back and kill 10 persons to entitle himself the rehabilitation package?

The bottom line is, if you are so willing to have the best of the lot at the bureaucratic positions, you should at least give them some freedom. They should be given some discretion which they can utilize to shape up the public policies keeping in mind the realities of grass root level and the flaws enclosed in the present system. Why to give U.P.S.C a hard time if the government only wants puppets?

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Mike said...

Nice post.
"Bureaucracy is equal to the feeling of alienation," as my friend Bob says.

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