| Ministry | Department |
|---|---|
| Headed by Minister | Headed by Secretary |
| has multiple departments | under a ministry |
- Home Affairs Ministry has max depts (07), followed by Finance Ministry (06)
Problems
- 17 ministries at time of independence, but 57 now
- rapid expansion due to political factors
- not resulted in any significant improvements in overall efficiency of administration
- problems:
- conflict between ministries, depts. over their duties
- duplication of work
- problems related to coordiantion
- red tapism
- time and cost overruns and overall inefficiency
- 2nd ARC: each ministry has 16 different hierarchical levels wherein at every level, the concerned official has absolute veto power, making administration inefficient
Solutions
- 2nd ARC: reduce ministries from 57 to 27
- merge similar performing ministries into one
- create more depts to ensure better coordination
- PM GATI SHAKTI Yojna
- to ensure timely completion of infra projects thru PPP Model
- coordination
- fixed time limits
- continuous performance monitoring
- 2nd ARC: reduce hierarchical levels from 16 to 4
Other Reforms
- E governance
- lateral entry
- citizen charters mandatory for all depts. and ministries
- strict RTI implementation
- objective performance evaluation of bureaucracy thru Social Audit Committees
- De politicization of civil services
- single window clearances to reduce red tapism, inefficiency
- fixing time limits for bureaucrats to complete their responsibilities
- merit based promotions
Our secretariat has inverse pyramid, wherein max bureaucrats working at top level in policy formulation. On other hand, very few officers at field level in policy implementation.
- 2nd ARC recommended pyramid be reversed
- max bureaucrats should be at field levels
- meritorious bureaucrats must be promoted to secretariat orgs