Bikash Choudhury
Manmohan Singh would go down on the contemporary political
history book as the coolest & media shy Prime Minister; and, only one not
having to win an election. But, if he wishes to be remembered by his
fraternity, that is student, teachers and professional economist; then, he
could expand the present ‘Indian Economic Service’ to serve a very important
National purpose by deploying them in District Rural Development Agency and in
our foreign missions.
DRDA as an institution created long a go has not solved its
purpose of developing our rural areas. With growing population each district on
an average now have 25 lakh people and consequently 5 lakh house holds with
ever depleting resources per capita. To change the face of our rural areas we
need to “micro manage the macro economy of a district” to
get better return on investment in comparison to present out put, apart from
growing the National economy much faster; as the sum of parts would be greater
than the whole. For this we may need competent economic managers as the head of
DRDA; therefore, Indian Economic Service can be expanded to staff all 500 plus
districts and over 100 of foreign mission where country would need specialized
services of trained economist in a globalized world to maximize the wealth of
Nation.
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