Economic And Social Development UPSC: Chief Point, Budget, Topics & Other Details Economic and Social Development When it comes to the economics preparation in the UPSC civil services exam, students tend to worry a lot about economics, but it is quite an inevitable element of the UPSC syllabus- Prelims and the mains. Think of it this way. The post of CEA had been lying vacant since Arvind Subra.
Ad hocism isn’t always desirable.The article which discusses the manner of appointing CEA, ends rather abruptly with a pejorative unconnected and ill-informed comment about the Indian...Why are you shying away from discussing 2009 aberration in greater details? UPSC ensured checks and balances and transparency. Today, comparable people can’t be appointed. There are indeed successful CEAs who have come in from outside, but before becoming CEA, they have worked in India, often in other parts of government.
The Chief Economic Adviser is a post in Government of India and is equivalent to rank of …
Second, and more importantly, a successful CEA requires a longish stint.
There is a provision for Chief Economic Consultant, but that’s purely stop gap, for one year and no more. There was a rationale behind those rules and checks and balances.
The number of days comes down to 114 days.
Appointed at 50 and retiring at 60, that longish stint existed, unless the CEA was sucked up by some other organ of government.En passant, at the personal level, you will find media speculation about me in 2004 too, for the same post. Bibek Debroy is the Chairperson of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council. The council serves to highlight key economic issues facing the country to the government of India from a neutral viewpoint. First, CEA reports to Secretary, Economic Affairs, typically, though not invariably, from IAS, though CEA is itself a Secretary-level appointment. The new government should take CEA back to UPSC.
Body: Significance: The key roles of India’s chief economic advisor are to determine the government’s overall strategy in … The Government of India recently brought down the average completion time for houses under restructured Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin. If a CEA is appointed at the age of say 58, you might have a situation where the CEA ends up reporting to someone who is a classmate, or even younger. For CEA, IES and ISS, let’s try to get back to the UPSC mode. Purely at the level of the technical, a government would be somewhat crazy to appoint as CEA someone who is due to retire in 5 months (the 60-age limit). The CEA reports directly to the Minister of Finance. Bibek Debroy is the Chairperson of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council.Copyright © 2020 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.
Within UPSC, or outside UPSC, the 60-year cutoff is binding. (There have been no lady CEAs).
Please turn it OFF in order to continue DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own. Whatever be the reason, this was a bad idea. The Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to Central government, Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian is appointed as twelfth (12) member of Advisory Council of Fifteenth (15 th) Finance Commission (FCc).
That’s because there are Economic Advisers in other Ministries too.
Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (PMEAC) is a non-constitutional, non-permanent and independent body constituted to give economic advice to the Government of India, specifically the Prime Minister.
Bibek Debroy is the Chairperson of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council.This blog is about government decisions that impact all of us as citizens.
There were two very good reasons for this. Someone from IES could apply, but on merit, and would have to compete with outsiders. (A few decades ago, people became Secretaries to the government of India at younger ages.) Whatever be the reason, this was a bad idea. If you were applying laterally, from outside, you could apply till the age of 50. Is it judicious to write about a post to which media speculation has linked your name? Under those rules, if you were in government service, you could apply till the age of 55. The new government should take CEA back to UPSC. Advisory Council It now has 12 members, which include noted economists Surjit Bhalla, Arvind Virmani, Indira Rajaraman and M Govinda Rao among others. He (I said there have been no ladies) needs to learn the ropes and develop expertise in negotiating the labyrinth of bureaucracy. I personally think this was a disastrous decision and explains why there is lack of economic and statistical expertise in different Ministries.