Political Meritocracy in India - Isn't it the right time
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A professional cog in the wheel job requires at least 16 years of formal education, along with multitude of continuous evaluations all those years. After all these evaluations, with a history of consistent performances; At each and every stage of professional ladder, we are judged by bare-knuckle performance, And we are in a need to keep evolving and prove efficacy to the bottom-line.A public service professional goes through standardized UPSC or state Selection commission processes and undergo rigorous training to make them ready for an IAS, IRS, IPS, IFS or other specialized jobs.But the public representatives of India (read MLAs, MPs, ruling, opposition, standby, Legislatures, political party officials et. al) who are in charge of defining the whole semantics, in which every other species under the jurisdiction's influence, live and prosper, are left to the forces of an inefficient market to define their competence and suitability to the job.Voters without any standardized mechanism...