It is heartening to note that the Indian Prime Minister ultimately had to choose the senior-most bureacrats Ajit Seth as the cabinet Cecretary and Sunil Mitra as the Finance Secretary of the government of India in recent days when the posts were falling vacant. Earlier he had resorted to choose arbitrarily and wantonly some officials overlooking their inter-se seniority mainly to oblige his friends and mentors. After all, the officials who had reached the top level in three decades or so of their career were normally on the right side of the system prevalent in the country. So the seniority should be given weightage so that the hierarchy in the governemntal set-up preserves the integrity and the honesty needed for the benefit of the country and the constitution.
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