EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE UNDER COOPERATIVE FEDERAL STRUCTURE OF THE SYSTEM FOR SERVICE MUST HAVE CONSULTATIONS WITH EACH OTHER.

For the sake of effective governance under cooperative federalism IAS ,IPS and IFS officers recruited appointed and managed with training by the central government and alloted to the various state cadres .IAS officers are mandated to serve not only the state cadre to which they belong but also the central government when ever they are called upon to do so .As such officers of the IAS are under the dual control of the state governments to which they belong and the central government is the appointing authority. It envisages this sharing of power in order to enable both the centre and states to utilise the officers services for the effective governance of the country all over the states and while the central government is vested with the ultimate authority in matters relating to their service condition including posting ,transfers and the disciplinary action the state governments too have a participating role in these matters by way of the affected rules .Hence therefore the changes to these rules and Applications proposed by the central government should also be viewed under the provision made by the quasi federal structure of the centre and the state governments .As such the senior positions in the central government from the level of the Deputy Secretary/ Director to the Secretory are expected to be managed by the IAS officers on the central government deputation from the different states cadres to which they belong but also the central government to which they belong and the officers from other services appointed for their domain knowledge for the sake of effective governance and in the spirit of cooperative federalism ,any drastic change in the rules should await a process of consultations with each other with in specified period of time.