Government of India. Planning Commission. Report on Public Administration

The ideology of the party in power and the wisdom and vision of those in officenuoRrnEs 9 will be the principal factors in the choice of objectives. [...] Moreover as the malady which affects the body politic today is the lowering of individual character and the weakening of the moral fibre the remedy must also be sought on the moral plane. [...] This point is of special importance at the present time when an election is in the offing To some of the men in power the tempttion is great to use the influence of government servants even to the extent of arranging transfers of suitable instruments to secure power again but they must realise that this very short-sighted policy is bound to recoil upon them within a few years and is disastr [...] The only real remedy for this state of affairs lies in raising the calibre of the Legislators the sense of responsibility of the Minister and the character of the officer. [...] The continuous tranmission of ideas from the Government to the electorate the keeping in touch with the constituency which is so important to the legislator and the influential party man in other countries does not seem to occupy much of the time of their co-evils here.