Administration, as we all know, has grown not only in volume but also in complexity. So, it is but proper that the house attaches the greatest importance to the machinery which is charged with the responsibility of seeing that the recruitment and the discipline of services are maintained at the highest possible standard. Sir, the report before the house gives a clean bill to the government. But from what some of the Hon. Members pointed out during the debate, it seems to me that the report is significant for what it omits to say. For instance, my hon friend, Mr. Bhargava, drew attention to a number of alleged irregularities on the part of the commission and the ministries. We do not know how far they are true because they do not find a place in the report. Probably they fall outside the years to which the report relates. But if the observations made by my Hon. Friend are borne out by facts, it is a matter for serious considerations, if the commission's role should be what it is generally expected to be by the government and the house. It has probably to assume a superior role, if it is to control (344 to 345) effectively the policy of recruitment and the standard of efficiency in the services generally. Sir, I shall not go into the question referred to by the Hon. Member and we expect the Hon. Member to throw more light on the aspects which were brought to the notice of the house. Sir, reference has been made to a fall in standards. It is said that education, in the universities (349 to 350) and the educational system generally should improve, and unless that is so, we cannot have the desired personnel to man the services. In that connection, Hon. Members have referred to the need for improving not only the university stage of education but also the secondary stage. It is this lacuna in our adminstrative machinery, it is this weakness in the agency which is called upon to see that the company law becomes a fit instrument for checking and eliminating the defects in the working of the corporate sector which is mainly responsible for the persistence of abuses. In this context, I would like to specially mention the proposed. Rice and sugar are not the only needs of the comman man; food, clothing and shelter should be provided to the common man.
