Bureaucratic Rules & Their Implications: A Study of Jammu & Kashmir Bureaucratic Procedures

Humera Yaqoob
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Humera Yaqoob: Assistant Professor, J&K Institute of Management, Public Administration & Rural Development, Srinagar, J&K, India

International Journal of World Policy and Development Studies, 2016, vol. 2, issue 11, 81-89

Abstract: It is a known fact that things are rarely accomplished in the Indian bureaucracy, in general, and the J&K bureaucracy, in particular. Projects rarely reach their stage of culmination, for one reason or the other. The major reasons that even a layman perceives are, adherence to a plethora of rules & regulations and the primacy of means rather than ends in official work. The end result most obviously is red tapism, official delay and goal displacement. While on one hand, bureaucratic rules act as safeguards against the tyranny, favouritism and corruption in official dealings, they tend to kill dynamism, innovativeness, initiative, discretion and efficiency. In fact over bureaucratization is greatly responsible for our underdeveloped state of administration and governance. These age-old procedures and rules have over a period of time turned out to be nothing but tools in the hands of the bureaucrats, lending them power and monopolization. It is high time, conservativeness and excessive controls are done away with and new innovative, high tech modern and efficient procedures are adopted for deft and appropriate goal attainment. A study of the J&K bureaucracy vis-Ã -vis its rigidity of rules and procedural preferences, along with the related implications, has been depicted through this paper.

Keywords: Rigidity of rules; Impersonality; Plethora of legislation; Procedural delays; Rule of reason, Red tapism; Delay meaning denial; Procedural specification; Primacy of means or ends; Deregulation; Delegation of authority; Timidity and conservatism in administration; Goal displacement. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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