Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy Wants PM To Hire Civil Servants From B-schools. Here's Why

New Delhi: Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider hiring civil servants from management schools.Speaking at a media event, he said that the government should look beyond the present system where the candidates appear for the highly competitive exam conducted by the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) by giving an examination in three or four subjects.The selected candidates should be taken to the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy Of Administration in Mussoorie for training in specialized sectors such as agriculture, defence or manufacturing. He said it would be a departure from the current practice of creating general administrators."Maybe Prime Minister Modi, who has done a brilliant job so far in terms of accelerating our economy, may want to look at whether we need more managers in the government rather than administrators," Narayan Murthy said.The current system, Narayan Murthy further said, has roots in 1958 when the East India Company transferred the dominion to the British crown.He said the objective of the civil servants then was to go slow and delay implementation because the native population was to be kept under control."I hope India becomes a nation that is more management-orientated than just administration-orientated," he added.The managers can ensure speed, imagination and excellence in decision-making, and also in implementation in the public governance system, he added.He also made an oblique reference to the setback faced by the government with the recent attempts at codifying lateral entry. Murthy said he hopes the Opposition will not have "many objections" to such a shift as they recently did.