This book provides a comprehensive overview of India s public services and bureaucratic systems, and explores why widespread corruption and inefficient delivery have slowed development. It:

• discusses the underlying reasons for the prevailing inefficiency in public services;
• examines the complex linkages between ethics-based public service, India s cultural and spiritual heritage, and its current economic development model; and
• outlines ways to create an ethics code and an environment that is conducive to better administration and...