Pakshal SecretryAIR 8 · CSE 2025 · 105 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a quotation
"There are no wrong means to achieve right ends" - Gandhiji.
Body · points and prose
- Pros of approach
- Ensures ethical universalism
- No scope of slippery slope in administration
- Protects human rights (e.g. No AFSPA)
- Easier to follow approach
- No Rational thinking needed
Issues with approach
- grey zone areas (e.g. Sec 144 for stopping communal conflict.)
- Ignores Ends (e.g. AFSPA to deal terror)
- Leads to Red-Tapism and status quoism e.g. No To Dam which can be beneficial as it violates right of Tribals.
- Ignores majority view many times (e.g. No Death penalty even in heinous offenses)
- means become end in itself → stagnation of Bureaucracy
Way forward
- Two overlapping circles representing "Means" and "Ends"
- Intersection labeled: good governance
- Delicate Balancing
- Virtue Ethics in the administration
- Clean SOPs for grey zone areas.
Close · a way forward
Golden Mean is thus needed between means & ends