1. Overhaul the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - and the state public service commissions - from selection to retirement without hurting their independence or neutrality. 2. The apex of the bureaucracy is the Indian Administrative Service - the successor of the Imperial Civil Service with many vestiges of the British Raj. 3. Look at the way these 'service members' have inveigled their way into colonial clubs and you'll know. 4. This is not to say that all officers are corrupt or incompetent - or both. But it is a fact that there is a serious deficit of technical expertise in the civil service. 5. Too many generalists - too little exposure to the real world and too much pride are the undoing of the bulk ofIndia's bureaucracy.