CSE · GS-4Official PYQ · CSE 2013 · Q12Ethics · Case Studies · 20 marks · 250 words
English
You are heading a leading technical institute of the country. The institute is planning to convene an interview panel shortly under your chairmanship for selection of the post of professors. A few days before the interview, you get a call from the Personal Secretary (PS) of a senior government functionary seeking your intervention in favour of the selection of a close relative of the functionary for this post. The PS also informs you that he is aware of the long pending and urgent proposals of your institute for grant of funds for modernization, which are awaiting the functionary’s approval. He assures you that he would get these proposals cleared. (a) What are the options available to you? (b) Evaluate each of these options and choose the option which you would adopt, giving reasons.
हिन्दी
आप देश के एक प्रमुख तकनीकी संस्थान के अध्यक्ष हैं। संस्थान, प्रोफेसरों के पद के चयन हेतु आपकी अध्यक्षता में साक्षात्कार पैनल का आयोजन शीघ्र ही करने वाले हैं। साक्षात्कार से कुछ दिन पहले आपके पास एक ज्येष्ठ शासकीय अधिकारी के निजी सचिव का फोन आता है जिसमें आपसे उक्त पद के लिए उस अधिकारी के एक निकट सम्बन्धी के पक्ष में चयन करने की अपेक्षा की जाती है। निजी सचिव यह भी बताते हैं कि आपके संस्थान के आधुनिकीकरण के लिए बहुत समय से लम्बित महत्त्वपूर्ण वित्तीय अनुदान के प्रस्तावों का उन्हें ज्ञान है जिनकी अधिकारी द्वारा स्वीकृति की जानी है। वे आपको उन प्रस्तावों को अनुमोदन कराने का आश्वासन देते हैं। (a) आपके पास क्या-क्या विकल्प उपलब्ध हैं? (b) प्रत्येक विकल्प का मूल्यांकन कीजिए और बताइए कि आप कौन-सा विकल्प चुनेंगे और क्यों।
Text taken verbatim from the commission's published question paper. Transcribed from UPSC’s question paper, CS(M) 2013 (English and Hindi). Source
Syllabus
Ethics · Case Studies
Case studies on the above issues.
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