This refers to the editorial "The IAS flies abroad" (September 18). The idea behind the latest perk of medical treatment abroad granted to the senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers may ostensibly be to "keep them going as long as possible" under the assumption that their services are valuable to the government. However, pragmatism may dictate that this perk should, if at all, be granted to younger officers because they have many more years of service left than the top level officers. But if that sounds too "pragmatic", then the government may as well extend this perk to all the IAS officers.
Kishor Kulkarni Mumbai
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