Best of BS Opinion: An open bureaucracy, leveraging agri-tech and more

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The Union Public Service Commission's invitation for applications for 45 posts at the joint secretary and director/deputy secretary levels on a three-year contract, extendable to five years, shows the Union government’s continued commitment to the idea of lateral entry into the bureaucracy. The reasons for inducting lateral entrants are well known. As the economy grows in size and complexity, effective policy intervention will often need domain knowledge in different areas. However, for the government to truly benefit from this endeavour and for lateral entrants to succeed, the existing bureaucracy must cooperate with them, the top edit points