Why would anyone pay to be a government employee?

In the last one week north Delhi has witnessed clashes between Delhi police and candidates appearing for the selection exam to join the Indian Administrative Service. The IAS was described as a ' steel frame ', which would support the rest of the government administration, by Sardar Patel. All the top secretaries in every government department are IAS officers, they are responsible for implementing government policies, they are highly paid, they maybe transferred but cannot be sacked and they are promoted automatically according to seniority. They do not allow other services any representation in government and have become like an Indian version of the Freemasons. The question is, are people, who burn cars, fight with police and try to break into parliament, fit to join the IAS? Do we want a bunch of thugs running the entire country? They are agitating because the selection exam has been changed to include an aptitude test. This test requires English language comprehension up to Class X level and has just 8-9 questions, out of 80 questions, related to English comprehension. The candidates say that this discriminates against Hindi speakers. But India has 22 official languages so the test should cater for everyone of those as well. The aptitude test also includes test for interpersonal skills; logical reasoning and analytical ability; decision making and problem solving; general mental ability besides English comprehension and basic numerical ability. By resorting to violence the candidates have failed in every category and should be failed en masse anyway. The real reason for the anger is that these people have taken loans to come to Delhi to appear for the exams. " My entire village came with band baaja at the railway station," said one Raj. What is so great about being an IAS officer as opposed to working in the private sector? Hindiwallahs in Bihar and UP have the highest birth rates and probably high unemployment so they need jobs. Young men pay bribes to be selected as jawans in the armed forces but the attraction of the IAS and the police is the unlimited scope for taking bribes. In recent years we have heard of many scams involving trillions of rupees. Politicians in charge of ministries have been blamed, and rightly so, but the scams would not have been possible without the active connivance of officials, who have cleverly kept out of sight. No doubt these candidates are aware of these scams and the eye-watering amounts involved. A tiny fraction would make a family rich for generations. Definitely worth fighting for. What?