So How Do You Become an Indian Cty Manager?

Indian City Managers are part of the Indian administrative service with deep roots in the British system. Individuals are recruited and trained and then assigned to work in various parts of the government. The city managers here are not hired and fired by their local councils, but instead are employees of the national government. None of the city managers we spoke with today had any formal city management education or training, but the philosophy here instead is that these are generalist managers who "can manage anything." There was an example given of a manager who came to one of India's big cities as a city manager immediately after a post running the Indian Space Agency.

And who said city management wasn't rocket science???