The government introduces various schemes for the benefit of the people. It's supposed to benefit a sizeable percentage of the population with the least amount, if not, zero corruption! And we've always been told that the top layer of bureaucrats are the ones who put unnecessary spokes.
But the truth is something else. There's this friend of mine staying in rural Kerala who wanted to get his farmland cleared off overgrowth and wild grass. He's made numerous trips, on this score, to the concerned Village Extension Centre to get his case cleared but to no avail. To quote him, he's been constantly experiencing tyranny from the lower rung bureaucratic specimen. They deliberately sit on files and make people run hither and thither on the silliest of pretexts! The aim is to demoralise a guy to such an extent that he throws in the towel in utter disgust and stomps off.
The lower rung bureaucrat then runs his own fiefdom and dispenses the goodies to his favourites.
No wonder, then, that these guys did not want to come under the purview of the proposed 'Lokpal Bill' because they're steeped in it themselves!!
But the truth is something else. There's this friend of mine staying in rural Kerala who wanted to get his farmland cleared off overgrowth and wild grass. He's made numerous trips, on this score, to the concerned Village Extension Centre to get his case cleared but to no avail. To quote him, he's been constantly experiencing tyranny from the lower rung bureaucratic specimen. They deliberately sit on files and make people run hither and thither on the silliest of pretexts! The aim is to demoralise a guy to such an extent that he throws in the towel in utter disgust and stomps off.
The lower rung bureaucrat then runs his own fiefdom and dispenses the goodies to his favourites.
No wonder, then, that these guys did not want to come under the purview of the proposed 'Lokpal Bill' because they're steeped in it themselves!!
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