Scientific American reports in November, 2007 issue: “A headless roach may not be the smartest of its kind, but it can certainly survive.”
If Indian politicians are headless chickens, most Indian senior civil servants must surely be headless cockroaches- the teflon coated ultimate survivors.
Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar wrote in his column for Times of India May 27, 2007:
“…most of the government sector is third-class and tarnished…… Actually, government spending is gargantuan: a million crores per year. But it has so much waste and corruption that voters refuse to show gratitude for the little that gets through…
The police no longer catch criminals and the courts no longer convict them. Conviction rates have fallen to 16%… Bureaucrats are typically callous and corrupt…
Around 35% of all electricity is stolen, causing power crises…
it takes Rs 3.65 of government spending to get one rupee of Public Distribution System benefit to the poor. What a waste! …
The problem is a decaying government sector that neither Congress nor other parties are willing to reform.”
Members of Indian middle-class are in the habit of blaming all the ills country faces on politicians. Instead they should target senior civil servants.
They don’t because they are their cousins, parents and children.
Artist: R K Laxman Times of India August 23, 2007
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