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Bureaucracy

Send Out the Peons

Chetan, in the comments to the previous post, points to a funny article that adds yet another item to Nehru’s catalogue of failures – his attempt to abolish peons from government offices.  His bureaucrats defeated the move the way they always do – by setting up a committee to study it.

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June 4, 2008 Ravikiran Rao
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