We could have made the project work... but for babu's indecisiveness!

Having worked extensively across different jobs and assignments, ranging from government, public institution, international research, UN, coordination units, NGOs, funding agency, and now eGov Consulting services... I am bewildered by the pace of the Government of India. To say the least, the way the Bureaucrats dilly-dally and wish away decision making.

To make matters worse, they are interrupted by "very important", "urgent" and "critical" Parliament work at least five or six times in a year! That generally translates to getting no regular work done, or engage in any serious matter that requires the bureaucrats to apply their minds.

Going by the pace, it seems many an innovative projects have died a natural death so have many orders and commands. It is very easy for government to "SQUAT" over files, or make them disappear. I remember when my father worked for the Government, thirty years ago, the story was way different. No documents went from one office to another without proper diary-ing, and no documents really got lost or were dealt with carelessly. Today, since we have the luxury to take out another "print", do several "photocopy" or even scan and store in pdf.. we can get away with carelessness. The number of documents that tend to disappear from files is not a joke.

But the babus.. yeah they love their NOTE SHEETS... the green-ruled letter sized bunch of paper that is the holy script... of the babugiri's wisdom recording and summarizing thoughts... (or thoughtlessness)...

When it comes to making decisions, the big bosses say, "please speak" or "please discuss" and make the junior officer write what they will not have originally thought of or articulated. But the signatures (in case an axe needs to fall) will be that of the junior officer...

How much of national tax payers money the government machinary wastes!!!!!!!

I have in the last nine months... gained little but unfortunately the Government has also not made use of my expertise nor skills adequately... Whither good bureaucrats! Is the PM listening???