Saturday, May 30, 2009

The rascal government

Rascal is the word that we used among our friends during college life even without minding the meaning of the word. Years after if remember that word all I remember now is the kind of our government officials behaves and the stupid rules that they have. 

See a person writes in today’s ET

  • “When a loved one dies, the distressed family, having to deal with the trauma of the loss and a hundred different details to take care of, can hardly be expected to be in a state of mind to deal with the combined bureaucracies, and often corrupt ones, of police, municipality and municipal hospitals in a single day or night. All of this becomes even more of a challenge if the family is financially less well off. 
  • The idea is not to point a finger at a particular municipality. Many of our systems suffer with similar lack of grace in receiving.  
  • A corporate house, in response to an appeal after a major national disaster, decides to make a substantial contribution to the PM’s relief fund. The CEO goes to Delhi to hand over the cheque personally. Since the PM is indisposed, the cheque is to be given to a senior Cabinet colleague. 
  • The CEO camps in Delhi for over two days (once you have sought an appointment, it is difficult to disengage) when at last he is given an appointment late in the night. The CEO is finally ushered in while the good minister is busy reading some piece of paper and barely looks at the CEO. 
  • He accepts the cheque without so much as a look upwards and shoves the cheque among the papers in front of him. A week later the CAO gets a call from the PMO telling him the cheque has been misplaced. Could he please send a replacement? 

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