PASSING THE BUCK

Tactics bureaucrats decisions employ to delay

law ministry Send to Ultimate redelaying tool

all matters as almost clarificatio

n. quire legal with

inundated “They’re requests, so no file will

in a year,” come back

official. says a former

views Send file for

issues,file On economic

ministry is sent to every that may have an input.

to postNHAI proposal

payments pone premium

and law went to finance

plan panel. ministries, Wait for Cabinet

nod Keep circulating

file until Cabinet takes

a call,as is the case with

award of Ratna oilfields

to Essar. Once it’s back Cabinet, from the

the buck stops there, not with

officials.

approval Wait for CVC

often can’t Top postings

CVC be made without nod.Eight GM-level

posts in Railways are vacant.

wants to But no official recommen

dation write a for anyone before CVC them. has cleared

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