The diffident bureaucrat

In his address on Civil Services Day, the prime minister advised civil servants “to fight the tendency of not taking decisions because of the fear that things might go wrong and they might be penalised for that.” He went on to say that the bureaucracy should not be “100 per cent risk averse” and concluded, rightly, that “a civil servant who does not take decisions might always be safe, but at the end of the day he or she would have contributed nothing to our society”.

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