India's putty frame

Indian bureaucrats are notorious for lordly indifference to performance as long as the political master favouring them is not displeased or their jobs are not threatened by instances of grave misconduct. But an analysis of executive record sheets of thousands of bureaucrats shows that the once mighty steel frame of the British empire has now turned to plasticine: 68% of IAS officers who have completed 10 years or more in service have had a depressingly low average tenure of 18 months.

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