Bad date

For reasons not hard to see, April 1 is not regarded as the best date to start or launch something new. It seems the same thought has hit some departments and ministries in the National Democratic Alliance government. As a senior official said, there was a plan to hold the first meeting of a committee on infrastructure on that date, but it had now been postponed by a day. Some people might not turn up assuming it's an All Fool's Day prank...