Bureaucratic hurdle for minister

But requests, particularly those from his legislator colleagues, continue

Uttar Pradesh’s new health minister, Siddharth Nath Singh, was in for a shock when he set about putting his department in order. One of his initial instructions was to transfer some of the inefficient officers, but they were quick to get a stay on their transfers from the high court. Singh was told by his bureaucrats that there didn’t exist a transfers and postings policy. He ordered a senior official to rummage through government files, and it was several days before the relevant file, moth-eaten and chewed up by rats, emerged from the dusty government records room. Singh is now