Training programme for Government Employees - guidelines

Methods to postpone your work (my learnings in the past 4.5 years)

0. Never tell the rules of the game to the person wanting to follow the process.
1. If the person follows the process  tell first that the files have not yet been received.
2. Let the person run around to bring the file to you.
3. If the file is with another person you can tell that they have not sent it to you.
4. Now if you are left with no other choice and the file is available, check for things like comma, fullstop, date etc. If the date is more than a week old, ask questions like why has it taken so long and smile at the person and say "you are not serious".
5. Tell the person "I will look into it".
6. Check for followup from the person. If the person does not land up it is fine. No need to work. Wait until the person comes back again.
7. If the person comes back and is behind you, crib about all your problems to that person.
8. If the person still stays then look into the file.
9. Type a wrong letter based on the request from the person and get the signature from higher officials. This process must take a minimum of 3 days.
10. Do not inform the person that the file is ready. Let him come.
11. If he comes tell him that he can get it tomorrow by 3pm.
12. Next day 3 pm ensure that you go for coffee.
13. If the person still stays till you come back, search for his file.
14. Ask him to come the next day.
15. Now you do not have a choice. Give the wrong letter to him.
16. If he discovers it ask him to write another letter and that he should also explain what he wants to you. Listen to all this and smile at the person.
17. By this time the person becomes tired. He might even shout at you. Do not care, that is his problem.
18. Once all these are done type the correct letter and keep it with you.
19. Get the letter signed after 3 days.
20. Repeat 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Give him the letter.
21. Talk about how much work is pending with you and that you are the only person working in the organization.

Long live work ethics.

PAN Card Address Change

My father applied for PAN Card address change. It has been rejected by our babus for want of

1) proof of my grand father.

My father (80 years old) is planning to tell the "Babu" that there is only one way to get proof:

a) he can take the application form and fall in front of a train. My father mentioned that he will come later to prove .

Now my father is having second thoughts about changing his address in PAN card. The best part is that he is a Retired Asst. Commissioner of Income Tax. 

This country can and never will change.

If anyone has faith please check with Winston Churchill [Commons Sitting of Thursday (India, Government Policy), 6 March 1947; House of Commons Debates, Hansard; Vol. 434, cc. 663-776.]

This can only be explained as the complete adoption of one of Mr. Gandhi's most scatterbrained observations, which I will read to the House. It was made on 24th May, 1942, after the [Cripps] Mission. He said: "Leave India in God's hands, in modern parlance, to anarchy; and that anarchy may lead to internecine warfare for a time, or to unrestricted dacoities. From these a true India will arise in place of the false one we see." There, as far as I can see, is a statement indistinguishable from the policy His Majesty's Government are determined to pursue.