Indian bureaucracy, the worst in Asia

Referring to a 12 page report by Hong Kong-based Political & Economic Risk Consultancy Reuters reports, Singapore the most efficient bureaucracy while India ranks worst.

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India's "suffocating bureaucracy" was ranked the least-efficient by the survey, which said working with the country's civil servants was a "slow and painful" process.

"They are a power center in their own right at both the national and state levels, and are extremely resistant to reform that affects them or the way they go about their duties," PERC said.

Thailand, despite four years of on-off street protests and a year of dysfunctional government was ranked third.

"For all the country's troubles -- or perhaps because of them -- respondents to our survey were impressed with the way Thai civil servants have been carrying out their duties," PERC said.

It is important for a nation like us who just witnessed dawn of democracy under a new constitution and an independent civil service commission for the first time in history to learn from examples of Singapore and Thailand. At the mean time prevent the scenarios in India where corruption is wide spread and speed of bureaucracy is unbelievably slow.

Indeed it is no surprise for me to hear this since my three years of stay here has given me first hand experience of how they work. I hate to generalize but 99 out of every 100 Indian has the potential of becoming a parasite. They can instantly become brokers or dealers.

According to my personnel experience and other foreigners the most frequent phrase Indian civil servants use is - DO ONE THING, COME TOMORROW!

(Reuters news article)