The unbridled audacity of our babus
The Indian bureaucracy is notorious for inventing outrageous ways of self-aggrandisement. However, nothing demonstrates its unbridled audacity for disregarding all civilised norms of probity than the disreputable Non Functional Upgrade (NFU) scheme. One must doff one’s hat to the ingenuity of the bureaucracy to loot the nation. Simultaneously, the political leadership needs to be pitied for a total lack of spine to check this blatant delinquency. Bureaucracy rules the roost.
The Sixth Central Pay Commission, in its March 2008 report, recommended introduction of NFU to reward civil servants of 49 ‘Organized Central Group A Civil Services’ with automatic time-bound pay promotions till the Higher Administrative Grade. Subsequently, it was made applicable to the IPS and the Indian...







