Patronising the poor, in perpetuity

This summer, during our mid-service training programme at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, a poignant lecture by N.C. Saxena, member of the National Advisory Council, had just ended. Saxena is well known for lectures detailing the extent, nature and effects of poverty in India, and what bureaucrats are not doing, or doing badly, to eradicate it. Needless to say, he arouses great distress among many bureaucrats.

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