There were several attendees in an office I was working. They were the local residents. It is their government job so they were very happy as they do very little work in the office. One such employee was having a spiritual ashram near the office. No one questions his job and duties. Instead, his brother as a proxy comes and does his job work.

I was a consultant in a major project for the government. I was the senior person in the organisation. After its project period, the assets have to be returned to the main department. Our office and the main department were located on the same campus. For some reason, the transition of the physical assets could not happen at the end of the project period. I joined the main organisation after one month gap. There were two more colleagues and we all worked from the same old office premises. I observed that some items were disappearing over a period, I thought someone might have taken them to the main building. One day, there came a letter from the Anti-corruption bureau, saying that they have received a unanimous letter where it was mentioned that theft of physical movable assets from the premises is happening. The windows in this office were not well protected. Although there were good security and high walls, someone got habituated and committing the theft. It is the irresponsibility on the part of the government that the things were lost. This is the apathy of the things in many government offices.

The ego of the senior officers makes many resources useless. Once I was in a Government department, there were many copies of manuals, which could be used for training. The content was also very good. But the foreword was by the earlier officer, the current officer does not want to share the material created by the preceding officer. So got them reprinted with his foreword. What a waste of resources for the satisfaction of individual officers ego.