All across the country, it’s the norm that when the ruling party changes, bureaucrats are shunted around. Honesty isn’t a factor tolerated for a long time in a single posting. Lucrative ones are bought from politicians, as top Mumbai cop Y.P. Singh alleged at his book release. Perhaps as a reaction to their lot, when Jharkhand was hived off, Bihar’s babus reacted in quaint fashion. There were 131 posts (out of 393 IAS officers) on offer. A whopping 314 applied! Similarly, 182 out of the 250 IPS officers asked for a transfer.
