This Happens Only in India....

Mr.Arun Shourie minister for administrative reform(99-02) reminisces about the incident that occured in april 99. In that month Ministry of Steel submitted a formal query to Shourie's Ministry for Administrative Reform.The grave matter,which was to take almost a year to resolve and would consume the valuable time of some of the seniormost officials,concerned whether civil servants should be allowed to use green or red ink ,as opposed to blue or black normally used to annotate documents.

After several weeks of meetings,consultations and memoranda.the IAS officers in Shourie's department concluded that the matter could be only resolved only by officials at the Buereau of Printing.Another three weeks of learned deliberation ensued before the bureau returned the file to the Ministry of Administrative reform,but with the recommendation that it should consult the Ministry of Training and Personnel.It took another 3 weeks for the file to reach that ministry.

And so this question of state meandered on for weeks and months,in meeting after meeting through ministry after ministry,before the following compromise was stuck:'Initial drafting will be in black or blue ink.Modifications can be made in green or red ink. Officers of the level of joint secretary and above may use red or green ink in rare cases[duly set out,with appropriate caveats]' ---excerpt from In spite of the gods:The strange rise of modern india

WTF people???