00:00How will a bureaucrat challenge a minister? Please tell me.
00:03It is neither theoretically nor practically possible.
00:06You're supposed to be the secretary to the minister.
00:08When you become a seasoned senior bureaucrat, what do you become? A secretary.
00:14Look at the damn daring and gumption you're saying, I'll challenge the system as a secretary.
00:19And a secretary is somebody very senior. You don't do what the minister wants you to do,
00:24transferred in a minute, parked away in some obscure department. What will you change?
00:27Yet some kind of challenge can be posed and that can make the bureaucrat feel very morally upright.
00:34You know, some little MLA and he wanted to do such a thing in my district.
00:37And I, as the DM, didn't allow him to do this. See, that's the power of bureaucracy.
00:41So that's a very little thing that you can do. And you are a very junior officer, the DM.
00:46You cannot bring about real change from within bureaucracy because bureaucracy is meant to toe the line.
00:52That's the very definition. You cannot violate your definition.
00:54You can never be in the system and change the system. Believe me.
00:58Else I too would have been in some corporate. You cannot be an insider and change things from within. Not
01:03possible.
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