Note of caution

The inactivity in government is not restricted to 7, Race Course Road either. Within the bhavans on and around Raisina Hill the only substantive decision senior bureaucrats are said to be taking is approving casual leave applications from their staff. And with P C Parakh's recent experience with the Central Bureau of Investigation serving as a cautionary tale, no one is making notings on administrative files either. Instead, everything is being referred to committees - which is a safe bet since forming committees and setting agendas can reliably drag on till well into 2014, by which time a new government will be in place.