By Dilip Cherian India’s bureaucracy may be running short of one thing more important than babus: succession. The Centre’s decision to extend the tenures of Cabinet Secretary TV Somanathan and Home Secretary Govind Mohan by another year may be defensible on grounds of continuity. But when extensions at the top become a recurring feature of governance, a larger institutional question refuses to go away: why does the system so often appear unable …
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